Patent Application
20220248834
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The disclosure relates to phone protection devices more particularly pertains to a new phone protection device for convenient carrying and damage prevention. The present invention includes a case apparatus, a pouch apparatus, and a tether apparatus extending therebetween. The case apparatus is selectively engageable within the pouch apparatus.
The prior art relates to phone protection devices. Known devices include protective cases with a leash or strap, as well as carrying pouches. These devices, however, lack a protective case that is selectively engageable within a carrying pouch. These devices also lack a retractable tether joining a protective case with a carrying pouch.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a pouch apparatus, a case apparatus, and a tether apparatus. The pouch apparatus comprises a pouch body having a pouch top side, a pouch bottom side, a pouch left side, a pouch right side, a pouch back side, and an open pouch front side defining a pouch interior. A clip is coupled to the pouch back side and is configured to selectively engage a user's belt or waistline. The case apparatus comprises a case body having a case top side, a case bottom side, a case left side, a case right side, a case back side, and an open case front side defining a case interior. The case body is selectively engageable within the pouch interior. The case interior is configured to selectively receive a smartphone. The case body has a plurality of function apertures extending therethrough and configured to allow for functionality of the smartphone. A cable attachment is coupled to the case body. The tether apparatus comprises a cable compartment coupled to the pouch body. The cable compartment is coupled to the pouch back side. A cable spool is coupled within the cable compartment. A tether cable is coupled to the cable spool. The tether cable extends out of the cable compartment and is coupled to the cable attachment of the case apparatus.
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 clip 38 is coupled to the pouch body 18. The clip 38 is coupled to the pouch back side 28 and is configured to selectively engage a user's belt 40 or waistline. The clip 38 has an attachment portion 42 coupled to the pouch back side 28 and a curved clip portion 44 coupled to the attachment portion 42. The attachment portion 42 may have a pair of rivets 45 extending through the pouch back side 28. The clip portion 44 is elastically flexible to securely attach to the user's belt 40.
The case apparatus 14 comprises a case body 46 having a case top side 48, a case bottom side 50, a case left side 52, a case right side 54, a case back side 56, and an open case front side 58 defining a case interior 60. The case body 46 is selectively engageable within the pouch interior 32. The case back side 56 may be secured by the plurality of corner catches 36 and rests flush with the open pouch front side 30 when the case body 46 is engaged within the pouch interior 32 (as seen in
The tether apparatus 16 comprises a cable compartment 68 coupled to the pouch body 18. The cable compartment 68 has an inner compartment plate 70 coupled to the pouch back side 28 and an outer compartment plate 72 connected to the inner compartment plate 70 with a pair of screws 73. The outer compartment plate 72 may thus be easily disengaged for maintenance. The inner compartment plate 70 has a cable aperture 74 extending through the pouch back side 28. A cable spool 76 is coupled within the cable compartment 68. The cable spool 76 may have a coil spring 78.
A tether cable 80 is coupled to the cable spool 76. The coil spring retractably winds the tether cable 80 around the cable spool 76. The tether cable 80 extends out of the cable compartment 68 through the cable aperture 74 and is coupled to the cable attachment 64 of the case apparatus. A cable distal end 82 of the tether cable is selectively engageable with the connect aperture 66. The cable distal end 82 may have a cross rod 84 to allow for engagement and disengagement with the cable attachment 64.
In use, the user separates the case apparatus 14 holding the smartphone 62 for normal use. When done, the tether cable 80 is wound around the cable spool 76 as the user moves the case apparatus 14 back towards the pouch apparatus 12. The case body 46 is engaged within the pouch interior 32 with the tether cable 80 resting within the cable slot 34.
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.
