Package and article carriers – Carried by animate bearer – Flaccid attaching means looped around neck or crossing shoulder
Reexamination Certificate
2000-04-24
2001-07-31
Garbe, Stephen P. (Department: 3727)
Package and article carriers
Carried by animate bearer
Flaccid attaching means looped around neck or crossing shoulder
C002S268000, C280S808000, C297S482000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06267280
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates generally to improvements in elastomeric shoulder pads used to buffer the weight of an over-the-shoulder shoulder strap of a knapsack or similar article of manufacture, the improvement more particularly facilitating the placement of the shoulder pad in an interposed position between the strap and the user's shoulder.
EXAMPLE OF THE PRIOR ART
It is known from common experience, as well as from prior patents, as exemplified by U.S. Pat. No. 4,887,318 for “Shoulder Pad” issued to Weinreb on Dec. 19, 1989, that the weight load on a shoulder can result in discomfort and is readily relieved using a rubber or elastomeric shoulder pad. However, the positioning of the pad under the strap and holding a position of the pad, which optimally should be at the change in curvature of the shoulder, has not entirely been satisfactorily solved in the prior art. In the '318 patent, laterally extending tabs described as integral at one end to the pad and connected at free ends to form closed loops encircling the strap is the positioning technique used since the ends of the strap involved are attached to the carriage article and thus not able to otherwise be assembled to the pad. Since the construction material of the pad is elastomeric, manufacturing techniques are required to achieve an integrated attachment of the tab ends that will withstand the normal abuse of the attaching and detaching of the tabs.
Broadly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a shoulder pad overcoming the foregoing and other shortcomings of the prior art.
More particularly, it is an object to provide a simplified and more effective manner of assembling the shoulder pad to an over-the-shoulder carrying strap, all as will be better understood as the description proceeds.
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Garbe Stephen P.
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