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US 7,703,588 B2Granted
Wheel assembly of luggage
AssigneeC & C Luggage Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
InventorHsi-Wu Chiang
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Abstract
The present invention relates a wheel assembly of a luggage, which has two wheels side by side and the control assembly. The control assembly has a switch device for manipulation to brake the wheels. The control assembly has a fixed position to be manipulative by user easily. The wheels have small widths that makes the luggage may run on a carpet without having to draw the luggage with great strength.
Claims10
A wheel assembly of a luggage, which is mounted on an object, comprising:
- a wheel base, which is pivoted on the object along a vertical direction, having a through bore along the vertical direction and a transverse axial bore through opposite sides of the wheel base and deviating the vertical direction;
- a left wheel, which is pivoted on the wheel base, having a concave portion on a side, in which an inner annular wall having a plurality of slots is formed;
- a right wheel, which is pivoted on the wheel base beside the left wheel, having a concave portion, in which an inner annular wall having a plurality of slots is formed, on a side facing the side of the left wheel having the concave portion;
- an axle inserted through the axial bore of the wheel base and connecting the left wheel and the right wheel respectively;
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- a control assembly, which includes a switch device pivotally arranged above the wheel base, an axial shaft inserted through the through bore of the wheel base and moved by the switch device for a movement along the vertical direction, and a brake device having an end connected to a bottom end of the axial shaft and an opposite end with a transverse stop piece having opposite ends engaged with the slots of the left wheel and the right wheel when the axial shaft is moved upwards.
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