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US 11,759,000 B2Granted
Backpack frame
AssigneeCabela's LLC
InventorsLucas Humphreys, Ryan Shutts, Laurence Robinson
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Abstract
A backpack includes an upper cross member having a first end and a second end, and a lower cross member offset vertically from the upper cross member and having a third end and a fourth end. The frame includes a first rail connected to the upper cross member at the first end and the lower cross member inwards of the third end, and a second rail fixed to the upper cross member inwards from the first end and the lower cross member at the third end.
Claims12
A backpack frame having a top end, a bottom end, a forward face for facing the wearer and a rearward face for mounting a backpack, comprising:
- first right and left rails on the right and left sides of the backpack frame, respectively, the upper ends of the first right and left rails adjacent the top of the backpack frame being spaced further apart than the lower ends of the first right and left rails adjacent the bottom of the backpack frame;
- second right and left rails on the right and left sides of the backpack frame, respectively, the upper ends of the second right and left rails adjacent the top of the backpack frame being spaced more closely than the lower ends of the second right and left rails adjacent the bottom of the backpack frame;
- a rigid upper cross member connecting the first right and left rails and the second right and left rails adjacent their respective upper ends;
- a rigid lower cross member connecting the first right and left rails and the second right and left rails adjacent their respective lower ends;
- the second right and left rails extending between the first right and left rails, with the upper ends of the second right and left rails positioned rearward of the upper ends of the first right and left rails, and the lower ends of the second right and left rails positioned forward of the upper ends of the first right and left rails, the width of the backpack frame being narrower intermediate the upper and lower cross member than at either the upper and lower cross members,
- wherein the first right and left rails and the second right and left rails are rigid and do not cross a vertical centerline of the backpack frame.
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