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US 9,101,187 B2Granted
Portable organizer for use with luggage
AssigneePatent Category Corp.
InventorYu Zheng
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Abstract
A travel case assembly has a travel case having a plurality of walls defining an enclosed storage space, and an organizer positioned inside the storage space. The organizer includes an enclosing netted fabric wall and netted fabric shelves that define at least one storage compartment, and a collapsible support system supporting and defining the netted fabric wall and netted fabric shelves so that (i) the compartments can be expanded when the shelves are separated from each other, and (ii) the shelves can be stacked into a compressed position.
Claims10
A travel case assembly, comprising:
- a travel case having a plurality of walls defining an enclosed storage space;
- an organizer positioned inside the storage space, the organizer comprising:
- an enclosing netted fabric wall and a plurality of netted fabric shelves that define at least two storage compartments;
- and
- a collapsible support system supporting and defining the netted fabric wall and netted fabric shelves so that (i) the compartments can be expanded when the shelves are separated from each other, and (ii) the shelves can be stacked into a compressed position, wherein the collapsible support system includes:
- a plurality of connector sections, each connector section positioned at the netted fabric wall at the location of a shelf, each connector section having an elongated opening;
- and
- a plurality of pivoting X-bars, each X-bar having an end that has a pin that has enlarged ends at opposite ends of the pin, with one of enlarged ends being free and adapted to be moved within the elongated opening of a corresponding connector section to allow the pivoting X-bars to be pivoted so that the shelves can be moved towards and away from each other, and wherein each elongated opening of each connector section has a plurality of slots, with the free end of the pin lodged into a selected slot to secure the pin in the chosen position.
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