Abstract: An article of soft luggage, preferably a folding garment bag, has a soft shell forming outer walls, with wheels on the outer bottom wall and a flange and pocket engagement that fixes the bottom walls together when the bag is folded. The bottom wall is partitioned into left and right portions due to folding over of the ends of the bag, which has an inverted U-shape when closed and resting on the wheels. To stiffen the bottom walls of the left and right portions, and provide a mounting for the wheels, relatively stiffer gussets are affixed to the left and right cooperative portions, respectively. The two cooperative portions are connected by a flexible closure such as a zipper when the bag is closed. The zipper or the like defines a flexible seam that normally would permit the cooperative portions to be displaced relative to one another, for example rotating around the longitudinal axis of the zipper, interfering with positioning of the wheels mounted on each cooperative portion.

Abstract: A suitcase has an extendable handle movable between extended and retracted positions, and wheels whereby the suitcase is tilted for transport on the wheels and manipulated via the handle. The case is generally rectilinear in shape, with the top, bottom, front, rear and side panels occupying orthogonal planes. The extensible handle can have a U-shape with spaced elongated arms extending from a central gripping portion and slidable in sockets in the case. The handle and wheels are mounted at the front and rear edges of the bottom wall, and two compartments are accessible by slide fasteners on the top and around an internal partition. The bottom panel is connected to the front and rear panels by front and rear inclined panel sections. The handle sockets are mounted on one inclined panel, permitting the handle to extend and retract. Wheel-carrying brackets are mounted on the other inclined panel, the wheel axes being fixed.

Abstract: A stemware assembly includes bowl, stem and foot portions in which the bowl and stem are made of glass, preferably crystal, and the foot is made of ceramic, preferably china, and further in which the glass stem and the crystal foot are joined together by an adhesive, preferably an ultraviolet-curing adhesive, which is suitably translucent when cured.

Abstract: A suitcase has an extendable handle movable between extended and retracted positions, and wheels whereby the suitcase is tilted for transport on the wheels and manipulated via the handle. The case is generally rectilinear in shape, with the top, bottom, front, rear and side panels occupying orthogonal planes. The extensible handle can have a U-shape with spaced elongated arms extending from a central gripping portion and slidable in sockets in the case. The handle and wheels are mounted at the front and rear edges of the bottom wall, and two compartments are accessible by slide fasteners on the top and around an internal partition. The bottom panel is connected to the front and rear panels by front and rear inclined panel sections. The handle sockets are mounted on one inclined panel, permitting the handle to extend and retract. Wheel-carrying brackets are mounted on the other inclined panel, the wheel axes being fixed.

Abstract: A protective pad for an article of luggage and an article of luggage with a protective pad are disclosed. The pad has a foot section spacing the base from any surface luggage, the foot section spacing the base from any surface underlying the article of luggage when rested thereon. A side guard is integral with the foot section and extends from the foot section, the side guard having a proximal leg to be disposed on the base of the luggage, adjacent the foot section, and a distal leg oriented at an angle to the proximal leg such that the side guard defines a protective projection extending from the luggage at the feet around a lower corner of the article of luggage and up a sidewall. A shank can be embedded in a connecting section molded between the feet, and holes can be provided for receiving fasteners extending through the feet and also through the distal end of the side guard. At least some of the holes and fasteners can be aligned to the side guard, for bearing a tensile load.

Abstract: A trolley clamp for retaining hangers in a garment bag has a rigid frame with an at least partly horizontal lower support bar and is mountable below a top inside of the garment bag. The support carries a plurality of movable hanger-retaining elements between which clothes hangers are captured when the movable elements are abutted against one another. The hanger retaining elements have contoured faces with half-round depressions for matching the contour of the clothes hangers. A pivotable eccentric at the front distal end of the support bar is movable to force the hanger retaining elements into abutment or to allow the hanger retaining elements to separate from one another, allowing space for removal of the clothes hangers.

Abstract: An improved clamp for retaining garment hangers in garment bags of the type having a rigid frame in the shape of a "C" with a top leg, a rear leg and a bottom leg, the top leg and bottom leg being spaced, is arranged such that the bottom leg is inclined downwardly toward a front of the clamp, defining a widening opening toward the front. A clamp bar having a conical eccentric protrusion complementary to the bottom leg is rotatably mounted in the frame between the rear leg and a distal end of the top leg. Users change between an open position wherein the eccentric portion of the clamp bar is turned to one side and thus spaced from the bottom leg, and a closed position wherein the eccentric protruding part of the clamp bar bears against the bottom leg, clamping the hangers in place. The eccentric clamp bar rotates on an axis in a common plane with the lower leg.

Abstract: A clamp for retaining garment hangers in garment bags has rigid frame in the shape of a "C" with a top leg, a rear leg and a bottom leg, the top leg and bottom leg being spaced from one another to admit hangers to be hung on the bottom leg. The frame is mountable at the top inner wall of a garment bag, for receiving garment hangers by their wire hook ends. An eccentric clamp bar rotatably carried in the frame between the rear leg and a distal end of the top leg is movable manually by a user between an open position wherein an eccentric portion of the clamp bar is spaced from the bottom leg, and a closed position wherein the eccentric protruding part of the clamp bar bears against the bottom leg, clamping the hangers in place. The eccentric clamp bar rotates on an axis in a common plane with the lower leg.