Trunks and hand-carried luggage – Supporting devices – Wheeled
Patent
1994-06-10
1996-06-04
Weaver, Sue A.
Trunks and hand-carried luggage
Supporting devices
Wheeled
190119, 190122, 190127, 2062871, A45C 514, A45C 1304, A45C 1310, A45C 1336
Patent
active
055224873
ABSTRACT:
An article of soft luggage, preferably a folding garment bag, has a soft shell forming outer walls, with wheels on the outer bottom wall and a flange and pocket engagement that fixes the bottom walls together when the bag is folded. The bottom wall is partitioned into left and right portions due to folding over of the ends of the bag, which has an inverted U-shape when closed and resting on the wheels. To stiffen the bottom walls of the left and right portions, and provide a mounting for the wheels, relatively stiffer gussets are affixed to the left and right cooperative portions, respectively. The two cooperative portions are connected by a flexible closure such as a zipper when the bag is closed. The zipper or the like defines a flexible seam that normally would permit the cooperative portions to be displaced relative to one another, for example rotating around the longitudinal axis of the zipper, interfering with positioning of the wheels mounted on each cooperative portion. However, a flange forming a tenon is affixed to the planar member of one cooperative portion, and protrudes beyond the zipper to engage in a pocket forming a mortise in the other cooperative portion. The pocket is defined between the planar member of the other cooperative portion and portions of its soft shell and holds the bottom walls of the cooperative portions coplanar, thereby maintaining the correct positioning of the wheels notwithstanding the flexible closure of the zipper.
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Lenox Incorporated
Weaver Sue A.
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