Hook assembly used for waist-adjusing mechanism of garment and garment having waist-adjusting mechanism

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EP 1 129 638 A3

(12)	EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88)	Date of publication A3:
	19.01.2005 Bulletin 2005/03

(43)	Date of publication A2:
	05.09.2001 Bulletin 2001/36

(21)	Application number: 01104941.8

(22)	Date of filing: 28.02.2001

(51)	International Patent Classification (IPC)⁷: A44B 13/00

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE TR
	Designated Extension States:
	AL LT LV MK RO SI

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Priority:

01.03.2000 JP 2000055660
15.05.2000 JP 2000142517
03.08.2000 JP 2000235227

(71)	Applicant: Kato, Koji
	Hashima-shi, Gifu-ken, 501-6241 (JP)

(72)	Inventor:
	Kato, Koji Hashima-shi, Gifu-ken, 501-6241 (JP)

(74)	Representative: Leson, Thomas Johannes Alois, Dipl.-Ing.
	Tiedtke-Bühling-Kinne & Partner GbR, TBK-Patent, Bavariaring 4 80336 München 80336 München (DE)

(54)	Hook assembly used for waist-adjusing mechanism of garment and garment having waist-adjusting mechanism

(57) A front center opening can be opened and closed by a zip fastener. A hook assembly joins upper ends of the front center opening in a separable way and adjusts a waist size of pants within a fixed range. An adjusting cloth is sewed between one of fastener tapes of the zip fastener and an outer cloth of the front center opening. The adjusting cloth has an overlap to provide an extra length on the waist size of the pants. The hook assembly adjusts the waist size of the pants so as to fit a waist size of a user. The overlap of the adjusting cloth is extended in a specified manner so as to adjust a size of the pants corresponding to a portion lower than the waist of the user.

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