Patent ID: 6354412
Filing Date: 2002-03-12
Classification: A45C

Abstract:
A wheel bracket for wheeled luggage having a longitudinally extending front plate, a bottom plate, a side plate perpendicular to one another and forming an arcuate-shaped portion in said front and bottom plates, and a wheel housing shaped to receive a wheel, the improvement comprising:a convex top portion of the wheel housing situated above the bottom plate; said longitudinally extending front plate including a hither portion and a lower portion, a front and a back; a raised portion extending from said higher portion to said lower portion on said front of the front plate; and, a first plurality of recesses and a plurality of longitudinal and transverse rib members formed on said back of the front plate in which one of the first plurality of recesses abutting a highest point of the convex top portion; wherein said raised portion on said front of the front plate includes a second concave recess having a depth generally equal to that of the convex top portion, and said second recess having approximately the same depth in longitudinal cross section as the height of said raised portion of the front plate.