Patent ID: 8893940
Filing Date: 2014-11-25
Classification: A45F

Abstract:
1. A backpack comprising: a pack portion made of flexible material and including a back side, an inner compartment to accommodate a load to be carried during use of the backpack, the inner compartment being demarcated at least in part by the back side; a carrying system directly or indirectly connected to the pack portion and comprising at least one shoulder strap connected by an anchoring part of an upper end to an upper shoulder strap attachment portion of the back side of the pack portion; a frame connected to the pack portion, the frame extending along a region of the back side of the pack portion including at least the upper shoulder strap attachment portion and a lumbar portion of the back side of the pack portion; the frame comprising at least a rigid or semi-rigid sheet, the sheet being more rigid than the flexible material of the pack portion, and a sheet of elastically compressible foam; the frame being non-removably adhesively bonded to the back side of the pack portion by an adhesive bond, in the form of a thermo-activated glue or glue-containing compound, between the frame and the back side of the pack portion at the shoulder strap attachment portion of the back side of the pack portion; an adhesive bond between the anchoring part of the upper end of the shoulder strap and the shoulder strap attachment portion of the back side of the pack portion, in the form of a thermo-activated glue or glue-containing compound, thereby non-removably adhesively bonding the anchoring part of the upper end of the shoulder strap directly or indirectly to the shoulder strap attachment portion of the back side of the pack portion.