초록

A flexible garment carrier containing accessory pockets capable of accepting clothing which is not pre-folded and then capable of being folded in a manner to form an article of luggage that will fit under an airline seat, or overhead aircraft compartment or be hung in a closet.

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A garment travel bag for holding clothes and accessories while hanging in a vertical fully extended open position and in a closed folded carrying and storage position comprising: a relatively large size main storage compartment means made of flexible foldable material for receiving relatively large

A garment travel bag for holding clothes and accessories while hanging in a vertical fully extended open position and in a closed folded carrying and storage position comprising: a relatively large size main storage compartment means made of flexible foldable material for receiving relatively large size clothes and having a generally rectangular peripheral configuration with a length and width of sufficient size to receive suit-type clothes and having a main flat outer side wall portion, an upper peripheral outer wall portion, a pair of spaced peripheral outer side wall portions and a bottom peripheral outer wall portion defining a main storage compartment; a relative large size main cover means made of flexible foldable material for covering and closing said main storage compartment means and being movable between an open position and a closed position relative to said main storage compartment means and having a peripheral size and shape generally corresponding to the size and shape of said main flat outer side wall portion of said main storage compartment means and having a bottommost connecting end portion fixedly associated with said main storage compartment means; a main compartment closure means mounted along said upper peripheral outer wall portion and said spaced peripheral outer side wall portions of said main storage compartment means and along the periphery of said main cover means for connecting and disconnecting said main cover means to said main storage compartment means in said closed position while enabling movement of said main cover means between said open position and said closed position; hanger means mounted along said upper peripheral outer wall portion for hanging the garment bag in the vertical fully extended open position; a relatively small size generally rectangular separate secondary storage compartment means mounted on said main storage compartment means in juxtaposition to said bottom peripheral outer wall portion for storing relatively small size items and having an upper peripheral wall portion extending in generally parallel upwardly spaced relationship to said bottom peripheral end wall portion of said main storage compartment means and a pair of peripheral side wall portions extending generally parallel to and coplanar with said peripheral side wall portions of said main storage compartment means and a bottom peripheral wall portion extending generally parallel to and coplanar with said bottom end wall portion of said main storage compartment means; a relatively small size cover means for covering said relatively small size storage compartment means and having a size and shape generally corresponding to the size and shape of said secondary storage compartment means and being movable between an open access position and a closed connecting position relative to said secondary relatively small size storage compartment means; a secondary compartment closure means for connecting said relatively small size cover means to said secondary storage compartment means; and a plurality of longitudinally spaced transverse parallel fold line means for enabling said garment bag to be folded into a rectangular box-like configuration in the folded carrying and storage position and having opposite outer wall portions formed by spaced portions of said main side wall portion of said main storage compartment means, a bottom wall portion formed by an intermediate portion of said main side wall portion of said main storage compartment means, and an upper wall portion formed by said bottom wall portions of said main compartment means and said secondary compartment means and an intermediate portion of said main side wall portion of main compartment means with said upper peripheral outer wall portion of said main compartment means facing downwardly and being centrally located between said upper, lower and side wall surfaces of said box-like configuration; holding means for holding the garment bag in the folded carrying and storage position; and handle-type carrying means for carrying said garment bag by hand in the folded carrying and storage position and being fixed to said main storage compartment means and being positioned and located along said upper surface in the folded carrying and storage position.