Patent ID: 6920667

Claim:
A luggage item handle conversion apparatus for facilitating lateral user clearance, said conversion apparatus comprising: a rigid and elongated hand grip apparatus with a first gripping end and an opposite connecting end, whose sole axis between the first and second ends is aligned absolutely parallel to the plane in which a preexisting grip member of a wheeled object handle assembly is oriented; the preexisting handle assembly on said wheeled object, consisting of a grip member with a longitudinal axis positioned for use in a plane perpendicular to the direction of forward or backward motion, as prompted by the orientation of the wheels on said wheeled object, and said preexisting grip member being permanently supported by two distal and telescopic support units on the latitudinal axis, positioned in a plane parallel to the direction of forward or backward motion of the wheeled object; apparatus attachment means for attaching and restraining the said handle conversion apparatus in a parallel axis to said preexisting handle grip, but in a perpendicular axis to said preexisting supporting distal units, to restrain and stabilize the orientation of said preexisting handle assembly members relative to said apparatus attachment means; said hand grip apparatus being attached to said preexisting handle assembly so as to operate in an integrated capacity to each other in parallel orientation to preexisting grip and perpendicular orientation to preexisting distal support members, such that said apparatus attachment means is oriented in an axis parallel to the plane in which said preexisting handle grip is oriented and substantially within the perpendicular plane described by the said direction of forward and backward motion of said wheeled object.