Rubber camming ratchet for near silent strap adjustment

A tensioning mechanism comprising:

• a rotating carrier including a plurality of pawls comprising a flexible material adapted to reduce sound when the rotating carrier rotates, a pawl of the plurality of pawls having a pawl head and a pawl neck;
• a toothed ring;
• and
• an adjusting knob including a wall configured to at least one of:
• push the pawl to disengage from teeth of the toothed ring, or
• pull the pawl to engage with the teeth of the toothed ring.

A method comprising:

• rotating an adjusting knob, the adjusting knob including a wall;
• and
• based on the rotating, engaging or disengaging a pawl of flexible material with teeth from a toothed ring, wherein the flexible material reduces sound from the engaging or disengaging of the pawl with the teeth;
• pushing, based in part on rotating the adjusting knob, the wall toward the pawl;
• disengaging, based in part on the wall pushing toward the pawl, the pawl from the teeth of a toothed ring;
• causing, based in part on the wall pushing toward the pawl, a neck of the pawl to buckle and wedge between a rotating carrier and the toothed ring;
• and
• rotating, based in part on the pawl disengaging from the teeth of the toothed ring, the rotating carrier coupled to the pawl.