Patent Application
20200215959
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The disclosure and prior art relates to wrapped bungee devices and more particularly pertains to a new wrapped bungee device for resisting abrasion and corrosion.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a bungee cord that includes an elastic member and a pair of hooks. The bungee cord is stretchable between objects for attaching the objects together. Additionally, the elastic member is comprised of a resiliently stretchable material. A sleeve is positioned around the elastic member of the bungee cord. The sleeve is comprised of a metallic material for protecting the elastic member from abrasion. Moreover, the sleeve comprises a plurality of enmeshed wires such that the sleeve is expandable and collapsible along a longitudinal axis extending through each of the hooks. The sleeve is comprised of a corrosion resistant to resist rusting in the rain.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
As best illustrated in
A sleeve 18 is positioned around the elastic member 14 of the bungee cord 12 and the sleeve 18 is comprised of a metallic material, such as a metal alloy or the like. Thus, the sleeve 18 protects the elastic member 14 from abrasion thereby extending the service life of the bungee cord 12. The sleeve 18 may comprise a plurality of enmeshed wires, a single wire coiled around the sleeve 18, or any other design that will facilitate the sleeve 18 to be expandable and collapsible along a longitudinal axis extending through each of the hooks 16.
The sleeve 18 is comprised of a corrosion resistant material so the sleeve 18 resists rusting in the rain. The sleeve 18 has a first end 20 and a second end 22, and each of the first 20 and second 22 ends of the sleeve 18 is attached to a respective one of the hooks 16. The sleeve 18 is expandable to a maximum length that is equal to the fully stretched length of the elastic member 14. Further, the sleeve 18 is collapsible to a minimum length that is equal to the relaxed length of the elastic member 14.
In an alternative embodiment 24 as shown in
In use, the bungee cord 12 is employed on the conventional means of bungee cords, in that the bungee cord 12 can be stretched over a tarp, an article of cargo or any other object. The sleeve 18 inhibits the elastic member 14 of the bungee cord 12 from being damaged thereby extending the service life of the bungee cord 12. Moreover, the expandable and collapsible construction of the sleeve 18 facilitates the sleeve 18 to cover the elastic member 14 when the elastic member 14 is fully stretched. The net 30 described in the alternative embodiment 24 can be laid over the object in the convention of a cargo net.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
