SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR INTRODUCING REMOVABLE PARTS CLOSELY UPON PART-RECEPTIVE OBJECT AFTER FABRICATION
A system for introducing removable parts closely upon a part-receptive object without having had to accommodate the removable parts at the time of fabrication of said object and without having to materially affect the original integrity of said object in order to accommodate the removable parts: especially, while without limitation, so that selectable part(s) after fabrication of the part(s)-receptive object are, closely, fittable to the object in another exemplary embodiment or, closely, refittable to the object in another exemplary embodiment or, closely, retrofittable to the object in another exemplary embodiment.
The present disclosure relates to a system for introducing removable parts closely upon a part-receptive object without having had to accommodate the removable parts at the time of fabrication of said object and without having to materially affect the original integrity of said object in order to accommodate the removable parts.
BACKGROUNDNowadays, modifying exteriors of products after fabrications of the objects isn't easy other than attaching decorations only loosely, for example “danglers” on bags. To obtain different feels or shapes or functions the consumer typically buys another product, adding expense, waste and inconvenience when the consumer liked the original product. After fabrication of the original product, the fabricator or a seller or a consumer of that product may want to exchange one or more of the external parts of it for corresponding other part(s), whether the other part(s) be for sale with the original product or by a seller of that product or from some other seller.
DISCLOSUREThere is disclosed a system and the relevant methods for introducing removable parts closely upon a part-receptive object without having had to accommodate the removable parts at the time of fabrication of said object and without having to materially affect the original integrity of said object in order to accommodate the removable parts: especially, while without limitation, so that selectable part(s) after fabrication of the part(s)-receptive object are, closely, fittable to the object in another exemplary embodiment or, closely, refittable to the object in another exemplary embodiment or, closely, retrofittable to the object in another exemplary embodiment.
The disclosure will be described by way of example with reference to the accompanying Figure, in which:
The present disclosure provides a system and methods for introducing removable parts closely upon a part-receptive object without having had to accommodate the removable parts at the time of fabrication of said object and without having to materially affect the original integrity of said object in order to accommodate the removable parts for implementing the same, as will be described in further details hereunder.
The present disclosure relates to a system and methods for introducing removable parts closely upon a part-receptive object without having had to accommodate the removable parts at the time of fabrication of said object and without having to materially affect the original integrity of said object in order to accommodate the removable parts: especially, while without limitation, so that selectable part(s) after fabrication of the part(s)-receptive object are, closely, fittable to the object in another exemplary embodiment or, closely, refittable to the object in another exemplary embodiment or, closely, retrofittable to the object in another exemplary embodiment. Introduction of means of affixing removable parts upon a part-receptive object may take place after fabrication of said object
In some embodiments, which is a pre-existing bag, for example, while not limited to, a women's bag, removability of the panel(s) on some part(s) of the exterior of the bag allow for swapping a panel for another panel without having to alter the integrity of the bag. The Invention provides for the tensility of the bag to range from soft in another exemplary embodiment to hard in another exemplary embodiment. The Invention provides for the tensility of the panel to range from soft in another exemplary embodiment to hard in another exemplary embodiment.
In some embodiments, swapping panels allows for altering the look in another exemplary embodiment or feel (material) in another exemplary embodiment or functionality (including, for example, while not limited to, introducing functionality of an electric/electronic nature) in another exemplary embodiment.
Swapping panels preserves the bag while allowing for varying it after fabrication of it. Conventionally a bag incorporates panels permanently. Altering a panel in such a bag, in the absence of uneconomically tearing apart the bag to replace the panel, has usually meant replacing the entire bag.
In another exemplary embodiment, the exchangeable panel can attach to a pocket on the side of a bag instead of directly to the shell of the bag.
A panel may be electrically activatable in another exemplary embodiment. That electric current may power an electronic processing module as well in another exemplary embodiment. In another exemplary embodiment:
the exchangeable panel that slips into and out of a sleeve includes an electrically activatable luminescent film that is transparent when off and a color when on; in another exemplary embodiment, an electronic ink coats the panel; in another exemplary embodiment, the material of the panel is responsive to electricity
filament conducts electrical current to the electrodes in the panel to activate the film from the transmission point at an edge of the panel;
after slipping the panel into the sleeve the correct way, the transmission point at the edge of the panel contacts the transmission point at the base of the sleeve to receive the electrical current;
the electrical current comes from a rechargeable battery, in another exemplary embodiment a conventional watch battery;
the battery, in another exemplary embodiment a conventional watch battery or in another exemplary embodiment a mobile battery or in another exemplary embodiment the storage unit complementing a solar cell upon the bag, resides in an unobtrusive pod inside a flap in the base of the bag;
the switch:
is electronic,
resides at the transmissive contact between panel and sleeve,
is turned on or off by a wireless instruction, for example, while not limited to, from an application in a smart phone in another exemplary embodiment, while in another exemplary embodiment the switch responds to a voice command and in other exemplary embodiment the switch is a button squeezable through the material of the bag at the base of the sleeve, the selectability of mode(s) of switch being provided for by this Invention.
In some embodiments, the shape of the panel is discretionary, subject to preferences in design:
The shape of the panel may be, for example, congruent with the shape of the bag on the side of the bag that accommodates the panel to allow fabrication of the panel, sale of it and selection of it apart from the fabrication, selection and sale of the bag, whatever that shape, for example, while not limited to, any of rectilinear, circular or trapezoidal.
Subject to the discretion of designer, the shape of the panel may, for example, differ from the shape of the bag to achieve an effect, in another exemplary embodiment.
Whether to attach only one panel or two panels or multiple panels to a bag is a preference: In another exemplary embodiment, only one location on the bag hosts an exchangeable panel. In another exemplary embodiment, each of two locations of a bag host an exchangeable panel. In another exemplary embodiment, each of multiple parts of the bag host an exchangeable panel.
In some embodiments, a panel attaches to the outside of a bag so that the panel is removable from the bag:
The means of fixing the panel to the bag may use any of alternatives at the time, whether now or in future, that provide for removability of the panel(s) that the means affix closely to the exterior of the bag as it is before attaching the panel(s): for example, while not limited,
snaps in another exemplary embodiment
hook and loop in another exemplary embodiment
tackiness (e.g. thin double-side tape) in another exemplary embodiment
zippers in another exemplary embodiment
screws in another exemplary embodiment
tongues in grooves in another exemplary embodiment
buttons in another exemplary embodiment
clips in another exemplary embodiment
hooks and rings in another exemplary embodiment magnetism in another exemplary embodiment.
Whatever the means, they have to allow for removability of the panel to preserve exchangeability. The selection of means is a preference of design of product in regard of, for example, while not limited to, how tensile the panel should be, how rigid the material is, the weight of the panel, in addition to look and feel intended by the designer. Whatever the means, they have to allow for removability of the panel to preserve exchangeability. The selection of means is a preference of design of product in regard of, for example, while not limited to, how tensile the panel should be, how rigid the material is, the weight of the panel, in addition to look and feel intended by the designer.
A part of the bag that accommodates a panel may be any of a flank of the bag or one of the ends of the bag, for example, while not limited to, where it is boxy or cylindrical or tetrahedronal.
In certain shapes of bags, for example, while not limited to, another exemplary embodiment wherein the bag is cylindrical, the panel may flexibly wrap around the bag including part of the bottom of the bag, while not the ends, like seaweed wrapping sushi, instead of sandwiching the bag between two panels. Subject to preferences of design, in regard of, for example, while not limited to, how tensile the panel is, the shape of the bag to attach the panel to and the weight of the panel, the means of affixing the panel to the bag may reside at an edge of the panel in another exemplary embodiment or around the perimeter of the panel in another exemplary embodiment or inward from the perimeter of the panel in another exemplary embodiment.
In certain shapes of bags, especially shapes where a panel may not be apt—for example, while not limited to, another exemplary embodiment wherein the bag is spherical (including oval)—the exchangeable panel is a “skin”. It envelops most of the bag. The skin attaches to the bag, closely, by means of any of, for example, while not limited to,
fasteners (for example, while not limited to,
snaps in another exemplary embodiment
hook and loop in another exemplary embodiment
tackiness (e.g. thin double-side tape) in another exemplary embodiment
zippers in another exemplary embodiment
screws in another exemplary embodiment
tongues in grooves in another exemplary embodiment
buttons in another exemplary embodiment
clips in another exemplary embodiment
hooks and rings in another exemplary embodiment
magnetism in another exemplary embodiment)
elasticity of the skin that stretches to grip the bag in another exemplary embodiment
inherent conformity like glove around hand in another exemplary embodiment.
In another exemplary embodiment, an opening in the skin is a mouth that swallows the bag. The opening in the skin also allows the handles to protrude in another exemplary embodiment. In another exemplary embodiment: the skin is elastic, it can expand to envelop the bag and an opening in the skin allows the handles of the bag to protrude.
In another exemplary embodiment: the bag is malleable, it can squeeze into the skin, which need not be (so) elastic, and an opening in the skin allows the handles of the bag to protrude.
In another exemplary embodiment: the skin envelops the bag from top down, a hole in the skin allows the handles of the bag to protrude, and the skin has excess material that droops down like a train from the bag.
The Invention provides that any bag allowing for exchanging panel(s) attaching to the bag can be of any of various sizes, shapes and capacities:
In another exemplary embodiment, the size of the bag is small.
In other exemplary embodiment, the size of the bag is large.
In another exemplary embodiment, the size of the bag is between small and large.
The Invention provides for selectability of whether or not to include compartment(s) inside the bag. The Invention provides for any compartment(s) inside the bag to be removable.
In some embodiments, a pre-existing bag, for example, while not limited to a women's bag, accommodates both inserting a panel into a sleeve in the shell of the bag and removing the panel, to allow for swapping a panel for another panel by slipping out one panel from the sleeve and inserting into the sleeve the other panel without having to alter the integrity of the bag. The Invention provides for the tensility of the bag to range from soft in another exemplary embodiment to hard in another exemplary embodiment. The Invention provides for the tensility of the panel to range from soft in another exemplary embodiment to hard in another exemplary embodiment.
The area(s) of the bag that includes the sleeve on the inside of that area may be a flank of the bag in another exemplary embodiment or one of the ends of the bag in another exemplary embodiment, for example, while not limited to, where it is boxy in another exemplary embodiment or cylindrical in another exemplary embodiment or tetrahedron in another exemplary embodiment, or two to several areas.
In that area are cut-outs of a shape or more than one shape in such a way that a panel in the corresponding sleeve will show through the cut-out(s), for example, while not limited to, displaying a color or pattern or a material.
Introducing the sleeve into the bag may be accomplished by one of several ways compatible with apt fabrication at the time, now or future, for example the following method in another exemplary embodiment:
Permanently attach (for example, while not limited to, by sewing on) a sufficiently robust section of additional material to the inside of that exterior to construct a sleeve.
Leave the top seam between the exterior and the additional material open to allow for inserting the removable panel.
The dimensions of the sleeve and the respective panel correspond to allow snug insertion of panel inside sleeve, thereby introducing the panel as an additional separable part, while allowing easy removal of that panel from the sleeve.
In some embodiments, a combination of sleeve and panel may be non-rectilinear, for example, while not necessarily, trapezoidal. The corresponding shapes of the panel and the sleeve may be congruent with the non-rectilinear shape of the respective part of the bag or the corresponding shapes of the panel and the sleeve may be different from the respective part (for example, while not necessarily, a hexagon on the triangular part of a tetrahedron). In such cases, alternative ways of retaining the panel in the sleeve may be apt, for example, while not limited to, one of the following methods:
Enlarging the top of slot of the sleeve to the width of the panel so that the sleeve flaps open can accommodate a non-rectilinear shape, for example, while not limited to, circle in another exemplary embodiment, triangle in another exemplary embodiment, or trapezoid in another exemplary embodiment.
In another exemplary embodiment, flapping the sleeve open from one or the other side to the height of the panel can likewise accommodate non-rectilinear shapes.
Where introducing the panel into the sleeve from top would be challenging (for example, while not limited to, when they are trapezoidal), one way to facilitate the combination of panel and sleeve is, in another exemplary embodiment, to introduce the panel through the bottom of the sleeve while having sealed the rest of the perimeter of the sleeve.
Where the sleeve flaps open to accommodate panel in another exemplary embodiment or the bottom seam is open in another exemplary embodiment, some reinforcement to retain the panel in the sleeve may be necessary. For example, while not limited to, any of apt fastenings—for example, while not limited to, snaps or zipper or tackiness—that are available at the time, whether now or in future may suffice, when the snugness of the fit of panel inside sleeve doesn't retain the panel. This Invention provides for:
selectability of which side the flap the sleeve open from in another exemplary embodiment
selectability between flapping the sleeve open or leaving the bottom of the sleeve open in another exemplary embodiment
selectability of fastening(s) in another exemplary embodiment.
This Invention provides for:
selectability of how thin a panel in another exemplary embodiment
selectability of the material of a panel in another exemplary embodiment,
selectability of the shape of the panel in another exemplary embodiment,
selectability of the shape of the sleeve in another exemplary embodiment
selectability of the material of the sleeve in another exemplary embodiment
selectability of how thin the sleeve is in another exemplary embodiment.
In some embodiments, the sleeve resides on the outside of the exterior of the bag not on the inside of the exterior of the bag. The sleeve may be different from the exterior, for example, while not limited to, a different color, a different material, a different thickness, as a preference. Introducing the sleeve into the exterior of the bag may be accomplished by one of several ways compatible with apt fabrication at the time, now or future, for example the following:
Permanently attach (for example, while not limited to, by sewing on) a sufficiently robust section of additional material to the outside of the exterior to construct a sleeve.
Leave the top seam between the exterior and the additional material open to allow for inserting the removable panel.
The dimensions of the sleeve and the respective panel correspond to allow snug insertion of panel inside sleeve, thereby introducing the panel as an additional separable part, while allowing easy removal of that panel from the sleeve.
In some embodiments, A panel may be electrically activatable in another exemplary embodiment. That electric current may power an electronic processing module as well in another exemplary embodiment. In another exemplary embodiment: the exchangeable panel that slips into and out of a sleeve includes an electrically activatable luminescent film that is transparent when off and a color when on; in another exemplary embodiment, an electronic ink coats the panel; in another exemplary embodiment, the material of the panel is responsive to electricity
filament conducts electrical current to the electrodes in the panel to activate the film from the transmission point at an edge of the panel;
after slipping the panel into the sleeve the correct way, the transmission point at the edge of the panel contacts the transmission point at the base of the sleeve to receive the electrical current;
the electrical current comes from a rechargeable battery, in another exemplary embodiment a conventional watch battery or in another exemplary embodiment a mobile battery or in another exemplary embodiment the storage unit complementing a solar cell on the exterior of the bag;
the battery, in another exemplary embodiment a conventional watch battery resides in an unobtrusive pod inside a flap in the base of the bag;
the switch:
is electronic,
resides at the transmissive contact between panel and sleeve,
is turned on or off by a wireless instruction, for example, while not limited to, from an application in a smart phone, while in another exemplary embodiment the switch responds to a voice command and in other exemplary embodiment the switch is a button squeezable through the material of the bag at the base of the sleeve, the selection of mode(s) of switch being a preference.
In some embodiments, the sleeve includes a one large cutout, not an array of cutouts; when the panel slips into the sleeve, it displays the entire panel except for a thin margin of perimeter framed by the sleeve; as the retention of the panel by the sleeve will be much diminished by the absence of material from cutting out most of the sleeve, the panel attaches to the back of the sleeve by one of the aptly available means at the time, whether now or in future, in this embodiment an array of microsnaps.
In some embodiments, a bag comprises a container to hold contents of the bag and a cradle encompassing the container to support it: to suspend from handles in another exemplary embodiment or to suspend from a strap attaching to the cradle by hooks and rings in another exemplary embodiment or from a strap attaching to the container by hooks and rungs in another exemplary embodiment or to suspend from a harness as in a backpack in another exemplary embodiment. The Invention provides for the tensility of the container to range from soft in another exemplary embodiment to hard in another exemplary embodiment. The Invention provides for the tensility of the cradle to range from soft in another exemplary embodiment to hard in another exemplary embodiment.
The cradle and container are separable. The separability of cradle and container allows for exchanging the cradle for a different one, which in another exemplary embodiment is a different color or which in another exemplary embodiment is a different material or which in another exemplary embodiment provides additional functionality. The separability of cradle and container allows for exchanging the container, for example, without limitation, a pouch, for a different one, which in another exemplary embodiment is a different color or which in another exemplary embodiment is a different material or which in another exemplary embodiment provides additional functionality.
The cradle incorporates a sling to attach to the container to support it from the bottom, straps to run around the container to buttress it and handles extending from the straps in order to hold the bag:
In another exemplary embodiment, the sling and the straps up to and including the handles are separable.
In another exemplary embodiment, the sling and the straps and the handles are separable.
In another exemplary embodiment the loops of the handles are large enough to slip over a shoulder as well as be grasped by hands. In another exemplary embodiment, the container includes a ring at each of the container to hook on a strap to suspend the bag from the shoulder (“a shoulder strap”) in addition to the handles. In another exemplary embodiment, an additional set of adjustable straps attach to the cradle so that the bag is wearable as a backpack.
The cradle and container attach to each other while remaining separable by means available at the time, whether now or in future, for example, while not limited to,
snaps in another exemplary embodiment
hook and loop in another exemplary embodiment
tackiness (e.g. thin double-side tape) in another exemplary embodiment
zippers in another exemplary embodiment
screws in another exemplary embodiment
tongues in grooves in another exemplary embodiment
buttons in another exemplary embodiment
clips in another exemplary embodiment
hooks and rings in another exemplary embodiment
magnetism in another exemplary embodiment.
The additional functionality is provided by exchanging the incumbent cradle for a different cradle in another exemplary embodiment or exchanging the incumbent container for a different container in another exemplary embodiment:
In another exemplary embodiment, the additional functionality in the new cradle substituting for the incumbent cradle is an electronic processing module in tandem with the exchangeable part and the electronic processing module is powered by electrification through the cradle and the power source resides in any of the cradle in another exemplary embodiment or the container in another exemplary embodiment or in another part (re-)modification to the bag.
In another exemplary embodiment, the additional functionality in the new container substituting for the incumbent container is an electronic processing module in tandem with the exchangeable part and the electronic processing module is powered by electrification through the container and the power source resides in any of the container in another exemplary embodiment or the cradle in another exemplary embodiment or in another part (re-)modification to the bag.
In another exemplary embodiment, the additional functionality is provided by another part (re-)modification to the bag in addition to cradle and container.
This Invention provides for selectability of power sources in regard of available means at the time, whether now or in future:
In another exemplary embodiment, the power source is a mobile rechargeable battery.
In another exemplary embodiment, the power source is a conventional watch battery.
In another exemplary embodiment, the power source is a solar power cell, the solar panel is on the outside of the cradle in another exemplary embodiment and the storage unit in tandem with the solar panel resides in the bottom of the cradle. In another exemplary embodiment, the power source is a solar power cell, the solar panel is on the outside of the container in another exemplary embodiment and the storage unit in tandem with the solar panel resides in a pod within a flap at the bottom of the container in another exemplary embodiment and the transmission of electrical current from the solar panel to storage unit occurs via a snap-together connector including electrical contacts conducting to and from the solar panel and storage unit respectively via filaments and a like configuration transmits power from the storage unit to the electrically activatable part(s) of the bag via filament(s) running from the contacts meeting in electric current-transmissive connector. In another exemplary embodiment, the solar panel is on the cradle and the storage unit resides at the bottom of the container to transmit electrical current through contacts in connector to be conducted by filament(s) to electrically activatable part(s).
In some embodiments, the cradle is expandable to allow it to accommodate different exchangeable containers of varying sizes, whether small or big, without having to deploy different cradles respectively:
In another exemplary embodiment, the cradle is expandable by unfolding straps that extend from the cradle and the cradle is condensable by refolding the straps.
In another exemplary embodiment, the cradle is expandable by inserting additional lengths in the straps and the cradle telescopes.
In another exemplary embodiment, the cradle is expandable by inserting additional lengths to the straps and the cradle is elastic so that it hugs the bottom of the container, whether the container is small or between small and large or large.
The separability of cradle and container allow for washing the container, when it is of a washable construction including material in another exemplary embodiment, even when the handle isn't washable, in other exemplary embodiment when the handle is genuine leather while the container is a washable synthetic material.
The Invention provides for selectability of whether or not to include compartment(s) inside a container. The Invention provides for any compartment(s) inside a container to be removable.
In another exemplary embodiment, is a strap of a bag:
The strap is exchangeable.
The strap is electrically activatable,
Electrification can enable specific active function(s) in the strap. Alternatives to instruct the function(s) can be instructed by any of, for example, while not limited to, code in the electronic processing module in the strap in another exemplary embodiment or an application in a smartphone wirelessly in another exemplary embodiment or another external device in another exemplary embodiment. Activating a look of the strap is provided for by this Invention: in another exemplary embodiment, an electrically activatable luminescent film that is transparent when off and a color when on; in another exemplary embodiment, an electronic ink coats the panel; in another exemplary embodiment, the material of the panel is responsive to electricity.
In another exemplary embodiment, a strap incorporates an electronic processing module. In another exemplary embodiment, the strap may contain an antenna as well. In another exemplary embodiment, the strap may contain other electric apparatus, sufficiently compact not to distend the strap to inhibit its basic use to suspend the bag.
In another exemplary embodiment, a hook-and-ring combination attaches the strap to the bag. In another exemplary embodiment, one of the hook-and-ring combinations incorporates a means, for example, while not necessarily, electromagnetic contact, sufficient to transmit sufficient electric current from the power source in the bag to the filament in the strap at the point of contact in the hook-and-ring combination. In another exemplary embodiment, the strap contains a power source, for example, while not necessarily, a pinhead battery, in another exemplary embodiment a conventional watch battery in another exemplary embodiment, and independently of the bag, so that using the strap with a different bag with a ring to accommodate the hook of the strap brings the power source with the strap.
The exchangeability of the strap suits to cosmetic use (to complement the appearance of one or more bags, as the strap via the hook-and-ring combination is attachable to any bag having the hooks and any bag can host a variety of different looking straps). The exchangeability also introduces the functionality—for example, while necessarily nor limited to, electronic processing—residing in a strap to be available to the consumer beyond a single bag by switching the strap to one or some other bags in the wardrobe of a consumer. The exchangeability of the strap also allows for replacing the strap, for example, while not limited to, to upgrade it.
In some embodiments, for example, while not only, a piece of luggage or an ordinary bag or a shoe, comprises container residing in shell. The Invention provides for the tensility of the container to range from soft in another exemplary embodiment to hard in another exemplary embodiment. The Invention provides for the tensility of the shell to range from soft in another exemplary embodiment to hard in another exemplary embodiment. The container and shell are separate until attachment with each other. The shell encompasses the container. Any of a fabricator or a seller or a consumer can secure the container within the shell and the shell around the container and container and shell remain removable from each other.
In some embodiments, that is a piece of luggage, the removability allows for exchanging the shell for a different shell while retaining the same container or for exchanging the container for a different container while retaining the shell. The substitutability allows for varying, for example, while necessarily nor limited to, functionality (e.g. a different array of pockets or electronics or reinforcement) in another exemplary embodiment or look (e.g. color, pattern, photo) in another exemplary embodiment or material (e.g. the replacement of the incumbent shell with a shell of material increasing durability while reducing weight) in another exemplary embodiment without the cost of having to abandon the container to obtain the alteration. Also, in another exemplary embodiment, wear and tear of the shell can be addressed by replacing only the shell without the cost of replacing the container and the wear and tear of the container can be addressed by replacing only the container without the cost of replacing the shell, in contrast to disposal of an entire case in absence of repair.
The container slips into the shell and the shell encompasses the container. The container and the shell secure together through any of several means available at the time, whether now or in future, for example, while not limited to, screws, that can be twisted into their receptacles by a human being, in another exemplary embodiment or magnetism in another exemplary embodiment or zippers in another exemplary embodiment, after the fabrication of the respective shell and the respective container. Selectability of means of securing shell and container together is provided for by this Invention in another exemplary embodiment in regard of available means at the time, whether now or in future.
Each of the shell and the container has its own lid:
As the protection of the contents is provided by the container including its robust lid, the shell including the lid can be as thin as can still provide support for the accoutrements—for example, while necessarily nor limited to, pockets.
Selectability between whether the lid of the shell attaches to the lid of the container, so that opening the lid of the shell also opens the lid of the container, or the lid of the shell opens discretely from opening the lid of the container, is provided for by this Invention.
Opening the lids of the shell and the container discretely can add a measure of security in another exemplary embodiment, when requiring corresponding two discrete steps of unlocking the lids, for example, while necessarily nor limited to, requiring two codes in another exemplary embodiment or two biometrics in another exemplary embodiment or a mix of means in another exemplary embodiment.
The typically retractable handle of luggage can protrude through the shell in another exemplary embodiment. At the position in the shell corresponding to the point in the container where the handle resides is a cut-out big enough to allow the handle to extend through the shell in another exemplary embodiment. In another exemplary embodiment, the shell can include a cap that seals the opening above the retracted handle to protect it by sliding the cap shut and reveals the opening when the cap slides open.
The shell allows for wheels of luggage in another exemplary embodiment. In another exemplary embodiment, the wheels reside at an end of the bag, so that when it is upright it stands on the wheels. At the end of the shell that corresponds to the end of the container that the wheels protrude from are cutouts at the locations corresponding to the locations of the wheels, so that they protrude through the shell to swivel even when it shuts. In another exemplary embodiment: the wheels are unscrewable from their receptacles in the container, the shell contains cutouts through which the wheels pass into the receptacles and screwing the wheels into the receptacles through those cutouts secures the wheels back to the container as they were before the shell and they protrude through the shell to swivel in bearing the bag comprising both the container and the shell.
Just one or both of a shell and a container in a separable tandem can host electronic processing modules powered by electrification in another exemplary embodiment. Selectability of whether the electrification reaches the shell from the container in another exemplary embodiment or vice-versa in another exemplary embodiment or runs in each of the shell and container separately in another exemplary embodiment is provided for by this Invention in another exemplary embodiment. It provides for selectability of power source to provide the electrical current, for example, while not limited to, a rechargeable battery, in another exemplary embodiment a conventional watch battery or in another exemplary embodiment a mobile battery or in another exemplary embodiment the storage unit complementing a solar cell upon the bag.
Likewise, construction of container can be robust without regard to the external appearance of the container, as it resides within the separable shell in another exemplary embodiment.
In another exemplary embodiment, the interior of the shell can be veiled by attaching a removable internal “skin” in lieu of permanent lining. The interior of the container can be decorated by attachment of a removable internal skin, in lieu of permanent lining. Selectability of whether to allow for reskinning the interiors of both the container and the shell in another exemplary embodiment or just the interior of the container in another exemplary embodiment or just the interior of the shell in another exemplary embodiment is provided for by this Invention. In another exemplary embodiment, the removable internal skin includes additional functionality, for example, while necessarily nor limited to, any of electrification e.g. an LED to cast light on the contents in another exemplary embodiment or an electronic device e.g. sensor, in another exemplary embodiment or a combination of functionalities in another exemplary embodiment. In another exemplary embodiment, additional functionality is delivered by replacing the incumbent skin with the new skin incorporating the additional functionality rather than having to replace the entire shell or container or the entire bag. The power source of the electrification, for example a rechargeable battery—in another exemplary embodiment a conventional watch battery or in another exemplary embodiment a mobile battery or in another exemplary embodiment the storage unit complementing a solar cell upon the bag—may reside in any of the skin in another exemplary embodiment or in the shell in another exemplary embodiment or in the container in another exemplary embodiment. Selectability of where the power source resides is provided for by this Invention in another exemplary embodiment. When some electronic device in the skin requires electronic processing, the processor may reside in any of the skin in another exemplary embodiment or the shell in another exemplary embodiment or the container in another exemplary embodiment, to communicate with the electronic device(s) whether by wire in another exemplary embodiment or wirelessly in another exemplary embodiment. Selectability of how the processor and device communicate is provided for by this Invention.
This Invention provides that, for the sake of security, the shell have an opening to allow the handle of the bag to protrude from the container in another exemplary embodiment or the shell include a profile of the core of the handle protruding from the container so that the handle fits within that profile as part of the shell in order not only to reinforce the handle but also to allow for varying the exterior of the handle in another exemplary embodiment, whether look in another exemplary embodiment or feel in another exemplary embodiment or even addition of functionality, for example, electrical/electronic, in another exemplary embodiment.
In another exemplary embodiment, the shell-and-container combination can vary the exterior of shoes while preserving the often-expensive internal functionality of the chassis, which may include customization of fit to foot (for example, through uses of bespoke lasts, while this Invention is apt to mass-market footwear as well) in another exemplary embodiment. The appearance of shoes has become as valuable as the functionality of the footwear. Also, sports shoes have been incorporating additional, often electronic functionality that adds to the value of preserving the chassis while varying the exterior.
To keep the security between the shell and the chassis including the container of the foot both snug and lightweight, this Invention provides for the use of one or more means, for example, while not limited to, very tiny fasteners (e.g. snaps or screws or tongue-in-groove) in another exemplary embodiment or tackiness (e.g. ultra-thin double-side tape) in another exemplary embodiment or magnetism in another exemplary embodiment, that are available at the time, whether now or in future, to bring together the interior of the shell of the shoe and the exterior of the container of the foot at specific points, especially where the edge of the shell and the edge of the sole meet in another exemplary embodiment, when the sole and container are already together in a corpus, and where the perimeter of the carve-out of the shell to permit e.g. laces and the container meet in another exemplary embodiment, while the shell and container remain separable. In another exemplary embodiment: the shoe may comprise a removable sole separable from the container as well as separable shell and container, so that the sole is replaceable without having to scrap the container; that embodiment, the top of the sole and the bottom of the container are removably attachable by means as in bringing together shell and container. In another exemplary embodiment: the shell incorporates the sole permanently, so that, when the shell encompasses the container, the shoe is complete with container, shell and sole. In another exemplary embodiment: the is separable from the shell, so that the sole is replaceable without having to scrap the shell and the shell is replaceable without having to scrap the container and sole and the container is scrappable without having to scrap the shell and sole. In some other exemplary embodiments, any to some to all of sole, shell and container include electrification and/or electronic processing, the functionality facilitated by which may differ among sole, shell and container, for example, while necessarily, nor limited to, pedometer in association with the sole, a global positioning sensor in association with the shell and a refreshening atomizer in association with the container.
Where a shoe has means—for example, laces in another exemplary embodiment or hook and loop in another exemplary embodiment or zipper in another exemplary embodiment—to close the shoe around the foot, this Invention provides for that means to reside on the container to protrude through a cut-out in the shell in another exemplary embodiment or in another exemplary embodiment to reside on the shell to tighten it around the container and foot while the foot slips in and out of the snug container, allowing—in some circumstance, should a consumer wish—for a single foot-friendly bespoke container to suffice in a variety of means by varying the shell, for example in the workplace (whether office or factory or off site) in another exemplary embodiment, in casual wear in another exemplary embodiment and in exercise in another exemplary embodiment.
To increase resistance to seepage of water into shoe in another exemplary embodiment or bag in another exemplary embodiment or other product comprising shell and container, a water-resistant material coats the edges of the shell and container where they meet, in another exemplary embodiment, so that when the shell and container compress together upon securing them together the material is a barrier to seepage. In another exemplary embodiment, the material coating the pertinent edges is a permanent foam. This Invention provides for selectability of water-resistant material to coat those edges in regard of apt materials available at the time, whether now or in future.
While the removability of the shell allows for replacing the shell without having to scrap the container, the shell is retainable to use with a successive container in the event that, for example, while necessarily nor limited to, wear and tear of the container, without having to scrap the shell(s), in another exemplary embodiment.
Whether in luggage or other bags or shoes, a shell can—in the same way as a single-piece bag—host attachment(s) of additional part(s), for example, while not limited to, panel(s) in another exemplary embodiment or pocket(s) in another exemplary embodiment or luminescence in another exemplary embodiment or encapsulation, e.g. skin, in another exemplary embodiment or electrification to power device(s) in another exemplary embodiment electronics in another exemplary embodiment.
As in a panel, electrification in a shell can activate any of element(s) in the shell in another exemplary embodiment and additional part(s) on the shell in another exemplary embodiment and element(s) in the container in another exemplary embodiment. The electrically powered element(s) can act independently of the container in another exemplary embodiment or in concert with, for example, while necessarily nor limited to, an electronic processing module in the shell in another exemplary embodiment or an electronic processing module in the shell in the container that instructs the shell or in association with an external electronic processing module, for example, while not necessarily, in a smartphone acting as a controller, in another exemplary embodiment. In another exemplary embodiment, electrification to activate a shell powers a light on the shell to flash and powers an alarm to beep when someone lacking authorization, as certified by an electronic identification module, attempts to steal the bag or shell or even shoes. In another exemplary embodiment, a shell can incorporate an electronic processing module. This Invention provides for selectability of which power source to provide the electrical current: for example, while not limited to, a rechargeable battery, in another exemplary embodiment a conventional watch battery or in another exemplary embodiment a mobile battery or in another exemplary embodiment the storage unit complementing a solar cell upon the bag.
In some embodiments, eyeglasses, whether prescription or sunglasses or otherwise (e.g. 3D or incorporating display screens or protective), comprise a simple frame as substructure, consisting of wire in another exemplary embodiment, and the frame extends from rims holding the lenses around the nosepiece to hinges then from them to temple/end pieces, and the frame is thin enough to be enclosed by encapsulation that is removable, allowing for swapping the incumbent encapsulation for a different encapsulation also conforming to the frame.
The encapsulation doesn't have to be of the same material, look or feel as the frame within the encapsulation.
The exchangeability of the encapsulation allows for varying the exterior of the eyeglasses, for example among casual, office and formal situations, without having to replace the substructure too.
In another exemplary embodiment, the encapsulation is moldable (while tensile enough to come together and apart multiple times in the course of exchanging encapsulations) so that the encapsulation can hug the frame as it is once the optician has manipulated the frame to sit optimally on the wearer.
In another exemplary embodiment, the encapsulation molds around the frame after it slips into the encapsulation through a seam in the encapsulation or the wire embeds into the encapsulation by fitting into a channel in the encapsulation through a seam in the encapsulation before it closes around the wire.
In another exemplary embodiment: the encapsulation may be in two halves that come together around the wire, for example, while not necessarily, and the seams run along the apex and nadir of the encapsulation and the two halves are secured together, while separably, by available means—for example, while necessarily nor limited to, magnetism in another exemplary embodiment or tackiness in another exemplary embodiment or several tiny screws in another exemplary embodiment—that is robust enough to keep the halves together in the course of customary use of the eyeglasses while still being separable in order to exchange encapsulation. In another exemplary embodiment, the appearance of the one half of an encapsulation doesn't have to match the appearance of the other half of that encapsulation. In another exemplary embodiment, a half, e.g. that half facing outward away from the head, may present, for example, while not limited to, decorations, attachments of electronics or luminescence.
To allow the hinges freedom to function, the encapsulation is in sections making up a kit in another exemplary embodiment. One section fits with one of the temple/end pieces, one section fits with the other of the temple end/pieces, and the other section fits with the rims. The encapsulation around the rims, in turn, can be in two sections, one for the left of the rims and the other section for the right of the rims, where the construction of the frame around the rims is discrete between them rather than of one piece as in another exemplary embodiment.
The separation of the encapsulation into sections allows for variation of any to all of look, feel (for example, while necessarily not limited to, material) and functionality, so that one section may have an additional function, another function and so on, for example, while not limited to, GPS in one temple/end piece and a micro-speaker in the other end piece close to ear, whether to provide a buzzing as an alarm or a recording or a live voice in association with a wireless transceiver, in another exemplary embodiment.
In another exemplary embodiment, in order to conduct electricity in the encapsulation, filament(s) reside in it. Filament may reside in only one section of the encapsulation in another exemplary embodiment or some sections of the encapsulation in another exemplary embodiment or all of the sections of the encapsulation in another exemplary embodiment to conduct a tiny electrical current to any of, for example, while not limited to, some activatable element(s) in the encapsulation in another exemplary embodiment or some activatable coating(s) of the encapsulation in another exemplary embodiment or some activatable material(s) in another exemplary embodiment, whether in the encapsulation in another exemplary embodiment or on the encapsulation in another exemplary embodiment or with the encapsulation in another exemplary embodiment, when the filament is in contact with a power source, for example, while necessarily nor limited to, a battery, a pinhead battery in another exemplary embodiment.
Selectability of when the conduction of electrical current shall ensue is provided for by this Invention:
In another exemplary embodiment, the conduction of electrical current may ensue so long as the filament is in contact with the power source at the transmission connection.
In another exemplary embodiment, the conduction may ensue only when a switch is on.
In another exemplary embodiment, the switch may reside in the filament. In another exemplary embodiment, the switch is an electro-mechanical switch at the tip of an endpiece. The switch is controlled by any of, for example, while not limited to, the following:
a tiny button accessed by squeezing the tip of the endpiece between e.g. finger and thumb, in another exemplary embodiment;
wirelessly via near-field communication (NFC) from a remote application, for example, while necessarily nor limited to, residing on a smartphone, in another exemplary embodiment;
any of, while not limited to, oral command of a voice-recognition processor in association with the switch in another exemplary embodiment or via a wave of finger(s) passing over a gesture-recognizing processor in association with the switch in another exemplary embodiment or via a motion sensor in association with the switch that is activated by shaking the eyeglasses, e.g. after removing them, in another exemplary embodiment.
In another exemplary embodiment, an encapsulation can introduce electronic processing to a frame. An electronic processing module can, for example, while not only, facilitate any of virtual reality or augmented reality or other enhancements of vision in concert with lenses apt to enhancement(s), especially, while necessarily nor only, in association wirelessly with remote functionality, such as in a smartphone or an advertising transmitter or some other encapsulation, e.g. in the eyeglasses of some other person. Likewise, in another exemplary embodiment, electronic processing in encapsulation can associate with other electronic processing, which is in, for example, while not limited to, an ear piece or in a device in touch with skin or an accelerometer in, for example, a mobility device, which can be of aid to people in addition to being useful in presenting content. In another exemplary embodiment, the encapsulation can host a tiny antenna.
In some embodiments, an earring comprises an encapsulation of a substructure, consisting of wire in another exemplary embodiment. The encapsulation is removable, allowing for swapping the incumbent encapsulation for a different encapsulation also conforming to the substructure. The exchangeability of the encapsulation allows for varying the exterior of the earrings, for example among casual, office and formal situations, without having to replace the substructure too.
To hang the earring from the ear, the lobe or some other customary part of the ear, the substructure includes a fixture. It is: a clip, in another exemplary embodiment; a pierce, in another exemplary embodiment; some other means to grasp, in another exemplary embodiment. In another exemplary embodiment, the fixture is modifiable to give the wearer the option to swap between a clip or pierce or other means to hang the earring from the ear.
The material of the substructure is a preference of design, so long as the substructure is robust enough to support the encapsulation.
The substructure of wire can be fashioned by the fabricator to a particular shape to which the encapsulation shall conform. While the term earring connotes a ring, the encapsulation need not be a ring. In another exemplary embodiment, the substructure culminates in the fixture to hang the earring from the ear; in another exemplary embodiment, the substructure encompasses the fixture (for example, while not necessarily, in a “bulleye” configuration or the substructure protrudes from the fixture; in another exemplary embodiment, magnetism attracts the apt metal of the substructure to a tiny plate at the corresponding other side of the lobe of ear to keep the earring in place on the lobe without pierce.
The encapsulation doesn't have to be of the same material, look or feel as the wire within the encapsulation.
To allow the pierce or clip or other attachment to the lobe of the ear to have access to the lobe, the encapsulation doesn't extend to the pierce or clip or other attachment to the lobe.
In another exemplary embodiment, the encapsulation is moldable (while tensile enough to come together and apart multiple times in the course of exchanging encapsulations).
In another exemplary embodiment, the encapsulation molds around the wire after it slips into the encapsulation through a seam in the encapsulation or the wire embeds into the encapsulation by fitting into a channel in the encapsulation through a seam in the encapsulation before it closes around the wire.
In another exemplary embodiment, the encapsulation may be in sections that come together around the wire, for example, while not necessarily, so that the seams run along the apex and nadir of the encapsulation. The sections are secured by a means—for example, while necessarily nor limited to, magnetism in another exemplary embodiment—that is robust enough to keep the halves together in the course of customary use of the earring while still being separable in order to exchange encapsulations. The appearance of a section of the encapsulation doesn't have to match the appearance of another section. A section may present, for example, while not limited to, decorations in another exemplary embodiment, electronics in another exemplary embodiment or luminescence in another exemplary embodiment while another section presents only itself. In another exemplary embodiment, those sections are half, closing around the substructure. In another exemplary embodiment, one section presents one kind of functionality while another section presents a different kind of functionality.
Filament(s) in one section of the encapsulation in another exemplary embodiment or some sections of the encapsulation in another exemplary embodiment or all of the sections of the encapsulation in another exemplary embodiment conduct a tiny electrical current to any of, for example, while not limited to, an activatable element e.g. an LED in another exemplary embodiment or an activatable coating e.g. luminescence in another exemplary embodiment or an activatable material e.g. color-changing in another exemplary embodiment, whether in or on or with the encapsulation, when the filament is in contact with a power source, for example, while necessarily nor limited to, a battery, e.g. a pinhead battery in another exemplary embodiment. Selectability of timing(s) of conduction of electrical current is provided for by this Invention:
In another exemplary embodiment, the conduction of electrical current may ensue so long as the filament is in contact with the power source at the transmission connection in another exemplary embodiment.
In another exemplary embodiment, the conduction may ensue only when a switch is on.
In another exemplary embodiment, the switch may reside between the power source and the filament. In another exemplary embodiment, an electro-mechanical switch is in the encapsulation. The switch is controlled by any of, for example, while not limited to, the following:
in another exemplary embodiment, a tiny button accessed by squeezing the earring between e.g. finger and thumb
in another exemplary embodiment, wirelessly via near-field communication (NFC) from a remote application, for example, while necessarily nor limited to, residing on a smartphone
via oral command of a voice-recognition processor in association with the switch in another exemplary embodiment, or via a wave of finger(s) passing over a gesture-recognizing processor in association with the switch in another exemplary embodiment or a motion sensor in association with the switch that is activated by shaking the earring, e.g. after removing it, in another exemplary embodiment.
In another exemplary embodiment, electronic processing in an earring—e.g. a ring or locket or bracelet—is hosted by encapsulation that includes apparatus to conduct electricity to power the electronic processing module, which can work in association with an external controller, for example, while necessarily nor limited, receiving instructions through an application in a smart phone, or executing internal instructions in an automation or both external and internal control. The mode(s) of instructing the electronic processing and whether electronic processing is present in only one of a pair of earrings or in both of them and whether the electronic processing delivers the same or different functionality between the earrings are preferences. In another exemplary embodiment: the earrings in a pair beep differently from each other just audibly enough for the wearer to hear, so that a wireless near field communication (NFC) from an application in a smart phone that utilizes a global positioning system (GPS) can beep the wearer left or right in following a set of geographical directions or an NFC from an application in a smart phone that utilizes its accelerometer and a sensor to detect proximate objects and smart mapping can beep the wearer left or right to avoid obstacles or an NFC from a smartphone that can receive signals from certain beacons can guide the wearer to a certain location, for example, while not limited to, store in a mall; hearing beeps from the earrings keeps the hands free without having to hold up a phone, for example, while not only, when the wearer of the earrings is a sightless person or someone juggling packages and child or for convenience generally; embedding the electronic processing in a cosmetically appealing encapsulation of an earring is preferable to at least some people to a machine-like apparatus, whether in their ear or near it or on their body generally. In another exemplary embodiment, the electronic processing module and the electrification reside in the frame of the earring to allow for exchange of encapsulations without losing the functionality delivered by that electronic processing.
In some embodiments, in addition to frames of eyeglasses earrings, a piece of jewellery—for example, while not limited to, a ring in another exemplary embodiment or a locket in another exemplary embodiment or a bracelet in another exemplary embodiment—comprises an encapsulation of a substructure, consisting of wire in another exemplary embodiment. The encapsulation is removable, allowing for swapping the incumbent encapsulation for a different encapsulation also conforming to the substructure. The exchangeability of the encapsulation allows for varying the exterior of the earrings, for example among casual, office and formal situations, without having to replace the substructure too.
Filament(s) in one part or some parts or all of the parts of the encapsulation conduct a tiny electrical current to any of, for example, while not limited to, an activatable element in another exemplary embodiment or an activatable coating in another exemplary embodiment or an activatable material in another exemplary embodiment, whether in or on or with the encapsulation, when the filament is in contact with a power source, for example, while necessarily nor limited to, a battery, e.g. a pinhead battery in another exemplary embodiment. Selectability of timing(s) of the conduction of electrical current is provided for by this Invention:
In another exemplary embodiment, the conduction of electrical current shall ensue so long as the filament is in contact with the power source at the transmission connection.
In another exemplary embodiment, the conduction may ensue only when a switch is on.
In another exemplary embodiment, the switch may reside between the power source and the filament. In another exemplary embodiment, an electro-mechanical switch is in the encapsulation. The switch is controlled by any of, for example, while not limited to, the following:
in another exemplary embodiment, a tiny button accessed by squeezing the earring between e.g. finger and thumb
in another exemplary embodiment, wirelessly via near-field communication (NFC) from a remote application, for example, while necessarily nor limited to, residing on a smartphone
via oral command of a voice-recognition processor in association with the switch in another exemplary embodiment, or via a wave of finger(s) passing over a gesture-recognizing processor in association with the switch in another exemplary embodiment or a motion sensor in association with the switch that is activated by shaking the jewellery, e.g. after removing it, in another exemplary embodiment.
To introduce electronic processing into the jewellery, e.g. a ring in another exemplary embodiment or locket in another exemplary embodiment or bracelet in another exemplary embodiment, the electronic processing is hosted by encapsulation that includes apparatus to conduct electricity to power the electronic processing module. In some embodiments, the electronic processing module associates an external controller, which receives instructions through an application in a smart phone. In another exemplary embodiment, the electronic processing module executes internal instructions in an automation. In another exemplary embodiment, both external and internal control are options. In another exemplary embodiment, the electronic processing in an electrically activatable ring converts biometric data into instruction to turn on one or another of a set of LED(s) of different colors in order to select the color apt to the mood of the wearer of the ring. In another exemplary embodiment, the electronic processing module and the electrification reside in the frame of the ring to allow for exchange of encapsulations without losing the functionality delivered by that electronic processing.
In another exemplary embodiment, the jewellery is body piercing, which isn't readily removable as earrings might be. As body piercing is typically thin, encapsulation of body piercing is accordingly thin in another exemplary embodiment. Even thin encapsulation of body piercing can allow for functionality, which is a luminescent coating on the encapsulation in another exemplary embodiment.
In some embodiments, a bag is an apt rectilinear shoulder bag customarily worn by women (while men may choose to wear the bag):
A set of two panels affix to the flanks of the bag. Selectability of material of bag and panel discretely is provided for by this Invention, polyurethane in another exemplary embodiment or a natural material in another exemplary embodiment or a form of cardboard with a water-resistant coating in another exemplary embodiment. Each of the panels is reinforced by sewing a border in another exemplary embodiment.
The panels attach to the flanks of the bag by means of snaps, making the panels replaceable with other panels of the same dimensions (not necessarily the same material or image). One of the two complementary parts of the snap incorporates onto the material of the bag. The other of the complementary parts of the snap incorporates into the reverse of each of the panels at the point on the panel so that the two parts of each of the snaps come together securely. The number of snaps is subject to the requirements to affix the respective panel, with reference to for example, while not limited to, the area of the panel, the weight of the material and the look that the designer wishes to achieve. While the locations of snaps is also discretionary, optimally they run along the perimeter of each rectilinear panel, which in one embodiment has four snaps along the top of the panel and four snaps along the bottom of the panel and one snap in the middle of each short side of the panel for the total of 10 snaps per panel.
In another exemplary embodiment, a different means—for example, while not limited to hook and loop—fastens panel to the bag
the set of panels are replaceable with some other set(s) or each of the panels is replaceable with a panel different from the panel on the other side.
In another exemplary embodiment, a panel or both panels or multiple panels contain one or more elements activatable by electrical current.
In another exemplary embodiment, one or more electronic processing modules reside in or on or with the shell a panel or both panels or multiple panels.
In some embodiments, a bag is trapezoidal (for example, a apt tote bag):
Each flank of the shell of the bag includes an array of cutouts of shapes, for example, while not necessarily any of stars in another exemplary embodiment or crescents in another exemplary embodiment or a mix of shapes in another exemplary embodiment. Inserting a panel into the sleeve in the flank of the bag will display the panel, for example color in another exemplary embodiment or pattern in another exemplary embodiment or photograph in another exemplary embodiment, through the cutouts. Where the shape of a bag has a big enough end, the combination of cutouts in the shell of the bag and the sleeve and panel(s) can likewise modify an end of a bag, in another exemplary embodiment.
The interior of the flank of the shell of the bag includes a sleeve in another exemplary embodiment. The area of the array of cutouts and the corresponding area of the sleeve are both rectilinear, in another exemplary embodiment, to keep the cutting of the sleeve and panel simple. The shape of the bag is trapezoidal, in another exemplary embodiment, while the sleeve and panel are rectilinear. The shape of the bag is oval, in another exemplary embodiment, while the sleeve and panel are rectilinear. The shape of the bag and the shape of the sleeve and panel differ, in another exemplary embodiment. The shape of the bag and the shape of the sleeve and the shape of the panel differ, in another exemplary embodiment. An exchangeable panel is thin enough to slip into the sleeve while thick enough not to slip out of the sleeve without a tug.
Electrification of a panel to reside in the sleeve can illuminate the content of the panel through the cutouts in the shell of a bag, in another exemplary embodiment.
In some embodiments, is a digital display device, especially, while not limited to, showing media, for example, while not limited, a television set, a photo frame, a tablet:
The device comprises an outwardly showing screen, a chassis containing electronic processing, electrical and other elements and a case.
The case provides a cut-out corresponding to the shape of the screen. It displays through that cut-out. The case provides a border around the screen.
The shell attaches to that border. The shell is removable. The shell is exchangeable to a different shell, allowing for selection from among various shells to vary any of look, feel or functionality augmenting the screen.
The shell has a cut-outs:
A cut-out corresponds to the shape of the screen, so that the shell masks the border while allowing the screen to remain viewable.
Where the front of the case has an element, for example, while not limited to, camera or infrared transceiver or microphone, that need access, the shell includes a cut-out corresponding to the location of the element.
The shell has a cut-out corresponding to the shape of the back of the case to allow heat to dissipate from the device.
Removably attaching shell to border is an array of apt means available at the time, whether now or future, for example, while not limited to, grips. The means of attachment reside on the backside of the shell to be flush with the border. When the means comprises two parts, as in snaps or hook and loop or tackiness (e.g. double side tape), the mean will require introducing the receptive part onto the border at points corresponding to the points at which the means resides on the shell.
In another exemplary embodiment, the border in the device is minimal, so that the shell attaches to the side of the case.
In another exemplary embodiment, some of the apparatus of the device is remote, allowing the case containing to be slim, so that the shell attaches both to the side and the edges of the back of the case.
In another exemplary embodiment, the shell contains a configuration of material(s) to cushion the device.
In another exemplary embodiment, the shell contains elements, for example, while not limited to, LED(s), activatable by electrical current, whether from a power source in the shell or in the chassis of the device or external.
In another exemplary embodiment, also powered by electric current, one or more electronic processing modules reside in or on or with the shell. An electronic processing module may be independent. It may associate with functionality in the display device, in a like shell on another device or some other external electronic processing, typically, while not necessarily, wirelessly.
In some embodiments, is a piece of material, for example, while not limited to, a photograph or presentation of advertising or fabric.
The piece of material resides on a panel.
The panel is resilient, for example, while not limited to, cardboard in another exemplary embodiment, plastic in another exemplary embodiment or metal in another exemplary embodiment.
The panel is thin.
Its shape corresponds to the shape of the piece of material residing on the panel.
Atop the piece is a translucent cover.
Its material is robust, whether glass in another exemplary embodiment or plastic in another exemplary embodiment or some other material in another exemplary embodiment.
The cover is thin.
The shape of the cover corresponds to the shape of the piece.
In another exemplary embodiment, clips hold the sandwich of panel, piece and cover together.
The sandwich of panel, piece and cover slip into the shell through a slot in it:
The slot is no bigger than to accommodate the length and thickness and width of the combination so that the combination remains in place without any adhesion.
In another exemplary embodiment the slot to slip the combination into is on the rear top of the shell.
In a version the slot is on a side of the shell.
In another exemplary embodiment, the shell contains elements, for example, while not limited to, LED(s), activatable by electrical current, whether from a power source in the shell in another exemplary embodiment or in the panel in another exemplary embodiment or external in another exemplary embodiment.
In another exemplary embodiment, powered by electric current, one or more electronic processing modules reside in the shell in another exemplary embodiment or on the shell in another exemplary embodiment or with the shell in another exemplary embodiment. An electronic processing module is independent in another exemplary embodiment. An electronic processing module associates with functionality in the panel in another exemplary embodiment, with functionality in another like shell in another exemplary embodiment or with some other external functionality in another exemplary embodiment, typically, while not necessarily, wirelessly.
In some embodiments, is a shoe in which in lieu of a conventional upper is a container of the foot and a sole of the container and a separable shell that attaches removably to sole and container:
The manufacture has joined the container of the foot and sole together permanently.
As the container shall be enclosed by a shell, the container can be of robust material(s) even without regard to cosmetics.
In a mass-market version in another exemplary embodiment, the containers comprise standard sizes.
In a bespoke version in another exemplary embodiment, the container is bespoke to a foot.
The means of attaching the shell allow it to be removable to substitute some or another different shell for the incumbent shell.
The shell encloses the container down to the sole. The shell doesn't encompass the sole. If the shell doesn't include such means of closing the shoe as, for example, while not limited to, laces in another exemplary embodiment or hook and loop in another exemplary embodiment or clasps in another exemplary embodiment or button(s) in another exemplary embodiment or zipper(s) in another exemplary embodiment or tackiness (e.g. double-sided tape) in another exemplary embodiment, where the shoe isn't slip on, then the shell include a cut-out to permit access to the means of closing the container.
Removably attaching shell to sole is any of apt means—for example, while not limited to, screws in another exemplary embodiment or tackiness in another exemplary embodiment or magnetism in another exemplary embodiment—available at the time, whether now or future. In another exemplary embodiment, tightening an array tiny screws around the bottom edge of the shell into receptive plugs around the top edge of the sole at mutually corresponding points on the shell and the top edge of the sole keep shell and sole together in the course of use of the shoe while still allowing for removability. In another exemplary embodiment, the array of screws includes screws on the top of the shell and receptive plugs at corresponding points on the top of the container as well as screws around the bottom edge of the shell and the receptive plugs around the top edge of the sole.
Removably attaching shell to container is any of apt means for example, while not limited to, screws in another exemplary embodiment or tackiness in another exemplary embodiment or magnetism in another exemplary embodiment—available at the time, whether now or future.
The material(s) of the shell can be any of available at the time, now or in future, whether typical of shoes e.g. (faux) leather in another exemplary embodiment or atypical, e.g. a rigid plastic in another exemplary embodiment or a hybrid in another exemplary embodiment.
Exchanging a shell can enhance the shoe: for example, while not limited to, water-resistance in another exemplary embodiment by replacing a shell of material that doesn't resist water with a shell of material that resists water or replacing a shell of soft material with a shell of hard material in another exemplary embodiment to resist shock for the sake of safety on a work site or replacing a casual shell with a shell including elements relating to biometrics of exertion, e.g. running, in another exemplary embodiment.
In another exemplary embodiment, the shell contains elements, for example, while not limited to, LEDs, activatable by electrical current, whether from a power source in the shell or in the chassis of the device or external.
In another exemplary embodiment, electric current is conducted by filament(s) in the shell, one or more electronic processing modules reside in the shell in another exemplary embodiment or on the shell in another exemplary embodiment or with the shell in another exemplary embodiment, and the electric current powers the electronic processing module(s). An electronic processing module is independent in another exemplary embodiment. An electronic processing module associates with functionality in the panel in another exemplary embodiment, with functionality in another like shell in another exemplary embodiment or with some other external functionality in another exemplary embodiment, typically, while not necessarily, wirelessly.
In another exemplary embodiment, is a panel on a bag:
The panel is electrically activatable.
The electric current is delivered to contact with the activatable element(s) of the panel by means of filament sufficient to bear the current. From the point on the panel where the current meets it, the course of the filament runs to the point(s) of contact with the electrically activatable element(s) of the panel. The point of transmission of the current to the filament in the panel is for example, while not limited to, any of:
in another exemplary embodiment, a modification of a fastener, e.g. a snap, so that it includes a safe electrical contact between the filament in the panel and the filament running from the base of the bag to deliver the current from a power source in the bag
in another exemplary embodiment, a conductive contact in the shell of the bag that corresponds to the location of the receptive contract on the back of the panel, for example, while not necessarily, by means of a male-female connector
in another exemplary embodiment, residing within the panel so as to dispense with an external contact, a power source, for example, while not limited to, a photovoltaic cell or a thin battery, in another exemplary embodiment a conventional watch battery or a pinhead battery, in another exemplary embodiment a conventional watch battery, that is sufficient to the purpose(s).
Where the power source is in the bag, an optimal location of that power source is within an accessible flap, which in another exemplary embodiment is in a corner of the base of the bag to minimize intrusion into the use of the bag. The flap remains shut, by a apt means of fastening, for example, while not limited to, snap in another exemplary embodiment or hook and loop in another exemplary embodiment or zipper in another exemplary embodiment, until need to open the flap to replace the battery, in another exemplary embodiment a conventional watch battery. An enhancement to introduce a jack on the outside of the bag that corresponds to the pod of the battery, in another exemplary embodiment a conventional watch battery in order to recharge the battery, in another exemplary embodiment a conventional watch battery without removing it is an alternative in another exemplary embodiment. In another exemplary embodiment, the power source residing within the accessible flap is an apt lightweight rechargeable battery, in another exemplary embodiment a conventional watch battery sufficient to the purpose(s). That battery, in another exemplary embodiment a conventional watch battery can serve to power other functionality in the bag as well as the panel(s). In another exemplary embodiment, the bag hosts an electronic processing module, optimally shallow so as not to intrude into the bag; in another exemplary embodiment, that electronic processing module resides within the same flap as the battery, in another exemplary embodiment a conventional watch battery; in another exemplary embodiment, that electronic processing module resides within a different flap.
In another exemplary embodiment, is a panel on a bag:
An electrically activatable film coats the outside of the panel.
The panel incorporates a modest electronic processing module as well.
In the absence of the requisite electric current, the film is translucent to display the original color of the panel, for example white, depending on the selection of panel, the look of which is a preference in design. Upon the introduction of the current, the film glows, for example green, perhaps, while not necessarily, to warn traffic. In another exemplary embodiment, in concert with electronic processing, the panel could vary the color of the glow, for example green as an ordinary warning, red as a beacon and, ultimately, flashing; in another exemplary embodiment, flashing is accompanied by a repeating sound of alarm; in another exemplary embodiment, the illumination and alarm happen in tandem with a radio-frequency signal, when a sensor using an accelerometer detects that consumer has fallen.
In another exemplary embodiment, is a panel on a bag:
The panel incorporates LEDs.
The aggregation of the LEDs, when active, suffice as a flashlight.
Instead of an aggregation, one large LED on the panel can suffice as a flashlight.
In another exemplary embodiment, is luggage comprising the shell surrounding the container.
The shell incorporates one or more LEDs.
On the exterior of the shell, an aggregation of the LEDs suffices as a flashlight in another exemplary embodiment, or, in another exemplary embodiment instead of the aggregation of LEDs one large LED suffices as a flashlight when active. The flashlight is useful, for example, while not necessarily only, in the dark, in the same way as a headlight on a vehicle, especially when a traveller is in unfamiliar circumstances and a hand may not be free to grasp a flashlight and luggage, bags etc at the same time. In another exemplary embodiment, the pitch of the LED(s) shine(s) the light on the ground ahead of the traveler while pulling the luggage.
The circuit of the light may be switched on and off by the consumer with any of a button accessible on the shell in another exemplary embodiment or a voice command remote from an application of an external device, for example, while not necessarily, a smartphone wirelessly in another exemplary embodiment or any of more than one means in another exemplary embodiment.
In another exemplary embodiment, an exchangeable shell has an array of LEDs, securely encompasses a shoe:
The LEDs reside on any or all of the slope of the outside of the shell towards the shell or around the outside of edge of the toe or on the forward outside of the shell.
The pitch of the LED(s) displays the light outwards towards the ground similarly to a headlight in a car to illuminate the ground right in front of the pedestrian to highlight any hazard in the terrain.
To conserve power, a preference may exclude having LEDs on the forward outside of the shell in favor of only the other side of shoe and the toe of the shoe or even just the toe of the shoe when the LED casts a wide enough beam.
In another exemplary embodiment, the shell has one LED equivalent to the array,
In another exemplary embodiment, is a panel on a bag:
The panel contains material or an element or elements electrically activatable.
A film comprising more than one layer that responds to electric current coats the panel. In another exemplary embodiment, LEDs may substitute for film. An electric switch alone without electronic processing is sufficient to accomplish simple alterations of an electrically activatable panel, for example, while not limited to, switching from the incumbent artwork on one electrically activatable layer coating the panel to another artwork on a different electrically activatable layer of the film coating the panel. In another exemplary embodiment, the panel may incorporate an electronic processing module to orchestrate alterations implemented by electrically activatable element(s) of the panel.
In another exemplary embodiment, an electronic processing module as controller instructs an electronic switching module in the panel to alter the color or pattern or even image of the panel. In another exemplary embodiment, that controller is in the panel. In another exemplary embodiment, that controller is in the bag. In another exemplary embodiment, that controller is a remote application communicating wirelessly, e.g. via near-field communications (NFC) from an external device, for example, while not limited to, smartphone. In another exemplary embodiment: the smartphone hosts an application to read a mood biometrically, directory lists associations of mood and artwork (e.g. colors) on the respective panel, and then the controller instructs the panel to adopt the color corresponding to the mood.
In some embodiments, is an encapsulation of the wire of the frame of eyeglasses:
The material of the encapsulation is resilient, for example, while necessarily nor limited to, plastic or silicone or nanofiber.
The shape of the encapsulation mimics the course of the wire of the frame.
The encapsulation has a thin cavity that runs throughout the encapsulation. With modest pressure an ordinary consumer can pry open the encapsulation in order to fit the wire of the frame into the cavity. Whether the encapsulation encloses the entire wire or only the temple/end pieces is a preference in design.
In some embodiments, is an umbrella:
In another exemplary embodiment, an encapsulation encloses the end of the umbrella up to the point of the end to allow the point to protrude as usually. The encapsulation wraps snugly around the end of the umbrella like a surgical bandage to allow for protrusion of the point, which may have a cap in another exemplary embodiment. So as to be removable thus exchangeable, the wrap of the encapsulation closes and opens by any of apt means of fastening available at the time, whether now or in future, for example, while not limited to, snaps in another exemplary embodiment or hook and loop in another exemplary embodiment or tackiness (for example, while not limited to, double-side tape) in another exemplary embodiment.
In another exemplary embodiment, an encapsulation wraps snugly around the handle of an umbrella like a surgical bandage short of the pole of the umbrella. The combination of handle and encapsulation are grippable. So as to be removable thus exchangeable, the wrap of the encapsulation closes and opens by any of apt means of fastening available at the time, whether now or in future, for example, while not limited to, snaps in another exemplary embodiment or hook and loop in another exemplary embodiment or tackiness (for example, while not limited to, double-side tape) in another exemplary embodiment.
In another exemplary embodiment, the encapsulation slips onto and off from the handle like a sock the encapsulation encloses the handle of the umbrella so that the combination of handle and encapsulation are grippable. The material of the encapsulation is elastic enough so that it can expand to slip on or off the handle with a tug while constricting around the handle otherwise.
An encapsulation including the content(s)—e.g. electronics—in the encapsulation is flexible enough to allow for wrapping around the respective part of the umbrella.
In another exemplary embodiment, the handle of the umbrella is exchangeable by means of screwing on and unscrewing the handle from the pole of the umbrella to allow introduction of functionality via the substitution of one handle for another, for example, while not limited to, electrification in another exemplary embodiment or electronic processing in another exemplary embodiment or a hook to hang a bag from in another exemplary embodiment.
In another exemplary embodiment, the encapsulation has, whether in or on or with it, at least one element hat is activatable by electrical current. That electrically activatable element is an LED in another exemplary embodiment. The electric current runs from a power source portable in association with the encapsulation of the object, In another exemplary embodiment, the power source is a rechargeable lightweight battery, in another exemplary a conventional watch battery. In another exemplary embodiment, the power source is a pinhead battery in the encapsulation. In another exemplary embodiment, the power source resides in the handle. To conduct electrical current to the electrically activable element a filament runs from a point of contact with the power source through the encapsulation to the electrically activatable element, e.g. an LED.
In another exemplary embodiment, in which the encapsulation receives electric current, the encapsulation has, whether in or on or with the encapsulation, at least one electronic processing module. That may be independent. It may associate with functionality elsewhere in the umbrella in another exemplary embodiment, in another umbrella of like embodiment in another exemplary embodiment or some other external electronic processing, for example, while not limited to, a smartphone, typically, while not necessarily, wirelessly, in another exemplary embodiment.
In another exemplary embodiment, an encapsulation encloses only the handle.
In another exemplary embodiment, an encapsulation encloses only the end of the umbrella.
In another exemplary embodiment, an encapsulation encloses the handle and an encapsulation encloses the end. The two encapsulations need not be identical, whether in look or feel or functionality. A consumer may wish to have one look or feel or functionality, for example, while not necessarily nor limited to, an LED on the encapsulation of the handle to shed light and to have a flashing beacon on the encapsulation of the end at the top of the umbrella when open to warn motorists.
In some embodiments, comprises, for example, while not limited to, a remodifiable bag, a pair of remodifiable shoes and a remodifiable eyeglasses frame. Altering the appearance of each of the products allows for altering the collective appearance of the ensemble, for example, while not limited, the prevailing external color scheme or the prevailing theme of external image or the prevailing external material e.g. seasonal, without having to replace the products. A collection is expandable to include, for example, while not limited to, a pair of remodifiable sports shoes, a piece of remodifiable luggage, a remodifiable umbrella, a remodifiable eyeglasses frame, a pair of remodifiable earrings and a piece of remodifiable jewellery.
Features set out in the claims hereto (jointly and severally where appropriate) are to form part of this disclosure and are incorporated herein by reference.
While various examples or embodiments have been described herein, it should be appreciated that they are for illustration and are not for scope restriction. It should be appreciated that portions or parts of the various example embodiments can be excerpted for combination and/or mix-and-match where appropriate to form other variants without loss of generality.
Claims
1. A system, for introducing removable parts closely upon a part-receptive object without having had to accommodate the removable parts at the time of fabrication of said object and without having to materially affect the original integrity of said object in order to accommodate the removable parts comprising:
- a.) a part-receptive object;
- b.) at least one removable part, which is any of closely fittable to the part-receptive object or closely refittable to the part-receptive object or closely retrofittable to the part-receptive object, so that the removable part may be replaceable with a similar part, which is also to be removable, or replaceable with a dissimilar part, which also to be removable, or even dispensable, without substitution;
- wherein said removable part fastens closely upon a part-receptive object or to another so removable part upon a part-receptive object without having had to accommodate the removable parts at the time of fabrication of said object and without having to materially affect the original integrity of said object in order to accommodate the removable parts and said removable part so attaches to a part-receptive object after the fabrication of the part-receptive object and said removable part is separable from a part-receptive object to allow substitution of another removable part for that removable part or to dispense with said removable part without substitution, so as to facilitate a change of look or adding-on a function to the part-receptive object, without affecting the original integrity of the part-receptive object as it was at fabrication of the part-receptive object before any introduction of the system and methods herein.
2. The system of claim 1, wherein said removable part is an attachment preferably in form of panel, sleeve, strap as cradle, shell, encapsulation and/or electrical part utilizing electricity or part utilizing electronics.
3. The system of claim 1, wherein said part-receptive object is a container in form of shell.
4. The system of claim 3, wherein said container is a bag or luggage or shoe.
5. The system of claim 1, wherein said exchangeable removable part and successor part can be in form of different shapes forms and not necessarily congruent with a part-receptive object and wherein, when more than one part is attachable to a part-receptive object, the forms of the said parts may be either congruent or not congruent among themselves and wherein any said part on a part-receptive object may communicate with some other said part, whether that other said part is on the same said object or is elsewhere.
6. The system of claim 1, wherein said exchangeable removable parts are made of natural materials or synthetic materials and not necessarily the same materials as the materials of the part-receptive object.
7. The system of claim 1, wherein said part-receptive object contains electrification apparatus, comprising at least:
- a.) an electric current transmissive contact
- b.) a filament for conducting electricity
- c.) a battery
8. The system of claim 1, wherein said part-receptive object contains electronification apparatus, comprising at least an electronic micro-processor.
9. The system of claim 1, wherein a removable part may be luminescent.
10. The system of claim 1, wherein a fastener attaching a removable part upon a part-receptive object shall allow for both bringing said part closely upon said part-receptive object and readily taking away said part from said part-receptive object through utilizing some or another means of removability via separability of a close fastener, for example, without limitation, snap, hook and loop, adhesive, tackiness, magnetism, zipper, button, screw, tongue in groove, hook and ring, lacing, tension.
11. The system of claim 1, wherein said part-receptive object is an encapsulatable object.
12. The system of claim 11, wherein said encapsulatable object is an eyeglass frame, jewellery, earring(s) or umbrella.
Type: Application
Filed: May 25, 2018
Publication Date: Apr 23, 2020
Inventor: Christopher Bernard Wilcock (Hong Kong)
Application Number: 16/608,266
