U.S. patent application number 11/349394 was filed with the patent office on 2006-08-10 for revolving slide.
Invention is credited to Zackary Engel.
Application Number | 20060174389 11/349394 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 36778399 |
Filed Date | 2006-08-10 |
United States Patent
Application |
20060174389 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Engel; Zackary |
August 10, 2006 |
Revolving slide
Abstract
The present invention related to a device for maintaining one's
pant leg in the proper position in relation to one's shoes, to
conceal the shoe, and retaining the trouser legs away from the
ground. This invention includes a shoe with integrated fastener
such as a hook, and a trouser leg with integrated fastener such as
a loop. The shoe fastener integrated into the rear of the shoe just
above the ground (e.g. the shoe hill) and the pants fastener
integrated into the interior portion of the trouser leg cuff.
Accordingly, the lower portion of the trousers legs may manually or
automatically be attached to the shoe hill securing the trousers
leg to the shoe and away from the ground.
Inventors: |
Engel; Zackary; (New York,
NY) |
Correspondence
Address: |
ZACKARY ENGEL
P.O. BOX 705
NEW YORK
NY
10028
US
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Family ID: |
36778399 |
Appl. No.: |
11/349394 |
Filed: |
February 7, 2006 |
Related U.S. Patent Documents
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Application
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Patent Number |
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60650089 |
Feb 7, 2005 |
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Current U.S.
Class: |
2/46 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A41D 1/06 20130101; A41D
2300/32 20130101; A41D 27/145 20130101; A41D 2300/324 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
002/046 |
International
Class: |
A41D 27/12 20060101
A41D027/12 |
Claims
1. A retaining device for keeping a pants leg a way from the
ground, retaining device comprising: A first fastener device
attached to the interior rear portion of the trouser leg cuff A
second fastener device attached to the lower rear section of a shoe
Wherein when the first fastener device attached to the second
fastener device prevent the pant leg from slipping past the heel of
the boot and touching the ground.
2. The system of claim 1 where the first fastener device includes a
means to permanently attach it to the pant cuff.
3. The system of claim 1 wherein the second fastener device include
a means to permanently attach it to the shoe hill.
Description
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] The present application claims the benefit of pending and
commonly assigned provisional patent applications, as follows: U.S.
Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/650,089, filed Feb. 7,
2004 and entitled "Dancing Pant Leg Retaining Method" The entire
contents of the foregoing provisional patent application is hereby
incorporated by reference.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002] 1. Field of the Invention
[0003] The present invention relates to a trouser leg retaining
device for use in connection with keeping one's trousers positioned
away from the ground. Trousers with overlong legs are desirable;
however, they typically can slip beneath the shoes, a condition
which is unsafe and undesirable. Likewise, the trousers legs may be
pulled up when sitting and caught above the boots when getting up.
The trouser leg retaining device ensures that the trouser leg does
not get dragged on the ground, caught on the shoe's top, beneath
it, or beneath the other shoe.
[0004] 2. Description of the Prior Art
[0005] Trouser leg retaining devices are desirable for keeping
trouser legs in place and ensuring that the trouser leg does not
pulled up, or get caught within or above the shoes when walking,
running, dancing, and alike activity. Various boot attachments
exist in the prior art, most of which are designed to achieve these
desires. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 5,974,591 to Leslie discloses a
firefighter's boot to trouser strap device for keeping a
firefighter's uniform together.
[0006] U.S. Pat. No. 4,941,213 issued to Grilliot et al relates to
a firefighter's boot and trouser attachment. The attachment device
relates to a band having a strap extending therefrom. The strap
contains fastener elements which attach to portions of the
firefighter's trousers.
[0007] U.S. Pat. No. 4,393,522 issued to Calabrese relates to an
ankle garter with foot stirrups. The device includes an open ended
garter band with a U-shaped stirrup depending therefrom.
[0008] U.S. Pat. No. 3,733,615 issued to Jaffee relates to a ski
cuff insertable inside each leg portion of a pair of stretch pants
having a pair of elastic bands designed to firmly hold the cuff
piece onto a ski boot.
[0009] U.S. Pat. No. 3,286,375 issued to Troy relates to a boot
having a pant leg retaining means comprising a hook and buckle
attached to the top edge of the boot upper portion.
[0010] U.S. Pat. No. 3,177,498 issued to Sadowski relates to stays
for trousers including a strap extending beneath the wearer's foot
and upwardly into opposing sides of a trouser leg.
[0011] U.S. Pat. No. 4,115,906 to Lavine et al discloses a
clippable trouser retaining strap that maintains the cuff of a leg
of a pair of trousers in a downward position. However, the Lavine
et al '906 patent does not have a mechanism to secure the pant to
the back of the shoe, and additionally does not have a design snap
onto which a logo may be displayed.
[0012] Similarly, U.S. Pat. No. 4,941,213 to Grilliot et al
discloses a firefighter's boot and trouser attachment that keeps a
firefighter's boot attached to his trouser leg. However, the
Grilliot et al '213 patent cannot be used with any footwear other
than boots. It has the additional deficiency of wrapping around the
firefighters boot as opposed to attaching to the top of the
boot.
[0013] Lastly, U.S. Pat. No. 5,542,156 to Oglesby discloses a
trouser leg retaining device that keeps trouser legs attached to
shoes to keep pant legs from riding up. However, the Oglesby '156
patent does not attach to the top of a shoe, and has the additional
deficiency of attaching to the bottom of a shoe thus enabling the
elastic strap to wear out quicker due to friction from walking on
pavement.
[0014] As indicated above, various boot attachments and similar
structures exist in the prior art. However, each of these devices
relates to a means for securing a trouser leg about or within a
boot or for compressing a boot to assist a user in placing a pant
leg thereover and to conceal the boot therewithin. While the
above-described devices fulfill their respective, particular
objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not
describe a trouser leg retaining device that preventing an overlong
trouser legs from being dragged on the ground. Furthermore none of
these prior art describe a trouser leg retaining device that may
automatically secure the trousers leg to the respective shoes and
the ground. Finally, in the present invention, the trouser leg
retainer is also attached to the hill of the shoe as opposed to
wrapping around the bottom of the shoe or the top of the shoe thus
maximizing the concealing of the shoe.
[0015] Therefore, a need exists for a new and improved trouser leg
retaining device that can be used for automatically or manually
keeping pants away from the ground. In this regard, the present
invention substantially fulfills this need. In this respect, the
trouser leg retaining device according to the present invention
substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of
the prior art, and in doing so provides an apparatus primarily
developed for the purpose of keeping pants legs above the ground.
The present patent also can be used with any sort of footwear, not
just boots as seen in some of the above-mentioned patents.
Furthermore, the present patent utilizes any fastening device, such
as Velcro, magnetic strip, snaps, and more.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0016] In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known
types of footwear securing device now present in the prior art, the
present invention provides an improved trouser leg retaining
device, and overcomes the above-mentioned disadvantages and
drawbacks of the prior art. As such, the general purpose of the
present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater
detail, is to provide a new and improved trouser leg retaining
device and method which has all the advantages of the prior art
mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a
trouser leg retaining device which is not anticipated, rendered
obvious, suggested, or even implied by the prior art, either alone
or in any combination thereof. Also, this invention particularly
allows a user to wear a pant with longer then usual legs and yet
keep these pant's legs a way from the ground.
[0017] To attain this, the present invention essentially comprises
a fastener device, such as a hook, that integrated to the pant leg
and another fastener device, such as a loop, that integrated to the
shoe hill. A first section of the fastener integrated to the rear
section of the shoe hill. The second section of the fastener is
integrated to the back inner edge of the pants leg to connect the
trouser leg to the shoe hill just above the ground. The fasteners
may be made a standard or optional feature of the shoes
(permanently glued, screwed, or built into the hill of the shoe at
the time the boots are manufactured; and the same holds true for
attachment on pants at the time the pants are manufactured.
However, the fasteners may be retrofitted to the boots and pants
through methods known in the art.
[0018] Numerous objects, features and advantages of the present
invention will be readily apparent to those of ordinary skill in
the art upon a reading of the following detailed description of
presently preferred, but nonetheless illustrative, embodiments of
the present invention when taken in conjunction with the
accompanying drawings. In this respect, before explaining the
current embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be
understood that the invention is not limited in its application to
the details of construction and to the arrangements of the
components set forth in the following description or illustrated in
the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of
being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be
understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are
for the purpose of descriptions and should not be regarded as
limiting.
[0019] As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the
conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be
utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods
and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present
invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded
as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not
depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
[0020] It is therefore an object of the present invention to
provide a new and improved trouser leg retaining device that has
all of the advantages of the prior art shoe to trouser strap device
and none of the disadvantages.
[0021] It is another object of the present invention to provide a
new and improved trouser leg retaining device that may be easily
and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
[0022] Still another object of the present invention is to provide
a new trouser leg retaining device that provides in the apparatuses
and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while
simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally
associated therewith.
[0023] It is therefore an object of the present invention to
provide a device for keeping overly long trouser legs away from the
ground.
[0024] It is yet another object of the present invention to provide
a device that allows the shoe or boot to be conveniently concealed
beneath a wearer's trousers.
[0025] It is yet another object of the present invention to provide
a device that is easy to use and automatically or manually retains
the trousers legs to the shoe.
[0026] Even still another object of the present invention is to
provide a trouser leg retaining device for keeping pant legs in
place. This keeps pants from falling behind shoes and further
discourages upward movement of pant legs during user's activity.
The trouser leg retaining device can be used with any type of
footwear.
[0027] It is yet another object of the present invention to provide
a device that allows the pant leg to unfasten and disengaged from
the shoe manually and or automatically when the pants leg is
considerably pulled upward such as when user is sitting.
[0028] Other objects, features and advantages of the present
invention will become readily apparent from the following detailed
description of the preferred embodiment when considered with the
attached drawings and the appended claims.
[0029] These together with other objects of the invention, along
with the various features of novelty that characterize the
invention, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed
to and forming a part of this disclosure. For a better
understanding of the invention, its operating advantages and the
specific objects attained by its uses, reference should be had to
the accompanying drawings and descriptive matter in which there are
illustrated preferred embodiments of the invention.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0030] The invention will be better understood and objects other
than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration
is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such
description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
[0031] FIG. 1 is a left side view of the first embodiment of a shoe
with Velcro retaining device constructed in accordance with the
principles of the present invention.
[0032] FIG. 2 is a right side view of the second embodiment of a
shoe with Velcro retaining device constructed in accordance with
the principles of the present invention.
[0033] FIG. 3 is a bottom view of the third embodiment of the
trouser leg of the present invention where is the Velcro retaining
device affixed interiorly to the cuff of the pants.
[0034] FIG. 4 is a cross sectional view (see-through) of the forth
embodiment of the trouser leg of the present invention where is the
retaining device affixed interiorly to the cuff of the pants.
[0035] FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing both the pants and a
boot with the pant's leg attached to the shoe hill just above the
ground.
[0036] FIG. 6 is a cross sectional view (see-through) of
Applicant's present invention showing both the pants and a boot
with the pant's leg attached to the shoe hill just above the
ground.
[0037] FIG. 7 is a left side view of the second embodiment of a
shoe with a socket fastener, which is part of snap fastens
fastener, device constructed in accordance with the principles of
the present invention.
[0038] FIG. 8 is a perspective view of a third embodiment of a
retaining device which constructed in accordance with the
principles of the present invention.
[0039] FIG. 9 is a left side view of the third embodiment of a shoe
with a retaining device, which is mounted around the hill in
accordance with the principles of the present invention.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
[0040] Referring now to the drawings, and particularly to FIGS.
1-2, a preferred embodiment of shoe with a retaining device of the
present invention is shown and generally designated by the
reference numeral 10. The retaining device (11) e.g. hook is
integrated to the rear of the shoe hill (12)
[0041] Referring now to the drawings, and particularly to FIGS.
3-4, a preferred embodiment of pant leg with a retaining device of
the present invention is shown and generally designated by the
reference numeral 20. The retaining device (21) e.g. lop is
integrated interiorly to the rear of the pant cuff (22)
[0042] With reference to FIGS. 5-6, it is seen that the overly long
pant leg (30) problem is corrected, and actually prevented, by the
use of a fastener device. The hook (31) that is integrated to the
rear portion of the shoe hill (33) is engaged to the loop (32) that
is integrated interiorly inside the cuff or bottom portion of the
pants (34). The hook (31) and loop (32) restricts the pants to a
desired position in relation to the floor preventing the pant leg
from falling behind the shoe and being dragged on the ground. As
seen in FIG. 5-6 the front portion of the overly long leg cuff (35)
is supported by the front portion of the shoe (36).
[0043] Referring now to the drawings, and particularly to FIG. 7, a
preferred embodiment of shoe with a retaining device of the present
invention is shown and generally designated by the reference
numeral 40. This embodiment shows a snap fastener (41) integrated
to the rear of the shoe hill (42). Not shown here an equivalent
snap fastener is attached to the pant leg for engaging the pant to
the shoe hill and a way from the ground.
[0044] Referring now to the drawings, and particularly to FIG. 8, a
preferred embodiment of shoe with a retaining device of the present
invention is shown and generally designated by the reference
numeral 50. This embodiment shows a fastener (51) with retainer
band (52) which comprised of an elastic material, such as a rubber,
or any other suitable material. The retainer band allows to keep
the retainer deice in place and around the hill rather than
attached it permanently to the shoe. This elastic band-allows the
removal of the retainer device when not in use.
[0045] Referring now to the drawings, and particularly to FIG. 9, a
preferred embodiment of shoe with a retaining device of the present
invention is shown and generally designated by the reference
numeral 60. This embodiment shows a fastener (61) with retainer
band (not shown here) mounted on a shoe hill just above the
ground.
[0046] Fasteners (11), (21), (31), (32), (41) (50), and (61)
maintains the pants at a desired level in relation to the shoes and
the ground and never lets the overlong pants legs slide under the
shoe or dragged on the floor when walking or dancing. The retaining
device also conceals the shoes when sitting as it keeps the legs
attaches to the shoe heals preventing the legs from pulling up.
Yet, when necessary such as with large range of legs movement or
knee bending such as when crouching the hook and loop of the
retaining device may disengaged allowing upward movement of the
pants. One of the reason that set this invention apart is that it
is so practical and user friendly. In addition this invention
allows a user to wear an overlong legs pant without the risk of
dragging the pants legs on the ground or stepping on them. This
function is provided for in fasteners (11), (21), (31), (32), and
(41) which can be a magnetic strip hidden inside the pants cuff
(22) and attached to the hill of the shoe (12), or other suitable
type that can be automatically Engaged and disengages the pant leg
to the shoe.
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