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US 9,693,623 B2Granted
Adjustable holster for portable devices
OwnerCharles E. Bryantinventor
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Abstract
The holster includes a solid basically flat rectilinear shape. In one embodiment, a horizontal slot through the thickness of the base receives a strap that is wrapped around the portable device, while a second strap, vertically oriented, is fixed in a keyway in the bottom of the base and threaded through a vertical slot in the thickness of the base and is brought upward over the horizontal strap. In a second embodiment a pair of horizontal straps are set in keyways and are wrapped around a portion of the portable device, holding it in place. All straps having a webbing having one side covered by the hook portion of a hook and loop fastening system and the other side covered by the loop elements of a hook and loop fastening system, allowing opposite sides, or faces, of any single strap to be fastened to itself.
Claims17
A holster for a portable device comprising:
- a. a base having a front surface and a rear surface, and a perimeter having a top edge and a bottom edge, a left side edge and a right side edge;
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- b. at least one horizontally disposed strap wrapped around at least a portion of said front surface of said base;
- c. a vertically oriented strap wrapped around said bottom edge and said front surface of said base, wherein said horizontally disposed strap and said vertically disposed strap each further comprise one surface covered with hook elements of a hook and loop fastener system and said horizontally disposed strap and said vertically disposed strap each further comprise an opposing surface covered with loop elements of a hook and loop fastener system;
- d. an adhesive tape covering outer surfaces of said at least one horizontally disposed strap and said vertically oriented strap, whereby said hook elements of said at least one horizontally disposed strap and said hook elements of said vertically disposed strap are prevented from accumulating debris;
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- e. a recessed channel along said left side edge of said base and a recessed channel formed along said right side edge of said base and a recessed channel along a bottom edge of said rear surface, whereby each exposed end of said adhesive tape in a recessed channel is recessed from the rear surface of said base and is therefore less subject to wear.
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A holster for a portable device comprising:
- a. a base having a front surface and a rear surface, and a perimeter having a top edge and a bottom edge, a left side edge and a right side edge;
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- b. at least one horizontally disposed strap wrapped around at least a portion of said front surface of said base, said at least one horizontally disposed strap having an outer surface covered with hook elements of a hook and loop fastener system and an inner surface covered with loop elements of a hook and loop fastener system;
- c. a keyway in a lower portion of said base recessed into said rear surface of said base, said keyway further comprising an elongated channel having two parallel side walls formed in said base with said channel lying parallel to said bottom edge of said base, said channel having a depth equal to the thickness of a vertically oriented strap and a keyway slot formed in the thickness of said base and running from said keyway to said bottom edge of said base, said base having a thickness and said keyway slot being formed in said thickness;
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- d. a vertically oriented strap having an outer surface covered with hook elements of a hook and loop fastener system and an inner surface covered with the loop elements of a hook and loop fastener system, said vertically oriented strap having a width equal to a length of said channel and being threaded through said vertically oriented slot and a stop member having a width equal to the length of said channel and a depth equal to said depth of said channel, said stop member being fixed to an end of said vertically oriented strap to prevent said strap from being pulled entirely through said vertically oriented slot and said vertically oriented strap being wrapped around said bottom edge and said front surface of said base, contacting an inner first layer of said horizontal strap with said horizontal strap being wrapped around said inner layer of said horizontal strap and an upper portion of said vertically oriented strap to form an outer layer of said horizontal strap about the portable device, thereby creating an interlocking horizontal fastening system and an interlocking vertically oriented strap fastening system with said interlocking horizontal fastening system and said vertically oriented interlocking system allowing for adjustability of the size of the portable device that will fit into the assembled holster.
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A holster for a portable device comprising:
- a. a base having a front surface and a rear surface, and a perimeter having a top edge and a bottom edge, a left side edge and a right side edge;
- b. at least one horizontally disposed strap wrapped around at least a portion of said front surface of said base;
- c. a first keyway adjacent to said right edge of said base and a second keyway adjacent to said left edge of said base and a left keyway slot running from said left keyway to said left edge of said base and a right keyway slot running from said right keyway slot to said right edge of said base;
- d. a first horizontally oriented strap inserted into said right keyway and a second horizontally disposed strap inserted into said left keyway and a stop on an end of each said first and second straps where said first and second straps are inserted into the respective said right and left keyways;
- e. wherein said at least one horizontally disposed strap and said vertically oriented strap each have an outer surface covered with hook elements of a hook and loop fastener system and an inner surface covered with loop elements of a hook and loop fastener system;
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- f. a friction pad holder seated in a friction pad holder well formed on said rear surface of said base and a friction pad seated in a friction pad receiving well in said friction pad holder.
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A holster for a portable device comprising:
- a. a base having a front face and a rear face, and perimeter having a top edge and a bottom edge, a left side edge and a right side edge;
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- b. at least one horizontally disposed strap wrapped around at least a portion of said front face of said base, said at least one horizontally disposed strap having an outer surface covered with hook elements of a hook and loop fastener system and an inner surface covered with loop elements of a hook and loop fastener system;
- c. a horizontally disposed slot through a thickness of said base for receiving said horizontally disposed strap;
- d. a keyway in a lower portion of said base recessed into said rear face of said base and a keyway slot running from said keyway to said bottom edge of said base, said base having a thickness and said keyway slot being formed in said thickness;
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- e. a vertically oriented strap having an outer surface covered with hook elements of a hook and loop fastener system and an inner surface covered with loop elements of a hook and loop fastener system, said vertically oriented strap being threaded through a vertically oriented slot and a stop member on said vertically oriented strap to prevent said strap from being pulled entirely through said vertically oriented slot and said vertically oriented strap being wrapped around said bottom edge and said front face of said base;
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- f. a flange formed on at least one of said right side edge and said left side edge of said base and projecting forward of said front face of said base.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.