Iм- PROVEMENTS IN TRAVELLING BAGS
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Drew, of 2, Great Warner Street, Clerkenwell,
in the County of Middlesex, Military Barrack Furniture Maker, Edward
Southwell, of 33, Regent Street, in the same County, and Henry White,
of Covent Garden, also in the same County, for the Invention of " Iм-
PROVEMENTS IN TRAVELLING BAGS."
Sealed the 4th October 1867, and dated the 6th April 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Drew, Edward South-
well, and Henry White at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 6th April 1867.
We, JOHN DREW, of 2, Great Warner Street, Clerkenwell, in the County
of Middlesex, Military Barrack Furniture Maker, EDWARD SOUTHWELL, of 33,
Regent Street, in the same County, and HENRY WHITE, of Covent Garden,
also in the same County, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention.
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TRAVELLING BAGS," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to what are known as square-mouthed bags, and the
object is to enable them to be closed when fully packed, which cannot be done
with the present bags.
The Invention consists in forming a gusset along each side of the bag and
another gusset at each corner extending to the corresponding end of the frame.
By means of these gussets the ends of the mouth can be folded inwards and
the sides folded over and closed without, as with the present bags, drawing in

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Drew, Edward Southwell, and Henry White in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 5th October 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
DREW, of 2, Great Warner Street, Clerkenwell, in the County of Middlesex,
Military Barrack Furniture Maker, EDWARD SOUTHWELL, of 33, Regent Street,
in the same County, and HENRY WHITE, of Covent Garden, also in the same
County, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said John Drew, Edward Southwell, and Henry White, Her special licence
that we, the said John Drew, Edward Southwell, and Henry White, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said John
Drew, Edward Southwell, and Henry White, our 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 Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TRAVELLING BAGS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said John Drew, Edward Southwell, and Henry White,
or one of us, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under our, or one of our, 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 imme-
liately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said John Drew, Edward Southwell, and
Henry White, do hereby declare the nature of our 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 :-
This Invention relates to what are known as square-mouthed bags, and the

page_text: object is to enable them to be closed when fully packed, which cannot be done
with the present bags.
The Invention consists in forming a gusset or fullness along each side of the
bag and another gusset or fullness at each corner extending to the corre-
sponding end of the frame.
The accompanying Drawings represent in perspective views a bag made
according to this Invention. Figure 1 shews the bag open, and Figure 2
shews it closed as it appears when fully packed.
a, a, are the ordinary side frames, connected to each other at the ends by
jointed pieces b, b. Along each side of the bag we form a fullness or gusset,
as seen at c, c, and from each upper corner to the corresponding end of the
frame a, a, we form another gusset or fullness, as seen at d, d; by means of
these fullnesses or gussets c, c, and d, d, the ends b, b, of the mouth can be
folded inwards, and the sides folded over and closed, as seen in Figure 2,
without, as with the present bags, drawing in the ends e, e, or sides f, f, of the
bag, which thereby retains its proper square form and full capacity.
And having now described the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we claim forming
travelling bags with gussets or fullnesses at certain parts, substantially as and
for the purpose herein-before described and represented in the accompanying
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Southwell, for myself and on
behalf of the said John Drew and Henry White, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifth day of October, One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-seven.
EDWARD SOUTHWELL. (L.S.)