Trunks and hand-carried luggage – Hand luggage – With means to fasten the hand luggage in closed condition
Reexamination Certificate
1999-08-05
2001-11-20
Weaver, Sue A. (Department: 3727)
Trunks and hand-carried luggage
Hand luggage
With means to fasten the hand luggage in closed condition
C190S120000, C190S902000, C150S118000, C383S084000, C383S086000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06318528
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
It relates more particularly to a flap for a bag, intended to be mounted on the wall of the bag removably and without stitching, and a bag comprising this flap.
It also concerns the method of assembling the bag.
DESCRIPTION OF THE RELATED ART
The document U.S. Pat. No. 2,784,756 concerns a handbag having a removable covering leaf. The leaf or flap is held on the bag by means of clasps and a handle passing through the leaf. The handle and clasps are sewn onto the bag.
Such a flap is simply placed and held on the bag by the clasps and the handle. In addition, the clasps and handle are fixed to the bag by sewing or welding. As a result, producing the bag is in the end fairly complex and therefore expensive.
In addition, the opening in the bag is predetermined and fixed. It does not make it possible to adapt the volume of the bag according to its content.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The purpose of the invention is therefore to remedy these drawbacks.
To this end it proposes a bag in which the flap is mounted on the wall removably and without stitching, the opening in the bag being able to be adapted in accordance with the content.
A first object of the invention concerns a flap for a bag intended to be secured to the body of the bag, this flap being formed from a deformable piece comprising at least two passages whose function is to allow the passage of a strap for the purpose of holding the flap on at least one wall of the body, the passages being situated at a sufficient distance from each other and disposed on the flap so that, when the flap is mounted on the bag body, the passages are opposite the wall in order to make it possible to secure the flap to the latter by means of the strap.
The flap has, towards its rear longitudinal edge, two passages situated in the vicinity of its transverse edges.
According to a variant embodiment, it has at least two pairs of passages.
According to other characteristics, it has two passages situated in the vicinity of its middle part between its transverse edges.
It also has, close to its rear longitudinal edge, at least one first aperture for a locking system.
The first aperture is situated in the middle part between its transverse edges.
The flap has a second aperture for the locking system close to its front longitudinal edge.
The first and second apertures are disposed substantially opposite each other when the flap is folded on itself about a median longitudinal axis.
The first aperture is surrounded, on each side and close to it, by two passages for the securing strap.
The passages and the first aperture have the same general shape.
The passages and the first aperture are disposed along the same straight line substantially parallel to the rear longitudinal edge of the flap.
This flap also has at least one cutout for at least one handle to pass.
According to a variant, it has at least two cutouts or at least one pair of cutouts.
The cutouts are situated in the middle part between the front and rear longitudinal edges.
According to a variant, the cutouts are situated in the vicinity of its transverse edges.
According to another variant, the cutouts are situated in the vicinity of its middle part between its transverse edges.
A second object of the invention is a bag comprising a wall forming the container delimiting an opening and a flap as just described, associated with the wall so as to be able to cover the opening, in which the flap is mounted removably and without stitching on the said wall by means of a strap itself mounted for slight friction in loops on the wall in order not to escape therefrom unintentionally. According to other characteristics, the strap fulfils the functions firstly of the removable holding of the flap on the wall and secondly the closure of the opening by folding the bag wall on itself, the latter being shaped so as to form folds or bellows through which the strap passes so as to be able to be deployed, or on the other hand flattened.
The strap also has the function, thirdly, of the locking of the bag by cooperation with the locking system.
The bag wall forms, close to its rear longitudinal edge adjacent to the opening, a hem in which a rigid rod cooperates.
It also has at least one handle passing through the cutouts in the flap, provided at its two end parts with holes, these said end parts being housed in two scallops formed in the hem, the transverse rigid rod cooperating with the holes in the handle, so that the handle is mounted on the wall of the bag body removably and without stitching.
According to a variant, the bag has two handles mounted in the same pair of cutouts in the flap and scallops in the hem.
The locking system is in the form of a piece comprising:
a plate;
a journal projecting with respect to the plate;
a first aperture provided in the journal adjacent to the plate;
a projection projecting from the plate opposite to the journal.
The plate is positioned, interposed and immobilised between the internal face of the flap and the handle which holds it, which passes through the first aperture of the closure system.
The journal passes through a first aperture provided in the wall of the bag body against which the flap is applied and the projection passes through the first aperture in the flap.
Locking means are associated with the projection on the locking system.
The bag also has a second aperture provided in the wall of the bag body opposite to the first.
The journal of the locking system then passes through the second aperture when the bag is closed.
The free end parts of the strap are thus placed in the second aperture of the locking system placed outside the bag, these end parts being held in the locking system by the flap, which applies them against it.
The first and second apertures in the bag extend in the same direction, which is substantially parallel to the rear longitudinal edge.
A third object of the invention is a method of assembling a bag which has just been described, starting from a wall forming the bag body, a flap and a strap in which:
the flap is positioned with respect to the bag body;
the strap is slipped through the loops on the wall and through the passages in the flap;
the strap is tensioned;
the assembly thus being effected removably and without stitching.
First of all, the locking system is mounted on the flap and is made to cooperate with the first aperture in the wall.
The handle is next positioned in the cutouts in the flap and scallops in the hem; the rigid rod is slipped through the said hem; and the said rod is immobilised on the bag body.
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Hermes Sellier
Weaver Sue A.
Young & Thompson
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