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US 4,318,505 AGranted
Disposable suitcase
OwnerCharles E. Cordell, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
A portable suitcase is provided conviently die cut from a single sheet of material such as corrugated fiberboard and preferably scored to be foldable in a tightly locked box configuration.
Claims4
A disposable suitcase comprising:
- (a) an elongated rectangular bottom panel;
- (b) first and second side panels extending from the longitudinal edges of said bottom panel;
- (c) said first side panel having a pair of slotted end panels extending therefrom and foldable orthogonally thereto and said second side panels having extended end flaps foldable generally orthogonally thereto and engageable in the respective slots in said end panels;
- (d) handgrip panels extending upward from the upper edges of said side panels and having hand holes therein such that when said end flaps are engaged in said slots, said handgrips can be brought together such that said holes align for carrying;
- (e) said end flaps having extended tongues reverse foldable in said slots to define a positive locking mode;
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- (f) said bottom panel defines end tabs foldable flush against said tongue when reverse-folded to hold in place whereby said slotted end panels and flaps freeing said handgrip panels from the burden of holding said side panels together.
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