Expandable luggage combining hardside and softside materials

Details Expandable luggage combining hardside and softside materials Expandable luggage combining hardside and softside materials

1993-11-10

1994-10-25

Shoap, Allan N.

Trunks and hand-carried luggage

Trunks

Extensible and sectional

190 24, 190127, A45C 700

Patent

active

053580826

ABSTRACT:
An expandable article of luggage of softside and hardside material construction, consisting of a top section, a bottom section, and a center section that can be added or removed readily for different luggage capacities, is constructed of a design such that the luggage expands like softside luggage when overfilled, but retains its frame shape like hardside luggage. Its design also allows for a center section that may be collapsed and folded and inserted in the unexpanded luggage. In addition, the material combination allows for an improved wheel construction, consisting of large disk shaped wheels mounted in wheel wells at the base of the luggage.

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