Patent ID: 6672495
Filing Date: 2004-01-06
Classification: A01B,A45F,A63C,Y10S

Abstract:
A bifurcated carrier pack for electively transporting recreational equipment in a back-mounted position or in a hip-mounted position, the bifurcated carrier pack comprising:at least one left storage compartment and at least one right storage compartment, each storage compartment having means for opening and closing the storage compartment, a contact surface, a superficial surface, a superior end, a medial edge, a lateral edge, and an inferior end, the superior ends having superior fastening means for releasable attachment to one another, the superior ends further comprising inferior fastening means for releasable attachment to a left shoulder strap and a right shoulder strap when the user elects a hip-mounted position, the inferior ends having means for pivotal attachment to an abdominal encircling belt, the storage compartments being designed for posterior thoracic placement when the user elects a back-mounted position, the medial edges of the storage compartments being positioned in snug adjacency to each other in superficial adjacency to the medial line of a human back when in a back-mounted position; the left shoulder strap and the right shoulder strap each having a posterior end, an anterior end, an inner strap surface, and an exterior strap surface, the posterior ends being pivotally attached adjacent the superior ends, the anterior ends having fastening means for releasable attachment to the inferior fastening means when the user elects a hip-mounted position; and the abdominal encircling belt having an interior surface, an exterior surface, two anterior belt ends, and a posterior belt region intermediate the two anterior belt ends, the anterior belt ends having horizontal fastening means for releasable attachment to one another and vertical fastening means for releasable attachment to the anterior ends when the user elects a back-mounted position, the posterior belt region having means for pivotal attachment to the inferior ends, the means for pivotal attachment being pivotally attached to the inferior ends allowing the each storage compartment to rotate about a pivot axis of rotation, the vertical means for releasable attachment being releasably attached to the anterior ends, thus holding each storage compartment in posterior thoracic placement when the user elects a back-mounted position, the lateral edges each having contoured surfaces for nested engagement about the hips of a user when a user desires to disengage the superior fastening means enabling each storage compartment to pivot about the pivot axes of rotation, the anterior ends being releasably attached to the inferior fastening means for circumferentially securing the shoulder straps about the legs of a user thus securing the lateral edges in nested engagement about the hips of a user when the user elects a hip-mounted position.