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Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 21st May, 1896
Complete Specification Left 22nd Feb. 1897 Accented 15th May 1807
We WILLIAM EVAN LEECE of No. 14 Allerton Road Tranmere in the County of
Chester Book-keeper and WILLIAM BOWEN CHRISTOPHER of No. 27 Cadogan Street
Liverpool in the County of Lancaster, Agent to a Sack and Bag Maker, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Improvements in the form and construction of sacks or bags by making the
bottoms of them of wood, the wooden bottom being in one or more pieces to which
the bottom of the bag is nailed.
The advantages claimed are
(a) Simplicity of manufacture, the body of the bag (made from a textile fabric)
requiring less shaping than when continuous with the bottom.
(b) Greater durability, the wooden bottoms resisting damp or hot materials better
than the woven bottoms.
(c) The bottoms may be renewed if necessary or utilized over and over again with
new tops if so required.
Dated this Twentieth day of May 1896.
WILLIAM E. LEECE,
W. B. CHRISTOPHER.
We, WILLIAM EVAN LEECE of No. 14 Allerton Road Tranmere in the County of
Chester Book-keeper and WILLIAM BOWEN CHRISTOPHER of No. 27 Cadogan Street
Liverpool in the County of Lancaster, Agent to a Sack and Bag Maker do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to improvements in the form and construction of bags or
sacks said improvements being made more especially in connection with ash bags,
though some of them are equally applicable to all kinds of bags and sacks.
The improvements consist of making the bottoms of the sacks or bags of a seperate
stronger material than that of which the bodies is made & hinged.
Referring to the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 illustrates one of our wooden or other hinged bottoms, made ready to
receive the textile body of the bag, which being secured to it will make a complete
bag.
Figure 2 represents a bag made according to our improvements with a plain
cylindrical body and a hinged bottom.
Figures 3, 4 & 5 represent roped bags made, in different processes of construction
according to our improvements.
Figure to represents the bottom view of a bag made on our principal showing how
the roping looks from the bottoms.

page_text: For the purpose of illustrating our invention we will first make a bag but with
the bottom hinged, & of wood, and in two parts. We commence by getting two
semicircular pieces of wood of the proper sizes hinged as in Figure 1. The bag is
made by sewing together the fabric of the body of the bag in a cylindrical form.
and then securing it by means of screws nails or other fastenings to the bottom already
made or to be made. For a roped bag we obtain a bottom as required, we will
suppose a wooden one hinged as before. We cut the sacking into two pieces suitable
for forming the body of the bag as before. Proceeding to form the bag, go on to
hem the pieces in each end. We then lay one piece on top of the other and then go
on to rope the bag. This at the same time sews the seams up where roped. This is
preferably done as in Figure 3. When the rope is sewn up to the top of the bag
enough slack is left to form a handle and the rope is brought down as is also shown
in Figure 3. We now leave enough rope to form a becket to clear the bottom (when
it is fixed,) and bring the rope up on the other side as shown by the arrows in
Figure 3, leaving enough at the top to form a handle. Then we bring together the
edges of the bag EE &e e sewing them up as was done in bringing the rope up
for the first time. The previously prepared bottom is put inside the bottom of the
body of the bag; and fastened by nails, screws or other suitable fastenings: if the
bottom is of metal it may be done with eyelets and cord or wire.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
(1) As a new article of manufacture, a bag or sack the body of which is formed of
a textile material whilst the bottom is formed of a harder material hinged, substantially
as and for the purpose described.
(2) The hinging of the bottom so that the bag may stow comparatively or
absolutely flat when not in use.
Dated th
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W. E. LEECE.
W. B. CHRISTOPHER.