Improvements in Handles for Portmanteaus, Hand, Travelling, and other Bags, Reticules, and other like articles.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Mar., 1891-Accepted, 23rd May, 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
EICESTER
Improvements in Handles for Portmanteaus, Hand, Travelling, and
other Bags, Reticules, and other like articles.
I WILLIAM HERBERT MILNES of Ashford House Lanercost Road Tulse Hill
Park in the County of Surrey Gentleman, 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 :-
My invention consists of the improvements hereafter described in the construc-
tion and manufacture of handles for portmanteaus, hand, travelling and other
bags reticules, luggage-carriers, rug, shawl, parcel, and other straps and for other
like articles; the object of my invention being principally that umbrellas, walking
sticks, and like articles may be carried through or within the handles, and that the
awkwardness arising from the common practice of carrying these articles separately
from the bag or other like article may be obviated. Also that when thus carried
together, either of them will be much less liable to be forgotten or lost than when
carried separately. There is also the further object of utility connected with my
invention, that the silk or other covering of umbrellas will be protected when thus
carried, and not worn out so quickly as when grasped together with the ordinary
handle and as commonly done.
The handles may be made either fixed to the bag or other like article or detach..
able at will.
I make my handles of metal (either covered with leather or other suitable
material or alone) wood, leather, india-rubber, or of any other suitable material;
and I make them hollow or tubular with entirely open ends for the purpose of
inserting the umbrella or any like article through same. In the simplest form
thereof I make my handle of a hollow cylinder of any suitable material as afore-
said and as shown in the drawing annexed hereto and marked thereon Fig. 1 ;
the ring ends of the handle being elongated underneath and formed into spring
catches or swivels to attach to the loops of the bag or portmanteau frames, or
having separate catches attached thereto, or otherwise connected.
Fig. 2. shows the end view of such handle.
When this form of my handle is to be used for rug, shawls or other straps I
shape the rings attached to and encircling or formed by the open ends of my handle
so as to receive the straps as shown on Fig. 3.
Where it is desirable to grasp or hold fast the article carried through and by
means of the handle, as in the case, for instance, of a walking stick or other like
article of such smaller diameter as to be liable to slip through the hollow of the
handle when being carried as aforesaid, I may make the grip of my handle of some
yielding or flexible substance such as india-rubber or leather affixed to two end
rings, (which rings may be jointed or rigid) or I may make the handle collapsible
by forming it of two half cylinders hinged either at the top or at the bottom in
such manner that it shall open to receive the article put through it and shut on to
it when grasped.
Or, made of thin spring metal, I may cut the cylinder through along its length
at either the top or bottom of the handle only, so that the play of the spring may
act as and for the purpose of holding the stick or other article aforesaid when
grasped or compressed upon it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A tubular or hollow handle for bags or other like articles as aforesaid having

page_text: the two ends thereof entirely open and unrestricted for the purpose of inserting and
carrying umbrellas, sticks or other like articles substantially as described.
2. The method of making the grip of the handle collapsable on to the article
carried through it by hinging together either at the top or the bottom two hollow
half cylinders subtantially as described.
3. The method of making the grip of the handle collapsable on to the article
carried by cutting through along its length only and either at the top or bottom a
hollow cylinder of spring metal substantially as described.
Dated this 21st day of March 1891.
WILLIAM HERBERT MILNES.