Rear entry bladder for user-borne athletic packs
View Patent ↗A user-borne athletic pack having an easy to access water/liquid bladder through a rear entry back-flap is presented. A construction of the athletic pack allows for a separate rear compartment containing the bladder to be accessed by unfastening of a back-flap. The rear compartment is separated from the front compartment via material integrally connected on the inside of the athletic pack. The rear access back-flap and rear compartment allows for unhindered access, storage and control of the water bladder in either its full or empty state.
1. A rear-entry athletic pack allowing for access to, and storage and control of, a liquids bladder, the rear-entry athletic pack comprising:
a rear side, the rear side residing against the back of a wearer of the rear-entry athletic pack when correctly worn;
a back-side flap, the back-side flap generally following along an entire distance of and openable along at least three-quarters of the outside circumference contour of the rear side;
a rear bladder compartment, accessed by the back-side flap;
a mesh webbing, connected at a bottom end and opposing sides of an interior perimeter of the back-side flap and having at least one cut-out defining an opening at a bottom corner of the mesh webbing;
at least one fastener, positioned near a top end of an interior perimeter of the back-side flap;
a liquids bladder, removably secured flush against the back-side flap by the mesh webbing and the at least one fastener, and
a hose, through which the liquids bladder's contents may be drawn, attached to the liquids bladder and routed through the at least one cut-out of the mesh webbing to outside of the rear-entry athletic pack,
wherein the bottom end and opposing side connections of the mesh webbing to the interior perimeter of the back-side flap removably secures a bottom portion of the liquids bladder in position when the liquids bladder is placed inside the mesh webbing, and
wherein the at least one fastener is threaded through at least one slot hole formed through a top portion of the liquids bladder and thereby removably secures a top portion of the liquids bladder in position.
2. The athletic pack according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a material barrier, integrally connected to an interior of the athletic pack and which operates to separate the rear bladder compartment from a remainder of the interior space.
3. The athletic pack according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a means for fastening the back-side flap to the rear side.
4. The athletic pack according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a bladder cap, removably fitted to the liquids bladder and positioned so as to be on a side of the liquids bladder which is away from the athletic pack's wearer's back.
5. The athletic pack according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a piece of elastic, integrally connected to the mesh webbing, which biases the liquids bladder against the back-side flap.
6. The athletic pack according to claim 1 , further comprising:
at least one panel, allowing for insertion of a stiffener, residing in the back-side flap.
7. The athletic pack according to claim 1 , wherein the rear bladder compartment is insulated.