Patent ID: 8764030

Claim:
A sports equipment bag assembly comprising: (a) a bag; (b) an integral transportation system attached to the bag, the integral transportation system including a housing and a sliding member slidingly connected to the housing, plurality of wheels operably connected to the sliding housing via a plurality of wheel legs, the wheels being deployable from a retracted state to a deployed state; (c) a handle that is movable between a first upper position and a second lower position and along a curved path, said handle operably connected to the plurality of deployable wheels and wheel legs; (d) wherein movement of the handle from the upper to the lower position deploys the plurality of wheels from the retracted state to the deployed state; (e) wherein movement of the handle from the lower to the upper position retracts the wheels from the deployed state to the retracted state; (f) during deployment at least one wheel is required to moves through a single first type of movement and at least one other wheel is required to moves through a single second type of movement, the first type of movement being different from the second type of movement; (g) multiple links that join the wheel legs and the handle to the sliding member; and (h) said links including a first link connecting between the handle and the sliding member and second and third links each connecting between the sliding member and one of the wheel legs.