Education and demonstration – Physical education – Developing or testing coordination
Patent
1993-05-07
1994-12-13
Apley, Richard J.
Education and demonstration
Physical education
Developing or testing coordination
247122, 24115H, 132279, G09B 1924
Patent
active
053725107
ABSTRACT:
A combination shoelace and joining device is provided for use by young children or the handicapped, to aid in tying a bow in a shoelace that is mounted on a shoe. The joining device (16, FIG. 2 ) has a pair of permanently connected shoelace holding portions (40, 46), with a first portion (46) substantially permanently mounted on a shoelace part (32) and a second portion (40) which is child-mountable on a second shoelace part (34) to hold a shoelace end portion in a loop configuration which aids in tying a bow. Each shoelace holding portion forms a passage part (70, 72, FIG. 4 ) through which one of the shoelace parts extends. One joining device includes a pair of clamp parts (42, 44) that can be clamped around the second shoelace part, and that forms the second joining portion. The device includes a flexible strip (46) that holds the clamp parts together and that forms the first holding portion. A teaching kit (100, FIG. 6 ) includes a joining device (16 ) mounted on a short teaching shoelace (110) that is threaded on a shoe device (102) in the form of a cardboard plate representing a shoe.
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Apley Richard J.
Freilich Arthur
Hornbaker Robert D.
Jalbert Karen A.
Rosen Leon D.
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