SHOE PAIR MATCHING CLIP DEVICE
The present invention is a shoe matching device with internal tension spring capacity to clip matching pairs of shoes together to prevent separation temporarily. It can be easily placed and removed from the pair of shoes. This invention presents a method and device to keep matching pairs of shoe physically together.
Pairs of shoes matched by size, style or color can often get separated or lost. Losing one shoe of a pair of shoes, mismatching shoes, or simply having stored shoes that are disorganized, for example in a closet, is annoying and problematic. Mismatched shoes also cause clutter and messes within a household environment.
In a following description, reference is made to the accompanying drawings, which form a part hereof, and in which is shown by way of illustration a specific example in which the invention may be practiced. It is to be understood that other embodiments may be utilized and structural changes may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention.
General Overview:The present invention is a shoe pair matching clip device that is simple to use and inexpensive. The present invention enables the matching pair of shoes to be easily physically held together and separated with minimal effort giving the user an easy method of keeping the pairs of shoes organized and mated.
Many items of use in our daily lives come in pairs. When those pairs get physically separated they can be lost or difficult to find. Losing one shoe in a pair of shoes 110 is costly to replace requiring the purchase of a new pair and then disposing of what may be one shoe that has more useful life, but not as a single. Loss of time in searching for a shoes' mate is frustrating and annoying. Employee time spent searching for a shoes' mate and the economic loss in a commercial setting is costly. A shoe pair matching clip 100 provides a cost effective, fast and easy to use device and method for maintaining pairs of shoes in physical contact until their next use or when the pair of shoes is on display for sales or promotion purposes of one embodiment of the present invention.
The shoes are held together side by side with the shoe pair matching clip device by easily slipping the device down the two inside portions of the shoe openings and toward the front of the pair of shoes, acting as a clip, clamp or fastener of one embodiment of the present invention.
The present invention can be manufactured for different sizes of shoes such as men's, women's and children's sizes. The shoe pair matching clip 100 can be configured to fit different styles of footwear such as dress, casual, high-tops, athletic and various styles of sports shoe style categories. The shoe pair matching clip can be manufactured from a number of materials that provide compression forces with stability and rigidity, such as low-density polyethylene (LDPE), high-density polyethylene (HDPE), memory metals, and/or suitable material and many other recycled and/or biodegradable materials or combination thereof.
Detailed Description:It should be noted that the illustrations show in many cases angular edges or flat faces, the angular edges or flat faces are illustrated for ease of understanding of directional changes and distinction of structural elements. The underlying principles apply to clipping pressure and bowed tension in other embodiments of the shoe pair matching clip wherein some or all of the angular edges or flat faces maybe rounded or curved.
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The foregoing has described the principles, embodiments and modes of operation of the present invention. However, the invention should not be construed as being limited to the particular embodiments discussed. The above described embodiments should be regarded as illustrative rather than restrictive, and it should be appreciated that variations may be made in those embodiments by workers skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the present invention as defined by the following claims.
Claims
1. A shoe pair matching device for physically keeping a pair of shoes together, comprising;
- a grab base with finger holes configured to provide a secure gripping and handling part of the matching device;
- a heel clip having a bowed tension structure with side supports configured to create and maintain clipping pressure and physical contact at a rear of the pair of shoes;
- an arch extension that extends into an interior of the pair of shoes;
- an arch clip having a clipping point located at a distal end of the arch extension near a back of the interior of the pair of shoes;
- two opposing arch clip bowed tension structure sections configured to maintain clipping pressure on the arch clip;
- an arch extension lateral support configured to reinforce the arch extension and to provide additional clipping tension;
- raised tongue supports configured to provide vertical stability to the matching device; and
- a terminating flared end located at an end of the matching device configured to simplify user insertion of the matching device into the pair of shoes.
2. The shoe pair matching device of claim 1, wherein the heel clip is made of a material that has compression clipping tension for maintaining physical contact at the rear of the pair of shoes.
3. The shoe pair matching device of claim 1, wherein the arch extension extends into the interior of the shoes to allow multiple points of contact.
4. The shoe pair matching device of claim 1, wherein the raised tongue supports are configured to provide vertical stability with a point for the user to press against an inside tongue area of each shoe for compressing and decompressing the matching device.
5. The shoe pair matching device of claim 1, wherein the matching device is made of low-density polyethylene (LDPE).
6. The shoe pair matching device of claim 1, wherein the matching device is made of high-density polyethylene (HDPE).
7. The shoe pair matching device of claim 1, wherein the matching device is made of a memory metal.
8. The shoe pair matching device of claim 1, wherein the matching device is made of a combination of low-density polyethylene (LDPE), high-density polyethylene and memory metal.
Type: Application
Filed: Jun 11, 2009
Publication Date: Dec 16, 2010
Inventor: WILLIAM GRANICH (Van Nuys, CA)
Application Number: 12/483,232
International Classification: A43C 11/14 (20060101);