Pack having one-piece seamless bodyside liner
AssigneeExxel Outdoors, LLC
InventorErin E. Doubleday
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Abstract
A backpack which includes at least one panel defining an interior compartment adapted to store objects for transport in the backpack, wherein the at least one panel has a bodyfacing surface. The backpack further includes a pair of shoulder straps attached to the at least one panel for use in carrying the backpack on a user's back, each of the shoulder straps having another bodyfacing surface. A bodyside liner covers the bodyfacing surfaces of the at least one panel and the pair of shoulder straps. The bodyside liner is free from attachment to the at least one panel and the shoulder straps except along a peripheral edge of the bodyside liner, wherein the peripheral edge of the bodyside liner is attached to the at least one panel and the pair of the shoulder straps.
Claims20
A backpack comprising:
- at least one panel defining an interior compartment adapted to store objects for transport in the backpack, the at least one panel having a bodyfacing surface;
- a pair of shoulder straps attached to the at least one panel for use in carrying the backpack on a user's back, each of the shoulder straps having another bodyfacing surface;
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- a bodyside liner covering the bodyfacing surfaces of the at least one panel and the pair of shoulder straps, the bodyside liner being free from attachment to the at least one panel and the shoulder straps except along a peripheral edge of the bodyside liner such that the bodyside liner is free from one or more inboard seams, the peripheral edge of the bodyside liner being attached to the at least one panel and the pair of the shoulder straps.
A one-piece bodyside liner for a pack including a back panel, a first shoulder strap, and a second shoulder strap, the one-piece bodyside liner comprising:
- a body portion covering a bodyfacing surface of the pack, the body portion extending across at least the back panel, the first shoulder strap, and the second shoulder strap;
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- a peripheral edge portion circumscribing the body portion, the one-piece body liner coupled to the pack along at least a segment of the peripheral edge portion such that the body portion is free from attachment to the bodyfacing surface at one or more inboard seams.
A method of assembling a pack, the method comprising:
- coupling a first panel to a second panel to at least partially define an interior compartment adapted to store one or more objects for transport in the pack;
- coupling a plurality of shoulder straps to one or more of the first panel or the second panel, the plurality of shoulder straps including a first shoulder strap and a second shoulder strap;
- extending a single-piece bodyside liner across the pack such that an inboard portion of the single-piece bodyside liner substantially covers a bodyfacing panel surface of the first panel, a first bodyfacing strap surface of the first shoulder strap, and a second bodyfacing strap surface of the second shoulder strap;
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- coupling the single-piece bodyside liner to the pack along at least a segment of a peripheral edge portion of the single-piece bodyside liner circumscribing the inboard portion such that the inboard portion is free from attachment to the pack at one or more inboard seams to facilitate reducing a likelihood of skin irritation associated with use of the pack.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.