Wrap-around Garment Bag with Adjustable Straps
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional luggage solutions, including suitcases and garment bags, often result in wrinkled clothes due to limited space and weight compression during travel, and carrying multiple bags is cumbersome and inconvenient, especially when navigating airports.
Innovation Solution
A universal, wrap-around garment bag with adjustable straps and S-shaped hooks that can be securely attached to any suitcase, providing a zippered storage compartment and storage pocket for personal items, allowing for wrinkle-free storage and easy handling without obstructing suitcase features like wheels or telescoping handles.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If travelers pack clothes in separate suitcases to reduce compression, then clothes remain less wrinkled, but the number of luggage pieces increases making it harder to maneuver
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines a garment bag and suitcase into a single integrated unit. The garment bag is designed to wrap around and attach to the suitcase, creating a unified luggage system that prevents clothes from being compressed while maintaining ease of maneuvering as a single piece of luggage.
Solution Approach 2:
The garment bag extends outward from the suitcase in a dimensional configuration that provides additional storage space without increasing the suitcase's footprint. This wrap-around design allows clothes to be stored in a separate compartment that does not compress other items.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If travelers use a conventional garment bag separate from suitcase, then clothes are stored wrinkle-free, but carrying and transporting becomes cumbersome
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the garment bag and suitcase into a single integrated unit that attaches securely. The garment bag wraps around the suitcase and is held in place by straps with buckles, creating a unified luggage system that prevents clothes from wrinkling while eliminating the need to carry separate bags.
3Quantity of substance
If garment bag is made larger to store more garments, then storage capacity increases, but the bag becomes harder to maneuver and position
Solution Approach 1:
The garment bag utilizes the three-dimensional space around the suitcase by wrapping around it. This configuration provides additional storage capacity without significantly increasing the overall dimensions of the luggage unit, maintaining ease of maneuvering while maximizing garment storage space.
4Ease of manufacture
If conventional rectangular garment bag is used, then manufacturing is simple, but storage capacity for multiple garments is minimized
Solution Approach 1:
The garment bag transitions from a conventional rectangular shape to a wrap-around configuration that conforms to the curved surface of the suitcase. This dimensional change maximizes the use of available space, allowing storage of multiple garments while maintaining relatively simple construction using flexible material and standard fastening components.
Data Source
AI summary
A universal, wrap-around garment bag including a zippered storage compartment for storing garments therein, a plurality of adjustable straps including quick release fasteners for attaching the wrap-around garment bag to the outer surface of any suitcase, and openings provided at opposite ends of the garment bag for receiving hooks of garment hangers employed at opposite ends of the garment bag to maximize the ability to store more clothes in the storage compartment. In one embodiment, each garment hanger includes a S-shaped hook that slides through an aperture formed within the neck of each garment hanger to removably store the S-shaped hooks within the garment bag, or a conventional garment hanger having a standard curved hook.