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US 5,812,500 AGranted
Sports watch band
OwnerTracy Webb, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
A sports watch band of stretchable, washable, absorbent material is easily attached or removed from a sports watch by one or more bands inserted through the space between the watch's frame body and pin and secured to the stretchable band using a hook-and-loop or buckle closure.
Claims3
A watch band suitable for use in sports comprising:
- an annular sweat band,
- a second band attached to said sweat band on a first side of its outer surface and a third band attached to said sweat band and said second band at a common point, said third band being of a size convenient to pass through narrow spaces intermediate the frame body and pin of a watch,
- a fourth band attached to said sweat band on a second side of its outer surface and a and fifth band attached to said sweat band and said fourth band at a common point, said fifth band being of a size convenient to pass through narrow spaces intermediate the frame body and pin of a watch, and the distance between the common point of attachment of said second and third bands and the common point of attachment of said fourth and fifth bands being approximately the width of a watch frame, and
- a quickly releasable fastening means for easily securing said third band to said second band and easily detaching said third band from said second band and for easily securing said fifth band to said fourth band and easily detaching said fifth band from said fourth band, where said fastening means is comprised of a hook-and-loop material, and where said fastening means does not prevent said third band and said fifth band from being passed through narrow spaces intermediate the frame body and pin of a watch.
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A sports watch comprising
- a watch with a frame having a frame body, a pair of prongs on a first side and a pair of prongs on a second side, a first pin disposed between said pair of prongs on said first side, a second pin disposed between said pair of prongs on said second side, a first narrow space intermediate said first pin and said frame body, and a second narrow space intermediate said second pin and said frame body,
- a detachable, absorbent, stretchable, annular first sweat band of absorbent, washable material,
- attachment means comprising a narrow second band permanently attached to said first band on the first side of its outer surface and a third band attached to said sweat band and said second band at a common point, said third band being of a size convenient to pass through narrow spaces intermediate the frame body and pin of the watch frame to secure said watch to said first band on a first side, and a fourth band attached to said sweat band on a second side of its outer surface and a and fifth band attached to said sweat band and said fourth band at a common point, said fifth band being of a size convenient to pass through narrow spaces intermediate the frame body and pin of a watch to secure said watch to said first band on a second side, and the distance between the common point of attachment of said second and third bands and the common point of attachment of said fourth and fifth bands being approximately the width of a watch frame,
- quickly releasable fastening means for easily securing said third band to said second band and easily detaching said third band from said second band and for easily securing said fifth band to said fourth band and easily detaching said fifth band from said fourth band, and where said fastening means does not prevent said third band and said fifth band from being passed through narrow spaces intermediate the frame body and pin of a watch, and further where said easily releasable fastening means comprises facing portions of a hook-and-loop closure material.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.