Patent ID: 7926525

Claim:
A carrying case, comprising; a body defining a retaining compartment for retaining objects, said body including opposed sides, first and second apertures on each of said opposed sides and a plurality of additional apertures on each of said opposed sides; a pair of elongate straps, each of said straps having opposite first and second end regions and having a first state in which said strap is attached to said body at both first and second end regions and a second state in which said first and second end regions of said strap are detached from said body, each of said straps comprising: at least first, second and third apertures, said first aperture being proximate said first end of a respective one of said straps, said second aperture being proximate said second end of the respective one of said straps, and said third aperture being arranged between said first and second apertures; and snap fasteners arranged to removably attach each of said straps to a respective one of said opposed sides via aligning pairs of one of said apertures on the respective one of said opposed sides of said body and one of said apertures on said strap to thereby provide said strap with the first state, said snap fasteners having two parts separable from one another such that said straps are removable from engagement with said body to thereby provide said strap with the second state and positionable in different positions relative to said body to thereby provide a plurality of different configurations in which each of said straps is attached to the respective one of said opposed sides of said body, whereby each of said straps is attachable to the respective one of said opposed sides of said body via any two of said first aperture, said second aperture and one of said additional apertures on said opposed side and any two of said first, second and third apertures on said strap.