US 4,842,289 AGranted

Portable ski locker

OwnerG. Kevin Samuelsinventor

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Abstract

A mobile ski locker comprises an enclosed cabinet, The cabinet having a frame with interconnected vertical and horizontal members and panels carried thereon, all of the panels except the front panel being fixed in position, the front panel including a hinge to form a door for the cabinet, the door being securable in a closed position by a combination lock and a key-operated lock, skis and ski poles being selectively secured to the rear panel of the cabinet by clamps having locks which are operable by the same key as that which opens the key operable lock on the door of the cabinet, the cabinet having an upper compartment and a lower compartment for wet items, the floor of the compartment being perforated to promote water drainage, the cabinet being made mobile over wet, dry or snow-covered surfaces by reason of the combination of wheels and runners secured to the cabinet at its lower rear edge, a collapsible handle being provided for easy movement of the locker.

Claims4

Dependent claims

A portable ski locker device, including:

a container having intercoupled front, back and side vertical panels and top and bottom horizontal panels;
opposed front and back vertical frame members joined to each other by opposed, horizontal top and bottom frame members for supporting said vertical panels and horizontal panels, respectively;
said front vertical panel having a door portion and a fixed portion, said door portion being rotatably supported from said fixed portion to permit opening of said container;
first locking means supported in said door portion and rotatable therewith;
second locking means supported in said fixed portion of said front panel and positioned for cooperation with said first locking means when said door portion is in a closed position;
ski-retaining means carried by the outer surface of said back panel of said container, said ski-retaining means including at-least-one hinged member for encompassing skis transversely, said at-least-one hinged member including third locking means for selectively securing skis therein;
a support flange welded to said back vertical frame members in alignment with said hinged members;
gusset means removably secured to said support flange;
said gusset means terminating at their ends remote from said support flange, in runner members, said runner members being oriented at an angle to said vertical frame members;
said bottom panel member being perforated.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.