Pliable handle on which a button can be installed

• US 7,441,310 B2
• Filed: 10/28/2005
• Issued: 10/28/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Xiamen Jundian House Omaments Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Xiamen Jundian House Omaments Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Chen, Chien-Hung
• Primary Examiner(s): Batson; Victor
• Assistant Examiner(s): O BRIEN, JEFFREY D
• Application Number:
  US11/262,390
• Publication Number:
  US 20070094848A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,096 Days
• Field of Search: 164/30, 164/31, 164/36, 164/21, 16D/IG.12, 16D/IG.19, 164/35, 135/24, 135/25.4, 190/115, D8/5, D8/6, D8/10, D8/12, 280/821, 814/89, 151441-1444
• US Class Current: 16/430
• CPC Class Codes: A45B 9/02 Handles or heads
• CPC Class Codes: B25G 1/102 the shape being specially adapted to facilitate handling or improve grip
• CPC Class Codes: G05G 1/06 Details of their grip parts G05G1/10 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 16/12 Hand grips, preformed and semi-permanent

Abstract

A pliable handle on which a button can be installed, includes a rigid core member, a bore in the rigid plastic core member along the longitudinal axis for locking the bottom of the central rod; a flexible outer sheath is disposed about the core member hermetically, and deformable gel is disposed between the core member and the outer sheath. A space for receiving the button which can move in radial direction is set in the core member, a through opening for button to be inserted through is disposed in the side wall of the core member, the side wall corresponds to the space; an outer annular flange is formed on the exterior surface of the core member which corresponds to the through opening; an opening is set on the flexible outer sheath for containing the outer annular flange of the core member.

Claims

1. A pliable handle on which a button can be installed, comprising:

a rigid core member with a bore set in the core member along the longitudinal axis of said core member for locking the bottom of a central rod, a flexible outer sheath is disposed about said core member hermetically, and deformable gel is disposed between said core member and said outer sheath;

wherein in said core member there is a space for containing said button, which can move in a radial direction, and there is a through opening for receiving said button in a side wall of said core member, said side wall corresponds to said space;

an outwardly extending annular flange is formed on an exterior surface of said core member corresponding to the through opening;

an opening is set on said flexible outer sheath for receiving said outwardly extending outer annular flange of said core member;

said opening of said outer sheath covers said outwardly extending annular flange of said core member; and

a rigid cover board having a button bore, which corresponds to the through opening, is pressed on the vicinity of the opening of said outer sheath, the opening of said outer sheath hermetically covers said outwardly extending annular flange of said core member.

2. The pliable handle on which a button can be installed as recited in claim 1, wherein an annular groove is formed on an exterior surface of said outwardly extending annular flange of said core member, an inwardly extending annular flange is set inside the opening of said flexible outer sheath and is wedged into said annular groove formed on said exterior surface of the outwardly extending annular flange of said core member.

3. The pliable handle on which a button can be installed as recited in claim 1, wherein said cover board has two securing flanges, which extend upwardly and downwardly, respectively, said two securing flanges correspond to the top and the bottom of said core member respectively.

4. The pliable handle on which a button can be installed as recited in claim 3, wherein a rigid upper cap is set on the top of said core member, a rigid lower cap is set on the bottom of said core member;

there are two outwardly extending annular shoulders around the top portion and the bottom portion of said core member, and there is a hermetical annular groove in the middle of each shoulder;

two hermetical loops are set at the top and at the bottom of said core member, the two hermetical loops are parallel and extend inwardly;

the upper hermetical loop on the top of said outer sheath is wedged into the gap between said core member and said upper cap, said lower hermetic loop on the top of said outer sheath is wedged into said hermetical groove of an upper shoulder of said shoulders of said core member, said lower hermetic loop at the bottom of said outer sheath is wedged into the gap between said core member and said lower cap, said upper hermetical loop at the bottom of said outer sheath is wedged into said hermetical groove of a lower shoulder of said shoulders of said core member;

the ends of securing flanges of said cover board are secured to said upper cap and said lower cap respectively.

5. The pliable handle on which a button can be installed as recited in claim 4, wherein two bores are respectively formed on said upper cap and said lower cap, the ends of said securing flanges of said cover board are wedged into the bores on said upper cap and said lower cap respectively.

6. A pliable handle on which a button can be installed, comprising:

a rigid core member with a bore set in the core member along the longitudinal axis of said core member for locking the bottom of a central rod, a flexible outer sheath is disposed about said core member hermetically, and deformable gel is disposed between said core member and said outer sheath;

wherein in said core member there is a space for containing said button, which can move in a radial direction, and there is a through opening for receiving said button in a side wall of said core member, said side wall corresponds to said space;

an outwardly extending annular flange is formed on an exterior surface of said core member corresponding to the through opening;

an opening is set on said flexible outer sheath for receiving said outwardly extending annular flange of said core member;

said opening of said outer sheath covers said outwardly extending annular flange of said core member;

an annular groove formed on an exterior surface of said outwardly extending annular flange of said core member;

an inwardly extending annular flange set inside the opening of said flexible outer sheath and is wedged into said annular groove formed on said exterior surface of the outwardly extending annular flange of said core member; and

a rigid cover board having a button bore, which corresponds to the through opening, said cover board is pressed on the vicinity of the opening of said outer sheath, the opening of said outer sheath hermetically covers the outer flange of the core member.