US 4,901,897 AGranted

Convertible garment bag with alternate carrying means

OwnerMarcia Briggs, Roulette W. Smithinventors

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Abstract

A convertible garment bag is fabricated with alternate carrying means to permit the bag to be transported by the luggage handle, a shoulder strap or a backpack harness, thereby enabling a traveler to include in a single bag both formal wear and casual wear for all occasions, and, allowing the traveler the option of carrying the bag as conventional travel luggage or as a mountaineering pack. The garment bag is constructed in the form of an elongated casing with a hook at one end to hand the casing and contained garments for temporary storage with minimal wrinkling of the contained garments. The casing has a perimeter closure device to enable the casing to fold into multiple segments that interfasten to form a unitary compact pack for convenient transport by one of the alternate carrying means.

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Dependent claims

A convertible garment bag comprising:

a. an elongated garment casing with a backside and a frontside with opening and closure means on the front side for inserting clothes in the garment casing, said casing having means for suspending garments on conventional hangers within the casing;
b. a perimeter closure means for converting said elongated garment casing into a compact unitary pack, wherein the garment casing is folded into at least two segments with three juxtaposed open perimeter edges and a folded edge, said closure means comprising a perimeter zipper for securing said open edges together continuously along the three perimeter edges wherein a unitary closed pack is formed;
c. a back pack harness connected to the backside of the casing on one of said folded segments of said unitary pack, said harness being arranged for carrying said pack when said garment bag is converted into a pack.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.