Trunks and hand-carried luggage – Hand luggage – Including frame or frame members substantially surrounding...
Patent
1990-02-08
1991-07-16
Weaver, Sue A.
Trunks and hand-carried luggage
Hand luggage
Including frame or frame members substantially surrounding...
190 40, 190113, 190124, 190125, 190127, A45C 502, A45C 514, A45C 1336
Patent
active
050317342
ABSTRACT:
Some softsided cases (luggage cases with cloth panel bodies) include the frame structures to hold them erect and give them some structural rigidity. The ability of such frame members to withstand crushing forces without damage varies considerably. Also, the weight of such frame members can work against the inherent lightness of softsided luggage. Disclosed is a luggage case and a frame member for the luggage case which includes a panel. The panel comprises a pair of cloth laminae attached to one another at a peripheral seam structure. Between the laminae are positioned flexible elongated members preferably along the diagonals of the laminae if the laminae has a rectangular or trapezoid shape. These elongated members are engaged at the corners by holding means which have sockets to receive the elongated members, and specially shaped outer edges which engage a substantial portion of the peripheral seam at the corners. The elongated members cross one another in the middle of the panel. These loosely held flexible elongated members are capable of extreme flexural distortion. The elongated members are sized and positioned to provide a pretensioning force on the laminae and the case to provide stiff resiliency and to hold the case erect in normal travel yet to give and move flexibly to permit the case to be crushed repeatedly and completely without preceptible permanent damage to the panel.
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O'Connor Gregory W.
Samsonite Corporation
Weaver Sue A.
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