Patent ID: 6345414
Filing Date: 2002-02-12
Classification: A45C,Y10T

Abstract:
A collapsible handle for a portable luggage comprising:a luggage having a pair of main casters respectively secured and spaced apart to a pair of lower corners on a back side thereof and a pair of foot members spacedly projected downward from a bottom thereof remote to the main casters; a lower seat centrally secured to a lower portion on the back side of the luggage having a pair of first arcuate engaging surfaces disposed at two ends of said lower seat with arcuate surfaces facing upward and a concaved engaging surface on a top between said first arcuate engaging surfaces; an upper seat centrally secured to a top of the back side of the luggage having an extension centrally extended outward and a pair of rectangular recesses formed in two ends of the extension; an elongate caster seat having an arcuate lower surface engageable with the concaved engaging surface of said lower seat a pair of cavities with openings facing upward are disposed at two ends of said elongate caster seat and each cavity having a vertical slit in an inner side, a pair of lug members spacedly extending down from under side directly under said cavities each including a first lateral axial hole a pair of subordinate casters each having a protruded coupler with a second lateral axial hole for securing to said lug members rotatably by means of first axial pins and a second arcuate engaging surface made engageable with the first arcuate engaging surfaces of said lower seat, and a locking member disposed into said elongate caster seat and biased by a pair of spring means said locking member having a pair of posts projected outward from its two ends and can slide into the vertical slits of said elongate caster seat; an attachment having a pair of positioning vertical bores respectively formed at two ends thereof, a pair of coupling projections spacedly projecting upward from a top adjacent said vertical bores and each including a third lateral axial hole for slidably pivoting said attachment to the rectangular recesses of said upper seat; and a pair of telescoped frames having their upper ends respectively inserting through the positioning vertical bores of said attachment and secured to a U-shaped handle grip above said attachment and their lower ends each secured on top of said cavities of said elongate caster seat and two inner portions of said pair of telescoped frames are facing each other and are pressed against by the posts of said locking member.