Improved Means or Apparatus for Indicating the Opening of Lady's Reticule and other Hand Bags.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Feb., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 11th Nov., 1892-Accepted, 31st Dec., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means or Apparatus for Indicating the Opening of Lady's
Reticule and other Hand Bags.
I, JOHN FREDERICK DUNTON, of 16 Hornsey Street, Holloway, London,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to arranging a sound indicator within a frame, so that a
liding or other knob affixed to the bag as a means for opening shall also act upon
lever for causing a sharp toned bell, gong, or alarm to be sounded to indicate
o a person carrying the bag that the same is being opened.
The uses to which my invention is specially applicable is that of lady's hand
ags which are carried on the arm, or from the hand and is intended to prevent
he bag being surreptitiously opened while carried without an alarm being given.
Dated this 11th day of February 1892.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said John Frederick Dunton.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means or Apparatus for Indicating the Opening of Lady's.
Reticule and other Hand Bags.
I, JOHN FREDERICK DUNTON, of 16 Hornsey Street, Holloway, London,
Manufacturer, 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 arranging a sound indicator within a frame, so that a
sliding, or other knob affixed to the bag as a means for opening shall also act
upon a lever for causing a sharp toned bell, gong; or alarm to be sounded to
indicate to a person carrying the bag that the same is being opened.
The uses to which my invention is specially applicable is that of lady's hand
bags, which are carried on the arm, or from the hand, and is intended to prevent
the bag being surreptitiously opened while carried, without an alarm being given.
My invention will be well understood by reference to the annexed drawings.
Figure 1 represents a lady's hand bag, or reticule with a sounding gong in the
interior, and operatable by the pull or draw catch, which is moved to open the bag.
Figure 2 shows a hand bag or reticule with a sounding gong as an attachable
appliance to the bag frame, the gong having an independent action for giving an
alarm as the bag is opening, the striking appliance being "sett" by the closing of
the bag.
Figure 3 is an elevation of the mechanism, and the back plate of the first
mentioned bag; and
Figure 4 a similar view of the apparatus for the second mentioned bag.
The apparatus Figure 3 is composed of a plate A with lever B pivotted at C
and having free end D attachable to the knob E of the lock mechanism. The
lever B has a link F affixed and to a bar G to the upper end of which is fastened,
a catch rod H, the claw of which draws on the spring arm 1 of the striker J_when
the knob E is pushed to open the bag. The rod H is guided by the strap K and
the spring arm I yields for the claw to pass over it in its return under the pressure

page_text: of the spring L the end of which is located under the strap M as is also the
lever B and bar G.
The apparatus Figure 4 is of a more simple character and the end D of the
lever B is intended to be exposed for the closing frame of the bag to push in and
keep the spring L in tension, and the lever B and G in the position indicated by
the dotted lines b, g. In this construction, the lever 'B is pivoted at C, and its
opposite end is pin jointed to the lever G which in turn is loosely connected to the
flat cam plate H in such a manner that when the end D of the lever B is
pushed back by the closing of the bag into the position indicated by the dotted
line d. The levers B and G are raised, and the cam plate is turned upon its
centre P to bring the cam H¹ outside the curved spring J' of the hammer J.
The apparatus being thus set upon closing the bag, is reversed upon opening the
same and as all the parts tend to resume their normal position, the cam H¹
compresses the curved spring J' until its elasticity overcomes the frictional contact
of the cam H', when it rebounds to strike the gong indicated by the dotted
line R, and which is covered by the shield Q within the bag. The cam H¹ is
made with a much easier incline upon one side, so that upon closing the bag, it
moves easily under the hammer spring J' by simply lifting the same.
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. The hereinbefore described means and apparatus for indicating by sound, the
opening of a hand bag.
2. The particular arrangement of appliances shown at Figure 4 of the drawing,
as a means of sounding an alarm in and from a hand bag on its being surreptitiously.
opened.