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US 5,667,172 AGranted
Garment bag
AssigneeInno Design, Inc.
InventorYoung S. Kim
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Abstract
Disclosed herein in a garment bag which folds from a fully folded configuration to a tote configuration and an open configuration. The garment bag has wheels, a lifting mechanism, a linkage assembly, and an actuator. The lifting mechanism includes a shoulder strap. The shoulder strap can pull on the linkage assembly to fold the garment bag from the tote configuration to the fully folded configuration. The wheels facilitate transport of the garment bag when the garment bag is in the tote configuration. The garment bag automatically locks in the fully folded configuration to facilitate carrying of and storage of the garment bag. The actuator is engageable to automatically release the garment bag from the fully folded configuration to the tote configuration.
Claims13
A garment bag, comprising:
- a garment bag being foldable between a tote configuration and a fully folded configuration;
- a lifting mechanism moveably attached to the garment bag, the lifting mechanism being capable of lifting the garment bag and folding the garment bag from the tote configuration to the fully folded configuration;
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- a linkage assembly having one end attached to the lifting mechanism and another end attached to the garment bag, wherein the linkage assembly includes a sliding member, a cable and a spring, the cable attaches the sliding member to the lifting mechanism, the spring attaches the sliding member to the garment bag to bias the garment bag in the tote configuration
- whereby, when the lifting mechanism lifts the garment bag, one end of the lifting mechanism actuates the linkage assembly to fold the garment bag from the tote configuration into the fully folded configuration.
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A garment bag, comprising:
- a garment bag being foldable between a tote configuration and a fully folded configuration;
- a lifting mechanism moveably attached to the garment bag, the lifting mechanism being capable of lifting the garment bag and folding the garment bag from the tote configuration to the fully folded configuration;
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- a linkage assembly having one end attached to the lifting mechanism and another end attached to the garment bag a lock mechanism for selectively actuating the linkage assembly wherein the lock mechanism includes an actuator, a lock cable and a spring biased pawl latch, the pawl latch is engageable with the linkage assembly, the actuator is selectively actuatable to selectively actuate the pawl latch to release the garment bag from the fully folded configuration to the tote configuration.
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A garment bag, comprising:
- a garment bag being foldable between a tote configuration and a fully folded configuration;
- a lifting mechanism moveably attached to the garment bag, the lifting mechanism being capable of lifting the garment bag and folding the garment bag from the tote configuration to the fully folded configuration;
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- a linkage assembly having one end attached to the lifting mechanism and another end attached to the garment bag, wherein the linkage assembly includes a sliding member, a rotatable member, a transverse member having two ends and a middle portion, and a release, the sliding member attaches to one end of the transverse member, the rotatable member attaches to the middle portion of the transverse member, the release attaches to the other end of the transverse member, whereby when the lifting mechanism lifts the garment bag, one end of the lifting mechanism actuates the linkage assembly to fold the garment bag from the tote configuration into the fully folded configuration.
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A garment bag, comprising:
- a garment bag being foldable between a tote configuration and a fully folded configuration;
- a lifting mechanism moveably attached to the garment bag, the lifting mechanism being capable of lifting the garment bag and folding the garment bag from the tote configuration to the fully folded configuration;
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- a linkage assembly having one end attached to the lifting mechanism and another end attached to the garment bag, the linkage assembly includes a release, the release is manually actuatable and includes a pin and a tab, the garment bag defines a connector, the pin removeably pokes into the connector of the garment bag, the tab selectively locks the pin with the connector,
- the tab is manually moveable to unlock the pin, the pin being configured to selectively withdraw from the connector, the linkage assembly is foldable, whereby, when the pin withdraws from the connector the linkage assembly folds, whereby when the lifting mechanism lifts the garment bag, one end of the lifting mechanism actuates the linkage assembly to fold the garment bag from the tote configuration into the fully folded configuration.
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A foldable garment bag capable of assuming a tote configuration, comprising:
- a garment bag being foldable between a tote configuration and a fully folded configuration;
- a lifting mechanism moveably attached to the garment bag for lifting the garment bag and folding the garment bag from the tote configuration to the fully folded configuration;
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- a linkage assembly including a sliding member, a rotatable member, a transverse member having two ends and a middle portion, and a release, the sliding member attaches to one end of the transverse member, the rotatable member attaches to the middle portion of the transverse member, the release attaches to the other end of the transverse member, the sliding member being attached to the lifting mechanism, the transverse member, the rotatable member and the release being attached to the luggage cart,
- whereby, when the lifting mechanism lifts the garment bag, one end of the lifting mechanism actuates the linkage assembly to fold the garment bag from the tote configuration into the fully folded configuration.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.