Patent Application
20170280860
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A wide variety of pouches, cases or other such holders, containers or carriers have been devised for holding and organizing objects, tools, tool accessories or other large and small articles.
Carriers have been used during transport and or worn and or stored and have been used for many years. Typically the fit of the object within most carriers have always been a loose fit with some other's providing a more snug fit.
A problem with carriers is that they are usually of a fixed size. They do not provide a watertight seal. If you want to use them, to hold or carry an object or other container that doesn't fit snugly in the carrier, it tends to move around and spill its contents if turned sideways or upside-down. Also, it's not unusual to find an oddly shaped object or other container that you like to carry with you doesn't fit in the carrier at all or is very loose and clumsy. An example is a hex key or a pair of scissors or a drill bit and even a light bulb. In other cases, the carrier is too shallow and the container easily falls out of the carrier and onto the floor, onto another person in close proximity, or even the head of a person below. It can also fall out when a vehicle turns, drives over a bump, or other sudden movements.
For these reasons users of carriers are disappointed in carriers available today for not protecting, holding, storing and containing objects properly while in use, carrying or being transported. This results in loosing objects, wasting time, financial loss to replace lost or damaged objects, property damage due to objects falling out while being worn or carried requiring expensive repairs, and even injury when objects fall out and injure a person.
This Brief Summary is included so as to introduce, in an abbreviated form, various topics to be elaborated upon below in the Detailed Description. This Brief Summary is not intended to identify key or essential aspects of the claimed invention. This brief Summary is similarly not intended for use as an aid in determining the scope of the claims.
The subject matters of this application overcomes the aforementioned problems and may be used as a watertight secure carrier regardless of the objects shapes, widths and depths. The invention is directed to an object-holding apparatus. It comprises: a body having at least one surface, wherein at least one cavity is formed on the one surface, wherein the cavity further comprises a pathway, wherein the pathway extends from the one surface into the body, wherein at least one object can be disposed into the cavity, wherein the pathway can receive the object, wherein the object has a longitudinal length, wherein the object can be disposed along the longitudinal length of the object into the cavity, wherein the pathway is formed by a wall and a bottom, wherein the pathway has a longitudinal length, wherein the pathway extends along the longitudinal length of the pathway inwardly to the body, wherein the wall is substantially contacted with the object to secure the object in the cavity when the object is disposed in the cavity.
The present invention also is directed to an object-holding apparatus, which comprises: a body having at least one surface, wherein at least one cavity is formed on the one surface, wherein the cavity comprises a pathway, wherein the pathway extends from the one surface into the body, wherein the pathway has a longitudinal length, wherein the pathway has at least one cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal length of the pathway, and wherein the cross section has a diameter; at least one internal ring, wherein the internal ring is flexible, Wherein the internal ring has an outer-diameter and an inner-diameter, and wherein the outer-diameter of the internal ring is substantially equal to the diameter of the cross section of the pathway; at least one tube, wherein the tube further comprises a tube wall and a bottom connected to the wall, wherein the tube has a longitudinal length equal or less than the longitudinal length of the pathway of the cavity, wherein the tube has a cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal length of the tube, wherein the cross section of the tube is substantially equal to an area formed by the inner-diameter of the internal ring, wherein the tube wall is attached to the inner-diameter of the internal ring, and wherein the tube is disposed in the pathway of the cavity; at least one filling material, wherein the filling material is flexible that has about Shore Hardness about 30 A to Shore Hardness about 40 A, wherein the filling material is disposed in the tube, and wherein the object can be disposed and inserted into the filling material.
The invention is also directed to a method to make an object holding apparatus to hold at least one object, which comprises: drilling at least a plurality of cavities on a surface of a deformable body of the object holding apparatus, extending a pathway of each plurality of cavities into the deformable body of the object holding apparatus in an angle about 0 degree to about 90 degree to a perpendicular axis of the one surface, wherein the pathway has a cross section less than a cross section of the object.
It should be understood that the drawings are merely representative, are not necessarily drawn to scale, and are not intended to limit the subject matter of this application.
Before the present invention is described in greater detail, it is to be understood that this invention is not limited to particular embodiments described, and as such may, of course, vary. It is also to be understood that the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only, and is not intended to be limiting, since the scope of the present invention will be limited only by the appended claims.
Where a range of values is provided, it is understood that each intervening value, to the tenth of the unit of the lower limit unless the context clearly dictates otherwise, between the upper and lower limits of that range is also specifically disclosed. Each smaller range between any stated value or intervening value in a stated range and any other stated or intervening value in that stated range is encompassed within the invention. The upper and lower limits of these smaller ranges may independently be included or excluded in the range, and each range where either, neither or both limits are included in the smaller ranges is also encompassed within the invention, subject to any specifically excluded limit in the stated range. Where the stated range includes one or both of the limits, ranges excluding either or both of those included limits are also included in the invention.
Other than in the embodiment or example, or where indicated otherwise, all numbers indicating ingredient quantities and/or reaction conditions are to be understood as being modified in every instance by the word “about,” which means the ingredient quantities or reaction conditions are within 10 percent to 15 percent of the indicated value.
Unless defined otherwise, all terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. Although any methods and materials similar or equivalent to those described herein can be used in the practice or testing of the present invention, some potential and exemplary methods and materials may now be described. Any and all publications mentioned herein are incorporated herein by reference to disclose and describe the methods and/or materials in connection with which the publications are cited. It is understood that the present disclosure supersedes any disclosure of an incorporated publication to the extent there is a contradiction.
It must be noted that as used herein and in the appended claims, the singular forms “a”, “an”, and “the” may also include the plural referents unless the context clearly dictates otherwise.
It is further noted that the claims may be drafted to exclude any element that may be optional. As such, this statement is intended to serve as antecedent basis for use of such exclusive terminology as “solely”, “only” and the like in connection with the recitation of claim elements, or the use of a “negative” limitation.
As will be apparent to those of skill in the art upon reading this disclosure, each of the individual embodiments described and illustrated herein has discrete components and features, which may be readily separated from or combined with the features of any of the other several embodiments without departing from the scope or spirit of the present invention.
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One embodiment of the body 20 can be made of deformable materials that has a Shore Hardness between about 75 A and about 85 A, such as rubber or semi-rigid plastic. When the body 20 has more than one surface 40 such as in long shape, the short side 42 has a surface 40 and long side 44 has a surface 40. The cavity 30 is form on surface 40 of short side 42. The pathway 70 extends from surface 40 of short side 42 into said body 20. The object holding apparatus 10 can have optional hanger 90 for hanging the object holding apparatus 10.
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