Patent ID: 8708771

Claim:
A brassiere assembly for supporting a pair of female breasts having nipples on a human body defining a pair of shoulders comprising; a pair of cups for supporting the pair of human female breasts, a center web interconnecting said cups for disposition between the human female breasts, each of said cups including a rear wall extending upwardly in an uninterrupted and continuous sheet from a lower extremity to a top edge, each of said cups including an exterior flap overlying said rear wall for forming a pocket with said rear wall to receive and sandwich a removable insert between said exterior flap and said rear wall, each of said exterior flaps extending upwardly in an uninterrupted and continuous sheet from said lower extremity to an upper extremity, a pair of rear wings each connected to one of said rear walls and extending from said rear walls for disposition around the back of the human body, a pair of shoulder straps each connected at a front connection to a respective one of said rear wings adjacent said rear walls and connected at a rear connection to said respective one of said rear wings spaced along said rear wings from said front connection for extending over the shoulders of the human body, a flap clasp interconnecting each of said exterior flaps and an associated one of said shoulder straps in a closed position and releasable to an open position for selectively moving each of said exterior flaps to the open position uncovering said rear wall, said top edge of each rear wall being disposed substantially lower than said upper extremity of said exterior flap for positioning said rear wall below the nipple of the human female breast and for engaging the nipple of the human female breast with the removable insert above said top edge of said rear wall thereof while retaining the human female breast within said exterior flap, and characterized by, said top edge of each of said rear walls extending from said center web to said rear wings next adjacent said front connection of said rear wings to said shoulder straps for exposing a removable insert to a nipple of the human female breast, and each of said exterior flaps extending from said center web and said lower extremity to said flap clasp for attachment to the adjacent one of said shoulder straps at a position on said shoulder strap spaced a distance above said front connection of said rear wing to said shoulder strap for opening said exterior flaps to expose a nipple and upper portion of a human female breast while said rear wall remains in position under such a human female breast.