Patent ID: 8105130
Filing Date: 2012-01-31
Classification: A41C

Abstract:
1. An inlay for resiliently shape maintaining and stabilizing bra cups having regions directly engaging a wearer's thorax and intended to have higher rigidity than cup regions that encase the wearer's breasts and are of a convex/dome shape, the inlay being connected to a flexible textile material that forms the bra cups wherein the inlay is a pliably resilient plastics material part having the basic shape of a crescent with arcuate inner and outer edges that have a spacing that increases continuously between a minimum value at one end and a maximum value at an opposite end, a rigidity of the inlay decreases from the outer edge of the lower curvature to the inner edge of greater curvature, the inlay is manufactured flat such that a central crescent-shaped region running between the inner and outer edges lies in a plane, and d) the inlay is made of a material that is plastically deformable when heated for connection to the textile material of the cups.