Luggage

A luggage item (1) comprising a rigid, essentially rectangular box (3), the box comprising an essentially planar floor and two longer and two shorter sides, there being mounted on a major axis (20) of the floor a telescopic pulling member (17) equipped with a pulling handle (18), and the shorter side remote from the pulling handle, being provided with wheels (5), characterised in that

• (a) the pulling member is mounted externally on the floor by means of a pivot (8) and is configured to be moved through a fixed arc, the extremities of which arc are appropriate for sliding a luggage item on a staircase, the pulling member being lockable in a position coinciding with the major axis;
• (b) the luggage item comprises a secondary retaining means (11, 12) that prevents the pulling member being pulled out of the plane of the arc, in which the secondary retaining means comprises an arcuate slot (12) formed in the floor member, the slot being radial to the pivot, in which slot slides a pin attached to the pulling member and having a head portion wider than the slot on a side of a plate remote from the pulling member, so that the pulling member cannot be pulled away from the plane of the arc;
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• (c) the longer sides are provided with means (14) allowing sliding movement on a staircase.