Combined securing and identifying luggage binder strip

Abstract

An elongated binder strip of tough stretchy material which is colored or patterned or imprinted with figures in a highly visible unique way for instant identification. It is bound tightly and adjustably around the luggage and secured by spaced mating hook and loop fastener strips attached to overlapping ends of the binder strip. One or more binder strips secure the luggage closed in case the latch should pop open in transit. A binder strip over each latch prevents tampering and latch opening.

1 . A luggage identifier and safety binder strip device comprises: 
 at least one elongated binder strip fabricated of a stretchy binding material in an elongated rectangular configuration with the two ends each having an end edge orthogonal to the elongated parallel sides, the at least one elongated binder strip configured of a length and width structured to be bound tightly around a piece of luggage with the ends overlapping to bind a luggage top to a luggage bottom in a closed position and to cover a latch of the piece of luggage, the at least one elongated binder strip comprising an exterior waterproof surface having a unique visual identification indicator imprinted thereon so that a traveler will be able to identify his or her luggage, the overlapping ends secured together by an adjustable attaching means comprising spaced mating hook and loop fastener strips with a first series of strips of a first mating portion of the mating hook and loop fasteners positioned in a spaced array transversely across a first end on a first side of the at least one elongated binder strip with all of the ends of the first series of strips coincident with the elongated sides and an outer most strip of the first series of strips coincident with the first end edge, and a second series of strips of a second mating portion of the mating hook and loop fasteners positioned in a spaced array longitudinally along the length of a second end of the binder strip on a second side of the at least one elongated binder strip with all of the outer ends of the second series of strips coincident with the second end edge and two outer strips coincident with the two elongated sides so that the ends of the at least one elongated binder strip are secured to each other with no edges loose to avoid accidental lifting of the ends, the ends overlapped a desired amount to adjust the tension of the binder strip around the piece of luggage to bind the top to the bottom of the piece of luggage to secure the luggage in a closed position and to cover a luggage latch to prevent tampering with the luggage latch and to prevent opening of the luggage latch, and to provide a unique visual identification indicator for a user of the luggage; the at least one elongated binder strip having a transverse opening therethrough to allow a handle of the piece of luggage to protrude out through the transverse opening for carrying the piece of luggage.    
   
   
       2 . The device of  claim 1  wherein the piece of luggage comprises two latches each adjacent to one of two opposing ends of the piece of luggage and comprising two elongated binder strips each having the same unique visual identification indicator imprinted on an exterior surface, each of the two elongated binder strips covering one of the two latches.  
   
   
       3 . The device of  claim 1  wherein the unique visual identification indicator comprises at least one of the following list of unique visual identification indicators including a unique color, a unique pattern, a unique design, a unique image, a unique indicia, a unique letter, a unique combination of letters, a unique word, and a unique combination of words.