Shoelace reel operated easily and conveniently
AssigneeMeng Hann Plastic Co., Ltd.
InventorJung-Fu Hu
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Abstract
A shoelace reel includes a support seat, a spool rotatably mounted in the support seat, a shoelace having two distal ends each secured to the winding zone of the spool, a limit sleeve mounted on the support seat, a drive member rotatably and movably mounted in the limit sleeve, and a control knob rotatably and movably mounted on the limit sleeve and connected to the drive member. Thus, the user only needs to rotate the control knob to tighten the shoelace and to pull out the control knob to loosen the shoelace. In addition, the user only needs to operate the control knob to tighten or loosen the shoelace, so that the user can tighten or loosen the shoelace by his one hand only.
Claims20
A shoelace reel, comprising:
- a support seat having a first side formed with an axially extending receiving hole and a periphery formed with two spaced guide holes each connected to the receiving hole;
- a spool rotatably mounted in the receiving hole of the support seat and having a periphery formed with a winding zone and a first end formed with an inner gear;
- a shoelace having two distal ends each extended through a respective guide hole into the receiving hole of the support seat and each secured to the winding zone of the spool to move with the winding zone of the spool;
- a limit sleeve mounted on a second side of the support seat and having an inner wall formed with an axially extending limit hole and a plurality of oneway ratchet teeth;
- a drive member rotatably and movably mounted in the limit hole of the limit sleeve and having a first end formed with an outer gear detachably meshing with the inner gear of the spool to rotate the spool, a mediate portion formed with a ratchet wheel meshing with the oneway ratchet teeth of the limit sleeve and a second end formed with a drive shaft protruded from the limit sleeve.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.