Article-storing devices

• US 3,319,743 A
• Filed: 09/21/1965
• Issued: 05/16/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Joseph Pelavin, Julius Sheiman
• Original Assignee: Joseph Pelavin, Julius Sheiman
• Inventors: JOSEPH PELAVIN, JULIUS SHEIMAN
• Application Number:
  US04/488,855
• Time in Patent Office: 602 Days
• US Class Current: 190/120
• 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 13/103 Arrangement of zip-fasteners
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 190/903 Zipper
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/5053 Interengageable slide fastener type

Claims

1. AN ARTICLE-STORING DEVICE, SUCH AS A PIECE OF LUGGAGE, COMPRISING A CONTAINER MEMBER AND A LID MEMBER MOVABLE TO AND FROM A CLOSED POSITION CLOSING SAID CONTAINER MEMBER, A SLIDE FASTENER OPERATIVELY CONNECTED WITH SAID MEMBERS AND HAVING AN UNFASTENED POSITION RELEASING SAID LID MEMBER FOR MOVEMENT FROM ITS CLOSED POSITION AND A FASTENED POSITION AT LEAST PARTLY FASTENING SAID LID MEMBER IN SAID CLOSED POSITION THEREOF, SAID SLIDE FASTENER INCLUDING A SLIDER ELEMENT AND A PULL-TAB ELEMENT CONNECTED THERETO, RELEASABLE RETAINING MEANS OPERATIVELY CONNECTED WITH ONE OF SAID ELEMENTS OF SAID SLIDE FASTENER FOR RELEASABLY RETAINING SAID ONE ELEMENT IN THE LOCATION IT HAS WHEN SAID SLIDE FASTENER IS IN SAID FASTENED POSITION THEREOF, COVER MEANS MOVABLE TO AND FROM A POSITION COVERING SAID RELEASABLE RETAINING MEANS FOR PREVENTING ACCESS THERETO, AND RELEASABLE LOCK MEANS OPERATIVELY ENGAGING SAID COVER MEANS FOR RELEASABLY LOCKING THE LATTER IN SAID POSITION COVERING SAID RETAINING MEANS.