US 11,785,994 B2
Garments including size adjustment systems
Katherine Voigt, Millersville, MD (US); Anna Marie Olinger, Costa Mesa, CA (US); Adam Peter Karl, IV, Burlington, VT (US); and James Creath Frazier, Hinesburg, VT (US)
Assigned to SHOCK DOCTOR, INC., Fountain Valley, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/57,054
Filed by Shock Doctor, Inc., Fountain Valley, CA (US)
PCT Filed May 22, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/033542
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 19, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/226781, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 28, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/674,836, filed on May 22, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0204619 A1, Jul. 8, 2021
Int. Cl. A41D 1/04 (2006.01); A41D 13/00 (2006.01); A41D 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC A41D 1/04 (2013.01) [A41D 13/0015 (2013.01); A41D 15/00 (2013.01); A41D 2600/10 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A garment configured to be worn by a wearer, the garment comprising:
a front right garment portion and a front left garment portion, the front right garment portion configured to engage a front of the wearer, the front left garment portion configured to engage the front of the wearer, at least one of the front right garment portion and the front left garment portion comprising a pocket, the pocket comprising an opening, and the front right garment portion and the front left garment portion defining a gap between the front right garment portion and the front left garment portion when the garment is worn by the wearer;
an attachment feature spanning the gap and detachably coupling the front right garment portion and the front left garment portion when the garment is worn by the wearer;
a side garment portion configured to engage a side of the wearer, the side garment portion being movable relative to the at least one of the front right garment portion and the front left garment portion; and
an adjustment system at least partially disposed within the pocket and coupling the side garment portion and the at least one of the front right garment portion and the front left garment portion, the adjustment system being manipulable by the wearer to move the side garment portion at least partially into the pocket via the opening to thereby adjust a fit of the garment on the wearer, the adjustment system comprising:
a first sliplock buckle coupled to the at least one of the front right garment portion and the front left garment portion;
a second sliplock buckle coupled to the at least one of the front right garment portion and the front left garment portion; and
a strap comprising a first end coupled to the side garment portion, a second end coupled to the side garment portion, a handle garment portion disposed between the first end and the second end and between the first sliplock buckle and the second sliplock buckle, the handle garment portion being pullable to move the strap through the first sliplock buckle and the second sliplock buckle to move the side garment portion at least partially into the pocket via the opening to thereby adjust the fit of the garment on the wearer.