Device for Tightening Shoelace

Abstract

Disclosed is a device for tightening a shoelace, the device comprising a shoe main body formed with an opening and a tongue finishing an inside of the opening; a shoelace connecting opposite sides of the opening; a handle connected to at least one of shoelaces connecting the opposite sides of the opening; and a hook formed in rear of the shoe main body and holding the shoelace pulled by the handle.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION[0001]This application claims priority to and the benefit of Korean Patent Application No. 10-2009-0061905 filed in the Korean Intellectual Property Office on Jul. 7, 2009, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002](a) Field of the Invention[0003]The present invention relates to a device for tightening a shoelace, and more particularly to a device for conveniently and quickly tightening a shoelace that connects opposite sides of an opening in zigzags.[0004](b) Description of the Related Art[0005]As a general tightening structure for a shoe, there has been known a shoe wearing structure where a plurality of holes are punched at opposite sides of an opening formed over the mouth of a shoe, the shoelace passes through the holes to repetitively cross each other and is pulled and tightened to fit with a wearer's foot, and end parts thereof are knotted.[0006]Such a tightening structure for a sho...

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Benefits of technology

[0009]Accordingly, the present invention is conceived to solve the foregoing problems, and an aspect of the present invention is to provide a device for conveniently and quickly tightening and undoing a shoelace, in which a user pulls the shoelace at opposite sides using a handle connected to the shoelace crossed each other in an upper region of an opening and puts the shoelace on hooks formed in rear opposite sides of a shoe main body.

[0010]Also, it is to provide a device for tightening a shoelace, in which a plurality of hooks are provided in rear opposite sides of the shoe main body, so that a tightened length of the shoelace can be conveniently adjusted to fit with a figure of a user.

[0011]Further, it is to provide a device for tightening a shoelace, in which the shoelace can be additionally tightened as being pulled in lateral directions and held at rear opposite sides, and thus firmly tightened.

[0012]Further, it is to provide a device for tightening a shoelace, in which a tightened length of a shoelace connecting opposite sides of an opening is practically tightened more than double a length of a pull wire to be pulled by a user for tightening a shoelace, so that the shoelace can be conveniently tightened.

[0013]Further, it is to provide a device for tightening a shoelace, in which an exposed length of a pull wire is so short that a finish can be easy, and the pull wire exposed to the outside is wound around a winding guide plate provided in front of a stopper so that the pull wire can be prevented from being spontaneously released from a wound state.

[0015]Further, it is to provide a device for tightening a shoelace, in which a support roller is provided in a part where the shoelace to be pulled by a pull wire and a lateral wall are in contact with each other, so that a force for pulling the shoelace can be minimized.

Problems solved by technology

However, in the case of a shoe with an upside of the ankle portion high enough to reach a shin like a snowboard boot, there is inconvenience that a strong force is needed in tightening from the instep to the shin; a long time is taken in wear; the shoelace becomes loosened in a part corresponding to the instep while tightening up to the shin; and so on.

Further, there is inconvenience that the knot is spontaneously untied while moving with wearing a shoe; and to take off or wear the shoe, the shoelaces crossed each other have to be repetitively and simultaneously pulled only when the shoelace is set.

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