Abstract: Sitting bench for public facilities, such as parks, street, waiting rooms and lounges on subways, airports or the like, having two or more interconnected stands exhibiting the approximate configuration of seats, equipped with floor or wall fastening elements and serving to support the seat slats, which together form the seating surface. The seat slats are triangular in cross section. The stands are equipped with corresponding acutely angled, V-shaped supports or receiving grooves to which the slats are fastened by screws penetrating the supports in the area of their points. A bead is provided on the outer edge of the stands and the floor or wall fastening elements are half-shells divided in their longitudinal center plane and equipped with a clamping groove to grip the bead.

Abstract: A bicycle pannier is securably fastened to the luggage rack of a bicycle. The pannier includes a container open at the top end thereof and a lid hinged to the container and adapted to sealably enclose the top end of the container. The lid and the container each include complimentary oblique passages permitting a locking ring to be inserted therethrough for locking the pannier to the bicycle. The complimentary passages also serve as a handle for manually transporting the pannier.