Patent ID: 8584384

Claim:
A travel kit for enabling travelers to mechanically press garments during travel, the luggage kit comprising: a three-dimensional luggage assembly, the luggage assembly thus having a luggage length, a luggage width, and a luggage depth; and a portable garment press assembly, the portable garment press assembly being sized and shaped to be received within the luggage length, width, and depth, the portable press assembly comprising: first and second outer planar members, the first and second outer planar members each having a hinge end and a clamp end, the outer planar members each comprising inner hydrophilic surfacing, the inner hydrophilic surfacing for enhancing moisture absorption from garment sections coming into contact therewith; a first flexible hinge member, the first flexible hinge member being flexibly attached at the hinge ends for interconnecting the hinge ends; an inner planar member, the inner planar member being sandwiched intermediate the first and second outer planar members and attached to the first flexible hinge member, the inner planar member for separating opposed garment sections as received intermediate the first and second outer planar members; and clamping means for clamping the clamp ends of the outer planar members toward one another, a garment section being receivable intermediate the first and second outer planar members and the first flexible hinge member and clamping means, the first and second outer planar members for imparting primary wrinkle-removing forces into a received garment section when the clamping means clamp the clamp ends toward one another.