Patent Publication Number: US-11044955-B2

Title: Sport garment cellphone case apparatus

Description:
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     BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
     (1) Field of the Invention 
     The disclosure relates to cellphone accessory devices and more particularly pertains to a new cellphone accessory device for securing and waterproofing a cellphone for use in sports. 
     (2) Description of Related Art Including Information Disclosed Under 37 CFR 1.97 and 1.98 
     The prior art relates to cellphone accessory devices. 
     BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
     An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a sport garment being configured to be worn by a user while performing an activity. A case holder is coupled to the sport garment and comprises a plurality of L-shaped corners. Each of the corners has a sidewall extending from a breast of the sport garment and a front wall perpendicularly extending from the sidewall. A tether is coupled to the sport garment. The tether has a proximal end coupled to the breast of the sport garment between the corners of the case holder and a distal end. A case is coupled to the tether and comprises a case back coupled to the distal end and a case front coupled to the case back. The case front is selectively engageable with the case back and is configured to sealingly contain a cellphone. 
     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. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWING(S) 
       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: 
         FIG. 1  is a front elevation view of a sport garment cellphone case apparatus according to an embodiment of the disclosure. 
         FIG. 2  is a front elevation view of an embodiment of the disclosure. 
         FIG. 3  is an in-use view of an embodiment of the disclosure. 
         FIG. 4  is an in-use view of an embodiment of the disclosure. 
     
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION 
     With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to  FIGS. 1 through 4  thereof, a new cellphone accessory device embodying the principles and concepts of an embodiment of the disclosure and generally designated by the reference numeral  10  will be described. 
     As best illustrated in  FIGS. 1 through 4 , the sport garment cellphone case apparatus  10  generally comprises a sport garment  12  being configured to be worn by a user while performing an activity. The sport garment  12  may be a life vest  14  or other type of sport garment such as, but not limited to, a wetsuit, a rash guard, and the like. A case holder  16  is coupled to the sport garment  12 . The case holder  16  comprises a plurality of L-shaped corners  18 . Each of the corners  18  has a sidewall  20  extending from a breast  22  of the sport garment  12  and a front wall  24  perpendicularly extending from the sidewall  20 . The sidewall  20  of each corner  18  has a rounded outer corner  26  and the front wall  24  of each corner  18  has a perpendicular inner corner  28 . A depth of the sidewall  20  is equal to a width of the front wall  24 . The case holder  16  is rubberized. A tether  30  is coupled to the sport garment  12 . The tether  30  has a proximal end  32  coupled to the breast  22  of the sport garment  12  between the corners  18  of the case holder  16  and a distal end  34 . Each of the proximal end  32  and the distal end  34  have a circular inner attachment portion  36  and a circular main attachment portion  38  concentrically extending from the inner attachment portion  36 . A cord portion  40  of the tether  30  extends from the inner attachment portion  36  of the proximal end  32  to the inner attachment portion  36  of the distal end  34 . The cord portion  40  is elasticized. A case  42  is coupled to the tether  30 . The case  42  comprises a case back  44  coupled to the distal end  34  and a case front  46  coupled to the case back  44 . The case front  46  is selectively engageable with the case back  44  and is configured to sealingly contain a cellphone  48 . The case back  44  has a camera aperture  50  extending therethrough. Each of the corners  18  is sufficiently flexible to receive the case  42 . 
     In use, the sport garment  12  is worn by the user. The cellphone  48  is inserted into the case  42  and the tether  30  secures the case  42  to the sport garment  12 . The user may place the case  42  into the case holder  16  or hold the case  42  with her hand. The tether  30  prevents the cellphone  48  from being lost. 
     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.