Patent ID: 6267280
Filing Date: 2001-07-31
Classification: A45F,B60R

Abstract:
In preparing for manual transportation an over-the-shoulder carrying strap of a knapsack-type article of manufacture during which a shoulder pad is provided with an interposed position between a shoulder of a user and said strap so as to serve as a load-distributing buffer, an improvement consisting of a method of facilitating said providing of said interposed position comprising the steps of:1. fabricating said shoulder pad of elastomeric construction material in a rectangular shape having a top surface and a bottom surface and a thickness delimited therebetween;2. recessing into said thickness of said top surface only centrally and longitudinally thereof and leaving intact opposite full thickness left and right borders;3. seating a length portion of said over-the-shoulder strap in said shoulder pad recess in an as yet unattached condition thereto;4. using a length of lacing and longitudinally spaced lacing openings in said left and right borders; and5. lacing a pattern of plural helical turns of said lacing in said lacing openings in encircling relation about said top and bottom surfaces of said shoulder pad with said strap in said recess;whereby while keeping intact said seated position of said strap within said recess said unattached condition of step 3 is readily modified to a completed condition using said lacing pattern, to thereby hold in place said shoulder pad in said interposed position to serve as a buffer.