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There is disclosed a strong, light-weight, rigid molded, plastic luggage provided with wheels and a retractable handle. The luggage ensemble utilizes the shape of respective individual pieces of the luggage and retention means to hold them in assembled relationship and utilization of the retractable

There is disclosed a strong, light-weight, rigid molded, plastic luggage provided with wheels and a retractable handle. The luggage ensemble utilizes the shape of respective individual pieces of the luggage and retention means to hold them in assembled relationship and utilization of the retractable handle and the wheels facilitate transportation of the relatively large load formed by the ensemble by an individual. The process for making the luggage, due to the unique structural design of its elements and the materials from which they are made, comprises unique, yet simple, molding and manufacturing steps which allow for facile assembly of a wide variety of luggage parts to form the completed product.

대표청구항 ▼

A process for making a light-weight, strong, molded, rigid plastic luggage comprising the steps of: molding foamed or unfoamed plastic and forming a first molded one-piece plastic section and a second molded one-piece plastic section adapted to cooperate with each other, each of said sections includ

A process for making a light-weight, strong, molded, rigid plastic luggage comprising the steps of: molding foamed or unfoamed plastic and forming a first molded one-piece plastic section and a second molded one-piece plastic section adapted to cooperate with each other, each of said sections including a side panel, four integrally molded, sloping walls having sloping curved corners and angled edges projecting upwardly from and enclosing said side panel, integrally molded support means disposed on the side panel of at least one of said sections extending up said walls towards said angled edges substantially midway between the ends of said walls, integrally molded butt hinge means and a reinforcing rib disposed on the periphery of one of said walls and a plurality of shaped recesses for receiving the cooperating halves of locks or catches disposed on the wall directly opposite, the wall provided with the butt hinge means of at least one of said sections also being provided with at least two integrally molded feet located in the vicinity of the ends of and opposite said butt hinge means; three of the walls of said second section being provided with a pair of peripheral parallel ribs forming an offset groove extending continuously around and near the periphery thereof and three of the walls of said first section being provided with an offset tongue including a supporting rib which extends continuously around and near the periphery thereof, the butt hinge means on said first and second sections being positioned thereon so that they interleave with each other and form a continuous passageway for reception of a hinge pin, said offset tongue and said offset groove being positioned on the respective sections so that they mate and said shaped recesses being positioned on the respective sections so that they are located across from each other when said sections are assembled in cooperative relationship, placing said sections on a jig and forming openings therein for the reception of metallic hardware, attaching said hardware to said sections, disposing said sections in cooperative relationship and inserting said hinge pin in said passageway formed from the interleaving of the first and second butt hinge means.