Theft protectable carrying bag in particular for portable computers

• US 8,910,679 B2
• Filed: 03/10/2010
• Issued: 12/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meir Avganim
• Original Assignee: Meir Avganim
• Inventors: Avganim, Meir
• Primary Examiner(s): Mathew, Fenn
• Assistant Examiner(s): COLLADO, CYNTHIA FRANCISCA
• Application Number:
  US13/262,952
• Publication Number:
  US 20120125494A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,742 Days
• Field of Search: 150/101, 150/100, 150/110, 383/64, 383/109, 243/81
• US Class Current: 150/101
• 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: A45C 13/18 Devices to prevent theft or loss of purses, luggage or hand carried bags
• CPC Class Codes: A45C 13/20 Chains or bands A45C13/185 takes precedence
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 73/0082 for office machines, e.g. PC's, portable computers, typewriters, calculators
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/25 Zipper or required component thereof
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/5049 Attache or briefcase, portfolio
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/5053 Interengageable slide fastener type

Abstract

A carrying bag (10) with a shoulder-strap (22) and a zipper (14) with zipper-rider (16) for closing/opening the bag. The shoulder-strap (22) is provided with a loop (24) at one end and a key-operated locking device (26) at the other end thereof. Means (36) are provided for fastening the loop (24) to an inside wall of the bag. Means (48) are provided for securing the zipper-rider (16) by the locking device (26) to an outside wall of the bag (10) for preventing the un-zipping of the bag.

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 has a loop at one end and a permanently attached, key-operated locking device at the other end thereof, a latch ring inside the carrying bag for holding, in a manually releasable manner, the loop of the shoulder strap to an inside wall of the bag, and a wire with a loop configured for securing said at-least one zipper-rider by said locking device to an outside wall of the bag for preventing the un-zipping of the bag, the shoulder strap being manually releasable at both ends thereof from the bag for use separately from the bag.

2. The bag of claim 1 wherein the locking device comprises a T-shaped tip rotatable by a key between locked and unlocked positions, and further including a rigid, plate-like member, having a slot through which the said tip is configured to be passed and rotated into the locked position.

3. The bag of claim 2 wherein the shoulder-strap is strengthened against cutting by a cutting tool.

4. The bag of claim 3 wherein the shoulder-strap is strengthened by durable fibers woven to the material of the strap.

5. The bag of claim 3 wherein the shoulder-strap comprises a sheath and a steel cable passed therethrough.

6. The bag of claim 3 wherein the shoulder-strap is passed through an eyelet installed at a top-wall of the bag, inside the bag.

7. The bag of claim 2 wherein the wire with the loop is connected to the rider and adapted to be tied by said locking device to the plate-like member.

8. The bag of claim 2 wherein the T-shaped tip is configured to be locked against a designated slot of commercially available portable computers.