Patent ID: 7143486
Filing Date: 2006-12-05
Classification: A43C,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An anchoring device which may be applied to a laced fastening member used in conjunction with clothes, bags, tents or shoes, having eyelets, and wherein the laced fastening member comprises an elongated flexible member having first and second terminal ends which permit the fastening member to pass through an exit hole in the anchoring device, through the eyelets of the object being secured, and through an entry hole in the anchoring device, the anchoring device comprising: a supporting base on which a pair of overlapping throat members are structurally arranged for holding sections of the laced fastening member; an anchoring assembly positioned in said supporting base to secure the first terminal end and to permit the laced fastening member to exit the exit hole to engage to eyelets of the object being secured, with said entry hole positioned in said supporting base to permit the second terminal end of the laced fastening member to pass from the eyelets of the object being secured to the anchoring device; a reel member positioned about said anchoring assembly and associated with one of said throat members to permit the laced fastening member to be wound thereon, with said reel member being positioned between said supporting base and an intermediate wall, with said supporting base and said intermediate wall having retention ledges to maintain the laced fastening member about the reel member; and wherein the other of said throat members is mounted on said intermediate wall and includes a cap member thereon with said other of said throat members structurally arranged to receive the second terminal end of the laced fastening member and to secure the second end to the anchoring device.