LOCKABLE CARRYING BAG STRAP BUCKLE

• US 20130299540A1
• Filed: 01/25/2012
• Published: 11/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Meir Avganim
• Original Assignee: Meir Avganim
• Inventors: Avganim, Meir
• Application Number:
  US13/980,237
• Publication Number:
  US 20130299540A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 224/600
• CPC Class Codes: A45C 13/103 Arrangement of zip-fasteners
• CPC Class Codes: A45C 13/18 Devices to prevent theft or loss of purses, luggage or hand carried bags
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 3/14 Carrying-straps; Pack-carrying harnesses
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 65/52 Other locks for chests, boxes, trunks, baskets, travelling bags, or the like
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 73/0005 using chains, cables or the like chain- or cable-locks of the padlock type E05B67/003; lockable clothing hangers or hanger racks E05B69/006

Abstract

A carrying bag with a shoulder-strap and a zipper with at least one zipper-rider for closing/opening the bag, the shoulder-strap being provided with a carabiner-type buckle comprising a hook portion, gate-pin, and an enlongated slot located adjacent the gate-pin, the elongated slot being configured to receive a lock tip of a lock which, when inserted inside the elongated slot, prevents actuation of the gate-pin and opening of the hook portion.

Claims

1. A carrying bag with a shoulder-strap and a zipper with at least one zipper-rider for closing/opening the bag, the shoulder-strap being provided with a carabiner-type buckle comprising a hook portion, gate-pin, and an enlongated slot located adjacent the gate-pin, the elongated slot being configured to receive a lock tip of a lock which, when inserted inside the elongated slot, prevents actuation of the gate-pin and opening of the hook portion.

2. The carrying bag of claim 1, further including a lock comprising said lock tip.

3. The carrying bag of claim 2, wherein the lock tip comprises a T-shaped tip rotatable between locked and unlocked positions.

4. The carrying bag of claim 3, wherein the lock tip is rotatable by a key.

5. The carrying bag of claim 1, wherein said T-shaped tip is lockable by a combination lock.

6. The carrying bag of claim 1, wherein the shoulder strap is fixed and unopenably secured at one end thereof to a body portion of said carrying bag.

7. The carrying bag of claim 1, wherein the shoulder strap can be wound around an immovable object and locked by means of said lock so that it is tethered to the immovable object.

8. The carrying bag of claim 1, wherein said elongated slot measures about 3×

7 mm.

9. The carrying bag of claim 2, including a stretch of cable connected to a body of said lock at one end and to the carrying bag at the other end to always keep the lock within reach.

10. The carrying bag of claim 1, wherein the strap is reinforced by at least one steel cable.

11. The carrying bag of claim 1, wherein said zipper rider is configured to be locked by said buckle in a closed position of said zipper.

12. The carrying bag of claim 2, wherein said bag is configured to enable said zipper to be locked by said buckle and said bag to be securely tethered to an immovable object by said strap.