WO2009007890A1 - Dispositif de protection d'un contenant utilisé pour le transport d'articles - Google Patents

Dispositif de protection d'un contenant utilisé pour le transport d'articles Download PDF

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WO2009007890A1
WO2009007890A1 PCT/IB2008/052695 IB2008052695W WO2009007890A1 WO 2009007890 A1 WO2009007890 A1 WO 2009007890A1 IB 2008052695 W IB2008052695 W IB 2008052695W WO 2009007890 A1 WO2009007890 A1 WO 2009007890A1
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Cassie Human
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A45—HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
    • A45C—PURSES; LUGGAGE; HAND CARRIED BAGS
    • A45C13/00—Details; Accessories
    • A45C13/18—Devices to prevent theft or loss of purses, luggage or hand carried bags
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05C—BOLTS OR FASTENING DEVICES FOR WINGS, SPECIALLY FOR DOORS OR WINDOWS
    • E05C19/00—Other devices specially designed for securing wings, e.g. with suction cups
    • E05C19/10—Hook fastenings; Fastenings in which a link engages a fixed hook-like member
    • E05C19/12—Hook fastenings; Fastenings in which a link engages a fixed hook-like member pivotally mounted around an axis
    • E05C19/14—Hook fastenings; Fastenings in which a link engages a fixed hook-like member pivotally mounted around an axis with toggle action
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A45—HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
    • A45C—PURSES; LUGGAGE; HAND CARRIED BAGS
    • A45C13/00—Details; Accessories
    • A45C13/36—Reinforcements for edges, corners, or other parts
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05B—LOCKS; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; HANDCUFFS
    • E05B65/00—Locks or fastenings for special use
    • E05B65/52—Other locks for chests, boxes, trunks, baskets, travelling bags, or the like

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  • THIS INVENTION relates to a device for protecting a container used in the transport of articles.
  • the Applicant believes the invention will be particularly advantageously applicable to luggage containers such as suitcases or similar enclosures used in the transport of articles through commercial airports.
  • luggage containers such as suitcases or similar enclosures used in the transport of articles through commercial airports.
  • the Applicant has found that manhandling or theft of articles from containers is a commonplace occurrence at commercial airports.
  • Current measures known to the Applicant for preventing damage or theft of luggage containers all have drawbacks, e.g. in being too expensive in that they are not re-usable, time consuming, outside of the control of the traveller, and the like.
  • the Applicant seeks a device which alleviates these drawbacks.
  • a device for protecting a container used in the transport of articles which device includes a belt including interconnected panels for wrapping around a periphery of the container; and at least one lockable securing mechanism for securing the panels around the container against unauthorised opening or tampering.
  • the panels may be hingedly interconnected.
  • the device preferably includes four panels, one for each side, a top and a bottom of an orthogonal or parallelepiped- shaped container, such as a suitcase.
  • the device may include two panel portions, one panel portion being at each end of the belt, the panel portions being co-operable, when the belt is wrapped around the container, to form a composite panel (e.g. the top panel).
  • a composite panel e.g. the top panel.
  • the lockabl ⁇ securing mechanism may be operative between the two panel portions.
  • the lockable securing mechanism may be positioned or positionable at a handle of the container.
  • the device may be shaped, and the lockable securing mechanism may be arranged, to allow use of the handle of the container.
  • Two lockable securing mechanisms may be positioned, in use, at the top of the suitcase, which typically includes the handle.
  • an adjustable interconnection may be provided between at least one pair of adjacent panels to provide for different container sizes.
  • the adjustable interconnection in this regard may be provided in conjunction with a hinge. More particularly, the adjustable interconnection may be operable to adjust the spacing between the adjacent panels.
  • the adjustable interconnection may stand proud of the respective surface of the device thereby providing protection for the respective surface, e.g. the bottom, from exposure to or knocking or scraping against a potentially detrimental terrain surface, in use.
  • the adjustable interconnection includes a toothed ratchet and a matched ratchet-engaging formation, displaceable relative to each other, operable between the adjacent panels. More particularly, a tooth of the toothed ratchet may engage or be engageable with the matched ratchet-engaging formation at a variable position selectable along a length of the ratchet, thereby to vary the spacing between the adjacent panels.
  • Each panel may include a frictional abutment surface on an operatively inner face thereof for frictionally engaging the container.
  • One or more panels may be of a resilient material, to accommodate bulging of the suitcase.
  • the panels may be shaped and dimensioned to cover a substantial portion of the periphery of the container.
  • the panels may cover at least 50% of the surface area of the container.
  • Figure 1 is a perspective view of a device in accordance with the invention in an extended or open condition
  • Figure 4 is a three-dimensional view corresponding to that of Figure 3, but shows the device in use with the suitcase in a dilated condition;
  • Figure 6 is a three-dimensional view of another embodiment of a device, in accordance with the invention, in an extended or open condition.
  • Figure 7 is a three-dimensional view of the device of Figure 6 in a folded or closed condition.
  • reference numeral 10 refers to a device for protecting a container such as a suitcase used in the transport of articles.
  • the panel portions 12.1 , 12.2 complement each other to provide the panel 12 for a top of the suitcase, and to mount a lockable securing mechanism in the form of a pair of hook-and-eye clasps 30.1 , 30.2 and 32.1 , 32.2 for securing the panels 12, 14, 16, 18 around the container.
  • the hook-and-eye clasps 30.1 , 30.2, 31 .1 , 31 .2 in a folded or closed condition are also provided with through holes for the insertion of a padlock or similar locking device to lock the panels 12, 14, 16, 18 around the container and to prevent unauthorised opening or tampering.
  • the device 10 is shown in a folded condition whereby the hook 32 and the eye 30 of each clasp are secured together to render the device 10 closed (in other words, to render one end of the belt 1 1 attached to other end).
  • the device 10 includes a set of two adjustable catches 34 in conjunction with adjacent hinges 24.1 , 24.2 to render the device 10 adjustable to accommodate containers of various sizes.
  • the hinge 24 serves hingedly to interconnect a loop 34.1 of the catch 34 with a side panel 14, instead of interconnecting the side and bottom panels 14, 16.
  • the adjustable catches 34 have a series of sequential angularities or hooks 34.1 protruding from or standing proud of, the bottom of the panel 16 when the device 10 is in the folded condition.
  • the loop 34.1 therefore extends hingedly from one portion of the hinge 24 toward, and to engage, the angularities or hooks 34.2.
  • a selected hook can thus be engaged in accordance with a width of the container 50, to adjust the size of the device 10.
  • Each of the adjustable catches 34 also stands proud of the device 10 and thereby functions as a support surface for the container 50 and protects a surface e.g. the bottom 16, against a detrimental support surface.
  • the hook-and-eye clasps 30, 32 may be adjustable, e.g. by having sets of spaced eyes which can selectively be engaged by the hooks to accommodate thicker and thinner suitcases - similarly to the catches 34. It is to be appreciated that the device 10 may have substantial inherent resilience to render it effectively stepless in respect of adjustment.
  • the hinges 22, 24, 26, 28 can be dispensed with, and a belt having lines of flexural weakness to allow appropriate folding between panels may be provided.
  • reference numeral 100 generally indicates another embodiment of a device, in accordance with the invention, for protecting a container such as the suitcase 50 used in the transport of articles.
  • the device 100 includes a belt 101 comprising a plurality of panels 102, 104,
  • Each adjustable interconnection 1 12, 1 14, 1 16, 1 18 includes two elongate toothed ratchets 120 pivotally interconnected by means of a hinge 130.
  • the adjustable interconnections 1 12, 1 14, 1 16, 1 18 are thus hinged.
  • the free end of each ratchet 120 includes an enlarged protrusion 140 to inhibit complete withdrawal from the panel 102, 104, 106, 108 of the associated interconnection 1 12, 1 14, 1 16, 1 18.
  • Each panel 102, 104, 106, 108 defines therein a pair of side-by-side grooves or channels 160 for guided linear displacement of the associated ratchets 120.
  • a ratchet-engaging formation or brace 150 At the end of each channel 160 is a ratchet-engaging formation or brace 150 to engage a particular tooth of an associated ratchet 120.
  • the teeth of the toothed ratchets 120 are sawtooth-shaped and are orientated to allow linear inward displacement of the ratchet 120 into the channel 160 but resist withdrawal of the ratchet 120 from the channel 160, ratchet-fashion.
  • a selected tooth on the ratchet 120 can thus be engaged by the ratchet- engaging formation 150, to adjust the spacing between adjacent panels 102, 104, 106, 108 in accordance with dimensions of a container to be enclosed by the device 100.
  • the panels 102, 104, 106, 108 are positioned around the suitcase (not illustrated).
  • the size of the device 100 is adjusted to accommodate the suitcase by slidably displacing the ratchets 120 inwardly along the channels 160.
  • the orientation of the inclined teeth of the ratchets 120 allows each tooth (presenting an inclined face) to pass inwardly beneath the ratchet-engaging formation 150 with little resistance, but by presenting a vertical or sheer face and bearing against a side of the ratchet-engaging formation 150, to resist withdrawal of the ratchet 120 from the channel 160.
  • the ratchet 120 allows the spacing of the panels 102, 104, 106, 108 easily to be reduced, but not easily to be increased.
  • the Applicant also believes that the invention as exemplified may be particularly beneficial to persons having a plurality of different sized containers which they may wish to transport at various points in time.
  • the same device 10, 100 can be used to accommodate containers having a plurality of different dimensions; thus alleviating the cost involved in obtaining a plurality of different sized versions of the device.

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Abstract

Cette invention concerne un dispositif destiné à protéger un contenant utilisé pour le transport d'articles. Le dispositif (10, 100) comprend une courroie (11, 101) comprenant des panneaux interconnectés (12, 14, 16, 18, 102, 104, 106, 108) destinés à envelopper une périphérie du contenant (50) et il comprend en outre au moins un mécanisme de fixation verrouillable (30, 32) pour fixer les panneaux (12, 14, 16, 18, 102, 104, 106, 108) autour du contenant (50) de manière à le protéger contre une ouverture non autorisée ou le rendre inviolable.
PCT/IB2008/052695 2007-07-06 2008-07-04 Dispositif de protection d'un contenant utilisé pour le transport d'articles WO2009007890A1 (fr)

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WO2019161454A1 (fr) * 2018-02-22 2019-08-29 Tim Rodgers Housse sécurisée pour bagage

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US3875771A (en) * 1973-10-23 1975-04-08 Sam Reisner Luggage strap lock
FR2500878A1 (fr) * 1981-02-27 1982-09-03 Idot Bernard Systeme de ceinture antivol pour bagages
GB2224769A (en) * 1988-11-09 1990-05-16 Hubert Salmen Device for holding a case in a fixed place
DE29821313U1 (de) * 1998-11-28 1999-02-04 Kretzschmann, Detlef, 33803 Steinhagen Sicherungsvorrichtung für Aktenkoffer o.dgl. mit Griffen
US20020178766A1 (en) * 2001-06-04 2002-12-05 Jackson Bernon B. Luggage security device

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3875771A (en) * 1973-10-23 1975-04-08 Sam Reisner Luggage strap lock
FR2500878A1 (fr) * 1981-02-27 1982-09-03 Idot Bernard Systeme de ceinture antivol pour bagages
GB2224769A (en) * 1988-11-09 1990-05-16 Hubert Salmen Device for holding a case in a fixed place
DE29821313U1 (de) * 1998-11-28 1999-02-04 Kretzschmann, Detlef, 33803 Steinhagen Sicherungsvorrichtung für Aktenkoffer o.dgl. mit Griffen
US20020178766A1 (en) * 2001-06-04 2002-12-05 Jackson Bernon B. Luggage security device

Cited By (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO2019161454A1 (fr) * 2018-02-22 2019-08-29 Tim Rodgers Housse sécurisée pour bagage

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