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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 1980
Filed:
Jan. 19, 1979
Bela G Szabo, Carnegie, PA (US);
Bruce Plastics, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
Duplex flexible handles of molded plastic material for connection to luggage bags or receptacles of limp material having spaced pockets at the upper portions of the opposite sides of the receptacles. Each handle is provided with a hand-hold at the top and with legs extending downwardly from the opposite ends thereof which terminate in flattened extremities of reduced cross-section, and spaced from each other correspondingly to the spacing between the pockets. An upwardly directed barb extends laterally from each extremity. A horizontal bead or enlargement is molded at the junction of the upper end of each extremity and the lower end of the exposed portion of each leg, for limiting the extent of penetration of each leg within its pocket, through a horizontal slot in the latter slightly wider than the extremity, but less than the width of the bead. In the course of the assembly operations of the handles and bags, the barbs yield when the legs are inserted in the respective pockets but are trapped by the upper edges of the slots in the course of possible reverse movement, so that the component parts remain in place preparatory to the driving of rivets through the handle extremities and the sides of the pockets of the luggage bags.