Drawer type luggage
AssigneeThe Raymond Lee Organization, Inc.
InventorFrancis Z. Buchek
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Abstract
A portable carrying case fitted with a slidable drawer, with the front face of the drawer forming a first external side of the case in the closed drawer position and fitted on a second adjacent exterior side of the case with a retractable carrying handle that fits flush with the case side. A recess in the interior of the case extends to the second exterior case side and is closed by a tab slidably mounted in the said second case side. The top and bottom exterior case sides are fitted with matching detents and recesses so that one case may be stacked on top of a second similar case in a non-slidable, but removable, configuration to form a fixed cabinet.
Claims2
A portable carrying case which can be alternately employed as a file cabinet, comprising
- a drawer slidably mounted in a rectangular-shaped case body, with said case body formed with an interior recess extending from one open side of the case body, said drawer formed with a front wall that blocks the open side of the case body, in the closed position of the drawer in the case body, said drawer mounted to be slidable out of the open drawer of the case body,
- said drawer formed as an open box, the top of which drawer is open along a plane generally perpendicular to the said front wall of the drawer, with a through opening formed in a side wall of the drawer which side wall is generally mutually perpendicular to the plane of the said front wall and to the plane of the opening of the top of the drawer,
- said case body fitted with a retractable carrying handle mounted in an exterior recess in a wall of the case body, said handle fitting flush with, or below the external surface of the said case body wall in the retracted position of the handle, in which
- a through opening is formed in an exterior case body wall, which opening is oriented to be in alignment in the closed position of the drawer in the case body with the through opening in the side wall of the drawer, together with means to selectively close or open the said opening of the exterior case body wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.