Package and article carriers – Carried by animate bearer – Flaccid attaching means looped around neck or crossing shoulder
Patent
1994-08-19
1996-04-16
Recla, Henry J.
Package and article carriers
Carried by animate bearer
Flaccid attaching means looped around neck or crossing shoulder
2268, D 3327, D 2639, A45F 312
Patent
active
055074227
ABSTRACT:
A shoulder pad for use with a shoulder strap for improving the distribution of the weight on a user's shoulder of an object carried by the strap thereby reducing the discomfort to the user and the tendency of the strap to slide off the user's shoulder. The shoulder pad comprises an arcuate shoulder strap support surface and one or more inclined wedges transversing the support surface between the inner and outer edges thereof. The wedges are inclined upwardly toward the outer edge of the support strap. A strap securement clip is removably secured about a centrally disposed wedge, pinching portions of the shoulder strap about the wedge and causing the strap to turn outwardly from the wedge and securing the pad to the strap. A pair of strap retention members are spaced slightly above and transverse the strap support surface proximate the extended ends thereof to hold the portions of the shoulder strap thereunder against the support surface, thereby cooperating with the securement clip to cause the strap bear against any laterally disposed secondary wedges on the support surface and turn outwardly therefrom. As a result of the turns provided in the strap by the pad, the strap substantially follows the contour of the user's shoulder and projects downwardly therefrom at an outward declination toward the object carried by the strap, effectively distributing the load on the strap across the pad to a larger area of the user's shoulder.
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Recla Henry J.
Vidovich Gregory M.
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