Patents by Inventor Don Ku

Wheeled suitcase of luggage support with collapsible towing handle

Patent number: 5291976

Abstract: A suitcase including a luggage member, a support structure attached to the luggage member, the support structure having a first horizontal member having two wheels thereon to facilitate towing on the ground, a second horizontal member, two tubular members coupling the first and second horizontal members, thereby forming a rectangular frame, a shaft in extensible slidable engagement in each of the tubular members, the shafts being connected by a first handle, the shafts being extensible between a collapsed position in the tubular members and a fully extended position to enable towing of the luggage member on the wheels, at least one of the shafts including a wedging member slidable within the respective tubular member which is received frictionally in a first bore provided at an end of the respective tubular member adjacent the second horizontal member to maintain the shafts in the fully extended position.

Type: Grant

Filed: March 4, 1993

Date of Patent: March 8, 1994

Assignee: Liberty Leather Products Co. Inc.

Inventor: Don Ku

Source: patents.justia.com

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