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US 2017/0295887 A1Published application
Material for developing/maintaining or compensating for motor skills
OwnerCharisse TORRES, Elise BOURNE-BUSBY +1inventors
InventorsCharisse TORRES, Elise BOURNE-BUSBY, Ethel EDWARDS
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Abstract
Described herein is a flexible but resilient material comprising a soft outside shell and an internal flexible but resilient support core, as well as a method for constructing such a flexible but resilient material that can have multiple applications, including being used to manufacture an improved shoelace to help young children, individuals who are physically challenged, and/or who have a limiting physical disability.
Claims20
A length of a flexible, resilient material comprising:
- an outside shell;
- an adhesive film sleeve
- a sheath;
- a bendable support assembly;
- a wax coating compound,
- wherein said bendable support assembly comprises at least one bendable support element comprising a support element core coated with said wax coating compound;
- wherein said at least one bendable support element core is encased in said sheath;
- wherein said sheath encasing said bendable support assembly is encased in said outside shell;
- and
- wherein a length of said material comprises a first end and a second end and each of the first and the second end is capped by an end-cap.
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A shoelace comprising:
- an outside shell;
- an adhesive film sleeve;
- a sheath;
- a bendable support assembly;
- a wax coating compound;
- wherein said bendable support assembly comprises at least one bendable support element comprising a support element core coated with said wax coating compound;
- wherein said at least one bendable support element core is encased in said sheath;
- wherein said sheath is encased in said adhesive film sleeve;
- wherein said adhesive film sleeve is encased in said outside shell;
- and
- wherein said shoelace comprises a first end and a second end and each of said first end and said second end is capped by an end-cap.
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A method of manufacturing a shoelace, the method comprising the steps of:
- a. providing an internal support core by coating at least one bendable support element core with a microcrystalline wax compound;
- b. wrapping a sheath around said internal support core, said sheath extending along a length of said internal support core;
- c. encasing said internal support core and said sheath in an adhesive film sleeve;
- d. encasing said adhesive film sleeve in an outside shell;
- and
- e. cutting said shoelace a desired length.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.