Luggage hasp

• US 20040237605A1
• Filed: 04/19/2004
• Published: 12/02/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: CHAW Khong Technology Company Limited
• Original Assignee: CHAW Khong Technology Company Limited
• Inventors: Lau, Boon Hwa, Lin, Jer Hong
• Application Number:
  US10/826,395
• Publication Number:
  US 20040237605A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 70/68
• CPC Class Codes: A44B 19/301 at the end of their upward travel with any suitable device, e.g. pull member combined with a press-button, a hook, a key-operated lock
• CPC Class Codes: A45C 13/18 Devices to prevent theft or loss of purses, luggage or hand carried bags
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 65/52 Other locks for chests, boxes, trunks, baskets, travelling bags, or the like
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/5053 Interengageable slide fastener type

Abstract

A luggage hasp is provided on luggage having two zippers. In a closed state, tabs of the zippers are put on protuberances, a trigger member is seated across a channel with an outer end thereof projected from the channel, a spring depressible bar disposed in the channel, a cavity ridden on a second rail, and an inner end thereof disposed in a well, a sliding board is disposed on a base with side lugs being aligned so that a padlock is operative to fasten the lugs. Unlocking the lugs and sliding the sliding board away from the base will slide a first rail along a groove, slide a second rail along a cavity, and compress a spring until a dent has reached a position below the cavity to push the trigger member outwardly to move an inner end thereof in the dent with the protuberances being exposed.

Claims

1. A hasp mounted on a piece of luggage having two zippers which are operative to open or close the piece of luggage, comprising:

a base including a four-sided flat having two spaced protuberances formed thereon, first, second, and third raised portions at three sides of the flat, a lengthwise groove on the first raised portion, a transverse channel having a reduced opening under the groove, and a hole-shaped first positioning member projected from a side portion of the first raised portion;

a sliding board including a four-sided top, an elongate bottom plate under the top by a predetermined distance, a hole-shaped second positioning member projected from a first side portion of the top, a lengthwise first rail disposed on a bottom of the top, a second rail disposed along one side of the bottom plate, the second rail parallel to the first rail, and a dent on the second rail;

a spring seat secured to the base and including a lengthwise receptacle on a bottom, a projecting rod at one end of the receptacle, and a well disposed adjacent one end thereof;

a spring assembly including a spring having one end fixed at the rod, and a moveable support fixed at another end of the spring and secured to the sliding board; and

a trigger member including a flange adjacent an outer end, a spring depressible bar, and a cavity on a bottom of the bar proximate an inner end,

wherein in a closed state of each of the hasp and the piece of luggage, one ends of tabs of the zippers are put on the protuberances, the trigger member is seated across the channel with an outer end thereof projected from the channel, the bar disposed in the channel, the flange spaced apart from a shoulder of the channel, the cavity ridden on the second rail, and an inner end thereof disposed in the well, the sliding board is disposed on the first and the second raised portions and above the flat with the first positioning member aligned with the second positioning member so that a padlock is operative to fasten the first and the second positioning members, whereby unlocking the first and the second positioning members and sliding the sliding board away from the third raised portion will slide the first rail along the groove, slide the second rail along the cavity, and compress the spring until the dent has reached a position below the cavity to push the trigger member outwardly to urge the flange against the shoulder of the channel and move the inner end of the trigger member in the dent with the protuberances being exposed due to an expansion of the spring depressible bar.

2. The hasp of claim 1, wherein the spring seat further comprises a top projection and the second raised portion further comprises a hole with the projection fitted therein.

3. The hasp of claim 1, wherein the sliding board further comprises a top indentation.

4. The hasp of claim 1, wherein the groove has an inverted T-shaped section and the first rail has an inverted T-shaped section.

5. The hasp of claim 1, wherein the first positioning member is a lug and the second positioning member comprises two parallel lugs.

6. The hasp of claim 1, wherein the first positioning member comprises two parallel lugs and the second positioning member is a lug.