Sports equipment bag
OwnerJohn Souzainventor
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Abstract
A portable enclosure for storing and carrying baseball and other athletic equipment consists of six fabric-covered rigid panels which can be closed by means of a single continuous zipper to form a rigid rectangular parallelepiped that can be carted easily by means of wheels located at a lower edge. When the portable enclosure is unzipped into the open position, the back wall and side walls open up flat so that the pockets, shelves and pouches located on the interior surfaces thereof are accessible. Yet, since the portable enclosure is now flat, it can be located out of the way, secured against the back of the dugout where it will not create a trip hazard for the players.
Claims19
A portable enclosure for storing and carrying athletic equipment comprising:
- six walls secured together along a plurality of flexible hinges, said six walls capable of being moved between a closed position forming a closed interior volume bounded by the interior surfaces of said six walls and an open position permitting access to plural of said interior surfaces of said six walls, at least four of said six walls comprising substantially rigid rectangular panels and at least five of said six walls having at least one free edge when said portable enclosure is in said open position;
- said six walls comprising a top wall, a back wall, a first side wall, a second side wall, a front wall and a bottom wall,
- said first side wall being hingedly attached to said back wall,
- said front wall being hingedly attached to one of said first side wall, and said top wall,
- said top wall being hingedly secured to one of said back wall, said first side wall and said second side wall, and
- said bottom wall being hingedly attached to one of said first side wall, said second side wall, said back wall and said top wall;
- means for securing said six walls in said closed position;
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- means for suspending said six walls from a supporting surface in said open position.
A portable enclosure for storing and carrying athletic equipment comprising:
- six panels substantially rectangular in shape, each having an interior surface and an exterior surface;
- five flexible hinge members, each of said five flexible hinge members joining one of said six panels to another of said six panels along a common edge, the remaining fourteen edges of said six panels being free to move about said flexible hinge members such that said six panels are moveable into a closed position in which each of the fourteen free edges abuts another of said fourteen free edges to form a single continuous seam and the exterior surfaces of said six panels form a substantially rectangular parallelepiped having a closed interior volume formed by the interior surfaces of said six panels, said six panels further also being moveable about said flexible hinge members into an open position in which the exterior surfaces of at least four of said six panels are substantially coplanar and the interior surfaces of all of said six panels are accessible,
- means for releasably closing said single continuous seam;
- a plurality of pockets disposed on at least one of said inside surfaces of said six panels,
- a plurality of rigid shelves hingedly attached along a fixed edge to one of said six panels plural of said plurality of rigid shelves;
- a plurality of flexible side supports attached between said plurality of rigid shelves and said one of said six panels for supporting said plurality of rigid shelves in a substantially horizontal orientation when said portable enclosure is in said open position;
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- hanging means for suspending said portable enclosure in said open position from a supporting surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.