Patent Application
20060143873
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates generally to neck leashes for retaining eye-ware and holding valuables.
2. Description of Related Art
Conventional neck leashes typically hold eye-ware onto the head while a person is on land. They are not adapted to be functional while in the wearer is in the water. They do not have flotation devices, break free safety mechanisms or storage compartments. Consequently, water persons such as surfers, kayakers, paddle boarders and lifeguards cannot rely on conventional neck leashes to retain and save their eye-ware. Conventional neck leashes, suffers from several drawbacks if used in the water. For example, the conventional neck leash will sink if dropped into the water and will most likely never be found. The conventional neck leash is further not designed to be secured to the wearers hand as well as head allowing for extra security when in an aquatic environment. Lastly, such a neck leash does not have a compartment to safely hold valuable items such as keys and credit cards while in the water.
The present invention has recognized these prior art drawbacks, and has provided the below-disclosed solutions to one or more of the prior art deficiencies.
The instant invention relates to a neck leash for retaining eye-ware. This invention is specialized to be functional when worn in the water by a sports oriented individual. The inventor envisions this neck leash being worn by surfers, paddle boarders, kayakers, lifeguards or other watermen. During these aquatic activities this neck leash not only functions to hold the glasses onto the wearers head, but it additionally functions to hold their keys or other small items.
This neck leash has multiple safety mechanisms to insure that the glasses will not be lost. First, this leash contains a visible float so that if the neck leash comes free from the wearer it will float on the surface of the water and can be easily retrieved by the wearer. This float will cause the leash to wash into shore for easy recovery, if it is not retrieved sooner. Secondly, this leash connects to the wearers arm with a velcro wrist band. This connection contains a break free device should the wearer become tangled in the cord. Further, this wrist connection runs from the back of the wearers head down his arm so that it is out of the way of arm movements. This cord can be run down the arm of a wet suit to contain it further.
In a presently preferred embodiment, it is the object of this invention to provide a neck leash to hold eye-ware that will keep the eye-ware from getting lost, and ensure the safety of the wearer through the break free devise. It is further an object of this invention to provide a storage area for small items such as keys, credit cards and insure that they are not lost in the water.
The invention will be more fully understood by reference to the following drawings which are for illustrative purposes only:
Referring more specifically to the drawings, for illustrative purposes the present invention is embodied in the apparatus generally shown in
Referring to FIGS. 1 though 4, an belay neck leash is shown and generally designated.
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The belay is preferably used as a leash to retain eye-ware when preforming water sports. It is specifically designed to overcome all of the inadequacies of current eye-ware leashes when used in an aquatic environment.
It will be understood that various modifications can be made to the embodiments of the present invention herein described without departing from the spirit thereof. The above description should not be construed as limiting the invention, but merely as exemplifications of preferred embodiments thereof. Those skilled in the art will envision other modifications within the scope and spirit of the present invention.
