US 12,240,568 B2
Surfboard toting device
Madelaine Steevens, San Diego, CA (US); and Lee Geisinger, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by Madelaine Steevens, San Diego, CA (US); and Lee Geisinger, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 13, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/965,643.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/255,584, filed on Oct. 14, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0182870 A1, Jun. 15, 2023
Int. Cl. A45F 3/14 (2006.01); B63B 32/87 (2020.01)
CPC B63B 32/87 (2020.02) [A45F 3/14 (2013.01); A45F 2003/142 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A surfboard toting device comprising:
a surfboard to be transported;
a first and a second strap device, the first and second strap device wrapped around a width of the surfboard approximately at a midsection thereof;
a first strap loop attached to the first strap device and a second strap loop attached the second strap device;
a shoulder strap for fitting over a user's shoulder, the shoulder strap connected to the first strap loop and the second strap loop, the shoulder strap together with the first and second strap loop, and together with the first and the second strap device thereby supporting a weight of the surfboard for transport; and
wherein the first strap device comprising:
a long strap having a proximal and a distal end arranged around the width of the surfboard; and
a sandwiching short strap configured offset from the distal end, wherein the proximal end is arranged around and fitting sandwiched between the distal end and the sandwiching short strap; and
wherein the long strap further comprising:
a lengthwise fold along an edge being positioned at the edge in a method of manufacturing a long strap;
a first seam around a border of the long strap except not around the edge at the lengthwise fold and except not at a space provided to turn the long strap inside-out; and
a second seam around an entirety of the border, thereby the border being double stitched except for the edge at the lengthwise fold and the space provided to turn the long strap inside-out that are both instead single stitched.
 
5. A surfboard toting device comprising:
a surfboard to be transported;
a first and a second strap device, the first and second strap device wrapped around a width of the surfboard approximately at a midsection thereof;
a first strap loop attached to the first strap device and a second strap loop attached the second strap device;
a shoulder strap for fitting over a user's shoulder, the shoulder strap connected to the first strap loop and the second strap loop, the shoulder strap together with the first and second strap loop, and together with the first and the second strap device thereby supporting a weight of the surfboard for transport; and
wherein the first strap device further comprising:
a long strap having a proximal and a distal end configured around the width of the surfboard; and
a sandwiching short strap configured offset from the distal end, wherein the proximal end is placed around and fitting sandwiched between the distal end and the sandwiching short strap; and
wherein the sandwiching short strap further comprising:
a lengthwise fold along an edge in a method of manufacturing a sandwiching short strap;
a first seam around a border of the sandwiching short strap except not around the edge at the lengthwise fold and except not at a space provided to turn the sandwiching short strap inside-out; and
a second seam around an entirety of the border except for the space provided to turn the sandwiching short strap inside-out, thereby the border being double stitched except for the edge at the lengthwise fold that is single stitched, and the space provided to turn the sandwiching short strap inside-out that is instead open.