Sock Storage and Organizing Apparatus

Abstract

A sock storage and organizing apparatus includes an attachment portion and a depending portion detachable therefrom. The depending portion includes a looped drawstring member dependable from the attachment portion. The looped drawstring presents an apex in contact with a hook member disposed upon the attachment portion, a pair of strands disposed in parallel therefrom, and a nadir terminally disposed distally relative the apex. Each of the pair of strands is strung through each of a plurality of slidable buckle members, each of which plurality of slidable buckle members is securably repositionable along the length of the looped drawstring member. Pairs of socks are thus securable between each of the pair of strands by selective position of an adjacent one of the plurality of slidable buckle members. A user may conveniently store socks for wear, and sequentially replace socks subsequent wear for laundering, ported, laundered, and maintained as a single unit.

Claims

1. A garment organizer comprising: a hanger configured to removably engage a support; and a loop assembly configured to be removably suspended from the hanger, the loop assembly comprising: an flexible cord formed into a loop with first and second strands disposed in side-by-side relation; a plurality of cord locks movably disposed along a length of the loop and dividing the loop into a plurality of variable size loop segments; wherein the cord locks are configured to be selectively positioned along the loop to retain a garment within a loop segment defined between two cord locks.

2. The garment organizer of claim 1 wherein the hanger comprises: a generally planar member having front and back surfaces, and a hook member extending from one of the front and back surfaces of the planar member configured to suspend the loop assembly.

3. The garment organizer of claim 2 wherein the flexible cord comprises a looped end configured to engage the hook member to removably suspend the loop assembly from the hanger.

4. The garment organizer of claim 1 wherein: each of the cord locks comprises a pair of apertures; and the first and second strands extend through respective ones of the apertures in each of the cord locks.

5. The he garment organizer of claim 4 wherein the apertures in the cord locks maintain the first and second strands in a generally parallel spaced-relation such that the loop segment between adjacent cord locks is unobstructed.

6. A garment organizer, comprising: a hanger configured to removably engage a support; a loop assembly configured to be removably suspended from the hanger, the loop assembly comprising: a flexible cord formed into a loop with first and second strands disposed in side-by-side relation; a plurality of cord locks movably disposed along the loop and dividing the loop into a plurality of variable-size, unobstructed loop segments; each cord lock being connected between the first and second strands and configured to maintain the first and second strands in generally parallel, spaced relation and configured to be selectively positioned along the loop to retain a garment within a loop segment by pressing the garment between two adjacent cord locks.

7. The garment organizer of claim 6 wherein the hanger includes a hook member configured to removably engage a looped end of the flexible cord to suspend the loop assembly from the hanger.

8. The garment organizer of claim 6 wherein: each of the cord locks comprises a pair of apertures; and the first and second strands extend through respective ones of the apertures in each of the cord locks.

9. A garment organizer, comprising: a hanger configured to removably engage a support, the hanger including a hook member; a loop assembly configured to be removably suspended from the hanger, the loop assembly comprising: a flexible cord formed into a loop with first and second strands disposed in side-by-side relation, a looped end configured to removably engage the hook member on the hanger to suspend the flexible cord from the hanger; a plurality of cord locks movably disposed along the loop and dividing the loop into a plurality of variable-size loop, unobstructed segments; wherein the cord locks are configured to be selectively positioned along the loop to retain a garment within a loop segment within a loop segment by pressing the garment between two adjacent cord locks.

10. The garment organizer of claim 10 wherein: each of the cord locks comprises a pair of apertures; and the first and second strands extend through respective ones of the apertures in each of the cord locks.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0018] FIG. 1 is an isometric, in-use view of an example embodiment depending from a door handle.

[0019] FIG. 2 is an isometric front view of an example embodiment of an attachment portion.

[0020] FIG. 3 is a rear view of an example embodiment of the attachment portion.

[0021] FIG. 4 is a left side view of an example embodiment of the attachment portion.

[0022] FIG. 5 is a right side view of an example embodiment of the attachment portion.

[0023] FIG. 6 is a detail view of an example embodiment of one of a plurality of slidable buckle members removed from a looped drawstring member of a depending portion.

[0024] FIG. 7 is a rear, in use view of an example embodiment.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0025] With reference now to the drawings, and in particular FIGS. 1 through 7 thereof, example of the instant sock storage and organizing apparatus employing the principles and concepts of the present sock storage and organizing apparatus and generally designated by the reference number 10 will be described.

[0026] Referring to FIGS. 1 through 7 a preferred embodiment of the present sock storage and organizing apparatus 10 is illustrated.

[0027] The present sock storage and organizing apparatus 10 has been devised to enable convenient storage and access to pairs of socks by providing an expedient means of securing pairs of socks to a looped drawstring member 42 that is dependable from an attachment portion 20 and releasably securable to an object, such as a closet rail, rack, hanger, or door handle. Additionally, the present sock storage and organizing apparatus 10 enables convenience when laundering socks as the looped drawstring member 42 is readily removable from the attachment portion 20 and may be included in a load of laundry with a plurality of pairs of socks attached thereto. Loss of socks in the laundry, during washing and drying for example, is thereby controllable as socks are secured together and clumped in such a way as to prevent individual socks from being pulled behind the dryer drum, for example, as often happens over repeated washing and drying cycles.

[0028] The present sock storage and organizing apparatus 10, therefore, includes an attachment portion 20. An arcuate inner edge 22 is disposed for hooking engagement around an object, such as to a closet rail, rack, hanger, or a door handle, for example, and a lowermost portion 24 depends a depending portion 40 for selective engagement with a plurality of socks 500, as will be described subsequently.

[0029] In the preferred embodiment disclosed in the accompanying Figures, the attachment portion 20 is rendered in the shape of a human foot. The attachment portion 20 includes a lowermost portion 24; in the preferred embodiment herein disclosed the lowermost portion 24 is shaped like the heel of a human foot. The attachment portion 20 thus incorporates the general shape of a human foot, wherein the outer sole (including at least a portion of the lateral longitudinal arch, the lateral plantar, and sural of the foot) is suggested by an elongate portion 26 uniting the arcuate inner edge 22 and the lowermost portion 24. Five toe members 28 are projected radially upwards overtop the arcuate inner edge 22, there reminiscent of human toes. A gap 30, reminiscent of the arched portion of a human foot, disposed between the arcuate inner edge 22 and the lowermost portion 24, and bounded on one side by the elongate portion 26, enables hooking engagement of the attachment portion 20 to an object.

[0030] The attachment portion 20 includes an obverse surface 32 disposed upon one side of the attachment portion 20 and a reverse surface 34 disposed upon the other side of the attachment portion 20. A hook member 36 is disposed perpendicularly upon the reverse surface 34 at the lowermost portion 20 from whence a depending portion 40 is releasably depended (see FIGS. 3, 4 and 5). The depending portion 40 includes a looped drawstring member 42, disposed for hanging engagement upon the hook member 36, and a plurality of slidable buckle members 44 selectively securable along the length of the looped drawstring member 42 (see FIG. 1).

[0031] In an example embodiment set forth herein, the looped drawstring member 42 is devised of paracord, essentially comprising a lightweight nylon kernmantle rope disposed in the form of a loop. The looped drawstring member 42 thus incorporates an inner core (not shown) of synthetic fibers within an exterior sheath of synthetic fibers, such as nylon, for example. The looped drawstring member 42 is thereby composed of impermeable fibers (but may admit water in between said fibers, through the weave of said fibers) and devised to be heat resistant at temperatures frequently applied when drying clothes and apparel in the home.

[0032] The looped drawstring member 42 thus presents an apex 46 at contact with the hook member 36, a nadir 48 distally delimited therefrom, and a pair of strands 50 in parallel when the looped drawstring member 42 is depended from the hook member 36 (see FIG. 7). Each of the pair of strands 50 is threaded through each of a pair of apertures 52 disposed in each of the plurality of slidable buckle members 44 whereby each of the plurality of slidable buckle members 44 is securably repositionable along the length of the pair of strands 50, and said pair of strands 50 of the looped drawstring member 42 is maintained in parallel relation between the apex 46 and the nadir 48.

[0033] Each of the plurality of slidable buckle members 44 includes a discoid body 54. The pair of apertures 52 is disposed in parallel relation through the discoid body 54, each of said pair of apertures 52 disposed on either side of a diameter of said discoid body 54. A depressible portion 56 is disposed outfacing within the circumference of the discoid body 54 and conjoined with a sprung hasp member 58, likewise disposed interior to the discoid body 54. The sprung hasp member 58 is disposed against the action of a spring member 60 to frictionally engage against the looped drawstring member 42 until the depressible portion 56 is depressed (see FIG. 6).

[0034] The sprung hasp member 58 of each of the plurality of slidable buckle members 44 includes a pair of appendant apertures 62 through which the looped drawstring member 42 is also threaded. This pair of appendant apertures 62 is disposed to align with the pair of apertures 52 of the associated discoid body 54 when the depressible portion 56 is depressed, and thereby misalign therewith when the depressible portion 56 is released. Action of the spring member 60, disposed in tension against the sprung hasp member 58, maintains misalignment of the pair of appendant apertures 62 in relation to the pair of apertures 52 in the discoid body 54 absent contrary force applied to the depressible portion 56.

[0035] Each of the plurality of slidable buckle members 44 is therefore slidable upon the looped drawstring member 42 when each corresponding depressible portion 56 is depressed, and each of the plurality of slidable buckle members 44 engages the looped drawstring member 42 when each corresponding depressible portion 56 is released, whereby a user is enabled slidable reposition of each of the plurality of slidable buckle members 44 along the length of the looped drawstring member 42 to selectively engage against an item of apparel 500 maintained between one of the plurality of slidable buckle members 44 and each of the pair of strands at the nadir 48 of the looped drawstring member 42, or engaged between each of the pair of strands by at least two adjacently disposed ones of the plurality of slidable buckle members 44 when positioned above the nadir 48.