Strap cushioning pad and lacing method of attachment
OwnerHoward Silagyinventor
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Abstract
An elastomeric shoulder pad to serve as a buffer between an over-the-shoulder carrying strap and a user's shoulder in which lacing openings, similar to those used in footwear, are provided in a top surface of the shoulder pad and the carrying strap seated in a recess between the lacing openings and laced in place, so that the shoulder pad in use is in an interposed position between the carrying strap and the user's shoulder.
Claims3
In preparing for manual transportation an over-the-shoulder carrying strap of a knapsack-type article of manufacture during which a shoulder pad is provided with an interposed position between a shoulder of a user and said strap so as to serve as a load-distributing buffer, an improvement consisting of a method of facilitating said providing of said interposed position comprising the steps of:
- 1. fabricating said shoulder pad of elastomeric construction material in a rectangular shape having a top surface and a bottom surface and a thickness delimited therebetween;
- 2. recessing into said thickness of said top surface only centrally and longitudinally thereof and leaving intact opposite full thickness left and right borders;
- 3. seating a length portion of said over-the-shoulder strap in said shoulder pad recess in an as yet unattached condition thereto;
- 4. using a length of lacing and longitudinally spaced lacing openings in said left and right borders;
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- 5. lacing a pattern of plural helical turns of said lacing in said lacing openings in encircling relation about said top and bottom surfaces of said shoulder pad with said strap in said recess;
- whereby while keeping intact said seated position of said strap within said recess said unattached condition of step 3 is readily modified to a completed condition using said lacing pattern, to thereby hold in place said shoulder pad in said interposed position to serve as a buffer.
In combination, a knapsack using a carrying strap to be manually transported, and added in an interposed position between a shoulder of a user thereof and said carrying strap a shoulder cushioning pad to serve as a load distributing buffer, said shoulder cushioning pad comprising a body of elastomeric construction material in a rectangular shape having a top surface and a bottom surface and a thickness delimited therebetween, said top surface only centrally and longitudinally thereof having a recess into said thickness and leaving intact opposite full thickness left and right borders, a selected length of lacing, said left and right borders of said recess having longitudinally oriented and spaced apart lacing openings therein, said carrying strap having an operative position of a length portion thereof coincident to a shoulder of a user disposed physically unattached in said recess, and said selected length of lacing having an operative position in said lacing openings effective to provide a lacing pattern of plural helical turns in encircling relation about said top and bottom surfaces of said shoulder pad with said strap in said recess, to thereby hold in place said shoulder pad in said interposed position to serve as a buffer.
In combination, an auto driver's safety belt having an angularly oriented length portion extending from a position adjacent a user's clavicle across said user's chest, and added in an interposed position between said clavicle of said user and said strap a cushioning pad to serve as a load distributing buffer, said cushioning pad comprising a body of elastomeric construction material in a rectangular shape having a top surface and a bottom surface and a thickness delimited therebetween, said top surface only centrally and longitudinally thereof having a recess into said thickness and leaving intact opposite full thickness left and right borders, a selected length of lacing, said left and right borders of said recess having longitudinally oriented and spaced apart lacing openings therein, said strap having an operative position of a length portion thereof coincident to a clavicle of a user disposed physically unattached in said recess, and said selected length of lacing having an operative position in said lacing openings effective to provide a lacing pattern of plural helical turns in encircling relation about said top and bottom surfaces of said shoulder pad with said strap in said recess, to thereby hold in place said cushioning pad in said interposed position to serve as a buffer.
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