Carrier system

• US 20110278339A1
• Filed: 05/16/2011
• Published: 11/17/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hexonia GmbH (NFM Group AS)
• Original Assignee: Hexonia GmbH (NFM Group AS)
• Inventors: Hexels, Gerd
• Application Number:
  US13/068,586
• Publication Number:
  US 20110278339A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 224/676
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 3/08 Carrying-frames; Frames combined with sacks
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 3/14 Carrying-straps; Pack-carrying harnesses
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 1/02 Armoured or projectile- or missile-resistant garments; Composite protection fabrics F41H5/04 takes precedence

Abstract

The invention relates to a carrier system having at least one back part and means for fastening to a human torso. The carrier system also has a hip belt which can be connected to the back part via at least one lateral support. It is provided that the back part comprises at least one substantially vertically running carrier strip, the carrier strip having coupling members for the coupling of a housing, in the interior of which are arranged electronic components, or of a frame for carrying loads. The housing has, on its end facing away from the back part, coupling members for the coupling of the frame for carrying loads. The housing and the frame are at least approximately matched in terms of height and width to the back part, and the housing and the frame are designed such that the housing and the frame can be coupled in each case directly to the coupling members. Furthermore, the frame can alternatively also be coupled to the coupling members of the housing. The lateral support can be connected to the carrier strip.

Claims

1. Carrier system having at least one back part and means for fastening to a human torso, and having a hip belt which can be connected to the back part via at least one lateral support, wherein

a) the back part comprises at least one carrier strip, the carrier strip having coupling members for the coupling of a housing, in the interior of which are arranged electronic components, or of a frame for carrying loads;

b) the housing has, on its end facing away from the back part, coupling members for the coupling of the frame for carrying loads;

c) the housing and the frame are at least approximately matched in terms of height and width to the back part, and the housing and the frame are designed such that the housing and the frame can be coupled in each case directly to the coupling members of the carrier strip and, furthermore, the frame can alternatively also be coupled to the coupling members of the housing; and

d) the lateral support can be connected to the carrier strip.

2. Carrier system according to claim 1,

wherein said coupling members are designed as pockets or receiving openings and the housing or the frame has projections, teeth or the like which engage in an at least approximately positively locking manner into the pockets or receiving openings.

3. Carrier system according to claim 2,

wherein the projections or teeth are bevelled or chamfered.

4. Carrier system according to claim 1,

wherein at least one side wall of the housing is composed of a first side part and a second side part.

5. Carrier system according to claim 4,

wherein the side wall has passage openings for plugs and the like, which passage openings are formed in each case by the assembly of the two side parts.

6. Carrier system according to claim 1,

wherein the housing or the frame can be locked to the back part or the frame can be locked to the housing by means of one or more locking elements, wherein a closure member of the locking element can be released by means of a remote release device.

7. Carrier system according to claim 1,

wherein the frame for carrying loads has receiving slots, wherein a packing vessel, preferably a rucksack, is provided with loops which can be inserted into the receiving slot, wherein an elongate fixing element can be passed through those ends of the loops which have been inserted into the receiving slots, whereby the loops, after the elongate fixing element has been passed through, can no longer be removed from the receiving slots, wherein the elongate fixing element has an operating part for pulling the fixing element out of the loops.

8. Carrier system according to claim 1,

wherein at least a part of the means for fastening to a human torso has fastening loops and the back part has receptacles provided with slots, it being possible for the fastening loops to be inserted into the receptacles, and an elongate fixing element being provided which can be passed through those ends of the fastening loops which have been inserted into the receptacles, and the slot, the fastening loops and the elongate fixing element being designed such that the fastening loops, after the elongate fixing element has been passed through, can no longer pass out through the slot, the elongate fixing element having an operating element for pulling the fixing element out of the fastening loops.

9. Carrier system according to claim 1,

wherein the means for fastening to a human torso have at least one fastening belt and two shoulder straps which run over a human shoulder.

10. Carrier system according to claim 9,

wherein the fastening belt, at least at one end facing towards the carrier strip, is releasably connected to the carrier strip by means of at least one fastening loop and the elongate fixing element.

11. Carrier system according to claim 10,

wherein the fastening belt, at least at an end facing towards the carrier strip, has a side part which can be releasably connected to the fastening belt and which has the at least one fastening loop for connecting to the carrier strip.

12. Carrier system according to claim 11,

wherein the fastening belt and the side part have in each case at least one row of loops and the row of loops of the fastening belt can be connected to the row of loops of the side part by means of a strip-shaped connecting element.

13. Carrier system according to claim 9,

wherein the back part comprises a back plate which extends substantially plane-parallel to a partial area of a human back, wherein receptacles are provided on the top end of the back plate in order to releasably fasten a shoulder strap, which is provided with at least one fastening loop, to the back plate by means of an elongate fixing element.

14. Carrier system according to claim 13,

wherein the shoulder strap has, at an end facing towards the back plate, a strap part which can be releasably connected to the shoulder strap and which has the at least one fastening loop for connecting to the back plate.

15. Carrier system according to claim 1,

wherein the lateral support can be attached to the carrier strip with continuously variable or grid-based vertical adjustability.

16. Carrier system according to claim 1,

wherein the lateral support is pivotably arranged on the back part and on the hip belt via in each case two axles.

17. Carrier system according to claim 1,

wherein the back part is connected, via the means for fastening to a human torso, to a front part.

18. Carrier system according to claim 1,

wherein the front part and/or the back part is of ballistic or projectile-inhibiting design.