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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20050145458 | Dresser luggage Disclosed is a large capacity piece of luggage that complies with the maximum size requirements of the airlines with a plurality of special features. These include an infinitely variable position handle used to either pull or push the luggage on two large curb climbing ... | 07/07/2005 |
| 20050103590 | Feet for wheeled luggage Provided is a support structure on a bottom of wheeled luggage. The structure comprises a pair of front feet, and a pair of rear feet proximate wheels. All feet have the same height. The wheels are disposed above the supporting surface when the luggage is in a vertical ... | 05/19/2005 |
| 20050103589 | Backpack with removable handle and wheel assembly A bag carrying system having a removable handle and wheel assembly is provided. The system includes a bag having a back portion with a panel overlying the back portion and a handle and wheel assembly comprising a handle portion, a wheel portion and a longitudinally exte... | 05/19/2005 |
| 20050098402 | Carry on multi-function luggage Disclosed is an airline carry on bag having a considerable number of features. Two of its most unique are a hinged door that includes a lounge chair, and a movable compartment divider to allow separation of laundry from clean clothes. It is movable so that more and more... | 05/12/2005 |
| 20050087415 | Rotatable handle for towable luggage A towing member and towable luggage where the handle can be stored in the luggage in a retracted position where the principal dimension of the grip portion of the handle is arranged to be generally perpendicular to the wheel rotation axis and parallel to the top face of... | 04/28/2005 |
| 20050077136 | Modular luggage system In one embodiment, the present invention is a wheeled upright modular luggage system having at least a base adapted to simultaneously transport, consolidate or otherwise protect thicker or wider items, including notebooks, binders, wide files and the like. Additional mo... | 04/14/2005 |
| 20050077706 | Retractable wheel assembly for a carrier A retractable wheel assembly (110) for a carrier (100) is disclosed wherein the wheels (120) are rotatably mounted in cowls (130), which are pivotably disposed in wheel wells (116L, 116R) on a housing. The cowls are connected wi... | 04/14/2005 |
| 20050077133 | Baggage assembly The assembly (10) comprises a hand truck (12) forming a bell-crank lever pivoted about an axis formed by support elements (16), the lever comprising a base (18) forming a first arm of the bell crank, and a frame (20) forming a second a... | 04/14/2005 |
| 20050072642 | Combination golf bag travel cover and suitcase A travel cover for a golf bag and clubs includes an integrated suitcase portion with one or more compartments for packing articles of clothing therein. In a preferred embodiment, the suitcase portion is in the form of a garment bag that releasably attaches to an inside ... | 04/07/2005 |
| 20050056510 | Case with a reinforced bottom A case includes a bottom shell member and a main shell member. The bottom shell member is made of a rigid material, and includes a bottom wall and a peripheral wall extending upwardly and integrally from a periphery of the bottom wall. The main shell member includes a h... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050051404 | Foldable luggage with carrier A foldable luggage provided with a carriage essentially comprised of a rectangular trunk having its front side reserved with an opening sewn with a front panel and a zip to define an internal bag; a carriage including a retractable pull rod and a handle on the top of th... | 03/10/2005 |
| 20050045500 | Luggage bag having a removable garment bag A combination garment bag and luggage bag includes a relatively rigid outer luggage bag and a relatively flexible inner garment bag. According to one aspect of the invention, the garment bag is secured to the interior of the luggage bag with the aid of a releasable coup... | 03/03/2005 |
| 20050034949 | Foldable bag and method A foldable bag including a first rigid container having a storage space. The bag includes a second rigid container having a storage space which is rotatably connected to the first rigid container so the second container can go from a first position in series with the fi... | 02/17/2005 |
| 20050034947 | Collapsible duffle bag A collapsible item of luggage is provided comprising a rigid back wall. Three non-rigid sidewalls are attached the rigid back wall and to one another to form a rectangular box. An end panel is pivotally attached to a first end of the rectangular box. A retention flange ... | 02/17/2005 |
| 20050023096 | Bag and method of moving A bag including a housing having a storage area and a surface. The bag includes an extendable handle connected to the housing. The bag includes an auxiliary wheel unit having at least one castor connected to the surface which in an extended position extends from the sur... | 02/03/2005 |
| 20050000771 | Passive stabilization systems for wheeled objects Apparatus and methods are disclosed for passive stabilization of a wheeled object by employing secondary wheels rotating about secondary axes offset from a common axis of a primary set of wheels, where the secondary wheels are positioned such that tilting of the object ... | 01/06/2005 |
