Package carrier

• US 3,301,448 A
• Filed: 11/03/1964
• Issued: 01/31/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Yoshito Inoue
• Original Assignee: Yoshito Inoue
• Inventors: YOSHITO INOUE
• Application Number:
  US04/408,539
• Time in Patent Office: 819 Days
• US Class Current: 224/431
• CPC Class Codes: B62J 7/04 arranged above or behind the rear wheel
• CPC Class Codes: B62J 7/08 Equipment for securing luggage on carriers
• CPC Class Codes: B62J 9/23 above or alongside the rear wheel B62J9/26 takes precedence

Claims

1. THE COMBINATION INCLUDING, A BASKET HAVING A PAIR OF CARRYING HANDLES PIVOTALLY CONNECTED TO THE TOP THEREOF, EACH OF SAID HANDLES INCLUDING A PAIR OF LEGS EACH OF WHICH EXTENDS TO A DISTANCE GREATER THAN ONE-HALF THE WIDTH OF THE BASKET, HOLD-DOWN MEANS INTERMEDIATELY DISPOSED ON ONE PAIR OF SAID LEGS, SAID HANDLES ADAPTED TO BE PIVOTED ALTERNATELY FROM A RAISED CARRYING POSITION TO A LOWERED SUBSTANTIALLY HORIZONTAL POSITION SPANNING THE TOP OF THE BASKET WITH ONE OF SAID HANDLES INTERLOCKING WITH THE OTHER OF SAID HANDLES TO ENGAGE SAID HOLD-DOWN MEANS;

AND A FRAME INCLUDING A BASE RAIL ADAPTED TO ENGAGE AND SUPPORT THE BOTTOM OF SAID BASKET, SAID BASKET HAVING MANIPULABLE LOCKING MEANS ON THE BOTTOM THEREOF RELEASABLY ENGAGEABLE WITH SAID BASE RAIL TO ATTACH THE BASKET TO SAID FRAME.