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US 5,564,538 AGranted
Wheeled carry-on case
AssigneeOutrigger, Inc.
InventorBernard D. Sadow
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Abstract
A wheeled carry-on case has a rigid base and a guide extending perpendicular to said base in which a retractable handle is slidably received, the base having wheels positioned along the major dimension of the base at one edge thereof, and having wheels positioned at spaced positions along at least one of the minor dimensions of the base, thus permitting the case to be wheeled over a ground surface in a direction perpendicular to a front and rear of the case, and also, in a direction extending parallel to the front and rear wall of the case.
Claims8
A wheeled case, including:
- a substantially rectangular and substantially rigid base member having side edges comprising a major dimension of said base member, and having other side edges comprising a minor dimension of said base member;
- wheels journaled on said base member at spaced positions along said major dimension of said base member at one side edge thereof, and wheels journaled on said base member at spaced positions along both said side edges comprising said minor dimension of said base member, whereby said wheeled case may be moved in first and second directions perpendicular to said major dimension of said base member and in third and fourth directions perpendicular to said minor dimension of said base member;
- a guide extending perpendicular to said base member;
- a retractable handle slidably received within said guide;
- side walls of said case respectively connected to said base member and to each other to provide a continuous side wall of said case;
- means rigidly securing said guide to said base member, said means being rigidly connected to each of said side walls;
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- closure panels connected to said base and connectable to said side walls, said closure panels providing a front and a rear wall of said case.
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