Comfortable bone-affixing structure for underwear

Abstract

A comfortable bone-affixing structure for underwear is provided to reduce pressure and discomfort imposed to wearers by the underwear's boning members such as metal wires and plastic bones. The comfortable bone-affixing structure includes a continuous flexible tube made of fabric and a cushion fixedly attached to a channel portion of the flexible tube when the flexible tube is a single layer tube or to one of layers of the flexible tube when the flexible tube has a multi-layer scroll-like vertical section. In the bone-affixing structure, the boning member is received in a space that is within the flexible tube and adjacent to or separated from the cushion. With the cushion that separates the boning member from the wearer's skin, the pressure and discomfort imposed to the wearer by the boning member can be reduced.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A comfortable bone-affixing structure for underwear, the bone-affixing structure comprising a flexible tube that is made of fabric and has a continuous length, wherein the flexible tube contains therein at least one space for accommodating a boning member, and being characterized in:
 a cushion, fixedly deposited in an interior of the flexible tube.   
     
     
         2 . The comfortable bone-affixing structure for underwear of  claim 1 , wherein the flexible tube has two joint edges, and one side of the cushion is attached to the two joint edges. 
     
     
         3 . The comfortable bone-affixing structure for underwear of  claim 1 , wherein the flexible tube has two joint edges that are sewn together to form the flexible tube having a sewing seam, and the cushion is fixedly attached to the interior wall of the flexible tube at a position opposite to the sewing seam. 
     
     
         4 . The comfortable bone-affixing structure for underwear of  claim 1 , wherein the cushion is fixedly attached to a piece of fabric, and then fixedly deposited in the interior of the flexible tube through the fabric. 
     
     
         5 . The comfortable bone-affixing structure for underwear of  claim 4 , wherein the flexible tube has two joint edges, and the two joint edges are combined with two edges of the fabric on which the cushion is attached by sewing. 
     
     
         6 . The comfortable bone-affixing structure for underwear of  claim 4 , wherein the flexible tube has a vertical section of a scroll-like shape, while an outer joint edge of the flexible tube, one edge of the fabric on which the cushion is attached, and a lateral of the flexible tube are combined together by sewing. 
     
     
         7 . The comfortable bone-affixing structure for underwear of  claim 1 , wherein the flexible tube has a vertical section of a scroll-like shape with plural layers, and the cushion is deposited on one of the layers. 
     
     
         8 . The comfortable bone-affixing structure for underwear of  claim 7 , wherein the cushion and the space for accommodating the boning member are deposited on different said layers. 
     
     
         9 . The comfortable bone-affixing structure for underwear of  claim 1 , wherein the cushion is made of silicone resin, rubber, plastic foam material, polyurethane (PU), thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) or thermoplastic rubber (TPR). 
     
     
         10 . The comfortable bone-affixing structure for underwear of  claim 1 , wherein the boning member is an underwire under a bra cup of the underwear, a plastic side bone adjacent to the bra cup of the underwear or a supportive shaping bone of a torso potion of the underwear. 
     
     
         11 . A shoulder strap for underwear, wherein the shoulder strap comprises the comfortable bone-affixing structure of  claim 1 .