44 results about "Tying shoe laces" patented technology

A step-in apparatus and counter for a shoe are provided. The step-in apparatus allows a wearer to easily put on and take off a shoe without bending over, manipulating shoe laces, or using a shoe horn. The step-in apparatus and related counter allow the counter to deform and then return to its original shape without damaging the structural integrity of the counter or the shoe. This controlled deformation allows for ease of foot entry and exit without the need for laces, gores, or external devices such as shoe horns. The present invention is useful for those that lack the physical dexterity to bend over, tie shoe laces, or otherwise put on and take off shoes. In addition, the comfort and ease of use of the present invention makes for a new shoe that has universal appeal.

A shoe tying device or apparatus comprising a ring and a method of using same to facilitate the tying of laces in lace-up shoes and also a method of using same. The shoe tying device is lightweight and unobtrusive, allowing the shoe to often stay tied longer than typical without the device while generally maintaining a normal “bow” appearance. Further, the device is economical and reusable. The shoe tying device is particularly helpful for children, the visually impaired, and the mentally and physically handicapped.

This present invention provides an alternative to tying shoestrings. The current device incorporates a typical shoestring into an attractive configuration. The device not only secures a typical shoestring to hold the shoe in place, it directs the lace into an attractive loop configuration and secures the ends of the shoestring. It's important that the shoestring is tight enough to secure the shoe to the foot and that the end of the lace is secure to prevent it from tripping the user. This invention accomplishes both and is easy to apply and once in place can quickly and securely tighten and loosen the laces of a shoe for easy and secure, on and off.

A device for securing shoelaces without needing to tie the shoelaces is disclosed. One embodiment of the device comprises a pair of small, planar fastener disks with an aperture cutout in each disk. Aglets at each end of a shoelace are inserted through fastener-disk apertures and the fasteners are slid down to a desired point or tension on the shoelace, next to one of the article of footwear's eyelets. Because the fastener disks develop a frictional grip on the shoelace, tension in the shoelace is substantially maintained. Importantly, the device can be used to simultaneously secure and article of footwear on a wearer's foot while providing a false impression that the article of footwear is untied and unsecured, a feature desired by the skateboarding community. Additionally, one or more such devices can be used to ornament an article of footwear on the exterior sides of footwear eyelets.

A clamping device for keeping conventionally tied shoe laces from becoming untied. The device has a top frame that contacts the top of the shoe laces and a bottom frame that contacts the bottom of the shoe laces. These two frames clamp the lace on both sides of a conventionally tied shoe lace knot and are connected by a hinge. The two frames are secured together by a latch. This device secures both the lace tension on the shoe and the knot.

The invention relates to shoe production equipment, in particular to a talcum powder uniform scattering device for tying shoe laces to achieve the technical effects of being capable of saving talcum powder and keeping the ground clean and tidy and convenient to use. In order to achieve the technical effects, the talcum powder uniform scattering device for tying shoe laces comprises a box, a feed hopper, a discharge device and the like. An opening is formed in the middle of the front side face of the box. The feed hopper is mounted on the top of the box. The discharge device is arranged on the upper portion of the box. According to the talcum powder uniform scattering device, a frame is made to rotate, and talcum powder drops down along with rotation of the frame and then can be uniformly scattered onto hands.

A device for securing a shoe lace has a first panel and a second panel affixed to the first panel. The second panel being movable about a fold line between a first position away from the first panel and a second position in contact with the first panel. A first shoe lace securing member extending from a first side of the first panel and a second shoe lace securing member extending from an opposed side of the first panel, each shoe lace securing member securing the first panel to a shoe. A fastener secures the first panel to the second panel when in contact with each other.

In the prior art, shoelace tying is inconvenient when sitting on the existing chair. In order to overcome the problem in the prior art, the present invention provides a novel chair for conveniently tying shoelace. According to the present invention, a retractable metal ring is arranged on a chair leg and is connected with a metal rod, the other end of the metal rod is provided with a plastic plate, and the connection positions between the metal rod and the metal ring and between the metal rod and the plastic plate are movable and foldable, such that people can place the foot on the plastic plate when tying the shoelace without waist bending, and the plastic plate can be folded when doing not tie the shoelace so as to save the space.

The invention discloses an automatic shoelace tying machine which comprises a rack, two sets of shoe rope hooking and tensioning mechanisms, a lifting mechanism and a transverse knotting mechanism, ashoe supporting plate is arranged on the bottom plate of the rack, and the shoe rope hooking and tensioning mechanisms are arranged on the two sides of the shoe supporting plate respectively and usedfor fixing and tensioning shoe ropes; the lifting mechanism is arranged at the top of the rack and used for controlling the transverse knotting mechanism to move up and down; and the transverse knotting mechanism is arranged above the shoe supporting plate and is used for carrying out flat knotting and bowknot knotting operation on the shoe ropes. Through mutual cooperation of the lifting mechanism, the transverse knotting mechanism and the shoe rope hooking and tensioning mechanisms, the automatic shoelace tying function is achieved, and the automatic shoelace tying device is simple in structure, ingenious in design, stable in function, efficient in action and capable of effectively helping hand disabled people, lumbar vertebra disease patients, hypertension patients, pregnant women and the like to solve the problem that shoelace tying is difficult.

This instrument is intended to facilitate intra-corporeal laparoscopic tying of knots. The shafts of two small diameter laparoscopic graspers are combined within a common external sheath, and both are joined to a common handle, to be used by one hand. One grasper has no handle, but is able to rotate, and acts as a donor grasper, whilst the other has a regular scissors type of handle, is stationary, and acts as a recipient grasper. The instrument enables the head end of a suture to be passed from a donor grasper to an adjacent recipient grasper, passing behind and around its tail strand, forming the knot, in the same manner as the tying of shoe-laces.

A shoe lace holder to assist in the tying of shoe laces and to prevent shoe laces inadvertently coming undone during use is disclosed. The shoelace holder includes a unitary body having top and bottom surfaces defined by a front edge, a back edge and side edges. The body includes at least one first hole and at least one second hole, two slots, which extend in opposite directions relative to each other, and at least two further holes spaced apart from each other. The holes allow a shoe lace to pass through, and the slots are adapted to engage a portion of the shoe lace there in. When attached to a shoe a shoe's laces are interwoven through the respective holes and slots to prevent the lace inadvertently untying in use. A method of securing a shoe lace to the shoe lace holder is also disclosed.

A shoe lace-shaped light may be attached to a user's shoes, bedroom slippers, shoelaces, or similar footwear, for example. The shoe lace-shaped light may be pre-folded and pre-tied and may not become unfolded or untied. The shoe lace-shaped light may be powered by, for example, one or more batteries and / or solar power. The lights may be LED lights and may be made as part of the pre-folded, pre-tied shoe laces.

A multi-colored shoelace is used as a teaching tool to provide visual cues to help teach an individual how to tie their shoes. The teaching method includes a sequence of seven phases. A first phase consists of a warmup exercise involving pinching the thumb and index fingers while keeping the other fingers in a closed position. A second phase consists of tying a shoe on a tabletop using a multi-colored shoelace to provide visual cues during the shoe tying. A third phase consists of tying a shoe on a tabletop using a plain colored shoelace to practice tying a show without any visual color cues. A fourth phase consists of tying a shoe while it is worn. A fifth phase consists of fine tuning techniques to improve the symmetry of the tied shoe laces. A sixth phase consists of tying a double knot and a final seventh phase consists of untying a shoe.

The invention discloses shoelace-tying-free safety shoes. Each shoe comprises an upper and a shoelace, and the two ends of the shoelace are each connected with a shoelace tensioner; the shoelace tensioner comprises a base disc fixed to the upper, a shoelace collecting cavity is formed in the base disc, a base shaft is fixed in the shoelace collecting cavity and fixedly connected with one end of aclockwork spring, the other end of the clockwork spring is fixed to the inner wall of a tensioning wheel, and a shoelace fastening seat is formed on the outer wall of the tensioning wheel; and one endof the shoelace penetrates through an opening of the base disc and bypasses the extending end of the tensioning wheel to be fixed on the shoelace fastening seat.

The invention discloses shoelace-tying-free shoes with adjustable shoelace tension degree. Each shoe comprises an upper and a shoelace, and the two ends of the shoelace are each connected with a shoelace tensioner; the shoelace tensioner comprises a hollow base plate fixed on the upper, a tensioning wheel is hinged in the base plate, the inner wall of the tensioning wheel is fixed to one end of aclockwork spring, the other end of the clockwork spring is fixed on the outer wall of an adjusting wheel, the adjusting wheel is hinged in the base plate, and the adjusting wheel is provided with an adjusting mechanism; and an opening in communication with an inner cavity of the base plate is formed in the outer wall of the base plate, and one end of the shoelace penetrates through the extending end of the opening to be fixed to the tensioning wheel.

The invention relates to shoe production equipment, in particular to a talcum powder uniform scattering device for tying shoe laces to achieve the technical effects of being capable of saving talcum powder and keeping the ground clean and tidy and convenient to use. In order to achieve the technical effects, the talcum powder uniform scattering device for tying shoe laces comprises a box, a feed hopper, a discharge device and the like. An opening is formed in the middle of the front side face of the box. The feed hopper is mounted on the top of the box. The discharge device is arranged on the upper portion of the box. According to the talcum powder uniform scattering device, a frame is made to rotate, and talcum powder drops down along with rotation of the frame and then can be uniformly scattered onto hands.

The invention discloses a shoelace-free shoe with adjustable shoelace tension, which includes a shoe upper and a shoelace, and a shoelace tensioner is connected to each of the two ends of the shoelace; the shoelace tensioner It consists of an internal hollow base plate fixed on the upper of the shoe, and a tensioning wheel is hinged inside the base plate. The inner wall of the tensioning wheel is fixed to one end of the clockwork spring, and the other end of the clockwork spring is fixed to the outer wall of the adjustment wheel. The adjustment wheel Hinged in the base plate, the adjustment wheel is provided with an adjustment mechanism; the outer wall of the base plate is formed with a gap communicating with the inner cavity of the base plate, and one end of the shoelace passes through the protruding end of the gap and is fixed on the tensioning wheel.

The present invention discloses a fluorescent dog leash. The fluorescent dog leash comprises a hook, a connecting rope and a rope and further comprises a housing, a buckle, an automatic telescopic device and a bundling component; the hook, the connecting rope, the buckle, the rope and the automatic telescopic device are sequentially connected, the automatic telescopic device, according to the location of a dog, can automatically lengthen and shorten the rope, the automatic telescopic device and the rope are both arranged in the housing and the bundling component is fixedly connected with the lower end of the housing and is fixed to a wrist in a winding way. The housing is of a cylindrical body structure, and a fluorescent layer is arranged on the upper surface of the housing. According to the fluorescent dog leash provided by the present invention, when a dog walker walks the dog, the dog walker can run, watch a mobile phone or tie shoe laces at ease by only wearing the dog leash on the wrist and connecting another end of the dog leash to a collar for the dog. In a word, both hands can be liberated, and the dog walker has no need of always tightly dragging the dog leash. In addition, the fluorescent layer on the housing can be used for drawing the attention of to-and-fro vehicles to discover the dog walker at night in case of poor light.

The invention discloses an electric shoelace tying transmission device which is arranged on an automatic shoelace tying device. The device comprises a gear motor and a transmission assembly, the gear motor comprises a motor and a vertical speed reducer, and the transmission assembly comprises a driving component, a driven component, a winding ring and a shoelace, and the winding ring is coaxial with the driven component and fixed on the driven component. The motor shaft rotates to drive the output shaft of the vertical speed reducer to rotate and drive the driving component on the output shaft of the speed reducer to rotate so that the driven component is driven to rotate, the winding ring is driven to wind or unwind a shoelace, and the purposes of tying and loosening the shoelace are achieved.

The embodiment of the invention provides a piezoelectric sensing power generation device and a self-power-generation sneaker, and the piezoelectric sensing device comprises a sensing unit, a control unit, a piezoelectric transduction unit and a voltage stabilization unit. A self-power-generation sports shoe based on a piezoelectric sensing power generation device comprises a sports shoe body and the piezoelectric sensing device arranged in the sports shoe body. Wherein the control unit, the piezoelectric transduction unit and the voltage stabilization unit are embedded in a sole of the sneaker body, and the sensing unit is arranged in the sneaker body. The sensing unit is used for collecting inclination data of the device; the control unit is used for analyzing the inclination data of the device and controlling the piezoelectric transduction unit to perform energy conversion; the piezoelectric transduction unit is used for converting mechanical energy into electric energy to generate alternating current, and the voltage stabilization unit is used for converting the alternating current generated by the piezoelectric patch into direct current to be used by an electricity load. The power generation device can provide power for the sensing device and the power utilization device of the sports shoes and is used for sensing human body motion, automatically tying shoelaces and the like.

The invention discloses a shoelace fixing device. The shoelace fixing device comprises a chassis, an upper cover, two lace clamping toothed arms and an elastic body, wherein three cylinders are arranged on the upper edge of the chassis from left to right, the two outer-side cylinders are separately used for fixing the two lace clamping toothed arms which are arranged oppositely, the middle cylinder is used for fixing the n-shaped elastic body, two free ends of the elastic body are separately in contact with the lace clamping toothed arms at the two sides, through holes matched with the cylinders are formed in upper ends of the lace clamping toothed arms, sawteeth which are used for pressing on a shoelace are formed in lower ends of the lace clamping toothed arms, middle parts of the lace clamping toothed arms outwards horizontally extend to the outside of the chassis to form un-girding links, lugs are arranged at the left lower corner and right lower corner of the chassis, a shoelace passage is formed between the lugs and the sawteeth of the lower ends of the lace clamping toothed arms, a shoelace separation table is arranged in the middle of the lower edge of the chassis, and after the upper cover and the chassis are snap-fit, shoelace inlets are formed in the left and right sides and shoelace outlets are formed in the bottom. The device is simple in structure, flexible in operation and complete in function, the problems of the traditional shoelace tying that the speed is low, shoelaces are loosened or hard-knotted due to easy falling of bands, and the like are solved, shoelace knot tying is not required, and thus, the put-on and take-off are more convenient and safer.

The invention belongs to the technical field of shoe production, and particularly relates to an automatic in-out heel lasting machine. The machine comprises: a conveying unit used for continuously conveying shoes needing to be processed at equal intervals; a heel part processing unit which is installed on one side of the conveying unit and comprises a shoe tree conveying mechanism used for automatically grabbing shoes and a heel part shaping mechanism used for processing heel parts of the shoes, wherein the heel part shaping mechanism comprises a heel part clamping mechanism, an ejector pin positioning mechanism and a heel part pressing mechanism; and a shoelace tying unit which is installed on one side of the conveying unit and comprises a shoe tree fixing mechanism used for fixing shoes and shoe trees and a pneumatic control device used for controlling the shoe tree and shoe tree fixing mechanism. The invention overcomes the defects in the prior art, automatically feeds shoes into the heel lasting machine and automatically conveys the shoes to the next procedure after operation is completed, the labor cost is reduced, and the processing efficiency is improved.

A transverse knotting mechanism of an automatic shoelace tying machine comprises a shell, a driving gear and two racks meshed with the driving gear are arranged in the shell, the driving gear is driven by a gear driving motor, guide rails are arranged on the front side and the rear side in the shell respectively, and the racks can slide along the guide rails respectively; the outward ends of the two racks are connected with a vertically-downward left transmission rod and a vertically-downward right transmission rod respectively, the bottom end of the left transmission rod and the bottom end ofthe right transmission rod are connected with a left motor and a right motor respectively, and output shafts of the left motor and the right motor are connected with a left drag hook set and a rightdrag hook set respectively. The left drag hook set and the right drag hook set can flexibly move like the fingers of a person, and automatic knotting of shoelaces is achieved; multiple complex actionscan be completed on the basis of a simple structure, the problem of automatic knotting of shoelaces is solved, and the knotting mechanism is ingenious in design, efficient in action, short in knotting time and high in efficiency.