[0001] The present invention relates to a carrying device for facilitating the carrying
of various packages of goods.
[0002] Currently the typical package to be carried is for example a corrugated cardboard
box. The supplier closes the box with an adhesive tape, but it is not provided with
string which would help to carry the box. Similar burdens which are troublesome to
carry are for instance all sacks, bags and other such bundles not provided with a
handle.
[0003] When the size or weight of such a package surpasses the measures which are easily
carried under the arm, the burden must be carried with both hands, in which case every
key, lock, door and elevator presents an obstuction so that the carrier must release
one hand by placing the package on the ground. After the obstruction is cleared, the
carrier must again bow down and lift the package with both hands.
[0004] If the burden to be carried is formed of several similar or different packages, the
carrying is even more difficult unless they are tied together with string to form
one uniform burden. If this is done, or even if the original package were provided
with a string, the fact is that the heavier the burden and the longer the carrying
distance, the more the string cuts into the fingers of the carrier.
[0005] One solution for the aforementioned problem is introduced in the US Patent Publication
2 608 328. It consists of an articulated carrying handle composed of two parts, and
two lengths of spring attached to both ends of the handle. Thus the device is provided
with two separate pieces of string. Both strings are once tied around the package
to be carried and thereafter locked to respective ends of the handle by means of
passing the string to under two fastening tongues.
[0006] In the solution of the present invention, which is simpler than the one described
below, the carrying handle is also placed on top of the package and in the middle
thereof. The string provided in the device and attached to its other end is tied,
at two separate points, parallelly around the package via the hooks located in the
handle, whereafter the string is locked in the locking member arranged at one end
of the handle, which locking member is advantageously a downwards narrowing locking
groove.
[0007] In a preferred embodiment of the invention, both ends of the handle are provided
with locking members which are for example locking grooves, so that the string is
not permanently fastened to either end of the handle. In another and more advantageous
embodiment, however, one end of the string is essentially permanently fastened to
one end of the handle, in which case the string is always carried together with the
handle.
[0008] In the following the invention is explained in more detail with reference to the
appended drawing, which is an illustration of the carrying device of the invention,
fastened around a package.
[0009] The carrying device illustrated in the drawing comprises the carrying handle 1 and
the string 3 and the hook 4 attached to the first end 2 of the handle 1, as well as
the hook 6 and the locking groove 7 provided at the second end 5 of the handle 1.
[0010] The device is operated as follows. The handle is placed against the package to be
carried. The string 3 attached to the first end 2 of the handle 1 is tied around the
package, whereafter it is passed via the hook 4 located on the opposite side of the
same end of the handle, then via the similar hook 6 located on the same side of the
other end 5 of the handle and again around the package; then the string is attached
to the locking groove 7 of the handle.
1. A carrying device for facilitating the carrying of various packages of goods, the
said device comprising a carrying handle (1) provided with strings to be fastened
to the package, characterized in that the carrying handle (1) consists of a string (3) and a hook (4) attached
to the first end (2) thereof, and a hook (6) and a locking member (7) attached to
the second end (5) thereof, so that the string (3) can be passed, at the first end
(2), around the package, and via the hooks (4, 6) another time around the package,
whereafter the string (3) can be fastened to the locking member (7).
2. The carrying device of claim 1, characterized in that the locking member (7) is a downwards narrowing locking groove, the edges
of the groove being provided with sharp denticles (8) which are bent downwards, in
a slanted fashion, in the pulling direction of the string.
