Patent ID: 8397966

Claim:
An article for storing a strand of cordage comprising: a) a flexible carrier, b) the flexible carrier being a cordage holder having one of more function(s) selected from a group consisting of a belt, a bandolier, an article of clothing, a handle or shoulder strap for luggage, a backpack, a carry storage container, a free-standing panel that may be attached to or contained in a backpack or carry storage container, a piece of luggage and any combination thereof in addition to that of a cordage holder, said function(s) remaining after the cordage is removed from the flexible carrier, c) having at least thirty or more spaced apart holes therein arranged in a plurality of rows, and a single length of cordage laced through at least most of the holes in the plurality of holes in the flexible carrier, the single length of cordage being in the form of a tightly looped double strand of said single length of cordage, and d) said single length of cordage being laced through at least some of the holes in the plurality of holes, such that loop ends of the tightly looped double strand of the single length of cordage farthest from the hole into which said cordage is initially inserted into the flexible carrier are all on the same exterior surface of the flexible carrier at the last or next to last row of holes in the flexible carrier farthest from the hole into which the cordage is initially inserted, and e) the cordage being temporarily secured from pulling through one or more of the holes in the plurality of holes by inserting at least one of the loop ends of the tightly looped double strands of the single length of cordage into at least one other loop end of said double strand of the single length of cordage, and f) one or more temporary securements for the ends of the cordage, optionally using a piece of hardware or other mechanical device, g) whereby the single length of cordage is difficult to become tangled when held in the flexible carrier, and said cordage is also easily, rapidly and completely removable by removing the temporary securement(s) when present and pulling on an end of the strand of the single length of cordage, h) the diameter of the holes and the laced double strand of the single length of cordage being such that the force required to pull all of the single length of cordage from the flexible carrier being in the range of 2 to 25 Newtons.