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• US 20140053321A1
• Filed: 09/18/2012
• Published: 02/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/18/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alfred M Haas
• Original Assignee: Alfred M Haas
• Inventors: Haas, Alfred M.
• Application Number:
  US13/622,335
• Publication Number:
  US 20140053321A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 2/243.1
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 1/002 adapted to accommodate electronic equipment patients' garments for medical monitoring A41D13/1281; luminous ornaments A41D27/085
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 27/24 Hems; Seams
• CPC Class Codes: A41F 17/02 Clips or the like for trousers or skirts, e.g. for cyclists

Abstract

This invention relates to methods and means for securing pants cuffs and otherwise raised or shortened pants legs. Some embodiments of the methods and means of the invention also incorporate additional functionality including, but not limited to communication, sensing, display and data processing elements. Various embodiments of the methods and means of the invention may be performed by and/or implemented in hardware, in software, by one or more entities, and/or by some combination of hardware, software and/or one or more entities.

Claims

1. A means comprising one or more of a clip, a band and a pin for securing pants cuffs and otherwise raised or shortened pants legs.

2. A means comprising hardware and one or more of a clip, a band and a pin, for securing pants cuffs and otherwise raised or shortened pants legs.

3. The means of claim 2, wherein the hardware comprises a microcontroller.

4. The means of claim 2, wherein the hardware comprises one or more sensing means.

5. The means of claim 2, wherein the hardware comprises circuitry for ascertaining GPS data.

6. The means of claim 2, wherein the hardware comprises one or more means for generating sound.

7. The means of claim 2, wherein the hardware comprises one or more display elements or lights.

8. A method for securing a pants cuff comprising the steps of rolling up a pants leg into a cuff and attaching one or more of a clip, a band and a pin to the cuff.