DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ACCESSORIZING AND ORGANIZING WIRES

• US 20130341062A1
• Filed: 06/11/2013
• Published: 12/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Abba Daddy LLC
• Original Assignee: Abba Daddy LLC
• Inventors: PAQUIN, Priscilla Sue
• Granted Patent: US 9,429,257 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 174/68.3
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 11/00 Hoses, i.e. flexible pipes
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 1/00 Methods or apparatus specially adapted for installing, maintaining, repairing or dismantling electric cables or lines
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/1033 Cables or cables storage, e.g. cable reels cord reels per se H02G11/02; arrangements for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of conductors or cables B65H75/34; extensible conductors or cables, e.g. self-coiling cords H01B7/06
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49227 Insulator making

Abstract

A method for protecting a length of flexible audio wire. The method includes providing at least one elongated hollow tube with a core and a resiliently-separable slit that provides access to the tube core. The tube is axially-flexible. The method also includes receiving the length of flexible audio wire within the hollow tube core through the resiliently-separable slit.

Claims

1. A method for protecting a length of flexible audio wire, the method comprising:

providing at least one elongated hollow tube comprising a core and a resiliently-separable slit providing access to the tube core, wherein the tube is axially-flexible; and

receiving the length of flexible audio wire within the hollow tube core through the resiliently-separable slit.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the hollow tube comprises a material that is more rigid than the flexible audio wire.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the hollow tube is axially-flexible in 360 degrees along a longitudinal direction.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the resiliently-separable slit extends along the length of the hollow tube.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the resiliently-separable slit comprises a pair of opposing parallel edges.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein at rest, the pair of opposing parallel edges close together.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein the length of flexible audio wire is received into the tube core by separating the resiliently-separable slit.

8. A sleeve for protecting a length of flexible audio wire, the sleeve comprising:

an elongated hollow tube comprising a core, an opening at each end and a slit extending between the opening at each end, the slit comprising a pair of opposing parallel edges that are resiliently separable.

9. The sleeve of claim 8, wherein the tube is axially-flexible in 360 degrees along a longitudinal direction.

10. The sleeve of claim 8, wherein the tube comprises material that is more rigid than the length of flexible audio wire.

11. The sleeve of claim 8, wherein the slit comprises an at-rest state and a separated state.

12. The sleeve of claim 11, wherein the slit in the separated state is configured to provide access to the tube core.

13. The sleeve of claim 11, wherein during the at-rest state, the slit is configured to resist passage between the pair of opposing parallel edges.

14. The sleeve of claim 13, wherein during the at-rest state, the pair of opposing parallel edges are configured to touch.

15. The sleeve of claim 8, wherein thickness of the tube, between the inner diameter and the outer diameter, is constant.

16. The sleeve of claim 8, wherein the thickness of the tube narrows toward the slit edges.

17. A method for protecting a length of flexible audio wire, the method comprising:

providing at least one elongated hollow tube comprising a core and a resiliently-separable slit providing access to the tube core, the tube comprises material that is more rigid than the length of flexible audio wire and is axially-flexible in 360 degrees along a longitudinal axis;

separating the slit to expose the hollow tube core; and

receiving the length of flexible audio wire within the tube core through the resiliently-separable slit.