Patent ID: 8235585
Filing Date: 2012-08-07
Classification: A44C,G04B

Abstract:
1. A device for fastening a wrist strap to a case, the wrist strap presenting a longitudinal wrist strap axis, the device having a linking member, to one end of which a strap end member of the wrist strap can be fastened and the other end of which can be detachably fastened to a wrist strap pin attached to said case, said wrist strap pin presenting a wrist strap pin axis oriented transversely with respect to said wrist strap longitudinal axis when said linking member is detachably fastened to said wrist strap pin, wherein the linking member defines an indentation, the indentation comprising a guide channel for guiding the wrist strap pin and a groove for receiving the wrist strap pin, the groove being oriented generally parallel to said wrist strap pin axis when said linking member is detachably fastened to said wrist strap pin and being longitudinally offset from said guide channel along the longitudinal axis of the wrist strap such that said indentation is bent in longitudinal cross section, and wherein a securing element, which is biased against said case and has an interlocking projection located therein, is arranged on the linking member in such a way that the securing element can assume two positions, a first, secured position, in which the wrist strap pin is positioned in the groove in the linking member and the securing element inhibits the linking member or the wrist strap from becoming detached from the wrist strap pin or from the case by means of the cooperation of said interlocking projection with the case, and a second, opened position in which the wrist strap pin can be guided out of or into said groove.