Patent ID: 9327174
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: A63B,B62B,Y10S

Claim Text:
1. A sports equipment bag assembly comprising: (a) a bag; (b) an integral transportation system attached to the bag, the integral transportation system including a housing and a member slidingly connected to the housing, plurality of wheels operably connected to the sliding housing via a plurality of wheel legs, the wheels being deployable and retractable between a retracted state and a deployed state; (c) a handle that is movable between upper position and lower positions, said handle being operably connected to the plurality of deployable wheels and wheel legs; (d) wherein movement of the handle from the upper to the lower position deploys the plurality of wheels from the retracted state to the deployed state; (e) wherein movement of the handle from the lower to the upper position retracts the wheels from the deployed state to the retracted state; (f) during deployment at least one wheel is required to move through a first type of movement and at least one other wheel is required to move through a second type of movement, the first type of movement being different from the second type of movement; (g) multiple links that join the wheel legs and the handle to the sliding member; and (h) said links including a first link connecting between the handle and the sliding member and second and third links each connecting between the sliding member and one of the wheel legs.