Japana Co., Ltd.

Alpen Co., Ltd.

Fumiyoshi Kawano

An article includes a cord, a cord winding device that tightens and loosens the cord, a drum including a winding portion around which the cord is wound, a drum retainer that accommodates the drum in a rotatable manner, and two cord exits formed in a wall of the drum retainer to guide the cord out of the cord winding device. When the two cord exits and a center of the drum retainer are not located on a single straight line, even if the cord is rewound by a full extent and drawn out from one of the cord exits when the cord is loosened, fatigue that would be caused by kinks reversing a winding direction of the cord or repetitive bending of the cord does not occur at a connecting-fixing portion of the cord and the winding portion corresponding to the other one of the cord exits.

Article including a cord winding device

A winding deviceincluding a baseincluding a drum accommodation portionthat accommodates a drumincluding upward teeth, the accommodation portionbeing cylindrical and having a closed end, and a dialincluding downward teeth () to rotate the drum. The dialis moved to a locked state in which the downward teeth are engaged with the upward teethto transmit rotation of the dialto the drumand an unlocked state in which the downward teeth are disengaged from the upward teeth. The winding deviceincludes an annular gear () including projections and roots extending in the rotation axis direction of the dialand a pawlprotruding from the drum accommodation portion. The pawlis designed to engage with the annular gear. The annular gear and the pawlcontrol rotation of the dial.

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Nagoya, Japan

Fumiyoshi Kawano