Hand held luggage scale case construction

• US 7,732,719 B1
• Filed: 02/12/2009
• Issued: 06/08/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/12/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Travel Caddy Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Travel Caddy Incorporated
• Inventors: Schantz, Brad L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Gibson; Randy W
• Application Number:
  US12/369,925
• Time in Patent Office: 481 Days
• Field of Search: 177/126, 177/131, 177/148, 177/149, 177/238, D10/87
• US Class Current: 177/126
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 19/18 having electrical weight-sensitive devices
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 19/58 combined with handles of suit-cases or trunks

Abstract

A hand held luggage scale case is comprised of a generally pentagonal pair of shells which fit compatibly together and include a storage chamber section for weight sensing elements as well as a tape measure. The case includes a recess channel molded into the shell to retain a weight measurement hook.

Claims

1. A hand held luggage scale comprising:

a case including a front side shell and a compatible back side shell,

an interior chamber formed by connecting the front side and back side shells;

a top side of the case, a bottom side of the case and a longitudinal medial axis between the top side and bottom side extending centrally relative to the front side and back side shells so that the shells are divided in half on either side of the medial axis with said case having a generally symmetrical configuration about the medial axis;

a weight support linkage passage in the bottom side located generally on the medial axis;

a link extending through the passage;

a hook connected to the link for supporting an item to be weighed;

a hand passage in the case adjacent the top side in the form of a generally rectangular opening in the case having a longer dimension transverse to the longitudinal axis;

a weight read out window in one of said side shells located on the axis substantially midway between the top side and bottom side; and

a hook recess channel in the other of the side shells extending from the bottom side, said hook recess channel being configured to receive and hold the hook in two different storage positions each extending up along the other side shell away from the bottom side of the case.

2. The hand held luggage scale of claim 1 wherein in the hook has an articulated connection at one end for attachment to the link depending from the weight support link passage, and further including a generally uniform diameter hook support rod with a uniform semicircular curved section compatible with the recess channel.

3. A hand held luggage scale case comprising:

an integrally molded case including a front side shell and a compatible back side shell, said shells joined to form a case including peripheral lateral side walls, said side walls congruent, said shells positioned to define an interior chamber with a top side of the case, a bottom side of the case and a longitudinal medial axis between the top side and bottom side, said case having a generally symmetrical configuration about the medial axis;

a weight support linkage passage in the bottom side located generally on the medial axis;

a hand passage in the case adjacent the top side in the form of a generally rectangular opening in the case having a longer dimension transverse to the longitudinal axis;

a weight read out window in one of said side shells located on the axis substantially midway between the top side and bottom side; and

a hook recess channel molded into the other of the side shells extending from the bottom side, said hook recess channel including a first channel section extending from the bottom side peripheral edge along the medial axis connected to diverging second and third arcuate channel sections, said diverging channel section intersecting on the medial axis and forming an arcuate curve in the range of about 160°

to 200°

, said diverging channel sections each constricted along at least a portion thereof to frictionally engage and retain an arcuate hook therein,

wherein the case is comprised of at least five smoothly connected lateral side walls generally in the form of a pentagon, including a generally flat top lateral side wall, two diverging lateral side walls extending from the top lateral side wall and two converging lateral side walls extending respectively from the diverging lateral side walls.

4. A hand held luggage scale case comprising:

an integrally molded case including a front side shell and a compatible back side shell, said shells joined to form a case including peripheral lateral side walls, said side walls congruent, said shells positioned to define an interior chamber with a top side of the case, a bottom side of the case and a longitudinal medial axis between the top side and bottom side, said case having a generally symmetrical configuration about the medial axis;

a weight support linkage passage in the bottom side located generally on the medial axis;

a hand passage in the case adjacent the top side in the form of a generally rectangular opening in the case having a longer dimension transverse to the longitudinal axis;

a weight read out window in one of said side shells located on the axis substantially midway between the top side and bottom side;

a hook recess channel molded into the other of the side shells extending from the bottom side, said hook recess channel including a first channel section extending from the bottom side peripheral edge along the medial axis connected to diverging second and third arcuate channel sections, said diverging channel section intersecting on the medial axis and forming an arcuate curve in the range of about 160°

to 200°

, said diverging channel sections each constricted along at least a portion thereof to frictionally engage and retain an arcuate hook therein; and

first and second detents in the said one of said side shells located respectively symmetrically on the opposite sides of the longitudinal axis and separated from one another by a control panel section, each of said detents configured for receipt of a thumb of an individual.

5. The ease-hand held luggage scale of claim 4 further including a first and a second recess section said sections symmetrically positioned on opposite sides of the longitudinal axis and adjacent the bottom side of the said one side of said shells and generally aligned with the first and second thumb detents respectively.

6. A hand held luggage scale case comprising:

an integrally molded case including a front side shell and a compatible back side shell, said shells joined to form an interior chamber, said case including a top side, a bottom side and a longitudinal medial axis between the top side and bottom side, said case having a generally symmetrical configuration about the medial axis;

a weight support linkage passage in the bottom side located on the medial axis;

a weight read out window in one of said side shells located on the axis substantially midway between the top side and bottom side; and

first and second detents in the said one of said side shells located respectively on the opposite sides of the longitudinal axis and separated from one another by a control panel section, each of said detents configured for receipt of a thumb of an individual.

7. The case of claim 6 further including a first and second recess section, said sections symmetrically positioned on opposite sides of the longitudinal axis and adjacent the bottom side of the said one side of said shells and generally aligned with the first and second thumb detents respectively, each of said sections configured for receipt of at least a portion of a palm of a person.

8. The case of claim 6 including a hand passage in the case adjacent the top side in the form of a generally rectangular opening in the case having a longer dimension transverse to the longitudinal axis.

9. The case of claim 6 including a hook recess channel molded into the other of the side shells, said hook recess extending from the bottom side, said hook recess channel including a first channel section extending from the bottom side peripheral edge, along the medial axis and connected to diverging second and third arcuate channel sections, said diverging channel section intersecting on the medial axis and forming an arcuate curve in the range of about 160°

to 200°

said diverging channel sections each constricted along at least a portion thereof to frictionally engage end and retain an arcuate hook therein.