Improvements in or connected with Purses.
Year: 1894

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Purses.
A communication by CARL BAUER, of Isny, Wurtemberg, in the Empire of
Germany, Confectioner.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.1.M.E., of the Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors 6 Lord Street Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street,
Manchester, both in the County of Lancaster and 323 High Holborn in the County
of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, 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 has for its object on the one hand to enable small notes to be
made at any time, without it being necessary to carry a special notebook or the
like; and, on the other hand, to allow the person making these notes being always
reminded of the same. This may be effected by attaching a large or small note
tablet at a suitable place inside or outside of a purse, on which tablet small notes
may be made with a pencil, which, if necessary, may be also attached to the purse,
and the notes, when done with, may be rubbed out. It is very frequently necessary
to make small notes and usually there is no notebook or tablet at hand, but a purse
is almost always constantly carried, that is to say, it is almost always at hand and
frequently used, so that a note on or in the same is much less likely to be forgotten
than when made in a notebook or on a separate tablet.
According as the note tablet is to be affixed to the outside or inside of the purse,
it may be either countersunk, or be level with the border or frame.
On the accompanying drawing,
Figures 1 to 4 show various purses provided with note tablets and pencils.
Figure 5 shows a riding purse provided with small note tablets and pencil.
If the note tablets are to be attached to the outside, as already stated, it is
preferable to make them somewhat countersunk in order that when the purse is
carried in the pocket the notes may not be rubbed out. When the note tablet
is placed in the inside of the purse, it is not necessary of course to have the
same countersunk. The note tablets may be made of any suitable material to
correspond with the pencils employed. For instance, for lead pencils, the most
suitable is a leather-like parchment paper, whilst for slate pencil a sheet of metal
covered with a suitable coating or a thin sheet of slate or the like, is more suitable,
but of course any other erasable tablet material usually employed for writing
purposes may be used, or even elastic tablets, such, for instance, as parchinent may
be employed. It is not exactly necessary that a pencil should be annexed, but it is
always preferable, as it frequently happens that, when a pencil is wanted to be
used, there is not one at hand.
On the accompanying drawing, b is the note tablet and where a second is
employed it is indicated by '; c is the pencil; A is the purse and a is the flap
or cover of the same.
In Figures 2 and 4, the note tablets are shown, one in the interior and the other
on the exterior of the purse, but generally speaking one note tablet will suffice.
When it appears desirable to have a larger note tablet, a folding one may be
employed in which, when folded up, the writing surfaces lie one on the other, one
balf of it then forms the cover, when a special cover is not provided.
It is evident that a large number of other arrangements of the note tablet on the
purse may be made without altering the essential part of the invention, which may
be regarded as the attachment of a note tablet, and, if desired, also a pencil, on, or

page_text: in, a purse, as described in the following claim. The advantage of this arrange-
ment on purses is, as already stated at the commencement of this Specification,
that at every opportunity small notes may be made, and also, if desired, obliterated,
which notes would without this device be otherwise frequently omitted, a
circumstance which might be the cause of considerable loss.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is-
An improved purse having one or more note tablets of any suitable form and
material attached thereto on one or both of the outer or the inner sides of the flap
or cover, or on any other suitable part, and to which, if desired, a pencil may be
added substantially as and for the purpose described and illustrated.
Dated this 26th dor of Tuns 1001
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents.