摘要 |
A two way towable luggage case comprising a generally parallelepiped body portion having a bottom wall, a top wall, a front wall, a rear wall, and two side walls; said bottom wall having a predetermined longitudinal axis and a predetermined width axis perpendicular to said longitudinal axis; said longitudinal axis defining a first towable direction and said width axis defining a second towable direction; a pair of longitudinally spaced first wheels mounted in fixed axle casters adjacent a first edge of said bottom wall and proximate to said front and rear walls; said first wheels rotating about caster axes parallel to said width axis; a pair of longitudinally spaced second wheels mounted in swivelable casters mounted adjacent a second edge of said bottom wall opposite said first edge; said swivelable casters having swivelable caster axes, whereby said second wheels may rotate on axes parallel to either of said predetermined longitudinal and said predetermined width axes; a telescopic handle associated with said first edge and deployable from a retracted position to a fully extended position; said body being towable by said handle on both said first and second wheels in said longitudinal direction or being towable on said second wheels alone in said width direction with said bottom wall canted from a horizontal plane.
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