Luggage

Claim 1

IN A LUGGAGE CASE FORMED OF A PAIR OF OPPOSED CONCAVE SECTIONS HAVING PERIPHERAL EDGES ADAPTED TO BE POSITIONED IN SUBSTANTIAL JUXTAPOSITION WHEN THE CASE IS CLOSED, THE COMBINATION OF A VALANCE MEMBER SECURED TO THE PERIPHERAL EDGE OF ONE OF THE CASE SECTIONS AND A LATCHING DEVICE ASSOCIATED WITH THE VALANCE MEMBER TO RELEASABLY SECURE THE CASE SECTIONS TO ONE ANOTHER, SAID VALANCE MEMBER BEING INTEGRALLY FORMED AND COMPRISING A LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING WEB THE TOP EXPOSED SURFACE OF WHICH LIES IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE SAME PLACE AS THE PLANE OF THE TOP SURFACE OF THE CASE SECTION TO WHICH IT IS SECURED, A PAIR OF LATERALLY SPACED, LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING FLANGES EXTENDING FROM THE UNDERSIDE OF SIDE WEB PROVIDING AN INTERNAL CHANNEL, SAID LATCHING DEVICE COMPRISING A FLAT MOUNTING PLATE OVERLYING AND IN FLUSH ENGAGEMENT WITH THE TOP SURFACE OF SAID WEB, SAID MOUNTING PLATE HAVING AN APERTURE EXTENDING THERETHROUGH, A FRAME MEMBER SUSPENDED FROM SAID MOUNTING PLATE EXTENDING THROUGH AN APERTURE FORMED IN SAID WEB AND POSITIONED IN SAID INTERNAL CHANNEL, HASP-ENGAGING MEANS INTERMEDIATE THE MOUNTING PLATE AND THE FRAME MEMBER, AND A RESILIENTLY MOUNTED PLUNGER FOR ACTUATING THE HASP-ENGAGING MEANS, SAID PLUNGER HAVING A PUSH BUTTOM PORTION POSITIONED IN SAID MOUNTING PLATE APERTURE, THE TOP SURFACE OF THE PUSH BUTTOM PORTION NORMALLY LYING IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE SAME PLANE AS THE TOP SURFACE OF SAID MOUNTING PLATE.