Classifications

• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A43—FOOTWEAR
  • A43C—FASTENINGS OR ATTACHMENTS OF FOOTWEAR; LACES IN GENERAL
  • A43C7/00—Holding-devices for laces
  • A43C7/04—Hinged devices
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
  • B65D63/00—Flexible elongated elements, e.g. straps, for bundling or supporting articles
  • B65D63/10—Non-metallic straps, tapes, or bands; Filamentary elements, e.g. strings, threads or wires; Joints between ends thereof
  • B65D63/14—Joints produced by application of separate securing members
  • B65D63/16—Joints using buckles, wedges, or like locking members attached to the end of the element
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
  • Y10T24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
  • Y10T24/37—Drawstring, laced-fastener, or separate essential cooperating device therefor
  • Y10T24/3703—Includes separate device for holding drawn portion of lacing
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
  • Y10T24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
  • Y10T24/37—Drawstring, laced-fastener, or separate essential cooperating device therefor
  • Y10T24/3703—Includes separate device for holding drawn portion of lacing
  • Y10T24/3705—Device engages tie in lacing
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
  • Y10T24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
  • Y10T24/37—Drawstring, laced-fastener, or separate essential cooperating device therefor
  • Y10T24/3703—Includes separate device for holding drawn portion of lacing
  • Y10T24/3705—Device engages tie in lacing
  • Y10T24/3708—Device engages tie in lacing and fully covers tie
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
  • Y10T24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
  • Y10T24/37—Drawstring, laced-fastener, or separate essential cooperating device therefor
  • Y10T24/3703—Includes separate device for holding drawn portion of lacing
  • Y10T24/3713—Includes separate device for holding drawn portion of lacing having relatively movable holding components or surfaces
  • Y10T24/3716—Includes separate device for holding drawn portion of lacing having relatively movable holding components or surfaces with pivotal connection therebetween

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a device for retaining and / or immobilizing laces, in particular for sports shoes.
• the knot can be untied, which entails the obligation to do it again in a place or position that is not always comfortable, a untied knot can be the source of an accident. , especially from falling, because the sportsman will get his feet in it or the lace will get caught in a derailleur, in particular of mountain bike.
• the subject of the invention is a new device for retaining and / or immobilizing laces, in particular for sports shoes, which is both extremely practical to use, reliable, inexpensive, the same model adapting to from very many different types of shoes, to very many different types of use, depending on the user, the type of shoe and the sport practiced.
• the lace retention and / or immobilization device is characterized in that it is in the form of a tube section, articulated in two parts around a hinge constituting a generator of the tube , parallel to its axis, lockable in the closed position and unlockable to allow the introduction or removal of the lace formed in a bundle, at least one of the two aforementioned parts of the tube section comprising a means of attachment to a securing part of the shoe, advantageously constituted by at least two holes for the passage of the lace to be immobilized and its fixing on it, and the opening diameter of the tube in the locked position corresponding substantially to the bundle of lace to be immobilized.
• the opening diameter of the tube corresponds substantially to the diameter of a bundle of four to eight thicknesses of lace.
• the lace for example knotted, by enclosing the two loops and the two strands of free end of the lace, or if the lace is not tied, all the free ends of the lace assembled into a bundle of reduced length, and which will be suitably maintained on the top of the shoe, towards the base, if the device has been placed in this place, or upwards, for example towards the ankle, if the device has been placed higher on the lace, all of which can then be hidden under the cuff of a sock.
• FIG. 1 shows a top view of a device according to the invention, fitted on a sports shoe, such as a tennis or running shoe, comprising a crossed lacing, the device being shown in position d 'opening, and the laces being untied;
• FIG. 2 shows the same shoe as that of Figure 1, the device of the invention being half closed on the knotted laces which will enclose a loop and a low end of lace;
• FIG 3 shows the same device in place locked on the lace;
• FIG. 4 shows in perspective view, on a larger scale, the device of the invention according to FIG. 1, in the open position:
• FIG. 5 is a median sectional view made substantially in the plane V - V of Figure IV;
• FIG. 6 shows in median section the device of the invention in the closed, locked position.
• FIG. 7 shows in perspective view and in the open position a second embodiment of a device according to the invention
• - Figure 8 shows in perspective view the same device in the closed position
• FIG. 9 shows on a larger scale, laid flat in the direction of arrow IX of Figure 7, this device;
• Figure 10 is a sectional view taken in the median plane XX of Figure 9;
• - Figure 11 shows on the same scale as Figures 9 and 10 the device in the closed position in which have been shown eight circles illustrating the size of eight strands of laces which would not be compressed and which can be held firmly in place. inside the device.
• FIGS. 1 to 6 The embodiment and the use described in FIGS. 1 to 6 will now be described first.
• the device is in the form of a tube section, which in the example illustrated has a circular section, and which is articulated in two parts around the hinge 13, constituting a generator of the tube parallel to its axis referenced z'z in Figure 4.
• This hinge can be a conventional hinge or simply constituted by a weakened generator at this point in the wall of the tube.
• the two parts 11, 12 of the tube section are substantially symmetrical with respect to their junction plane in the closed position of the device (see FIG. 6).
• the part 11 comprises a locking notch 14 which comes to lock in a cooperating retaining notch 14 'formed facing the other part.
• holes referenced 15, 16, 17, 18 have been formed in part 12. These holes are formed in pairs, respectively 15, 16, and 17, 18, each pair of holes being located in a plane substantially perpendicular to the axis of the tube.
• the holes 15, 16, are located on a line y'y which is orthogonal to the axis z'z.
• the opening of the holes 15, 16, 17, 18 is made to allow easy passage of the lace, the holes being able to be circular or for example oval.
• the device allows the device to be easily positioned at the location of a crossed passage of the lace 19, at any level of the shoe 20.
• the device has been placed towards the base of the shoe, between the first stage of eyelets 21, 22, and the second stage of eyelets, 23, 24. More precisely, at least one first strand of lace is passed through the holes 16 and 17 or 15 and 18, although the second strand can also also be passed through the corresponding complementary holes 15 and 18 or 16 and 17; in the latter case, however, the device is fixed with less mobility on the shoe. It is clear, however, that the device could be placed as well between the pairs of eyelets 23, 24 and 25, 26, or between the pairs of eyelets 25, 26 and 27, 28.
• the device can be placed on any of these passages, by threading the lace in the holes of the pair 15, 16, or of pair 17, 18, at the chosen level, for example the stage of eyelets 23, 24.
• FIGS. 2 and 3 it has been illustrated that the user had tied the laces of his shoe normally, and that then, he trapped in a bundle a loop and a low end of the lace and locked the device on the bundle of three strands thus formed. It is clear that the user could just as easily have locked the two loops and / or the two ends of the lace as desired. Again, it is thus ensured that the lace thus locked will not be able to undo freely and will not drag on the ground.
• the length of the tube is not too short, nor too large.
• the tube section will thus preferably have, along the axis z'z, a length of the order of a few centimeters, for example, preferably, between 2 and 4 cm. Such a length will generally ensure good immobilization of the yaw beam. For specific applications, other dimensions could however be adopted, for example shorter, of the order of 1 cm or even less.
• the holes can be provided not only on one of the two parts but on the two parts of the device. In this case, it is possible to use the device both in one direction and in the reverse direction.
• the tube section is molded in plastic material, according to a known bi-material molding technique, the device will be easily produced in two colors, one for part 11, the other for part 12, and the user can present at will, at sight, one or the other of the two parts of the device.
• the tube sections can be decorated, bear any desired marking, or even support, integrated with material or not, any decorative element such as a figurine for example.
• the hinge 13 will advantageously be a simple film hinge, again according to well known manufacturing techniques.
• the device shown in the low position on the shoe has been shown. Since the device is simply placed on the lace at any desired height, it can just as easily be placed at the ankle, and in this case, it can allow to immobilize the lace bundle without knotting the laces if you want greater flexibility of movement at the ankle. In this case, the entire lace bundle can be hidden under the lapel of a sock folded over the device. This allows the laces to be worn in this way without having to introduce the lace in the shoe or to have loops that hang out of the shoe, with the risks that this presents.
• the illustrated device has been shown with a circular section, the device can be given any other section, in particular polygonal, for example square or oval, and in this case, the term "diameter" used corresponds to the diameter of a circle which would have the same opening surface as that of the device.
• the device has the general shape of an ovalized tube.
• elements similar to those of the first embodiment have been referenced in the second embodiment by the same prime indexed numbers.
• a device referred to as a whole 10 'consisting essentially of two parts 11' and 12 'joined by a hinge 13'.
• the device also comprises a locking notch 30, more particularly visible in FIGS. 9 to 11, which in the closed position of the device, comes to lock in a slot 31 under a tongue 32 projecting slightly outwards on a edge of the device .
• part 11 ′ four holes 15 ′, 16 ′, 17 ′, 18 ′ have been provided, as in the first embodiment, for fixing the device in the shoe by passing through at least some of these holes of a part of the laces as explained in relation to the first embodiment.
• the device has a generally ovalized section that is flattened rather than circularly rounded.
• the hinge 13 ' is of a known type with elastically assisted opening and closing, the articulation of the hinge 13' being in the embodiment illustrated around two articulation lines 33, 34, connecting the two parts 11 ′, 12 ′ of the device, while a deformable elastic tongue 35 assists the device for a frank opening, as illustrated in FIG. 10, and also to assist closing, the presence of the tongue obliging in a way the device to be either open or closed.
• the elastic hinge mechanism is not part of the invention insofar as it belongs to the public domain as described in particular in French patent 1,595,023 or 2,007,294 to which reference may be made. In Figure 11, we see that the device will enclose with suitable compression eight strands of laces.
• the device is given an overall height h of the order of 12 mm and an overall width of the order of 18.5 mm, it will thus be possible to enclose eight laces of a uncompressed diameter of 4.5 mm.
• the overall length of the tube L may for example be of the order of 25 mm. It is also observed that, for ease of use and for better aesthetics, the two ends of the "section of tube" which the device forms in the closed position have rounded cutouts, as is more clearly seen in particular in FIGS. 8 to 10.
• the part 12 ′ in which the holes 15 ′ to 18 ′ are formed for the passage of the laces is not flat but slightly curved inwards towards its middle ( at the arrow referenced 36 in the figure 10), which will further facilitate the passage and good performance of the laces in the pairs of corresponding holes 15'-16 ', 17'-18'.
• the device of the invention has been described in relation to shoes, which will be the most practical case, it is clear that the device can also be applied to other objects, in particular ankle boots, corsets, jackets, that is to say, in general, any article of clothing comprising eyelets and a tightening lace.
• the device although advantageously fixed by simple threading on a strand of lace, at the most suitable location, may include another means of attachment to a part for securing the object, such as a shoe, fixing means which may be a ring, a flange, a loop or any other link which will be fixed to the device, using the holes mentioned or, for example, by gluing, and which will itself be fixed on the object , either permanently, or removably.
• fixing means which may be a ring, a flange, a loop or any other link which will be fixed to the device, using the holes mentioned or, for example, by gluing, and which will itself be fixed on the object , either permanently, or removably.

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