Patent Application
20240306736
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The disclosure relates to underpants garments and more particularly pertains to a new underpants garment for facilitating retaining a menstruation pad in a fixed position against a crotch of a wearer.
The prior art relates to underpants garments having a catamenial padding attached to the garment. Known prior art does not include a liner attached to the underpants garment and the catamenial padding being attached to the liner such that the liner facilitates retaining the catamenial padding in place while wearing the underpants garment.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising an underpants garment including a pelvic covering section configured to provide coverage from the waist to a top of the pair of thighs of the wearer. A leg section is coupled to and extends downwardly from a bottom side of the pelvic covering section and is configured to provide coverage from the top to a bottom of the pair of thighs of the wearer. A liner is coupled to the underpants garment and is configured to facilitate holding the menstruation pad within the underpants garment. A padded layer is coupled the liner and is configured for removably abutting the menstruation pad, the padded layer is fluidly absorbent, wherein the padded layer defines an aid for a menstruation pad.
Another embodiment of the disclosure comprises a method including the steps of abutting a menstruation pad to a crotch of the wearer. A pair of legs of the wearer is inserted through a waist opening of an underpants garment. Each of the legs is inserted through one of a pair of leg openings of the underpants garment. An upper perimeter edge of the underpants garment is positioned around a waist of the wearer. Each of the thighs of the wearer is positioned within one of a pair of sleeves of the underpants garment and a crotch section of a liner is positioned against a crotch of the wearer.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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A leg section 32 is coupled to and extends downwardly from a bottom side of the pelvic covering section 22. The leg section 32 is configured to provide coverage from the top to a bottom of the pair of thighs 16 of the wearer 20. The leg section 32 typically comprises a pair of sleeves 34 to define the underpants garment 12 as boxers. Each of the sleeves 34 is coupled to the exterior surface 24 of the pelvic covering section 22 and is elongated therefrom. The bottom side of the pelvic covering section 22 has a pair of leg openings extending therethrough such that each of the leg openings extends through the interior surface 26 and exterior surface 24 of the pelvic covering section 22 into one of the sleeves 34 of the leg section 32. Each of the sleeves 34 is configured to position around one of the pair of thighs 16 of the wearer 20. Each of the sleeves 34 may be the resiliently elastic material configured to contour to one of the pair of thighs 16 of the wearer 20 and to define the underpants garment 12 as boxer briefs.
A liner 36 is coupled to the underpants garment 12 and is configured to facilitate holding the menstruation pad 14 within the underpants garment 12. The liner 36 normally includes a boundary edge 38 attached to the interior surface 26 of the pelvic covering section 22 proximate to the upper perimeter edge 28. A horizontal plane 40 of the boundary edge 38 of the liner 36 is perpendicular to a longitudinal axis 42 of the waist opening. A vertical axis 44 of the liner 36 is co-axial to the longitudinal axis 42 of the waist opening. The liner 36 normally has a pair of holes 46 extending therethrough. Each of the thighs 16 of the wearer 20 is configured to position simultaneously through one of the pair of holes 46 and within one of the pair of sleeves 34. An area between each of the holes 46 defines a crotch section 48, wherein the crotch section 48 is configured for positioning adjacent to a crotch 50 of the wearer 20.
A padded layer 52 is coupled to the liner 36 and is configured for removably abutting the menstruation pad 14. The padded layer 52 is normally mounted to the crotch section 48 of the liner 36. The padded layer 52 may be fluidly absorbent, wherein the padded layer 52 may define an aid for a menstruation pad 14. The padded layer 52 may act as a catamenial padding to absorb menstruation discharge if the menstruation pad 14 is not abutting the crotch 50 of the wearer 20.
In use, the menstruation pad 14 is abutted to the crotch 50 of the wearer 20. The pair of thighs 16 of the wearer 20 is inserted through the waist opening of the underpants garment 12. Each of the thighs 16 is inserted through one of the pair of holes 46 the liner 36 prior to each of the thighs 16 inserting through one of the pair of leg openings of the underpants garment 12. The upper perimeter edge 28 of the underpants garment 12 is positioned around the waist 18 of the wearer 20 and each of the thighs 16 of the wearer 20 is positioned within one of the pair of sleeves 34 of the underpants garment 12. The crotch section 48 of the liner 36 is positioned against the crotch 50 of the wearer 20 such that the padded layer 52 is abutting the menstruation pad 14 positioned abutting the crotch 50.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
