Sports board carrying device

Abstract

An equipment carrying device is provided for carrying a wide range of sports boards by releasable attachment to and suspension from a separate shoulder strap, such as a shoulder strap of a backpack. The equipment carrying device features an elongated strap having distal and proximal ends. A connector has a first attachment and a second attachment. The first attachment is attached to the elongated strap at a first attachment point between the distal and proximal ends and the second attachment is configured for releasable attachment to a separate assembled shoulder strap, such as a backpack strap. A carrying hook is attached to the elongated strap at a second attachment point. An elastic section is attached to the elongated strap between the first attachment point and second attachment point and configured to absorb shocks of sudden loads. The carrying hook is an integrated structure having a bottom arcuate cradle with a first end and an opposite second end, an upward extending neck having a free end and an end integrally attached to said first end of the cradle, an eyelet at the free end of the upward extending neck, and a lip attached to the second end of the bottom arcuate cradle.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.