A Multi-purpose, adjustable, flexible material cincture, with attachment points

Abstract

AbstractA multi-use cincture comprising a flexible strap 1 with a fastening mechanism such as a buckle or clamp 2, multiple attachment points such as D rings 4, 5 which are attached between the main f

Claims

Claim 1. The disclosed Multi-Use Cincture with Multiple Attachment points, is a flexible cincture with Vertical Support Tethers and a locking, buckle, or clamping fitting, that can be used as either a single wrap around the body that it is intended to make attachment points for or to bind together, and further secured from vertical loads by attaching the Vertical Supports to the body, or in multiple wraps with consecutive wraps fed through appropriate pockets of the present disclosure per turn, pockets that also have within them an attaching mechanism such as a 'D' Ring by way of example, or alternately the first wrap zig-zagged through two or more adjacent pockets each of which is also containing an attaching mechanism, executed without breaking into the surface of that body and without using adhesives, but secured by tensioning the cincture through the locking, buckle, or clamping fitting, thereby using constriction and friction between the cincture to cincture contact and body to cincture contact face, to secure the cincture and retain the tension applied to the cincture wraps and thereby to create significantly further resistance towards the load forces working to open the clamping mechanism, by spreading the forces of any attached load, through an attachment of the load to each of the turns of the present disclosure and further secured by the Vertical Support Tethers offering support against forces acting to move the cincture away from the Vertical Support anchoring point.Claim 2. The multiple wrap method of the use of the present disclosure described in claim 1 to reduce the opening forces on the clamping mechanism is implemented by using multiple attachments from a single load to each of the two or more turns of the present disclosure through the attaching mechanism on each of the afore mentioned turns, thereby depending on the number of multiple attachments made, halving or reduced to a third the opening force applied to the locking, buckle, or clamping fitting that secures the ends and tensions the present disclosure.Claim 3. In claim 1 the method of multiple wraps with consecutive wraps fed through a pocket of the present disclosure per turn and the zig-zag method, both serve to consolidate the wraps into a single binding who's turns or wraps cannot be separated by forces applied laterally to the direction of the wraps, a force which would endeavour to separate the wraps particularly when simultaneous attachments in opposing directions are made to the present disclosures attachments points on each wrap or turn, thereby creating a consolidated fixed and anchored set of attachment points on the item on which the present disclosure is wrapped.Claim 4. The outer face of the pockets referred to in Claim 1 can also be used as attachment points themselves and further aftermarket attachment mechanisms can be attached to these pockets.Claim 5. The Vertical Support Tethers in Claim 1 allow the present disclosure to be used in a vertical mode ie wrapped horizontally, as well as in horizontal mode wherein it is wrapped vertically, or anywhere in between, as the cincture is then further secured when attaching the vertical support fixings to the body that the cincture is wrapped around to prevent the cincture sliding due to loading forces.Claim 6. The Vertical supports in Claim 1 can be also used alone to attach the cincture to a body and then the multiple attachment points utilized for further attachments, or as Vertical Support itself used as an attachment point for attaching an item to the present disclosure.

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