Patent Application
20220279861
The present disclosure relates to underwear, and more particularly, to men's or boys underwear with a pull tab.
This section provides background information related to the present disclosure which is not necessarily prior art.
Typically, when males urinate standing up, they un-zip their pants, reach through the unzipped fly, pull down their underwear, and urinate through the unzipped fly. Men with arthritis and other hand ailments can struggle with pulling their underwear out of the way. Boys also can struggle with pulling their underwear out of the way when they have to urinate. Furthermore, while pulling down their underwear, a male typically pinches the fabric of the underwear and can also sometimes pinch a hair in the pubic region that is pulled while he is pulling down the underwear. Accordingly, it is desirable to provide a way to more easily move the underwear out of the way and without pulling on hairs when a male goes to urinate while standing up.
This section provides a general summary of the disclosure, and is not a comprehensive disclosure of its full scope or all of its features.
The present disclosure provides a pull tab on the front of male underwear that allows for the user to more easily pull the underwear out of the way when they urinate standing up. A male undergarment, according to the present disclosure, includes a waist band and a fabric body connected to the waist band and defining two leg openings. The fabric body defines a front portion for covering the front of a male torso and a rear portion for covering a rear of the male torso. A pull tab is connected to one of the front portions of the fabric body and the waist band so as to extend from a front, exterior side, of the undergarment. The pull tab is preferably located such that it can be easily accessed by a user with their fly unzipped and the top button or clasp of their pants still engaged.
Further areas of applicability will become apparent from the description provided herein. The description and specific examples in this summary are intended for purposes of illustration only and are not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure.
The drawings described herein are for illustrative purposes only of selected embodiments and not all possible implementations, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure.
Corresponding reference numerals indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views of the drawings.
Example embodiments will now be described more fully with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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It is noted that in each of the above embodiments, the pull tab 20, 120, 220, 320, 420, 520 can include branding or other indicia thereon. The pull tab 20, 120, 220, 320, 420, 520 is preferably located such that it can be easily accessed by a user with their zipper unzipped and the top button or clasp of their pants still engaged. This location is generally from zero to three inches below a waist band although the distance may vary based upon the undergarment design. In addition, the pull tab of the present disclosure can be connected to a top, bottom or middle portion of the waist band or to the fabric body in order to provide an appropriate level of access to the pull tab and control and manipulation of the undergarment.
The foregoing description of the embodiments has been provided for purposes of illustration and description. It is not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the disclosure. Individual elements or features of a particular embodiment are generally not limited to that particular embodiment, but, where applicable, are interchangeable and can be used in a selected embodiment, even if not specifically shown or described. The same may also be varied in many ways. Such variations are not to be regarded as a departure from the disclosure, and all such modifications are intended to be included within the scope of the disclosure.
Example embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough, and will fully convey the scope to those who are skilled in the art. Numerous specific details are set forth such as examples of specific components, devices, and methods, to provide a thorough understanding of embodiments of the present disclosure. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that specific details need not be employed, that example embodiments may be embodied in many different forms and that neither should be construed to limit the scope of the disclosure. In some example embodiments, well-known processes, well-known device structures, and well-known technologies are not described in detail.
The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular example embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting. As used herein, the singular forms “a,” “an,” and “the” may be intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. The terms “comprises,” “comprising,” “including,” and “having,” are inclusive and therefore specify the presence of stated features, integers, steps, operations, elements, and/or components, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, and/or groups thereof. The method steps, processes, and operations described herein are not to be construed as necessarily requiring their performance in the particular order discussed or illustrated, unless specifically identified as an order of performance. It is also to be understood that additional or alternative steps may be employed.
When an element or layer is referred to as being “on,” “engaged to,” “connected to,” or “coupled to” another element or layer, it may be directly on, engaged, connected or coupled to the other element or layer, or intervening elements or layers may be present. In contrast, when an element is referred to as being “directly on,” “directly engaged to,” “directly connected to,” or “directly coupled to” another element or layer, there may be no intervening elements or layers present. Other words used to describe the relationship between elements should be interpreted in a like fashion (e.g., “between” versus “directly between,” “adjacent” versus “directly adjacent,” etc.). As used herein, the term “and/or” includes any and all combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.
Spatially relative terms, such as “inner,” “outer,” “beneath,” “below,” “lower,” “above,” “upper,” and the like, may be used herein for ease of description to describe one element or feature's relationship to another element(s) or feature(s) as illustrated in the figures. Spatially relative terms may be intended to encompass different orientations of the device in use or operation in addition to the orientation depicted in the figures. For example, if the device in the figures is turned over, elements described as “below” or “beneath” other elements or features would then be oriented “above” the other elements or features. Thus, the example term “below” can encompass both an orientation of above and below. The device may be otherwise oriented (rotated 90 degrees or at other orientations) and the spatially relative descriptors used herein interpreted accordingly.
