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US 9,955,753 B1Granted
Accessories affixed to footwear or affixed around footwear to provide a decorative fashion attachment
AssigneeA1 Jewellery, Inc.
InventorGloria Harvey
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Abstract
An attachment member which enables a decorative ornament to be affixed either onto a shoe, preferably at a location were a decorative ornament retained on the invention can be visible and cover at least a portion of the shoe and also a portion of the heel of the shoe. It is also a decorative ornament which can be placed around the instep location of a boot or elongated footwear where the decorative ornament can be removably affixed around the instep location of the footwear and has decorative ornaments dangling from the present invention to enable them to be visible on the boot.
Claims15
An apparatus used in conjunction with a decorative ornament decorative ornament and used in conjunction with and retained on a shoe, the apparatus comprising:
- a. a main attaching member portion including an elongated flexible band having a front face and a rear face, a multiplicity of spaced apart flexible attaching members integrally formed with the elongated flexible band and extending in the same plane and perpendicularly from a top longitudinal side of the elongated flexible band, a multiplicity of spaced apart transverse teeth integrally formed with the elongated flexible band and located adjacent a bottom longitudinal side of the elongated flexible band, each of the multiplicity of teeth separated from an adjacent tooth by a gap, the multiplicity of teeth extending perpendicularly to and away from the front face of the elongated flexible band and located adjacent a bottom longitudinal side of the elongated flexible band, a first transverse stopping tab integrally formed with the elongated flexible band and located at a first end of the elongated flexible band and extending perpendicularly to the elongated flexible band and in the same direction of the multiplicity of teeth, and a second transverse stopping tab integrally formed with the elongated flexible band and located at a second end of the elongated flexible band and extending perpendicularly to the elongated flexible band and in the same direction of the multiplicity of teeth;
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- b. a decorative ornament used in conjunction with the elongated flexible band, at least a portion of the elongated decorative ornament retained on the front face of the elongated flexible band, the apparatus used in conjunction with a shoe with a spaced apart multiplicity of attaching members respectively bent over a portion of a shoe to retain the elongated flexible band onto a portion of the shoe with at least a portion of the decorative ornament being a decorative member extending through at least some of the gaps and each respective gap located between two respective adjacent teeth on either side of a respective gap, to enable the decorative member to hang from the shoe.
An apparatus used in conjunction with a decorative ornament and used in conjunction with and retained on a shoe, the apparatus comprising:
- a. a main attaching member portion including an elongated flexible band having a front face and a rear face, at least two spaced apart flexible attaching members integrally formed with the elongated flexible band and extending in the same plane and perpendicularly from a top longitudinal side of the elongated flexible band, a multiplicity of spaced apart transverse teeth integrally formed with the elongated flexible band and located adjacent a bottom longitudinal side of the elongated flexible band, each of the multiplicity of teeth separated from an adjacent tooth by a gap, the multiplicity of teeth extending perpendicularly to and away from the front face of the elongated flexible band;
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- b. a decorative ornament used in conjunction with the elongated flexible band, at least a portion of the elongated decorative ornament retained on the front face of the elongated flexible band, the apparatus used in conjunction with a shoe with a spaced apart multiplicity of attaching members respectively bent over a portion of a shoe to retain the elongated flexible band onto a portion of the shoe with at least a portion of the decorative ornament being a decorative member extending through at least some of the gaps and each respective gap located between two respective adjacent teeth on either side of a respective gap, to enable the decorative member to hang from the shoe.
An apparatus used in conjunction with a decorative ornament and used in conjunction with and retained on a shoe, the apparatus comprising:
- a. a main attaching member portion including an elongated flexible band having a front face and a rear face, at least one flexible attaching member integrally formed with the elongated flexible band, a multiplicity of spaced apart transverse teeth integrally formed with the elongated flexible band, each of the multiplicity of teeth separated from an adjacent tooth by a gap, the multiplicity of teeth extending perpendicularly to and away from the front face of the elongated flexible band;
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- b. a decorative ornament used in conjunction with the elongated flexible band, the decorative ornament retained on the front face of the elongated flexible band, the apparatus used in conjunction with a shoe with the at least one attaching member respectively bent over a portion of a shoe to retain the elongated flexible band onto a portion of the shoe with a decorative member extending through at least some of the gaps and between two adjacent teeth, to enable the decorative member to hang from the shoe.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.