Patent Application
20240131414
Recreational sports are enjoyed by many people the world over. There are several popular recreational sports that cause equipment, such as snowboards, skis, and water skis to become wet during and after use. As alluded to, such recreational sports may include snowboarding, ice skating, skiing, water skiing, wakeboarding, knee boarding, surfing, bodyboarding, skateboarding, longboarding, kiteboarding, windsurfing, paddleboarding, and more. Equipment designed for use with the aforementioned recreational sports often comprises designs that incorporate one or more flat surfaces with rounded front and tail ends. Some equipment may include sharp edges incorporated via metal components with the potential to rust. The length and width of this equipment varies among people's preferences according to the sport activity, a person's height, a person's weight, and a person's style preferences. People may often have more than one set of equipment with varying lengths, widths, heights, and shapes.
The aforementioned recreational sports equipment typically becomes wet from use. Because sports often incorporate metal components, these metal components may be subject to rust from residual water after use if (and likely when) the equipment is not dried effectively. Proper care after use of such recreational sports equipment will benefit the longevity and maintenance of the equipment, but often remains an ignored step by people enjoying use of the equipment. This results in faster deterioration of the condition of the recreational sports equipment.
Further, recreational sports equipment can be damaged during transportation from one place to another, such as in the back seat of a vehicle. Because this recreational sports equipment often has sharp edges or other sharp components, the interior of vehicle can also be damaged easily. What is needed is a robust sports equipment cover that provides protection for the sports equipment and the environment in which it may be placed in addition to providing an ability to wick moisture away from the sports equipment ensuring protection from rust and the like.
Embodiments of the subject matter disclosed herein in accordance with the present disclosure will be described with reference to the drawings, in which:
Note that the same numbers are used throughout the disclosure and figures to reference like components and features.
The subject matter of embodiments disclosed herein is described here with specificity to meet statutory requirements, but this description is not necessarily intended to limit the scope of the claims. The claimed subject matter may be embodied in other ways, may include different elements or steps, and may be used in conjunction with other existing or future technologies. This description should not be interpreted as implying any particular order or arrangement among or between various steps or elements except when the order of individual steps or arrangement of elements is explicitly described.
Embodiments will be described more fully hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings, which form a part hereof, and which show, by way of illustration, exemplary embodiments by which the apparatus and devices described herein may be practiced. The apparatus and devices may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein; rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will satisfy the statutory requirements and convey the scope of the subject matter to those skilled in the art.
By way of an overview, the apparatus discussed herein may be directed to an equipment bag designed to store and protect recreational sports equipment after use. Several types of recreational sports equipment may become wet during use (e.g., skis, water bards, and the like). If such equipment remains wet after use, the equipment may become rusty and deteriorate. The present subject matter provides an adjustable equipment cover made from a breathable wicking material that assists with drying any enclosed equipment after use as well as protection for storage and transportation. Further, the sports bag is designed with a single opening having a cinching collar such that many different types of recreational sports equipment can be used with the apparatus. These and other aspects of the apparatus disclosed herein will be described in more detail in conjunction with
In this embodiment, the configurable cover 100 is configured to wick moisture away from or otherwise hasten drying of the enclosed recreational sports equipment (not shown in
In the embodiments of
The cover material 110 may also comprise 15% polyamide and 85% polyester. In other embodiments, these percentage may be different, but this combination is well suited to provide for a breathable wicking cover materials configured for this sports bag purpose. In one embodiment the cover material 120 comprises a single layer of fabric. In other embodiments, the cover material 110 comprises multiple layers of fabric. The cinching cord 140 may further comprise a 1/16th inch marine-grade shock cord that be enclosed by a collar 130 having an overlock stitch with an outside edge that is folded by % inches with a straight stitch encompassing a pocket suitable to enclose the cinching cord 140. The cinching cord is elastic and can stretch to accommodate ingress and egress of any sports equipment desired to be engaged with the equipment cover. This is shown next with respect to
The use of the terms “a” and “an” and “the” and similar referents in the specification and in the following claims are to be construed to cover both the singular and the plural, unless otherwise indicated herein or clearly contradicted by context. The terms “having,” “including,” “containing” and similar referents in the specification and in the following claims are to be construed as open-ended terms (e.g., meaning “including, but not limited to,”) unless otherwise noted. Recitation of ranges of values herein are merely intended to serve as a shorthand method of referring individually to each separate value inclusively falling within the range, unless otherwise indicated herein, and each separate value is incorporated into the specification as if it were individually recited herein. All methods described herein can be performed in any suitable order unless otherwise indicated herein or clearly contradicted by context. The use of any and all examples, or exemplary language (e.g., “such as”) provided herein, is intended merely to better illuminate embodiments and does not pose a limitation to the scope of the disclosure unless otherwise claimed. No language in the specification should be construed as indicating any non-claimed element as essential to each embodiment of the present disclosure.
Different arrangements of the components depicted in the drawings or described above, as well as components and steps not shown or described are possible. Similarly, some features and sub-combinations are useful and may be employed without reference to other features and sub-combinations. Embodiments have been described for illustrative and not restrictive purposes, and alternative embodiments will become apparent to readers of this patent. Accordingly, the present subject matter is not limited to the embodiments described above or depicted in the drawings, and various embodiments and modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the claims below.
This application is a Continuation-in-Part application that claims the benefit of U.S. Non-Provisional application Ser. No. 17/583,126 entitled “BREATHABLE COVER FOR SPORTS EQUIPMENT” filed Jun. 24, 2022 which is incorporated by reference in its entirety herein for all purposes.
| Number | Date | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parent | 17583126 | Jan 2022 | US |
| Child | 18403197 | US |
