Patent ID: 6047442
Filing Date: 2000-04-11
Classification: A45C,Y10T

Abstract:
A releasable lock mechanism for a luggage towing handle that is movable relative to a bag body between an extended position and a retracted position, the towing handle having a pair of spaced-apart parallel straight legs, comprisinga base adapted to be affixed to the bag body in a position between the legs of the handle and having a pair of guideways defining a slide axis perpendicular to and intersecting the legs;a lock rod received in each of the guideways for sliding movement along the slide axis between a locked position in which a nose on a distal end of the lock rod is extended out from the base for reception in a hole in the respective leg of the towing handle and a release position in which the nose is retracted from the hole in the leg, each lock rod having a cam follower post adjacent a proximal end;a push-button driver plate carried on the base for movement perpendicular to the axis and having a pair of elongated cam slots, each of the cam slots in the driver plate being substantially elliptical and each cam slot receiving the cam follower post of one of the lock rods and having a longer axis lying obliquely to the slide axis; anda compression spring engaged between the base and the driver plate and biasing the driver plate to a position in which the cam slots hold the lock rods in the locked positions.