US20060191969A1 - Pack and frame for pack - Google Patents

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US20060191969A1
US20060191969A1 US10/564,119 US56411904A US2006191969A1 US 20060191969 A1 US20060191969 A1 US 20060191969A1 US 56411904 A US56411904 A US 56411904A US 2006191969 A1 US2006191969 A1 US 2006191969A1
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John Goulding
Carl Moriarty
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A45—HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
    • A45F—TRAVELLING OR CAMP EQUIPMENT: SACKS OR PACKS CARRIED ON THE BODY
    • A45F3/00—Travelling or camp articles; Sacks or packs carried on the body
    • A45F3/04—Sacks or packs carried on the body by means of two straps passing over the two shoulders
    • A45F3/08—Carrying-frames; Frames combined with sacks
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A45—HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
    • A45F—TRAVELLING OR CAMP EQUIPMENT: SACKS OR PACKS CARRIED ON THE BODY
    • A45F3/00—Travelling or camp articles; Sacks or packs carried on the body
    • A45F3/04—Sacks or packs carried on the body by means of two straps passing over the two shoulders
    • A45F3/047—Sacks or packs carried on the body by means of two straps passing over the two shoulders with adjustable fastenings for the shoulder straps or waist belts

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  • the present invention relates to improvements in climber's or tramper's packs, and to frames for such packs.
  • a modern pack consists of a sac in which equipment may be carried, the sac being mounted on a frame, and a shoulder harness secured to the sac or to the frame. Since carrying a heavy load supported only from the shoulders can lead to backache or even to back damage, a majority of modern packs also include a hip belt which is connected to the sac or the frame, generally at or close to the base of the sac, to transfer some of the load from the shoulders to the hips.
  • hip belt Although using a hip belt reduces the strain on the back, the belt itself can cause problems to the wearer, due to the way in which the human body moves when walking.
  • a line through the shoulders is indicated by line S-S and a line through the hips is indicated by line H-H.
  • line S-S a line through the shoulders
  • H-H a line through the hips
  • FIG. 5 of the accompanying drawings shows, in diagrammatic form, the effect of a person wearing a pack with a rigidly-secured hip-belt bending forwards;—the back extension raises the pack and lifts the hip-belt from the hips, applying uncomfortable pressure across the front of the lower abdomen (arrow P).
  • the hip belt described in New Zealand patent No. 201751 was not a complete solution to the problem:—because the hip belt was secured to the pack by a comparatively narrow connection, the load transfer from the pack to the hip belt was concentrated at the connection point and was distributed around the pelvic girdle of the wearer only by the stiffness of the hip belt.
  • the more rigid the hip belt the better the load transfer, but in general, the more rigid a hip belt is, the less comfortable it is to wear.
  • the problem remained of providing a harness which permitted relative movement between the wearer's back and hips in at least three directions but which provided an efficient load transfer around the pelvic girdle of the wearer without resorting to the use of an uncomfortably stiff hip belt.
  • New Zealand Patent 335931 provides a frame and hip belt which give excellent weight transfer, but both the frame and the hip belt are bulky and thus comparatively heavy to wear, and are relatively expensive to manufacture.
  • PCT Application PCT/US97/13396 discloses a backpack frame which also is designed to overcome the problem of efficient weight transfer; this frame consists of an elastomeric pad combined with a pair of spaced resilient rods which extend down the back of the pad and which can be flexed to a greater or lesser extent by tightening or slackening the hip belt of the pack.
  • this frame consists of an elastomeric pad combined with a pair of spaced resilient rods which extend down the back of the pad and which can be flexed to a greater or lesser extent by tightening or slackening the hip belt of the pack.
  • the degree of fixing of the resilient rods, and hence the amount of load transfer to the hip belt depends upon the tightness of the hip belt:—there is no provision for altering the amount of load transfer independent of the tightness of the hip belt.
  • increased flexing of the resilient rods
  • the present invention provides a pack which includes a sac, an internal frame for the sac, a shoulder harness and a hip belt;
  • the frame includes a pair of spaced flexible rods positioned one on each side of the frame so as to extend down at least the lower part of the length of each side of the sac;
  • each flexible rod at or adjacent the end of said flexible rod, and an adjacent portion of the hip belt; each said tensioning means being adapted to move the corresponding flexible rod so as to bow and tension said rod and provide a relatively rigid weight transmitting connection between said rod and the corresponding portion of the hip belt; the arrangement being such that said movement of said flexible rods tends to lift the frame and the pack, decreasing the loading on the shoulder harness and increasing the loading on the belt.
  • FIGS. 1-5 are diagrams showing the movement of the human body when walking
  • FIG. 6 is a plan view of a pack frame in accordance with the present invention.
  • FIG. 7 is a side view of the frame of FIG. 6 ;
  • FIG. 8 is a diagrammatic side view of the frame of the present invention fitted into a pack
  • FIG. 9 is a detail of FIG. 8 on a larger scale
  • FIG. 10 is a section on line X-X of FIG. 9 , on a larger scale.
  • FIG. 11 is a diagrammatic side view of part of the frame fitted into a pack, in accordance with a second embodiment of the present invention.
  • a climber's or tramper's pack 2 in accordance with the present invention comprises a sac 3 which is of known type (apart from the addition of wings 4 as hereinafter described) which is supported by an internal frame 5 and which is provided with a harness 6 which includes a pair of padded shoulder straps 7 and a hip belt 8 .
  • the harness 6 is of known type apart from the novel features of the hip belt as described below.
  • the frame 5 consists of a pair of spaced U-shaped portions 10 , 11 which are inclined at an acute angle to each other and are spaced apart by a crossbar 12 .
  • the curved end of each U-shaped portions 10 , 11 is uppermost, and when the frame is inserted Into the sac 3 , the U-shaped portions support the upper part of the sac.
  • each U-shaped portion is connected to a flexible rod 13 , 14 , the longitudinal axis of which is aligned with the longitudinal axis of the corresponding leg.
  • each U-shaped portion is formed integrally with a looped portion 15 which supports the lower portion of the sac and lies between the flexible rods 13 , 14 .
  • outer and inner legs 10 a/b , 11 a/b are tied together adjacent their lower ends by crossbars 10 c , 11 c.
  • each of the U-shaped portions 10 , 11 is curved in side view to accommodate the curve of a wearers upper back, and the looped portion 15 also is curved to accommodate the shape of the wearer's lower back.
  • the frame 5 is secured inside the sac 3 in known manner, as shown in FIG. 8 .
  • the sac 3 is of known design apart from the addition of a fabric wing at each lower rear corner of the sac.
  • Each wing 4 is roughly triangular in shape, and includes two parallel pieces of fabric with padding sandwiched between them.
  • the side 4 a of the wing which extends along the length of the back of the sac opens into that portion of the sac which receives the frame 5 , and the corresponding flexible rod 13 , 14 lies within the wing 4 , between the layers of padding.
  • each wing 4 Two parallel openings 16 , 17 into the Interior of each wing 4 are formed in the outer edge 4 c (.e. furthest from the edge 4 a ), adjacent the lower edge 4 b.
  • Each opening 16 which is closest to the edge 4 c , receives one end 18 of the hip belt 8 ; the end 18 passes through the width of the wing 4 and is sewn to the sac adjacent the opening 16 .
  • Each opening 17 receives an adjustment strap 19 which extends through the opening 17 and is secured at its inner end to the corresponding flexible rod 13 , 14 adjacent the lower end of the rod.
  • Each strap 19 is secured to the corresponding flexible rod 13 , 14 by means of a retainer 20 formed integrally with the rod.
  • the outer end 21 of each adjustment strap 19 passes through a buckle 22 which is secured to the hip belt 8 .
  • the buckle 22 is shown in FIGS. 9 and 10 as a simple 2 —bar buckle, but in fact is an adjustment buckle of known type which allows each strap 19 to be pulled through the buckle in the direction of Arrow A ( FIG. 10 ) but does not permit movement in the reverse direction until the strap 19 is manually repositioned to allow reverse movement.
  • the above described pack is used as follows:—the pack is positioned on the wearer's shoulders in the usual way, and the hip belt is buckled around the wearer's hips.
  • the frame 5 is attached to the hip belt 8 by the wings 4 and the straps 19 , all of which are free to flex and pivot relative to the frame:—this results in a flexible connection, but with relatively little weight transferred from the frame to the hip belt.
  • the wearer pulls the straps 19 in the direction of Arrow A, pulling the flexible rods 13 , 14 in the direction of Arrow B.
  • the adjustment buckles 22 hold the straps 19 in the bowed, i.e. tensioned, position, retaining the flexible rods 13 , 14 in the position shown in hatch lines ( 14 a in FIG. 9 ). This provides a much more rigid attachment between the frame and the hip belt, and thus improves weight transfer to the hip belt.
  • FIG. 11 shows an alternative embodiment of the invention, in which the wing 4 is omitted from each side of the sac 3 , and instead each side of the sac opens directly into the adjacent portion of the hip belt 8 .
  • the end of each flexible rod 13 , 14 lies within the belt 8 , and is tensioned by an adjustment strap 19 a which extends through an opening 17 a in the hip belt 8 and operates in the same manner as the adjustment strap 19 described with reference to the first embodiment: the same reference numerals indicate the same components as described with reference to the first embodiment.
  • the pack of the present invention is capable of providing efficient weight transfer to the hip belt, but is substantially simpler to manufacture and lighter in weight than comparable designs.

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US20110011903A1 (en) * 2009-07-15 2011-01-20 Stephen Buffinton Backpack comprising a frame structure for stretching a netting member concave across the back wall
US20110036883A1 (en) * 2009-08-14 2011-02-17 Kyle Nicolas Sevelle Cox D.A.S. (Dual Action Stabilizer)
US20120000948A1 (en) * 2009-11-02 2012-01-05 Gregory Maggi Stable Backpack
US20120012629A1 (en) * 2010-07-15 2012-01-19 Deuter Sport Gmbh & Co. Kg Backpack Having Removable Frame
US20190350347A1 (en) * 2018-05-15 2019-11-21 Samsonite Ip Holdings S.A R.L. Backpack with dynamic flexible hip belt
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US20080203128A1 (en) * 2006-11-29 2008-08-28 Bass Gregory Backpack suspension system with hub
US7967175B2 (en) 2006-11-29 2011-06-28 The North Face Apparel Corp. Backpack suspension system with hub
US20110011903A1 (en) * 2009-07-15 2011-01-20 Stephen Buffinton Backpack comprising a frame structure for stretching a netting member concave across the back wall
US9271560B2 (en) * 2009-07-15 2016-03-01 Deuter Sport Gmbh & Co. Kg Backpack comprising a frame structure for stretching a netting member concave across the back wall
US20110036883A1 (en) * 2009-08-14 2011-02-17 Kyle Nicolas Sevelle Cox D.A.S. (Dual Action Stabilizer)
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US11241076B1 (en) * 2017-02-16 2022-02-08 Stephen Boutin Backpack apparatus and system
US20190350347A1 (en) * 2018-05-15 2019-11-21 Samsonite Ip Holdings S.A R.L. Backpack with dynamic flexible hip belt
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