Travel case for infant supplies

Claim 1

A travel case for infant supplies, said case including an upwardly opening open top housing including opposite side and end walls interconnected at their lower marginal edge portions by means of a bottom wall extending therebetween, a top wall removably positionable over the open upper side of said housing for closing the same, a first pair of generally parallel laterally spaced and upstanding partitions supported in said housing with each extending between corresponding portions of said side walls and spaced longitudinally of the housing from the end walls thereof, thereby dividing the interior of said housing into a pair of opposite end compartments and a central compartment disposed between said partitions, said top wall including downwardly directed opposite end and side flanges extending about the periphery of said top wall, the lower marginal edge of one of said side flanges being pivotally supported from the upper marginal edge of the corresponding side wall of said housing for swinging movement of said top wall into and out of position closing said opEn top housing, and a pair of anchors secured to the undersurface of said top wall at points adjacent said end flanges and spaced apart longitudinally of said top wall, a pair of generally parallel elastic member sections extending between corresponding transversely spaced portions of said top wall, said elastic member sections being adapted to be stretched beneath an article, such as an inverted box of facial tissues, and to thereby yieldingly cradle said article beneath said top wall, said upstanding partitions terminating upwardly a spaced distance below the upper marginal edge portions of said side and end walls and a sufficient distance below said top wall to enable said article to be supported from said top wall above said upstanding partitions, said top wall including a downwardly displaced central portion spaced between said anchors and defining an upwardly open recess in the upper surface of said top wall and an abutment projecting downwardly from the undersurface of said top wall, and a bail-type handle wholly receivable in said recess and pivotally anchored to said central portion.