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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2020
Filed:
May. 31, 2019
Applicant:
The Gap, Inc., Albuquerque, NM (US);
Inventor:
Joshua David Hiney, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
The Gap, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A41F 9/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A41F 9/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
A waistband for an article of clothing, the waistband including an exterior waistband portion formed from a fabric layer that is continuous with a base fabric panel of the article of clothing, an elastic layer positioned on an interior side of the exterior waistband portion and attached to the exterior waistband portion, an interlining layer disposed at least partially between the exterior waistband portion and the elastic layer, and a pleat defining a bottom edge of the waistband, the pleat being formed from one or more folds in the fabric layer between the exterior waistband portion and the base fabric panel.