OFF THE FLOOR FASHION HANDBAG
An off the floor fashion handbag utilizes a suspension pocket integrated into an upper portion of a bag sidewall and containing a relatively thin, but high powered attracter (such as a magnet) that has sufficient attractive force to hold the off the floor fashion handbag and its contents tightly against an attachment surface that attracts a magnet so that the bag is suspended therefrom. The high powered attracter can be a strong magnet made from neodymium or any similar material that can make a strong, relatively permanent magnet. The suspension pocket can be inaccessible by being built into the handbag sidewall permanently; for example, it can be located between an outer layer and an inner liner of the fashion handbag. In an alternate embodiment, the suspension pocket can be user-accessible so that the owner can remove and/or replace the high powered attracter as needed.
This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 62/414,770 entitled “OFF THE FLOOR FASHION HANDBAG” and filed on Oct. 30, 2016, which is specifically incorporated by reference herein for all that it discloses and teaches.
TECHNICAL FIELDThe invention relates generally to the field of fashion handbags, and more particularly, to an off the floor fashion handbag that can be suspended from a table, wall, etc. by means of a high powered attracter (such as a magnet).
BACKGROUNDIn today's world, people often carry with them a handbag, clutch, purse, diaper bag, backpack, tote, and many other similar types of relatively small sacks (collectively, “bags”) to hold essentials such as keys, wallets, medications, makeup, etc. However, when both hands are needed for other activities, it can pose a problem: how to hold onto the bag if it has no straps, etc. that would otherwise allow it to be hung from the body? Alternatively, even if a strap or handle is present, there are times when it is simply inconvenient or impractical to employ the strap/handle. These problems become much more significant if there is no clean, secure surface on which to set the bag, for example, when one is in a restroom stall. Furthermore, there are times when it is much more convenient to have the bag hung at whatever height is desired in a nearby location so one can search through it with both hands, again, without setting the bag down on the floor or other unclean and/or inconvenient surface.
What is needed is an enhanced bag that can support itself off of the floor, table, or other generally horizontal surface without additional straps or other encumbrances so that the bag stays clean and the contents of the bag remain within proximity to the owner without requiring space on a table, counter, lap, or other not necessarily convenient surface.
SUMMARYOne embodiment of the present invention comprises an off the floor fashion handbag that utilizes a suspension pocket integrated into an upper portion of a bag sidewall and containing a relatively thin, but high powered attracter (such as a magnet) that has sufficient attractive force to hold the off the floor fashion handbag and its contents tightly against an attachment surface (which can be vertical, angled, horizontal, curved, etc.) which attracts a magnet so that it is suspended therefrom. The high powered attracter can be a strong magnet made from neodymium or any similar material that can be a strong, relatively permanent magnet. The suspension pocket can be inaccessible by being built into the handbag sidewall permanently; for example, it can be located between an outer layer and an inner liner of the fashion handbag. In an alternate embodiment, the suspension pocket can be user-accessible so that the owner can remove and/or replace the high powered attracter as needed.
The aforementioned and other features and objects of the present invention and the manner of attaining them will become more apparent and the invention itself will be best understood by reference to the following descriptions of a preferred embodiment and other embodiments taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein:
In the following discussion, numerous specific details are set forth to provide a thorough understanding of the present disclosure. However, those skilled in the art will appreciate that embodiments may be practiced without such specific details. Furthermore, lists and/or examples may be provided and should be interpreted as exemplary only and in no way limiting embodiments to only those examples.
Exemplary embodiments are described below and in the accompanying Figures. The following detailed description provides a review of the drawing Figures in order to provide a thorough understanding of, and an enabling description for, these embodiments. One having ordinary skill in the art will understand that in some cases well-known structures and functions have not been shown or described in detail to avoid unnecessarily obscuring the description of the embodiments.
Turning now to the Drawings,
The suspension pocket can be integrated into an upper portion of a handbag sidewall and should contain a strong, but relatively thin high powered attracter (such as a magnet) that has sufficient attractive force to hold the OFF bag 100 and its contents tightly against the magnet-attracting surface. There are many different materials from which strong magnets are constructed. In one embodiment, the OFF bag 100 utilizes a neodymium magnet or any similar material that can be a strong, relatively permanent magnet. A neodymium magnet is a permanent magnet made from an alloy of neodymium, iron and boron to form the Nd2Fe14B tetragonal crystalline structure.
The suspension pocket can be inaccessible by being built into the handbag sidewall permanently; for example, it can be located between an outer layer and an inner liner of the fashion handbag as illustrated in
In an alternate embodiment, the high powered attracter 130 can be placed where the external attracter 120 is shown in
In an embodiment having an outer attracter 120, the outer magnet can be shaped and/or colored so as to appear decorative since it is visible on the outside of the OFF bag. For example, the outer attracter 120 can be made to resemble a star, an animal (e.g., a koala), or some other decorative device or “bling”.
Although the outer magnet 120 in
While particular embodiments of the invention have been described and disclosed in the present application, it should be understood that any number of permutations, modifications, or embodiments may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of this invention. Accordingly, it is not the intention of this application to limit this invention in any way except as by the appended claims.
Particular terminology used when describing certain features or aspects of the invention should not be taken to imply that the terminology is being redefined herein to be restricted to any specific characteristics, features, or aspects of the invention with which that terminology is associated, unless specifically noted. In general, the terms used in the following claims should not be construed to limit the invention to the specific embodiments disclosed in the specification, unless the above “Detailed Description” section explicitly defines such terms. Accordingly, the actual scope of the invention encompasses not only the disclosed embodiments, but also all equivalent ways of practicing or implementing the invention.
The above detailed description of the embodiments of the invention is not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the invention to the precise embodiment or form disclosed herein or to the particular field of usage mentioned in this disclosure. While specific embodiments of, and examples for, the invention are described above for illustrative purposes, various equivalent modifications are possible within the scope of the invention, as those skilled in the relevant art will recognize. Also, the teachings of the invention provided herein can be applied to other systems, not necessarily the system described above. The elements and acts of the various embodiments described above can be combined to provide further embodiments.
In light of the above “Detailed Description,” the inventor may make changes to the invention. While the detailed description outlines possible embodiments of the invention and discloses the best mode contemplated, no matter how detailed the above appears in text, the invention may be practiced in a myriad of ways. Thus, implementation details may vary considerably while still being encompassed by the spirit of the invention as disclosed by the inventor. As discussed herein, specific terminology used when describing certain features or aspects of the invention should not be taken to imply that the terminology is being redefined herein to be restricted to any specific characteristics, features, or aspects of the invention with which that terminology is associated, unless so specified.
While certain aspects of the invention are presented below in certain claim forms, the inventor contemplates the various aspects of the invention in any number of claim forms. Accordingly, the inventor reserves the right to add additional claims after filing the application to pursue such additional claim forms for other aspects of the invention.
The above specification, examples and data provide a description of the structure and use of exemplary implementations of the described articles of manufacture and methods. It is important to note that many implementations can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
Claims
1. An off the floor fashion handbag, comprising:
- a handbag outer material defining an exterior wall of the handbag and having an external surface covering;
- a handbag inner lining attached in at least one location to the exterior wall;
- a suspension pocket located between the inner lining and the exterior wall and forming an interior space therebetween;
- the suspension pocket configured to hold therein a high powered attracter; and
- the high powered attracter comprising a high strength magnet placed within the suspension pocket and configured such that the off the floor fashion handbag is suspended by placing the suspension pocket in proximity to an attachment surface thereby causing the high powered attracter within the suspension pocket to be attracted to the attachment surface, thereby sandwiching the outer material between the high powered attracter and the attachment surface and suspending the off the floor fashion handbag thereby so that the handbag does not rest on a bottom portion of the off the floor fashion handbag, but instead is suspended from the attachment surface.
2. The off the floor fashion handbag of claim 1 wherein the attachment surface comprises one of a second magnet and a surface which attracts magnets.
3. The off the floor fashion handbag of claim 1, further comprising:
- an external attracter positioned on the external surface covering and attracted to the high powered attracter by magnetic forces such that the external attracter is held in place by the magnetic attractive forces therebetween and the external attracter can be placed against the attachment surface to suspend the handbag from the attachment surface.
4. The off the floor fashion handbag of claim 2, further comprising:
- an external attracter positioned on the external surface covering and attracted to the high powered attracter by magnetic forces such that the external attracter is held in place by the magnetic attractive forces therebetween and the external attracter can be placed against the attachment surface to suspend the handbag from the attachment surface.
5. The off the floor fashion handbag of claim 1, wherein the the high powered attracter is permanently sealed inside the suspension pocket.
6. The off the floor fashion handbag of claim 1, wherein the the high powered attracter is removably sealed inside the suspension pocket, and the suspension pocket can be opened and accessed by a user.
7. The off the floor fashion handbag of claim 4, wherein the the high powered attracter is permanently sealed inside the suspension pocket.
8. The off the floor fashion handbag of claim 4, wherein the the high powered attracter is removably sealed inside the suspension pocket, and the suspension pocket can be opened and accessed by a user.
9. An off the floor fashion handbag, comprising:
- a handbag outer material defining an exterior wall of the handbag and having an external surface covering;
- a handbag inner lining attached in at least one location to the exterior wall;
- a suspension pocket attached to an inside of the inner lining and having an interior space therein;
- the suspension pocket configured to hold within the interior space a high powered attracter; and
- the high powered attracter comprising a high strength magnet placed within the suspension pocket and configured such that the off the floor fashion handbag is suspended by placing the suspension pocket in proximity to an attachment surface thereby causing the high powered attracter within the suspension pocket to be attracted to the attachment surface, thereby sandwiching the outer material between the high powered attracter and the attachment surface and suspending the off the floor fashion handbag thereby so that the handbag does not rest on a bottom portion of the off the floor fashion handbag, but instead is suspended from the attachment surface.
10. The off the floor fashion handbag of claim 9 wherein the attachment surface comprises one of a second magnet and a surface which attracts magnets.
11. The off the floor fashion handbag of claim 9, further comprising:
- an external attracter positioned on the external surface covering and attracted to the high powered attracter by magnetic forces such that the external attracter is held in place by the magnetic attractive forces therebetween and the external attracter can be placed against the attachment surface to suspend the handbag from the attachment surface.
12. The off the floor fashion handbag of claim 10, further comprising:
- an external attracter positioned on the external surface covering and attracted to the high powered attracter by magnetic forces such that the external attracter is held in place by the magnetic attractive forces therebetween and the external attracter can be placed against the attachment surface to suspend the handbag from the attachment surface.
13. The off the floor fashion handbag of claim 9, wherein the the high powered attracter is permanently sealed inside the suspension pocket.
14. The off the floor fashion handbag of claim 10, wherein the the high powered attracter is removably sealed inside the suspension pocket, and the suspension pocket can be opened and accessed by a user.
15. The off the floor fashion handbag of claim 12, wherein the the high powered attracter is permanently sealed inside the suspension pocket.
16. The off the floor fashion handbag of claim 12, wherein the the high powered attracter is removably sealed inside the suspension pocket, and the suspension pocket can be opened and accessed by a user.
17. An off the floor fashion handbag, comprising:
- a handbag outer material defining an exterior wall of the handbag and having an external surface covering;
- a handbag inner lining attached in at least one location to the exterior wall;
- a suspension pocket attached to the external surface covering of the outer material, the suspension pocket having an interior space therein;
- the suspension pocket configured to hold within the interior space a high powered attracter; and
- the high powered attracter comprising a high strength magnet placed within the suspension pocket and configured such that the off the floor fashion handbag is suspended by placing the suspension pocket in proximity to an attachment surface thereby causing the high powered attracter within the suspension pocket to be attracted to the attachment surface and suspending the off the floor fashion handbag thereby so that the handbag does not rest on a bottom portion of the off the floor fashion handbag, but instead is suspended from the attachment surface.
18. The off the floor fashion handbag of claim 17 wherein the attachment surface comprises one of a second magnet and a surface which attracts magnets.
19. The off the floor fashion handbag of claim 18, further comprising:
- an external attracter positioned on the external surface covering and attracted to the high powered attracter by magnetic forces such that the external attracter is held in place by the magnetic attractive forces therebetween and the external attracter can be placed against the attachment surface to suspend the handbag from the attachment surface.
20. The off the floor fashion handbag of claim 19, wherein the the high powered attracter is permanently sealed inside the suspension pocket.
Type: Application
Filed: Nov 7, 2017
Publication Date: May 9, 2019
Inventor: Stacy Koguc (Colorado Springs, CO)
Application Number: 15/806,312