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US 9,868,585 B2Granted
Wedge shaped footwear holder
OwnerNicola Jane Batesinventor
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Abstract
The present invention provides a wedge shaped footwear holder having two sides, a top and a floor, in which the sides and a top taper to define a closed distal end. A proximal opening accepts a displaceable portion. The displaceable portion is moveable along a neck, and is capable of being fixed in different positions so as to adjust an internal length of the footwear holder to correspond to a shoe.
Claims14
A wedge shaped footwear holder comprising:
- two sides, a top and a floor, in which said sides and a top taper define a closed distal end,
- a non-tapered neck opposite the closed distal end, and
- a proximal opening adjacent to the non-tapered neck and accepting a displaceable portion, the proximal opening of the non-tapered neck being orthogonal to the floor,
- wherein the displaceable portion is moveable along the non-tapered neck,
- wherein the displaceable portion is adapted to be selectively fixed in any one of a plurality of different positions so as to adjust an internal length of the floor of the footwear holder to correspond to a shoe;
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- wherein at least one of the displaceable portion and the neck is resiliently deformable so as to be capable to flexure to enable engagement and disengagement of the displaceable portion from one of the plurality of different positions to another.
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A wedge shaped footwear holder comprising:
- two sides, a top and a floor, in which said sides and a top taper define a closed distal end, and
- a proximal opening accepting a displaceable portion,
- wherein the displaceable portion is moveable along a neck,
- wherein the displaceable portion is capable of being fixed in different positions so as to adjust internal length of the footwear holder to correspond to a shoe;
- wherein the displaceable portion includes projections that in use are accepted in recesses provided on the wedge shaped footwear holder so as to lock the displaceable portion in position, and
- wherein the wedge shaped footwear holder includes plural recesses arranged along the neck so as to allow the displaceable portion to be located in different positions along the neck by aligning the projections to be accepted by different recesses.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.