User handle for watersports device
AssigneeZup LLC
InventorGlen Wade Duff
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Abstract
A flexible, no through hole, loop handle is disclosed for a watercraft. The customary loop handle through hole is completely closed by a particular, sturdy, flexible, stretchy, mesh, or other puncture resistant, water suited and water permeable fabric. The handle grip portion is a fabric tube enclosing a squeezable foam segment that enables a user to obtain a complete finger overlapped with thumb wrapped grip on the handle. The closed through hole eliminates the risk of a user's hand or other limb segment being intentionally or inadvertently extended through the handle. The mesh fabric is sufficiently flexible to allow a full finger wrapped grip around the fabric tube of the handle such that no aspect of user grip is compromised by virtue of the mesh fabric.
Claims18
A first handle for attachment to an underlying surface, comprising:
- a fabric tube, having a first end and a second end and a length between said ends, defined
- by a piece of folded fabric with a pair of opposed edges thereof attached one to the other from the first to the second end, the fabric tube defining a hollow segment within the tube, and flattened ends tabs proximate the first and second ends;
- a foam tube contained within the hollow segment, and between the flattened end tabs;
- a flexible water permeable stretching fabric connected along an edge of said stretching
- fabric to the tube along its length;
- the tube being formed as a U-shape surrounding said flexible fabric within said U-shape;
- and,
- a sew strap attached to the respective end tabs and unenclosed edges of the flexible fabric
- so as to create a closed loop handle shape suitable for further attachment via said sew strap to said underlying surface.
A first handle for attachment to an underlying surface, comprising:
- a fabric tube, having a first end and a second end and a length of at least 150 mm between
- said ends, defined by a piece of folded fabric with a pair of opposed edges thereof attached one to the other from the first to the second end, the fabric tube defining a hollow segment within the tube, and flattened ends tabs proximate the first and second ends;
- a foam tube contained within the hollow segment, and between the flattened end tabs, an
- outer diameter of said fabric tube being at least 8 mm;
- a flexible water permeable stretching fabric connected along an edge of said stretching
- fabric to the tube along its length;
- the tube being formed as a U-shape surrounding said flexible fabric within said U-shape;
- and,
- a sew strap attached to the respective end tabs and unenclosed edges of the flexible fabric
- so as to create a closed loop handle shape suitable for further attachment via said sew strap to said underlying surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.