US 9,004,117 B2 · Inflator

Abstract

An exemplary embodiment can be inflator having an integrated compressor and carry handle. The compressor can include a housing having a top surface contoured to form at least a first portion of a first container holder. The carry handle can he foldable between a first upright carry position and a second folded position wherein the carry handle lies flush with a top surface of the compressor housing. The carry handle can include an inner grasping area contoured to form at least a second portion of the first container holder when the carry handle is in the folded position and wherein the carry handle second portion of the first container holder is complementary to the compressor housing first portion of the first container holder.

Claims9

Dependent claims

An inflator comprising:

a compressor, the compressor including a housing, the housing having a top surface contoured to form at least a first portion of a first can or bottle holder;
and
an integrated carry handle, the carry handle foldable between a first upright carry position and a second folded position wherein the carry handle lies flush with a top surface of the compressor housing, the carry handle comprising an inner grasping area contoured to form at least a second portion of the first can or bottle holder when the carry handle is in the folded position and wherein the carry handle second portion of the first can or bottle holder is complementary to the compressor housing first portion of the first can or bottle holder.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

13/608,830Filed 10 Sep 2012 · us provisional application

Priority

31 Oct 2011

Published

US 2013/0105044 A12 May 2013

Granted

14 Apr 2015

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification15 codes

F04B 35/06
Piston pumps specially adapted for elastic fluids and characterised by the driving means to their working members, or by combination with, or…:…
B60C 29/00
Arrangements of tyre-inflating valves to tyres or rims
F04B 53/16
Component parts, details or accessories not provided for in, or of interest apart from, groups F04B1/00 - F04B23/00 or F04B39/00 - F04B47/00:…
F17C 2205/0111
Exterior arrangements: boxes

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Abstract

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