Multi-purpose traveling bag

Claim 1

A multi-purpose traveling bag comprising, in combination a substantially rectangular, elongated garment bag portion, said garment bag portion comprising inner and outer flexible panels secured in spaced relation by a comparatively narrow flexible side panel, said inner and outer panels and said side panel defining, together, an interior compartment for hanging clothes, means for opening said interior compartment for the insertion and removal of clothes, a pair of side bag compartment portions of substantially rectangular shape and each having a flexible inside panel, a flexible outside panel and a flexible, peripheral side wall panel defining with said inside and outside panels a second interior compartment, the outside panel of each of said side bag compartment portions being fitted with a zipper strip for opening and closing said side bag compartment portion, zipper means for peripherally attaching said inside panel of said side bag compartment portions, one each, to upper and lower longitudinal end portions, respectively, of said outer panel of said garment bag portion, a briefcase compartment portion of the same rectangular shape as that of said side bag compartment portions, said briefcase compartment portion having a pair of opposed outside panels secured in a spaced relation by a peripheral, flexible, briefcase side wall panel and defining therewith a third interior compartment, zipper means in said peripheral briefcase side wall panel for opening and closing said briefcase interior compartment, zipper means for removably attaching said briefcase compartment portion, face-to-face against said inside panel of said garment bag portion at the lower longitudinal end portion thereof, and zipper means for detachably securing a lower edge portion of said inner panel of said elongated garment bag portion with the upper edge portion thereof upon said elongated garment bag portion being folded double to the inside from bottom to top, hand carrying means at the upper end of said garment bag portion when so folded and secured, said means for opening said interior compartment of said garment bag portion comprising a zipper extending along the upper end of said garment bag portion side panel, and a hook flexibly linked with respect to the inside of said interior compartment of said garment bag portion and extensible through said zipper when partially opened to permit hanging of said garment bag portion from a clothes pole or the like, said zipper means for peripherally attaching said inside panel of said side bag compartment portions being selectively cooperative with said zipper means for removably attaching said briefcase compartment portion against said inside panel of said garment bag portion, selectively, to detachably secure said side bag compartment portions, one each, to the sides of said briefcase compartment portion, said zipper strip for opening and closing each of said side bag compartment portions following a U-shaped course closely spaced to the peripheral sides and top of said side bag compartment portions to permit the opening and closing of said side bag compartment outside panels, and hand grip means extending outwardly of the upper end of said briefcase compartment portion.