Improvements in Appliances for Carrying Knapsacks, Bags, and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Apr., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 12th Jan., 1897-Accepted, 24th Apr., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Appliances for Carrying Knapsacks, Bags, and
the like.
I, EDWIN JAMES PINDER of 172 Fitzwilliam Street, in the City of Sheffield,
Hosier, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as follows:-
My invention is for an appliance to assist persons in carrying knapsacks, bags,
parcels and the like over the shoulder with ease and comfort, and to enable them
to have the use of both hands if desired.
For this purpose I propose to construct a short staff, say for example about
eighteen inches long, and preferably made in two detachable pieces to enable it to
be put into the pocket or stowed away in a bag or other receptacle when not
in use.
It may be made of wood with a metallic junction in the form of sockets having
a male and female screw, or two tubular sockets, one fitting inside the other, or
may join the two parts together by a hinge so that it may be closed like a
carpenters rule, or it may be made entirely of metal tube.
At the top end 1 fix a hook or like appliance for carrying the knapsack or bag
and at the lower end I attach a loop of leather or the like through which the hand
may be passed, while at the extreme lower end I prepare a loop or slot through
which a strap may be passed to fasten round the body of the user.
Near the top end l'arrange a pad, either fixed or detachable to rest against the
shoulder and other straps for carrying special objects may be added as desired.
Dated the 27th day of April 1896.
ROBT. F. DRURY, C.P.A.,
Bank Buildings, George Street, Sheffield, Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFIC
TION.
Improvements in Appliances for Carrying Knapsacks, Bags, and
the like.
I EDWIN JAMES PINDER of 172 Fitzwilliam Street in the City of Sheffield
Hosier 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 :-
Fig. 1 on drawing shows the apparatus complete.
Fig. 2 shows the apparatus in five seperate parts C. D. F. E. B. B part is a
hook screwed into D part at one end. C part as a screw at end G which screws
into hole H of the part D. making joint A. FE are loops fastened to part C.
The joint A can be made with screw slot and the like.
The hook B can be substituted with a catch and the like.

page_text: The apparatus can be made of wood metal and the like.
The novelty or novelties of the invention is for carrying knapsacks bags and the
like on shoulder by unscrewing the apparatus at joint A. makes it portable when
not in use. E. is a loop to put hand through by allowing the wrist to rest on
apparatus say a man carrying bag on hook B with wrist on the bottom part of the
apparatus it will relive the weight also leaveing hand free to carrie a umberalla up
and balance the weight as well as leaveing one hand entirly free. Lop F is to
pass a belt through and go round the body he will then have both hands free. The
length of apparatus is about eighteen inches long.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
In the parts C. D. B. F. E. A. and G. H.
The combination of hook B with joint A is the principal part of my invention.
Dated this 11th day of January 1897.
EDWIN JAMES PINDER.