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US 12,419,490 B2Granted
Fasteners for washing footwear in a washing machine
OwnerAleksej Vladimirovich Nesmeyanovinventor
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Abstract
A retainer for washing footwear, wherein fixing the footwear inside the washing machine drum by pressing the footwear against the drum inner surface with the footwear part opposite to the sole (toe, vamp, tongue, flap, lacing, quarter, soft edging, heel), for this the footwear are oriented in the drum with the soles to the drum center, and the upper part to the drum inner surface, while the locking jaws of the sliding clamping rail are attached to the footwear at the sole side.
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A retainer for washing footwear in a washing machine, comprising:
- a housing including a retaining latch-lock, and T-shaped spacer-holders with movable jaws and located on rails with each movable jaw having a comb of protrusions spaced by grooves, while folded for storage or transportation,
- wherein the T-shaped spacer-holders are recessed in the housing, and
- wherein the movable jaws are located at a distance from the rails, and
- wherein, when the retainer is located inside a washing machine drum, the footwear are tightly fixed with soles of the footwear in the movable jaws, such that the soles are oriented to a center of the washing machine drum, with upper part of the soles oriented to an inner surface of the washing machine drum,
- wherein the soles are tightly pressed against the inner surface of the washing machine drum by a part of the footwear opposite to the soles, the part of the footwear being any of toe, vamp, tongue, flap, lacing, quarter, soft edging, and heel,
- wherein tight clamping is provided by maximum possible drawing out of the spacer-holders from the retainer, and reverse movement of the spacer-holders is blocked by engagement of the latch-lock with the combs,
- wherein the retainer housing includes a sprocket gear to ensure symmetry of the spacer-holders upon opening, wherein the sprocket gear engages the protrusions and the grooves, and wherein the sprocket gear includes a ratchet mechanism to prevent slippage and a common reset button of the ratchet mechanism.
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A retainer for washing footwear in a washing machine, comprising:
- a housing including a retaining latch-lock, and T-shaped spacer-holders with movable jaws and located on rails with each movable jaw having a comb of protrusions spaced by grooves, while folded for storage or transportation,
- wherein the spacer-holders are recessed in the housing, and
- wherein the movable jaws are located at a distance from the rails, and
- wherein, when the retainer is located inside a washing machine drum, the footwear are tightly fixed with soles of the footwear in the movable jaws, such that the soles are oriented to a center of the washing machine drum, with upper part of the soles oriented to an inner surface of the washing machine drum,
- wherein the soles are tightly pressed against the inner surface of the washing machine drum by a part of the footwear opposite to the soles, the part of the footwear being any of toe, vamp, tongue, flap, lacing, quarter, soft edging and heel,
- wherein tight clamping is provided by maximum possible drawing out of the spacer-holders from the retainer, and reverse movement of the spacer-holders is blocked by engagement of the latch-lock with the combs,
- wherein the movable jaws holding the soles have a mutually conjugated thread of a nut-screw type, with a larger diameter jaw of the movable jaws containing a smaller movable jaw inside, the smaller movable jaw being equipped with a wing nut, while opening and closing of the movable jaws occurs by means of mutual turning of a connection of the mutually conjugated thread.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.