Package and article carriers – Carried by animate bearer – Flaccid attaching means looped around neck or crossing shoulder
Reexamination Certificate
1999-10-27
2001-06-26
Cronin, Stephen K. (Department: 3727)
Package and article carriers
Carried by animate bearer
Flaccid attaching means looped around neck or crossing shoulder
C224S580000, C224S910000, C084S327000, C984S257000, C984S106000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06250525
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to supporting and positioning a guitar or similar instrument, hereinafter referred to as a guitar, which is supported by a shoulder strap system by increasing the shoulder strap system support at the strumming end of the guitar and uniformly distributing the weight of the guitar over the player's shoulders and body.
The weight of a guitar is very heavy and uncomfortable to hold over long periods of time. Various suspension systems for supporting the guitar on the front of the body have been used. A type of suspension strap commonly used is a single strap slung over one shoulder. However the strap rests on very sensitive muscles close to the player's neck. Within a short period of time, the player develops fatigue and discomfort. Other types offer double strap type solutions which attempt to split the weight in half and attempt to evenly distribute the weight across the shoulders or affixed to a belt but the result is that it appears to make the suspension system rigid, uncomfortable and less appropriate for guitar use. Applicant has recently developed a Double Strap Harness for a Guitar, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/363,812, filed Jul. 30, 1999 that overcomes the defeciencies of these prior shoulder strap systems. The present invention is directed improving the effeciencies of these prior shoulder strap systems when they are being used.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present inventions overcomes the deficiencies of the prior art single and double shoulder strap systems which are attached to the protruding mounting buttons or other attachable means at the guitar's right end or strumming end and the left end or fret end, hereinafter referred to as the right end or left end of the guitar. This is accomplished with the present unique additional right end mounting attachment which is attached to the guitar's right end mounting button means extending over the prior art right end attached shoulder element attached to the button.
The present harness system encompasses a resilient, flexible lower member, preferably a slit fabric or leather tongue sleeve, movably attached to the bottom bar of a connecting bracket, and an upper adjustable strap loop member, preferably a sturdy, resilient fabric strap or similar item, slidably attached to the top bar of the connecting bracket. The slit tongue sleeve fits over the attached shoulder strap right end element and is itself attached to the protruding guitar right end button. The upper loop member is slidably attached to the clothing or waiste belt of the player by various means and hangs down adjacent the player's right hip area.
By combining the present harness right end mounting system with the prior art shoulder strap systems, the player is able to uniformly distribute the weight of the guitar away from sensitive shoulder muscles to more comfortable positions. By being able to set the guitar's right end a little higher off the right hip due to the adjustable loop, this tends to push the guitar's weight of the right end to the tongue sleeve which removes the weight off the left shouder for a single shoulder strap, or off of both shouders for a double shoulder strap system. The player is thus able to adjust the guitar to the most comfortable position not previously available.
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Cronin Stephen K.
Hamrock William F.
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