Patent ID: 8832912
Filing Date: 2014-09-16
Classification: A43C,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for fastening a shoelace, the apparatus comprising: a housing which comprises a ratchet gear provided in an internal circumference thereof and includes a cylindrical internal surface; a rotating cover which rotatably covers an upper part of the housing and includes a restricting projection protruding from a lower surface thereof; a reel part which is rotatably provided and coupled to a rotating shaft in an internal lower part of the housing and includes a wire wound thereto and a coupling accommodation part formed in an upper part thereof; and a restricting member which comprises a repulsion restricting part which is provided between the rotating cover and the reel part and includes a ratchet coupling part protruding from an external circumference thereof to restrict a rotation in one direction by the ratchet gear, and a pressure coupling part which is slidably contacted and pressed by a rotation of the restricting projection in the other direction along a rotational radius and is repulsively deformed and selectively coupled to the coupling accommodation part.