Patent ID: 7337933

Claim:
A compact portable shoe horn device having long telescoping handle extension and a shoe horn attached to the opposite end of the handle the way that collapsed, telescoping handle extension folds over toward shoe horn or telescopes down to fit within the shoe horn for storage and fully extended forms a shoe horn with a rigid elongated handle of a useful length comprising: a telescoping and pivoting shoe horn device comprising a collapsible and expansible handle comprising an outer gripping portion and a series of increasingly smaller sleeves which sleeves telescope together to fit within the outer gripping portion in a fully collapsed position to fit within a pocket of a user and which sleeves telescope out to a fully extended position to form a handle extension for use as an elongated handle to enable a user holding a proximal end of the elongated handle to contact a floor with a distal end of the handle from a standing or sitting position; a pivotable shoe horn head attached to an outer end of an innermost telescoping sleeve comprises a pivotable head base comprising a first end having a means for attaching the pivotable head base to the outer end of the innermost sleeve and a second end having flanges with two parallel flat sides having a base pivot pin hole therethrough with a pivot pin through the base pivot pin hole and a perpendicular cylindrical opening with a spring-loaded locking ball positioned within the cylindrical opening with the ball protruding from the base perpendicular to the base pivot pin hole and a pivotable head comprising a connective end protruding orthogonally between the two parallel flanges of the base and the shoe horn where each of the flanges have a center flange pivot hole for receiving an end of the pivot pin therein so when the connective end of the pivotable head which has three grooves so that when the pivotable head is pivoted open in the fully extended position the ball engages a first groove to lock the pivotable head in a pivoted open position and when the pivotable head is pivoted closed in a closed position over the handle the ball engages a second groove to lock the pivotable head in the pivoted closed position, wherein a user applies force to pivot the pivotable head, the pivotable head pivots to release the balls unlocking the pivotable head and when the ball engages the middle groove it locks the pivotable head at an angle making it convenient to use the device in a sitting position.