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US 4,228,877 AGranted
Wheeled suitcase with extendable handle means
OwnerWalter G. Cotharyinventor
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Abstract
A suitcase having retractable rolling means at the bottom is provided with a generally U-shaped handle means which is slidably received within generally triangular sleeves secured on the interior of said suitcase. The U-shaped handle may be extended when the suitcase is being wheeled along the ground. The handle means further includes collapsible legs to support the suitcase in a stationary position off the ground when said handle means is extended and said wheels are in operative position.
Claims18
A traveling suitcase comprising a top section and a bottom section,
- said bottom section having upstanding opposed front and rear walls, and first and second opposed side walls, all normally intersecting at their extremities and a base perpendicular to each of said walls, thus defining a box,
- a pair of spaced apart openings in the first of said side walls, each communicating with one of a pair of elongated laterally spaced apart handle receiving compartments, both of which compartments are disposed along the interior surface of one each of said front and rear walls, respectively,
- at least one wheel receiving compartment disposed along the interior surface of the second of said walls with access thereto being from the exterior of said second side wall,
- a pair of openings in said second side wall one of which communicates with each wheel receiving compartment,
- a wheelplate assembly comprising a plate having at least one wheel bracket mounted thereon, with at least one wheel rotatably mounted in said bracket, the number of brackets corresponding to the number of wheel receiving compartments, said plate being hingedly secured to said bottom section, and releasably orientable from a storage position to an operative position, said wheels and brackets being adapted to fit into said wheel receiving compartments, when said plate is in the storage position and,
- an extendable handle member having a pair of interconnected arms each extendably secured within a respective handle receiving compartment, an extendable support member having a pair of parallel extendable legs each extendably secured within a respective handle receiving compartment, each leg being pivotally connected to one of said arms at the extremity of each arm and leg, said legs adapted to pivot upon extension with said arms to a generally normal position to said arms, from the connection at the extremity of each of said legs with each of said arms.
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A traveling suitcase comprising a top section and a bottom section,
- said bottom section having upstanding opposed front and rear walls, and first and second opposed side walls, all normally intersecting at their extremities and a base perpendicular to each of said walls, thus defining a box
- a pair of spaced apart openings in the first of said side walls, each communicating with one of a pair of elongated laterally spaced apart handle receiving compartments, one of which compartments is disposed along the interior surface of each of said front and rear walls,
- two wheel receiving compartments disposed along the interior surface of the second of said walls with access thereto being from the exterior of said second side wall,
- a pair of openings in said second side wall one of which communicates with each of said wheel receiving compartments,
- a wheelplate assembly comprising a plate having two wheel brackets mounted thereon, with one wheel rotatably mounted in each bracket, said plate being hingedly secured to said bottom section, and releasably orientable from a storage position to an operative position, each wheel and bracket being adapted to fit respectively into its own wheel receiving compartment when said plate is in the storage position, and a pair of extendable arms forming a handle member and each extendably secured one per compartment within said handle receiving compartments.
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A traveling suitcase comprising a top section and a bottom section, said bottom section having upstanding opposed front and rear walls, and first and second opposed side walls, all normally intersecting and a base perpendicular to all of said walls, defining a storage area,
- a pair of spaced openings in one of said side walls, one each near the junction of said side wall with said front and rear walls, each opening communicating with a compartment within said storage area,
- an extendable U-shaped handle slidably disposed in said openings into the compartments,
- means mounted within said storage area on said handle to prevent overextension thereof,
- a generally U-shaped leg stand pivotably secured to said handle and extendable therewith from said storage area, and a releasably securable hinged wheelplate assembly disposed parallel to the exterior surface of said second side wall in a storage position and orientable therefrom to an operative position parallel to said base.
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