IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR SECURING THE FRAME CARRYING THE FITTINGS IN TRAVELLING BAGS
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Louis Augustus Leins, of Bucklersbury, in the City
of London, Travelling Bag Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR SECURING THE FRAME CARRYING THE FITTINGS IN TRAVELLING
BAGS."
Sealed the 19th September 1865, and dated the 23rd March 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Louis Augustus Leins at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
23rd March 1865.
I, LOUIS AUGUSTUS LEINS, of Bucklersbury, in the City of London, Tra-
velling Bag Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR SECURING THE FRAME CARRYING THE FITTINGS IN.
TRAVELLING BAGS," to be as follows:-
I form the frame with four legs, two at each end, extending outwards from
the centre. I prefer that the legs terminate in square feet, but they may be
of other shape. To each foot I fit a spring, loop, or stirrup. To the bottom
of the bag I fit a plate or foundation to receive the feet, one plate for each
pair of feet, and on each plate I fit a pair of spring bolts or catches with the
outer ends sloped. To secure the frame, place the feet on the foundation
plates, and force down the loops, when they will be held securely by the
spring bolts. To remove the frame, draw back the bolts by studs provided
for the purpose, and the loops will spring up, when the frame will be free to
be lifted.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Louis Augustus Leins in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
23rd September 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LOUIS
AUGUSTUS LEINS, of Bucklersbury, in the City of London, Travelling Bag
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Louis Augustus Leins, Her special licence that I, the said Louis
Augustus Leins, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said Louis Augustus Leins, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR SECURING THE FRAME CARRYING THE FITTINGS IN
TRAVELLING BAGS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Louis
Augustus Leins, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent,
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Louis Augustus Leins, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say :-
I form the frame with four legs, two at each end, extending outwards from
the centre. I prefer that the legs terminate in square feet, but they may be
of other shape. To each foot I fit a spring, loop, or stirrup. To the bottom
of the bag I fit a plate or foundation to receive the feet, one plate for each
pair of feet, and on each plate I fit a pair of spring bolts or catches with the
outer ends sloped.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a perspective view of a travelling
bag, and of the frame carrying the fittings, constructed with my improved

page_text: apparatus for securing the frame; Figure 2 is an end elevation of a portion
of the frame, detached; Figure 3 is a plan of one end of the frame, with the
legs in section, and of the plate or foundation which receives the feet;
Figure 4 is a plan, and Figure 5 a side elevation, of the plate or foundation
with the frame carrying the fittings removed, and showing the spring bolts or
catches.
.
A, A, is the bag, and B, B, the frame carrying the fittings; this frame is
formed with two legs C, C, at each end, extending outwards as shown; each
leg C terminates in a square foot D, the under side of which is formed with
two pins or projections a to take into corresponding holes in the foundation
plate. Each foot D is fitted with a spring, loop, or stirrup E. To the
bottom of the bag 1 fit two foundation plates F, F, one for each pair of feet D,
and on each of these plates I fit a pair of spring bolts or catches G, G, with
their outer ends sloped and undercut, as shown. To secure the frame B in
the bag place the feet D on the foundation plates F, so that the pins a on the
feet may enter the corresponding holes 6 in the plates, and force down the
loops E, whereby the bolts G are pushed inwards until the loops have passed
them, when they are again forced out by their springs, and hold the loops
securely, the inner plate of each loop is thinned, as shown, to receive the spring
bolt. To remove the frame from the bag, draw the bolts G by studs c
thereon, the loops E will spring up, and the frame will be free to be lifted.
H, H, are strengthening bars or supports for the legs C, C; they each carry a
bracket I to assist in holding the centre piece J, to which the compartments
for the fittings are attached.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim constructing
apparatus for securing the frame carrying the fittings in travelling bags,
substantially as herein-before described, and represented in the accompanying
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Louis Augustus Leins, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of September, One thousand
L. A. LEINS. (L.S.)