EP1800560A1 - Hartschalen-Koffer mit personalisierbarem Dekorations- bzw. Identifizierungseinsatz. - Google Patents

Hartschalen-Koffer mit personalisierbarem Dekorations- bzw. Identifizierungseinsatz. Download PDF

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EP1800560A1
EP1800560A1 EP05425832A EP05425832A EP1800560A1 EP 1800560 A1 EP1800560 A1 EP 1800560A1 EP 05425832 A EP05425832 A EP 05425832A EP 05425832 A EP05425832 A EP 05425832A EP 1800560 A1 EP1800560 A1 EP 1800560A1
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F3/00—Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps
    • G09F3/08—Fastening or securing by means not forming part of the material of the label itself
    • G09F3/18—Casings, frames or enclosures for labels
    • G09F3/20—Casings, frames or enclosures for labels for adjustable, removable, or interchangeable labels
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A45—HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
    • A45C—PURSES; LUGGAGE; HAND CARRIED BAGS
    • A45C13/00—Details; Accessories
    • A45C13/08—Decorative devices for handbags or purses
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A45—HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
    • A45C—PURSES; LUGGAGE; HAND CARRIED BAGS
    • A45C13/00—Details; Accessories
    • A45C13/42—Devices for identifying luggage; Means for attaching same
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A45—HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
    • A45C—PURSES; LUGGAGE; HAND CARRIED BAGS
    • A45C5/00—Rigid or semi-rigid luggage
    • A45C5/03—Suitcases

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  • the present application relates to baggage and in particular to suitcases or alike items of luggage made of a rigid material.
  • Substantially rigid suitcases for example of molded plastic material, often provided with wheels for dragging them effortlessly on flat pavements, are popular items of baggage, lending themselves better than other forms of baggage to the automated handling and nonintrusive inspection by modem conveyers and inspection tunnels of airports and stations.
  • US-A-5,058,959 discloses a manner for rendering more easily recognizable one's own wheeled suitcase among similarly looking suitcases, consisting in applying a circular sticker on a hub cap of the circular face of the wheels of the suitcase and protecting the label from abrasions with a transparent snap-on cap over the hub cap.
  • the location and relatively ample dimensions of the personalization object are such to make it easily recognizable even at a distance in a practically unmistakable manner.
  • the suitcase or similar item of luggage of rigid material retains a substantial integrity notwithstanding the fact that basically, according to the present invention, at least one of the two side panels or semishells (optionally both) has an area that is recessed in respect to the plane of external surface of the side panel and has a stepped perimeter.
  • a transparent screen rests on a perimetral step acting as a flange area around the whole perimeter of the recessed area, thus defining a shallow flat space closed by the transparent screen over the recessed area.
  • a flat decorative/distinctive object is housed in the shallow flat space for making one's own baggage recognizable among even identical items of luggage.
  • the transparent screen has fixing/releasing means that are exclusively accessible from the interior of the item of luggage.
  • the identification object may be a photographic print, for example of one's own pet, of a relative or of a certain location or familiar panorama, of a flower, of a car or of any other subject that the owner of the baggage may immediately recognize as his own, in a substantially unmistakable manner.
  • the identification object held in the sealed space, externally protected from the transparent screen may be a printed sheet of paper, a cloth, or any other essentially flat and relatively thin support of a distinctive image. Its thickness relatively very small, will in practice hardly be greater than 0.5-1.0 mm, and generally cut to the size of the recessed area of the housing. After having placed the identification object on the recessed area, it is confined by fixing the transparent screen thereon, resting on the perimetral step of the recessed area that acts as a flange area, such that the outer surface of the screen be practically in plane with the outer surface of the side panel of the item of luggage.
  • the screen is securely retained by bolts or elastic split stem fasteners, passing through holes formed on the recessed area or preferably on the surface of the rest step (flange) on which the perimeter of the transparent screen rests, which may be released only acting from inside the presumably locked items of luggage.
  • the distinctive insert is retained in a substantially antitampering manner because of the impossibility of accessing the interior of a locked suitcase or other item of luggage.
  • the suitcase 1 may be commonly fabricated by forming the two semishells in respective molds (by injection or pressing) of a moldable plastic, material, commonly including reinforcement fibers, and optionally incorporating stiffening inserts to enhance rigidity of the molded suitcase.
  • At least one of the two side panels 2 of the suitcase is produced in a specially shaped mold such to generate on the external surface of the panel 2, a recessed area 3 with a stepped perimeter such to define a perimetral rest surface 4, constituting a perimetral flange area, onto which a transparent screen 5 can be installed with its outer surface substantially coplanar or with slightly lower than the surface plane of the side panel 2, defining therebetween a confinement space 6 that remains substantially protected by the transparent screen 5.
  • an elastomer gasket for example of a siliconic rubber or alike, for example, a thin flat gasket may be interposed on the rest surface 4 of the perimetral step of the recessed area 3 of the side panel of the suitcase.
  • an annular elastomer gasket 15 for example of a siliconic rubber, can be installed in an undercut seat that may be defined on the vertical wall of the perimetral step such to interfere with the perimetral edge of the screen 5 and be squeezed therebetween to establish an effective seal.
  • the transparent screen 5 may be produced already provided with a perimetral bead of elastomer on the rest surface of the surface of the perimetral step 4 by special molding technique in the same mold and in a single molding operation of a materials of different elasto-mechanical characteristics.
  • the outer surface of the screen 5 is either co-planar or slightly lower than the external surface of the side panel 2, around the recessed area 3, 4.
  • the fasteners of the transparent panel 5 cannot be released unless by intervening from inside the suitcase, that is by acting on the internal surface of the side panel 2. This can be established in different though functionally equivalent manners.
  • the releasable fastening of the transparent screen 5 is done with a plurality of bolts with a smooth head 7 without any drive indentation or cut and having a neck 8 portion connecting the head 7 to the threaded stem 9, of a noncircular cross section, for example a polygonal (square) cross section.
  • a noncircular cross section for example a polygonal (square) cross section.
  • the transparent panel 5 may be made of any transparent plastic material of sufficient mechanical resistance characteristics, such as for example transparent polyvinylchloride, polyethylene, polycarbonate, plexiglass or other plastic materials with similar characteristics of transparency and mechanical resistance. Its thickness is generally comprised between 0.5 mm and 2.0 mm, though it may be even thicker, depending on the application and on the material with which it is made.
  • the fastening bolts may be of stainless steel, bronze of other metallic material, eventually provided with a surface coating (e.g. a chrome coating) or of a sufficiently tenacious material (such as for example nylon or of a machinable aggregate such as bakelite and alike composite materials).
  • a surface coating e.g. a chrome coating
  • a sufficiently tenacious material such as for example nylon or of a machinable aggregate such as bakelite and alike composite materials.
  • Nonmetallic materials are preferred in order not to interfere with nonintrusive baggage inspection systems.
  • the function of the plurality of fastening bolts of the example shown in Figures 1 and 2 is done by a plurality of elastic split stem fasteners also having a smooth head 11 without any drive indentation that fits into a geometrically conformal cavity of the transparent screen 5.
  • the stem is split in two parts 12 and 13 constituting an elastic fork and terminating with a clamping spike 14.
  • Each elastic split stem fastener is forced through a hole passing through the bottom of the circular cavity of the screen 5 that accommodated the smooth head of the pin and through the hole 16 passing through the thickness of the side panel 2 of the suitcase, as far as passing completely the spike terminations of the two parts of the split stem causing an elastic relaxation of the fork.
  • the clamping spikes 14 establish a secure anchoring of the screen 5 that cannot be interfered with from outside and can be released only acting from inside the items of luggage, by flexing toward each other the two clamping spikes of the elastic fork stem and pushing them through the aligned holes.
  • FIG. 4 A further alternative embodiment is shown in Figure 4, according to which the screen 5 as molded is already provided with integral elastic split stem fasteners to be forced through corresponding holes 16 through the thickness of the side panel 2.
  • FIG. 4 In the embodiment of Figure 4 is also shown a further alternative manner of establishing an adequate sealing of the confinement space 6 defined upon fixing the transparent screen 5 over the recessed area 3 of the side panel 2.
  • a channel 17 for receiving and retaining therein an annular gasket (O-ring) of a superelastic material (elastomer) which upon forcing the screen in its fastened position will elastically interfere with the vertical wall of the perimetral step 4, squeezing itself thus ensuring an adequate sealing of the space 6 from atmospheric agents.
  • annular gasket O-ring
  • a superelastic material elastomer
  • the fastening means of the transparent screen 5 releasable only by acting from inside the suitcase may also be implemented in other shapes and arrangements.
  • the present invention offers the possibility for the traveller of modifying at need and at any moment the personalizing image applied on his own items of luggage.
  • the device of the present invention is structurally sturdy and should the outer surface of the transparent screen become ruined or abraded, by accidental cause or through normal wear and tear, one or more replacement screens may be given as inventory accessories when selling the suitcase or other item of luggage, or a new screen could be bought as replacement through the same retail channels of travel goods.
  • the smooth unindented head of the fastening screws or pins may be convex and deliberately have their central vertex slightly rising above the plane of the outer surface of the side panel of the item of luggage.
  • the same result may be obtained even by designing the relative thicknesses and depth such that upon installation of the transparent screen, its outer surface be slightly lower than the plane of the external surface of the surrounding part of the side panel of the item of luggage.
  • the device of the present invention may serve, the purpose of decorating one's own baggage.

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EP05425832A 2005-11-23 2005-11-23 Hartschalen-Koffer mit personalisierbarem Dekorations- bzw. Identifizierungseinsatz. Expired - Lifetime EP1800560B1 (de)

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AT05425832T ATE406123T1 (de) 2005-11-23 2005-11-23 Hartschalen-koffer mit personalisierbarem dekorations- bzw. identifizierungseinsatz.
EP05425832A EP1800560B1 (de) 2005-11-23 2005-11-23 Hartschalen-Koffer mit personalisierbarem Dekorations- bzw. Identifizierungseinsatz.
DE602005009382T DE602005009382D1 (de) 2005-11-23 2005-11-23 Hartschalen-Koffer mit personalisierbarem Dekorations- bzw. Identifizierungseinsatz.
ES05425832T ES2313269T3 (es) 2005-11-23 2005-11-23 Equipaje rigido con inserto decorativo o de indentificacion personalizdo por el usuario.

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