MATCHABLE CLOTHING PIECE
By embedding embroidery interfaces on clothing for pairing means, the solution addresses unraveling and discomfort issues, enhancing the durability and aesthetics of clothing items like socks and gloves.
Patent Information
- Application Number
- FR2024009594
- Authority / Receiving Office
- FR · FR
- Patent Type
- Utility models
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Priority Date
- 2023-09-12
- Filing Date
- 2024-09-10
- Publication Date
- 2025-10-10
- Estimated Expiration
- 2034-09-10
AI Technical Summary
Existing anti-mismatching systems for clothing items like socks and gloves cause unraveling, discomfort, and aesthetic issues due to external fasteners or fabric supports, limiting their usability and lifespan.
Integrating embroidery directly onto the fabric as an interface for receiving pairing means, such as buttons or magnets, which provides a stable support without unraveling and enhances comfort and aesthetics.
The solution ensures longer-lasting clothing items with improved comfort and aesthetics by eliminating unraveling and eliminating the need for external supports, offering design flexibility.
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Abstract
Description
Title of the invention: ASSOCIABLE PIECE OF CLOTHING
[0001] The present invention relates to a piece of clothing that can be combined.
[0002] As is known, there are various types of clothing items that are only used in pairs, such as, for example, socks or gloves. Nowadays, the use of anti-mismatching systems on these items of clothing is becoming increasingly widespread. The characteristic of these systems lies in the fact that they are easily matched. After being used, these items of clothing are generally re-paired when undressing and washed with other garments. At the end of the wash, they can be dried and stored still paired. When the user wishes to wear them, they can easily take them from their wardrobe, always paired. It is therefore preferable that they remain paired during all these operations, from undressing to dressing.
[0003] Commonly available anti-mismatching systems include one or more snap fasteners.
[0004] For example, buttons can be applied directly to the item of clothing; however, this practice causes problems with the item of clothing unraveling and reduces its useful life. This occurs in particular on items of clothing such as stockings or socks, for which the manufacturing process must necessarily obtain a kind of stretch fabric that is known to be fragile, therefore unsuitable for receiving an external element that has the effect of breaking the stitches from the first uses.
[0005] These demesh problems also occur in solutions that use one or more magnetic buttons.
[0006] In other solutions, the buttons, traditional or magnetic, are applied to a fabric support which is sewn onto the item of clothing, which limits the problems of unraveling mentioned above. However, such solutions also have a disadvantage due to the fact that each item of clothing requires an external support which can be perceived as uncomfortable for the user and / or unattractive.
[0007] Other existing versions provide for the use of buttons with a buttonhole, laces and / or external fastening elements. But these solutions also present the same problems mentioned above.
[0008] Furthermore, other types of wardrobe items could also benefit from being combined with each other or with other clothing accessories: for example, "twin-sets" made up of two items or t-shirt and trouser sets or backpacks.
[0009] The present invention therefore aims to remedy the above-mentioned drawbacks.
[0010] The invention, as characterized by the claims, achieves this aim thanks to a structural modification in the association of the buttons with the pieces of clothing.
[0011] The main advantage obtained thanks to the present invention consists in the fact that it is possible to have socks or gloves which can be combined, which are not liable to unravel and, consequently, which benefit from a longer useful life compared to known technical solutions.
[0012] On the other hand, the invention makes it possible to obtain pieces of clothing without external supports which, as a result, are more comfortable for users and more aesthetic.
[0013] Implemented in certain forms, the invention offers the designer or manufacturer a certain margin of freedom in creating a piece of clothing, which is why it is a very flexible invention.
[0014] The detailed description below with its references to the attached drawings, which illustrate one example of application among an infinite number of others, better highlights additional advantages and characteristics of the present invention, namely:
[0015] [Fig-1] shows a side view of the invention;
[0016] [Fig.2] shows an exploded view of the invention illustrated [Fig.l];
[0017] [Fig.3] shows an exploded view of a second version of the invention;
[0018] [Fig.4] shows an exploded view of a third version of the invention;
[0019] [Fig.5] shows a side view of a fourth version of the invention;
[0020] [Fig.6] shows a second side view of the version of the invention of [Fig.5].
[0021] Taking as reference figures 1 to 4 where different models of socks are illustrated, as an example, one can observe a piece of associable clothing 1 comprising at least one interface 2 designed to receive at least one pairing means 3.
[0022] The interface 2 comprises at least one embroidery 4, which can be carried out directly on the fabric of the item of clothing 1. This embroidery can be carried out with a natural or synthetic thread, for example cotton, linen, silk or polyester. The embroidery 4 can be carried out by machine or by hand.
[0023] The interface 2 can be made in any position to its advantage, which gives complete freedom of choice for the location of the latter in relation to the item of clothing 1.
[0024] The pairing means 3 is preferably formed of at least one button, either automatic or magnetic.
[0025] The interface 2 creates a stable support, able to receive at least one pairing means 3, which is why, unlike socks with an anti- mismatching described in the technical note, the associable clothing item 1 does not present any problem of unraveling and its useful life is significantly longer, given that the invention guarantees perfect adhesion over time.
[0026] Furthermore, the interface 2 creates a support directly on the item of clothing 1, which is why it is more comfortable for users and more aesthetic.
[0027] The embroidery 4 can be carried out in several ways, to its advantage. For example, it can be an embroidery 4a on a solid background, illustrated [Fig.2]. The embroidery 4 can be invisible, that is to say designed to be completely concealed by the matching means 3 and, consequently, imperceptible to the end user.
[0028] Another possibility, the embroidery 4, illustrated [Fig.3], can be a pierced embroidery 4b, that is to say comprising an orifice near the area of introduction of the matching means 3. Preferably, the pierced embroidery 4b is also invisible.
[0029] And again, the embroidery 4 of the interface 2, illustrated [Fig.4], can also have a larger surface area than that of the matching means 3 which it is intended to receive, which makes it a decorative element and not just a functional one. In this case, the invention turns out to be extremely flexible since it offers a certain margin of freedom to the designer or manufacturer in the creation of the item of clothing 1. Furthermore, this allows the reproduction of a logo or a design on the item of clothing 1 at a very low cost.
[0030] For information purposes, Figures 5 and 6 illustrate the example of a glove comprising embroidery 4 and matching means 3.
[0031] As a result, two corresponding interfaces 2 can be produced on two associable clothing pieces 1 of the same pair and two complementary matching means 3 can be installed on the corresponding interfaces 2, obtaining a pair of associable clothing pieces 1 which works and is ready to be used.
[0032] For socks, in particular, in the chosen version, illustrated [Fig.4], the embroidery 4 of the interface 2 can be carried out on a raised rear part of the item of clothing 1. This position makes the item of clothing 1 practical and comfortable for users, given that the matching means 3 are imperceptible, including due to the effect of the presence of an incomplete elastic on a part of the top of the item of clothing 1.
Claims
Claims
1. Associable piece of clothing characterized in that it comprises at least one interface (2) designed to receive at least one matching means (3), where the interface (2) comprises at least one embroidery (4).
2. Associable item of clothing according to claim 1, characterized in that the embroidery (4) is carried out directly on the item of clothing (1).
3. A piece of clothing that can be combined according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the embroidery (4) is made with a natural or synthetic thread.
4. Associable item of clothing according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the pairing means (3) comprises at least one button.
5. Associable item of clothing according to claim 4, characterized in that the button is automatic or magnetic.
6. Associable item of clothing according to any one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the embroidery (4) is embroidery (4a) on a solid background or pierced embroidery (4b).
7. A piece of clothing that can be combined according to any one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the embroidery (4) is invisible.
8. Matchable item of clothing according to any one of claims 1 to 7, characterized in that the embroidery (4) has a larger surface area than that of the matching means (3) which it is intended to receive.
9. An item of clothing according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein the item of clothing (1) is a sock, characterized in that the embroidery (4) is located on a raised rear portion of the item of clothing (1).