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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 1989
Filed:
Mar. 04, 1988
Mark B Nordstrom, Evergreen, CO (US);
Guenther E Patzelberger, Naucalpan, MX;
Samsonite Corporation, Denver, CO (US);
Abstract
Various systems have been proposed for providing personal identification information in conjunction with luggage pieces. Recently there has been concern that such personal identifying information should not be broadly or notoriously displayed. Thus, I.D. tags having a flap covering this personal identification information have been offered to the public. Information on such tags still can be relatively easily viewed, and the tags can become lost or pulled off of the luggage through ordinary baggage handling. The disclosed system includes an identification panel which is flush with a panel of the luggage and is normally protected by the luggage construction itself, specifically a web tangent to and affixed permanently to the outer covering of that luggage panel. The identification panel includes an elastic member which holds the identification panel against all but determined intentional effort to withdraw the panel from underneath the web. Once the withdrawal force is removed, the panel immediately is withdrawn to its protected and almost invisible position beneath the web. In this way, unintentional viewing of the personal identification information is generally prevented, as is the unintentional loss of the identification panel and the information thereon.