Adjustable holster for portable devices

Abstract

The holster includes a solid basically flat rectilinear shape. In one embodiment, a horizontal slot through the thickness of the base receives a strap that is wrapped around the portable device, while a second strap, vertically oriented, is fixed in a keyway in the bottom of the base and threaded though a vertical slot in the thickness of the base and is brought upward over the horizontal strap. In a second embodiment a pair of horizontal straps are set in keyways and are wrapped around a portion of the portable device, holding it in place. All straps having a webbing having one side covered by the hook portion of a hook and loop fastening system and the other side covered by the loop elements of a hook and loop fastening system, allowing opposite sides, or faces, of any single strap to be fastened to itself.

I claim: 
     
         1 . A holster for a portable device comprising:
 a. a base having a front face and a rear face, and perimeter having a top edge and a bottom edge, a left side edge and a right side edge; and   b. at least one horizontally disposed strap wrapped around at least a portion of said front face of said base.   
     
     
         2 . A holster in accordance with to  claim 1  further comprising a vertically oriented strap wrapped around said bottom edge and said front face of said base. 
     
     
         3 . A holster in accordance with  claim 1  further comprising a horizontally disposed slot through said base with said at least one horizontally disposed strap being threaded through said horizontally disposed slot. 
     
     
         4 . A holster in accordance with  claim 1  further comprising a keyway in a lower portion of said base recessed into said rear face of said base. 
     
     
         5 . A holster in accordance with  claim 1  further comprising a keyway slot running from said keyway to said bottom edge of said base, said base having a thickness and said keyway slot being formed in said thickness. 
     
     
         6 . A holster in accordance with  claim 1  further comprising a first keyway adjacent to said right edge of said base and a second keyway adjacent to said left edge of said base. 
     
     
         7 . A holster in accordance with  claim 6  further comprising a keyway slot running from said left keyway to said left edge of said base and a right keyway slot running from said right keyway slot to said right edge of said base. 
     
     
         8 . A holster in accordance with  claim 7  further comprising a first horizontally oriented strap inserted into said right keyway and a second horizontally disposed strap inserted into said left keyway and a stop on the end of each said first and second straps where said first and second straps are inserted into the respective said right and left keyways. 
     
     
         9 . A holster in accordance with  claim 8  further comprising a keyway in a lower portion of said base recessed into said rear face of said base and vertically oriented slot through the thickness of said base running from a lower edge of said keyway to a bottom edge of said base. 
     
     
         10 . A holster in accordance with  claim 9  further comprising a vertically oriented strap threaded through said vertically oriented slot and a stop member on said vertically oriented strap to prevent said strap from being pulled entirely through said vertically oriented slot and said vertically oriented strap being wrapped around said bottom edge and said front face of said base. 
     
     
         11 . A holster in accordance with  claim 10  in which said first and second horizontally disposed straps and said vertically oriented straps each have an outer surface covered with the hook elements of a hook and loop fastener system and an inner surface covered with the loop elements of a hook and loop fastener system. 
     
     
         12 . A holster in accordance with  claim 2  in which said at least one horizontally disposed strap and said vertically oriented strap each have an outer surface covered with the hook elements of a hook and loop fastener system and an inner surface covered with the loop elements of a hook and loop fastener system. 
     
     
         13 . A holster for a portable device comprising:
 a. a base having a front face and a rear face, and perimeter having a top edge and a bottom edge, a left side edge and a right side edge; and   b. at least one horizontally disposed strap wrapped around at least a portion of said front face of said base, at least one horizontally disposed strap having an outer surface covered with the hook elements of a hook and loop fastener system and an inner surface covered with the loop elements of a hook and loop fastener system;   c. keyway in a lower portion of said base recessed into said rear face of said base and a keyway slot running from said keyway to said bottom edge of said base, said base having a thickness and said keyway slot being formed in said thickness; and   d. a vertically oriented strap having an outer surface covered with the hook elements of a hook and loop fastener system and an inner surface covered with the loop elements of a hook and loop fastener system, said vertically oriented strap being threaded through said vertically oriented slot and a stop member on said vertically oriented strap to prevent said strap from being pulled entirely through said vertically oriented slot and said vertically oriented strap being wrapped around said bottom edge and said front face of said base.   
     
     
         14 . A holster in accordance with  claim 13  further comprising a horizontally disposed slot through said base with said at least one horizontally disposed strap being threaded through said horizontally disposed slot. 
     
     
         15 . A holster in accordance with  claim 13  further comprising a first keyway adjacent to said right edge of said base and a second keyway adjacent to said left edge of said base and a keyway slot running from said left keyway to said left edge of said base and a right keyway slot running from said right keyway slot to said right edge of said base. 
     
     
         16 . A holster in accordance with  claim 15  further comprising a first horizontally oriented strap inserted into said right keyway and a second horizontally disposed strap inserted into said left keyway and a stop on the end of each said first and second straps where said first and second straps are inserted into the respective said right and left keyways. 
     
     
         17 . A holster in accordance with  claim 16  further comprising an outer surface covered with the hook elements of a hook and loop fastener system on each of said first and second straps and an inner surface covered with the loop elements of a hook and loop fastener system on each of said first and second straps. 
     
     
         18 . A holster for a portable device comprising:
 a. a base having a front face and a rear face, and perimeter having a top edge and a bottom edge, a left side edge and a right side edge; and   b. at least one horizontally disposed strap wrapped around at least a portion of said front face of said base, at least one horizontally disposed strap having an outer surface covered with the hook elements of a hook and loop fastener system and an inner surface covered with the loop elements of a hook and loop fastener system;   c. a horizontally disposed slot though a thickness of said base for receiving said horizontally disposed strap;   d. a keyway in a lower portion of said base recessed into said rear face of said base and a keyway slot running from said keyway to said bottom edge of said base, said base having a thickness and said keyway slot being formed in said thickness; and   e. a vertically oriented strap having an outer surface covered with the hook elements of a hook and loop fastener system and an inner surface covered with the loop elements of a hook and loop fastener system, said vertically oriented strap being threaded through said vertically oriented slot and a stop member on said vertically oriented strap to prevent said strap from being pulled entirely through said vertically oriented slot and said vertically oriented strap being wrapped around said bottom edge and said front face of said base.   
     
     
         19 . A holster in accordance with  claim 18  further comprising a hook portion at the top of said base having a depending member and a spring portion for attaching the holster to another object. 
     
     
         20 . A holster in accordance with  claim 18  further comprising a flange formed on at least one of said right side edge and said left side edge of said base an projecting forward of said front face of said base.