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Vacuum-luggage
Have sealed luggage, with a pump, to aid packing efficiency | |
So, when I travel, I take those huge zip loc bags with the
valve in that you can pack a lot of clothes into then kneel
on to squish the air out. I take two, one full of clean
clothes and one empty that slowly fills with dirty clothes
as
the trip progresses. I recommend this. However, it
would
be even cooler if the suitcase itself could perform the
same task.
So, have a suitcase with an air-tight zip-up opening.
Then, when you've packed it, you can close it up and
pump
out the air. I haven't decided if the pump should utilize
the
telescopic handle, or if a wheel-driven device would be
better, them's details though.
The case would be as small as it possibly could be, it
would
be more secure, because it would be obvious if it had
been
opened. As an added bonus, this will really annoy the
TSA,
which has to be a good thing.
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I don't see why this is better than the vacuum
bags. |
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Maybe I am missing something. You're packing,
and you squeeze all your clothes into the relevant
compartments, yes? Then you close the case and
pump out the air. And what? The case gets
smaller? |
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And if it has an inbuilt pump (what about the
weight?), why is more secure? If it were opened,
the opener would just repeat the vacuuming
process and leave it as it was before, no? |
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Presumably the vacuum is so high the tamperer is pulled bodily into the case by rush of air. Not much of a call for freeze-dried TSA officials jerky. |
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With the use of concertina-style sides, the WHOLE
case would get smaller, as it is I cram my clothing
down and then the bags kind of rattle around inside
the standard case. I like the fact that it would make
everything super snug. |
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As for theft, I'm thinking more about the fact that
casually slipping a laptop out whatever would be a bit
more difficult, it'd be hard to do it discreetly. |
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// I don't see why this is better than the vacuum
bags.
// |
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I think the advantage lies in making the luggage itself
smaller yet having a high capacity, and in doing away with
the individual packaged in favor of a single-piece system. |
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Taking the concertina-style sides a step further, if the case
was constructed of semi-articulated hard plates
connected by flexible membranes, it would collapse and
lock into a uniform and resilient shape once vacuumed out.
The pump itself could be built right into the casing and
operated by a fold-out foot pedal. |
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//as it is I cram my clothing down and then the bags
kind of rattle around inside the standard case.// |
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Have you considered buying a smaller case? And, for
that matter, why are you compacting your clothes in
order to fit them into a too-large case? |
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//operated by a fold-out foot pedal// |
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No, the telescopic handle already looks and
functions quite a lot like a bike pump, just add a
function to that. |
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//Have you considered buying a smaller case?// |
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Well, I tend to have asymmetric loads. Usually
pretty empty one way and full of McVitties
caramel chocolate digestives the other. |
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I recently went on a trip to see relatives in Nigeria. A distant relative who was evidently an heir to a vast fortune. |
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Anyway, I found that, not wanting to pay excess luggage fees, my biggest limitation was in the weight, not the volume of luggage. I had the biggest cases I could bring without a fine, and when I filled them, they were a little over weight. I had to take stuff out. |
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Vacuum packing would allow me to bring slightly smaller cases, but that would only really help in getting the luggage in and out of my kidnappers cars. The airlines don't mind. |
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But you could boobytrap your vacuum luggage:
kidnapper opens case, enormous vacuum sucks him
in, you slam the case shut, job done and jam for
tea. |
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I love this! Bun. And to answer some detractors:
//I don't see why this is better than the vacuum
bags. // because vacuum bags shrink evenly from
their soft expanded form to their hardened
shrunken form, thus generally pulling away from
the edges of outer bag, wasting space. |
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What I want is just a modified airtight hardcase
with a bellows near the zipper/closure, so that I
could just put all the clothes in, close it up then
pump or just push all the air out by sitting on it. |
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Surely sucking the air out would reduce the weight of the case, thus taking you just below the permitted weight allowance? |
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If it doesn't reduce the weight enough, just suck a bit more out. |
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I knew this was about a better mouse trap. |
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If you're careless enough to put anything in, I guess it won't matter if it becomes melange compress. [+] |
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