Wheeled suitcase with extendable handle means

Claim 1

A traveling suitcase comprising a top section and a bottom section, said bottom section having upstanding opposed front and rear walls, and first and second opposed side walls, all normally intersecting at their extremities and a base perpendicular to each of said walls, thus defining a box, a pair of spaced apart openings in the first of said side walls, each communicating with one of a pair of elongated laterally spaced apart handle receiving compartments, both of which compartments are disposed along the interior surface of one each of said front and rear walls, respectively, at least one wheel receiving compartment disposed along the interior surface of the second of said walls with access thereto being from the exterior of said second side wall, a pair of openings in said second side wall one of which communicates with each wheel receiving compartment, a wheelplate assembly comprising a plate having at least one wheel bracket mounted thereon, with at least one wheel rotatably mounted in said bracket, the number of brackets corresponding to the number of wheel receiving compartments, said plate being hingedly secured to said bottom section, and releasably orientable from a storage position to an operative position, said wheels and brackets being adapted to fit into said wheel receiving compartments, when said plate is in the storage position and, an extendable handle member having a pair of interconnected arms each extendably secured within a respective handle receiving compartment, an extendable support member having a pair of parallel extendable legs each extendably secured within a respective handle receiving compartment, each leg being pivotally connected to one of said arms at the extremity of each arm and leg, said legs adapted to pivot upon extension with said arms to a generally normal position to said arms, from the connection at the extremity of each of said legs with each of said arms.