Backpack for boots and ski equipment

Abstract

A backpack for stowing boots and carrying skis or snowboards, including a body having a generally trapezoidal rear wall, a rectangular top wall, a rectangular bottom wall, a front wall having a rubberized outer surface, and quadrilateral side walls; a pair of internal flexible boot pockets associated with the quadrilateral side walls and having an internal vertical side wall, internal front and rear walls, the internal walls being interconnected at first edges and sewn along their peripheral outer edges to the side edges of the top, bottom, rear, and front walls, whereby a selectively openable and closeable boot compartment is formed by each of the quadrilateral side walls and the pockets.

1 . A backpack for boots and skis or snowboards, comprising:
 (a) a body having a generally trapezoidal rear wall, a rectangular top wall, a rectangular bottom wall, a front wall having a rubberized outer surface, and quadrilateral side walls;   (b) the top wall being articulated to the rear wall upper edge and the front wall upper edge;   (c) the bottom wall being articulated to the rear wall lower edge and the front wall lower edge;   (d) the side walls being articulated to the vertical end edges of the rear wall and horizontal end edges of the bottom wall;   (e) zipper means selectively connecting the top and front edges of the side walls to the side edges of the top and front panels;   (f) a pair of internal flexible boot pockets associated with side walls and having an internal vertical side wall, internal front and rear walls, said internal walls being interconnected at first edges and sewn along their peripheral outer edges to the side edges of the top, bottom, rear, and front walls, whereby a selectively openable and closeable boot compartment is formed by each of said side walls and said pockets.   
   
   
       2 . A backpack for boots and skis or snowboards of  claim 1 , in which
 (a) an access panel is formed in said top panel and is selectively fastened thereto by a U-shaped zipper means whereby access is provided to the interior of the body between the boot pockets when the zipper means is opened.   
   
   
       3 . A backpack for boots and skis or snowboards of  claim 1 , in which
 (a) adjustable straps extending across the width of the front wall are secured in spaced relation at the upper and lower portions thereof.   
   
   
       4 . A backpack for boots and skis or snowboards of  claim 1 , in which
 (a) a ski strap loop fastening means is secured at a juncture of the top and front walls.   
   
   
       5 . A backpack for boots and skis or snowboards of  claim 1 , in which
 (a) a carrying handle is secured to the top wall; and   (b) shoulder straps are secured to the rear wall.