Trunks and hand-carried luggage – Hand luggage – Compartmented
Reexamination Certificate
2000-01-10
2001-06-12
Weaver, Sue A. (Department: 3727)
Trunks and hand-carried luggage
Hand luggage
Compartmented
C190S108000, C190S901000, C150S111000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06244400
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a carrying case within which one or more business articles and a woman's or man's purse are removably attached by means by complementary pieces of hook and loop fastener material. A set of personal and/or business modules (e.g. keys, eyeglasses, calculator, credit card holder, etc.) that are selected and organized according to the personal needs of the users are removably attached within the purse by means of complementary pieces of hook and loop fastener material.
2. Background Art
Men and women will often have to carry with them a variety of different articles that are needed or used at both home and in business. For example, a business person may tote a hand held carrying case between the home and office or on trips in order to transport such personal articles as a set of keys for the car, home and office, a calculator, reading glasses, credit cards, and the like, along with such business articles as a personal computer, business cards, a writing tablet, etc. However, it is common for the business person to simply toss all of the personal and business articles together within the carrying case.
Consequently, when the carrying case is opened, a particular article is not immediately available, such that the user may not be able to easily find the article for which he is searching. In fact, the user is often unable to quickly or accurately determine the identity of all of the articles being carried without first dumping the entire collection of articles from the carrying case for inspection. In some situations, it may be desirable to leave the carrying case behind and only remove some of the articles to be carried from place-to-place. However, it may not suitable for the user to stuff his pockets with such articles. In other situation, it is often desirable to be able to quickly and easily substitute one or more articles in the carrying case for existing articles depending upon the changing needs of the user.
Accordingly, it would be desirable to have a carrying case to permit a user to transport a number of articles for use at home or in business so that the articles will be organized according to the needs of the user and readily available to be replaced with other articles or removed from and conveniently transported outside the confines of the carrying case.
Examples of portable systems which use hook and loop fastener means for retaining articles are available by referring to the following U.S. Pat. Nos.
4,811,769 Mar. 14, 1989
4,854,432 Aug. 8, 1989
5,680,914 Oct. 28, 1997
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In general terms, a carrying case is disclosed within which a variety of different personal and business modules are to be transported. Such personal and business modules may include, but are not limited to, a writing tablet, a personal computer, a set of keys, a calculator, reading glasses, business cards, credit cards, and the like. The carrying case has a pair of sides that are rotated to the closed configuration in opposing face-to-face alignment. A zipper holds the carrying case in the closed configuration with the opposing sides disposed adjacent one another.
A first sheet of hook and loop fastener material, known commercially as Velcro, is affixed inside a first side of the carrying case. A second sheet of such hook and loop fastener material is affixed inside the opposite side of the carrying case. The business articles to be transported by the user have one or more pieces of complementary hook and loop fastener material affixed thereto so as to be removably connected to one of the sheets of hook and loop fastener material at one side of the carrying case. A purse, such as that which is carried by a man or a woman, also has one or more pieces of complementary hook and loop fastener material so as to be removably connected at the second of the sheets of hook and loop fastener material at the other side of the carrying case.
The purse transported within and removably connected to the carrying case also has sheets of hook and loop fastener material affixed inside the opposite sides thereof. The personal and business modules to be transported by the user have one or more complementary pieces of hook and loop fastener material affixed thereto so as to be removably connected to the sheets of hook and loop fastener material at the opposite sides of the purse. Accordingly, the personal and business modules can be organized and held in place inside the purse according to the particular needs of the user. That is, rather than being deposited as a loose collection at the bottom of a conventional purse, the personal and business modules will be neatly arranged and readily available to the user. Moreover, one or more of the modules can be replaced as the user's needs change by simply detaching a module after breaking the bond between the complementary pieces of hook and loop fastener material and then substituting a different module therefor. In this same regard, the purse which holds the personal and business modules of the user can be removed from the carrying case to enable the user to transport the personal and business modules within the purse while leaving the carrying case behind.
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Fischer Morland C.
Weaver Sue A.
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