Patent ID: 8137154

Claim:
A brassiere wire molded in one-piece from a plastic material, the wire comprising a U shaped body including a first arm and a second arm connected by a central body region, each of the first arm and the second arm including a respective terminal end of the U-shaped body, the first and second arms and the central body region lying in a common plane, the resiliency and rigidity characteristics of the plastic material and the U-shaped body along its length permitting the body to distort out of the common plane and to cause the central region to torsionally twist about a longitudinal axis extending along the length of the U-shaped body when the terminal ends of said first and second arms are flexed toward one another in opposed directions within the common plane, the second arm being provided with a longitudinally extending flexure region at an end adjacent to the central body region, the flexure region being spaced in-board from the terminal end of the second arm and adapted to maintain axial rigidity along the length of the U-shaped body whilst enabling an end of the second arm to more readily flex in a direction perpendicular to the common plane.