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  Revolving slideUSPTO Application #: 20060174389Title: Revolving slide Abstract: The present invention related to a device for maintaining one's pant leg in the proper position in relation to one's shoes, to conceal the shoe, and retaining the trouser legs away from the ground. This invention includes a shoe with integrated fastener such as a hook, and a trouser leg with integrated fastener such as a loop. The shoe fastener integrated into the rear of the shoe just above the ground (e.g. the shoe hill) and the pants fastener integrated into the interior portion of the trouser leg cuff. Accordingly, the lower portion of the trousers legs may manually or automatically be attached to the shoe hill securing the trousers leg to the shoe and away from the ground. (end of abstract) Agent: Zackary Engel - New York, NY, US Inventor: Zackary Engel USPTO Applicaton #: 20060174389 - Class: 002046000 (USPTO) Related Patent Categories: Apparel, Garment Protectors The Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20060174389. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] The present application claims the benefit of pending and commonly assigned provisional patent applications, as follows: U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/650,089, filed Feb. 7, 2004 and entitled "Dancing Pant Leg Retaining Method" The entire contents of the foregoing provisional patent application is hereby incorporated by reference. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] 1. Field of the Invention [0003] The present invention relates to a trouser leg retaining device for use in connection with keeping one's trousers positioned away from the ground. Trousers with overlong legs are desirable; however, they typically can slip beneath the shoes, a condition which is unsafe and undesirable. Likewise, the trousers legs may be pulled up when sitting and caught above the boots when getting up. The trouser leg retaining device ensures that the trouser leg does not get dragged on the ground, caught on the shoe's top, beneath it, or beneath the other shoe. [0004] 2. Description of the Prior Art [0005] Trouser leg retaining devices are desirable for keeping trouser legs in place and ensuring that the trouser leg does not pulled up, or get caught within or above the shoes when walking, running, dancing, and alike activity. Various boot attachments exist in the prior art, most of which are designed to achieve these desires. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 5,974,591 to Leslie discloses a firefighter's boot to trouser strap device for keeping a firefighter's uniform together. [0006] U.S. Pat. No. 4,941,213 issued to Grilliot et al relates to a firefighter's boot and trouser attachment. The attachment device relates to a band having a strap extending therefrom. The strap contains fastener elements which attach to portions of the firefighter's trousers. [0007] U.S. Pat. No. 4,393,522 issued to Calabrese relates to an ankle garter with foot stirrups. The device includes an open ended garter band with a U-shaped stirrup depending therefrom. [0008] U.S. Pat. No. 3,733,615 issued to Jaffee relates to a ski cuff insertable inside each leg portion of a pair of stretch pants having a pair of elastic bands designed to firmly hold the cuff piece onto a ski boot. [0009] U.S. Pat. No. 3,286,375 issued to Troy relates to a boot having a pant leg retaining means comprising a hook and buckle attached to the top edge of the boot upper portion. [0010] U.S. Pat. No. 3,177,498 issued to Sadowski relates to stays for trousers including a strap extending beneath the wearer's foot and upwardly into opposing sides of a trouser leg. [0011] U.S. Pat. No. 4,115,906 to Lavine et al discloses a clippable trouser retaining strap that maintains the cuff of a leg of a pair of trousers in a downward position. However, the Lavine et al '906 patent does not have a mechanism to secure the pant to the back of the shoe, and additionally does not have a design snap onto which a logo may be displayed. [0012] Similarly, U.S. Pat. No. 4,941,213 to Grilliot et al discloses a firefighter's boot and trouser attachment that keeps a firefighter's boot attached to his trouser leg. However, the Grilliot et al '213 patent cannot be used with any footwear other than boots. It has the additional deficiency of wrapping around the firefighters boot as opposed to attaching to the top of the boot. [0013] Lastly, U.S. Pat. No. 5,542,156 to Oglesby discloses a trouser leg retaining device that keeps trouser legs attached to shoes to keep pant legs from riding up. However, the Oglesby '156 patent does not attach to the top of a shoe, and has the additional deficiency of attaching to the bottom of a shoe thus enabling the elastic strap to wear out quicker due to friction from walking on pavement. [0014] As indicated above, various boot attachments and similar structures exist in the prior art. However, each of these devices relates to a means for securing a trouser leg about or within a boot or for compressing a boot to assist a user in placing a pant leg thereover and to conceal the boot therewithin. While the above-described devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not describe a trouser leg retaining device that preventing an overlong trouser legs from being dragged on the ground. Furthermore none of these prior art describe a trouser leg retaining device that may automatically secure the trousers leg to the respective shoes and the ground. Finally, in the present invention, the trouser leg retainer is also attached to the hill of the shoe as opposed to wrapping around the bottom of the shoe or the top of the shoe thus maximizing the concealing of the shoe. [0015] Therefore, a need exists for a new and improved trouser leg retaining device that can be used for automatically or manually keeping pants away from the ground. In this regard, the present invention substantially fulfills this need. In this respect, the trouser leg retaining device according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in doing so provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of keeping pants legs above the ground. The present patent also can be used with any sort of footwear, not just boots as seen in some of the above-mentioned patents. Furthermore, the present patent utilizes any fastening device, such as Velcro, magnetic strip, snaps, and more. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION [0016] In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of footwear securing device now present in the prior art, the present invention provides an improved trouser leg retaining device, and overcomes the above-mentioned disadvantages and drawbacks of the prior art. As such, the general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new and improved trouser leg retaining device and method which has all the advantages of the prior art mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a trouser leg retaining device which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by the prior art, either alone or in any combination thereof. Also, this invention particularly allows a user to wear a pant with longer then usual legs and yet keep these pant's legs a way from the ground. [0017] To attain this, the present invention essentially comprises a fastener device, such as a hook, that integrated to the pant leg and another fastener device, such as a loop, that integrated to the shoe hill. A first section of the fastener integrated to the rear section of the shoe hill. The second section of the fastener is integrated to the back inner edge of the pants leg to connect the trouser leg to the shoe hill just above the ground. The fasteners may be made a standard or optional feature of the shoes (permanently glued, screwed, or built into the hill of the shoe at the time the boots are manufactured; and the same holds true for attachment on pants at the time the pants are manufactured. However, the fasteners may be retrofitted to the boots and pants through methods known in the art. [0018] Numerous objects, features and advantages of the present invention will be readily apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art upon a reading of the following detailed description of presently preferred, but nonetheless illustrative, embodiments of the present invention when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. In this respect, before explaining the current embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of descriptions and should not be regarded as limiting. [0019] As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention. [0020] It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new and improved trouser leg retaining device that has all of the advantages of the prior art shoe to trouser strap device and none of the disadvantages. [0021] It is another object of the present invention to provide a new and improved trouser leg retaining device that may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed. Continue reading... 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