Detachable wristband carrier

• US 4,781,315 A
• Filed: 09/12/1986
• Issued: 11/01/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Erik R. Nordskog
• Original Assignee: Erik R. Nordskog
• Inventors: Nordskog, Erik R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Luebke, Renee S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Petrik, Robert M.
• Application Number:
  US06/906,820
• Time in Patent Office: 781 Days
• Field of Search: 224/219, 224/222, 224/267, 224/164-178, 224/250, 224/253, 224/217, 224/218, 224/221, 224/252, 224/254, 224/255, 2/183
• US Class Current: 224/165
• CPC Class Codes: A44C 5/003 with a storage compartment
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 2005/008 Hand articles fastened to the wrist or to the arm or to the leg
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 5/00 Holders or carriers for hand articles; Holders or carriers for use while travelling or camping

Abstract

A carrier for releasable attachment to a band includes a hollow housing with side and bottom portions. The side and bottom portions have at least one pair of protuberances integrally formed adjacent the bottom portion on opposite side portions of the hollow housing. Each of the protuberances form, with the corresponding side portions, a channel adapted to receive therein a flexible, elastomeric cable adapted to engage both of the channels formed by the pair of protuberances and to extend across the bottom portion of the housing. The cable is sufficiently flexible to encircle the band to hold both the bottom portion of the housing and the band in a releasable adjacent relation.

Claims

1. A portable minature container assembly adapted for releasable attachment to a closed band member, which assembly may be selectively opened for providing easy access to its contents, and which may be attached and released from the closed band member without having to open the band member, the assembly comprising:

a plastic container having at least two opposite side walls, a bottom wall, and a water-tight, integrally formed, hinged lid that, in its open position, permits access to the interior of said container;

at least one pair of separate finger members, each finger member of said pair being integrally formed on an opposite side wall of said container adjacent said bottom wall and protruding outward therefrom, each of said finger members being aligned with one another; and

said finger members having extending hooked portions, free ends of the hooked portions receive and releasably retain an elongated flexible member between said finger members and said side wall of said container, said elongated flexible member encircling a portion of the band member and releasably engaging said pair of finger members to retain said bottom wall of said container against said closed band member.

2. The container assembly of claim 1 wherein said elongated flexible member is made of elastomeric material.

3. A portable minature container assembly adapted for releasable attachment to a closed band member, which assembly may be selectively opened for providing easy access to its contents, and which may be attached and released from the closed band member without having to open the band member, the assembly comprising:

a plastic container having a contiguous, volume containing side wall, a bottom wall, and a water-tight, integrally formed, hinged lid that, in its open position, permits access to the interior of said container;

at least one pair of separate finger members, each finger member of said pair being formed adjacent a side wall of said container on opposite sides of said bottom wall and protruding outward therefrom, each of said finger members being aligned with one another; and

said finger members having extending hooked portions, free ends of the hooked portions receive and releasably retain an elongated flexible member between said finger members and said side wall of said container, said elongated flexible member encircling a portion of the band member and releasably engaging said pair of finger members to retain said bottom wall of said container against said closed band member.

4. The container assembly of claim 3 wherein said elongated flexible member is made of elastomeric material.