Shoe clip

• US 7,152,286 B2
• Filed: 01/19/2001
• Issued: 12/26/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Garmin Limited
• Original Assignee: Dynastream Innovations Incorporated (Garmin Limited)
• Inventors: Fyfe, Ken, Rooney, James, Fyfe, Kipling, Bortz, Wade
• Primary Examiner(s): Lavinder, Jack W.
• Application Number:
  US10/181,403
• Publication Number:
  US 20030000053A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,167 Days
• Field of Search: 247/126, 247/123, 247/125, 247/127, 247/136, 247/156, 24/31.2, 241/63.K, 247/12, 243/03, 361/36
• US Class Current: 24/712.6
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 1/0054 provided with magnets, magnetic parts or magnetic substances
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 23/26 Tongues for shoes
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 3/00 Footwear characterised by the shape or the use
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 3/0031 provided with a pocket, e.g. for keys or a card
• CPC Class Codes: A43C 7/00 Holding-devices for laces
• CPC Class Codes: A43C 7/04 Hinged devices
• CPC Class Codes: A43D 999/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/37 Drawstring, laced-fastener, or separate essential cooperating device therefor
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/3716 with pivotal connection therebetween

Abstract

A shoe clip (100) includes two members (10, 12) that attach together in positions above and beneath shoe laces (20), to grip the shoe laces (20) between them and position the clip (100) on the shoe (22). A first member (10) is shaped and sized to slide under one or more laces (10) of the shoe, without requiring unlacing thereof. A second member (12) rotatably attaches at one end to the first member and, after insertion of the first member (10) beneath the laces (10), rotates to overlie the first member (10). The members then fasten to one another at their free ends (15, 17), such that the members grip the laces (20) between them. The second member supports or is integral with a component that is to be attached to the shoe.

Claims

1. A method for mounting an article to a shoe having one or more laces, the method including the steps of:

A. first sliding a first member having a first second end between one or more interlacings of the laces and the shoe until said second end of the first member extends outwardly from the one or more laces;

B. second positioning a second member having a first and second end that is integral with or supports the article to overlay the first member with the one or more laces between the two members;

C. third rigidly clamping the two members together to grip the one or more laces tightly between the members and secure the article in position on the shoe and against movement relative to the shoe by receiving at said second end of one of the members one or more tabs that extend from said second end of the other member in indents that are positioned to correspond respectively to relative vertical separations between corresponding second ends of the first and second members, with the one or more tabs at any given time being received by the particular indents that retain the members in position to tightly grip the one or more laces.