Back to results
US 11,299,339 B2Granted
Shoe holder
OwnerIan Earl DaCostainventor
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
The Shoes Stax Pro is an apparatus that allows you to store multiple pairs of shoes in a compact area. It utilizes a series of springs and tongs that allow you to hang shoes and other footwear both on the outside and the inside of the box shaped apparatus. It stores more shoes in the area that is usually taken by one or two pairs of shoes. It can be stacked one atop the other to increase the number of shoes that can be stored.
Claims11
A shoe holder comprising:
- a first foldable box-shaped structure comprising four sides, each side hingedly attached to two neighboring sides, each side comprising a plurality of slats disposed vertically and joined by a cross-slat disposed horizontally at a top end of the plurality of slats, each slat having an outer surface disposed on an outside of the first foldable box-shaped structure and an inner surface disposed on an inside of the first foldable box-shaped structure;
- a first shoe-holding structure disposed on the outer surface of each slat, the first shoe-holding structure comprising a tong, the tong sized and shaped to fit inside a shoe, the tong hingedly attached to the cross-slat, a torsion spring disposed between the slat and the tong, the torsion spring comprising a coil portion, a first arm disposed at a first end of the coil portion and a second arm disposed at a second end of the coil portion, the first arm attached by a first spring support holder to the tong and the second arm attached by a second spring support holder to the slat, the tong and torsion spring connected to the cross-slat by a cross bar passing through the coil portion of the torsion spring and through a knuckle of the tong, the cross bar received in holes of the cross-slat, the tong having a first position for holding a shoe in which it is supported by the torsion spring at an angle away from the slat, and a second position in which it is folded against the slat and held in the second position by a holding clip pivotably attached to the slat.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.