Improved Method for Closing and Securing or Fastening Gladstone and other Bags, Portmanteaus, Cases and similar Articles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Improved Method for Closing and Securing or Fastening Gladstone
and other Bags, Portmanteaus, Cases and similar Articles.
NATHANIEL BUXTON 2 Dunedin House Basinghal! Avenue Basinghall St London E.C.
Commission Agent do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:→
To close and secure, or fasten Gladstone and other bags, portmanteaus, cases and
similar articles, I fix a book, stud loop, eye or other suitable attachment to the
frame or part of the frame, or any portion of the bag that shuts into or on to the
other frame, or part of frame, or any portion of the bag or other article. To
the aforementioned hook, stud, loop, eye or other attachment, a strap or band
which may be made of leather or other material, is connected either permanently or
detachable. The strap is so designed that it fits into or on to the hook, stud, loop
eye or other suitable attachment. When the strap is pulled it closes the bag or
other article which is secured by an ordinary buckle, or other device. As one
means of securing the strap when the bag is closed I have constructed a device to
which a part of the strap or straps may be attached. The straps may be made in
one or more parts.
The aforenamed device consists of a metal loop, bar or plate, which may be fixed
to the frame, or to any part of the bag. One part of the strap may be attached to
the loop, bar or plate, which loop, bar or plate is provided with a cavity through
which the other part of the strap is passed,
Improved Method for Closing and Securing or Fastening Gladstone
and other Bags, Portmanteaus, Cases and similar Articles.
1. NATHANIEL BUXTON, of 2, Dunedin House, Basinghall Avenue, Basinghall Street,
in the City of London, 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 relates to Gladstone and other bags, portmanteaus, and the like.
Buch bags as is well known are usually provided with external straps but these
straps do not act upon the two parts of the frame to pull and hold them together so
that in many cases bags are provided with end fastenings upon the frame as well as
with the usual contre fastenings.
The object of my invention is to provide means whereby the said straps will serve
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page_text: for pulling the two parts of the frame tightly together and holding them in this
position without the use of the supplementary catches before referred to.
According to my invention one end of the strap is united to one portion of the
frame and is then passed over the other portion of the frame around the bag and then
held or secured to the last micutioned portion.
To enable by invention to be fully understood I will describe the same by reference
to the accompanying drawings, in which :-
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a bag provided with strap fastenings arranged in
accordance with my invention; and,
Figure 2 is a sectional end view of the same:
Figure 3 is a plan view drawn to a larger scale than figures 1 and 2 illustrating a
detail; and,
· Figure 4 is a section on the line 4-4 figure 3;
Figure 5 is a sectional plan; and,
Figure 6 is a side view illustrating a slight modification of my invention:
Figure 7 is a section on the line 7—7 figure 5:
Figure 8 is a view similar to figure 2 but illustrating a further modification;
and,
Figure 9 is a plan view drawn to a larger scale than figure 8 illustrating the
essential feature of this last inodification.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.
a, b, are the inner and outer sections of a bag frame and c is the binding strap
one end of which is according to my invention united to the frame a at d the strap
thence extending over the frame b around the bag and thence back over the frame b
to which it is secured by a clip e. This clip e which is secured to the frame b on the
outside, as clearly shewn in figure 1, is provided with two slots ƒ and g through
the former of which the strap is first passed and in the latter of which it is finally
clipped, for instance by means of a set screw h having a gripping plate int its inner
end operating in conjunction with a cavity as described in the specification of a
former patent No. 17770 of 11th August 1896.
If desired the strap c may be permanently attached to the inner frame a but as in
practice it is advisable that the straps should be quite distinct from the bag I
advantageously connect the straps thereto detachably.
As shewn in figures 1 and 2 the frame a bas affixed to it a hook ; and the strap c
has rivetted upon it a metal band k, clearly shewn in figures 3 and 4, the said hand k
being formed with an enlargement which constitutes an eye designed to engage
with the hook 1, as shewn in figure 2 and also in figure 3. Or instead of using this
form of hook and eye the hook j may be formed with two claws m, m, as shewn in
figures 5 and 6, the distance between which corresponds approximately to the
breadth of the strap and the strap has affixed to it a slotted bar n through which the
strap is passed the ends of the said har forming projections o, o designed to engage
beneath the hooks or claws in a manner which will be readily understood by
reference to figures 5, 6 and 7.
When the strap c is attached to the hook; by its eye or bar and passed around the
bag, as shown in figure 2, and secured by the screw in the clip a, no further
fastening is necessary.
Instead of using the clip e, however, I may use an ordinary buckle; in this
modification, which is shewn in figures 8 and 9, the buckle is preferably attached to
a short strapp which is provided at its rear end with a spring hook 9 the said
hook being adapted to be attached to one bar r of a fitting & attached to the part b
of the frame. With this arrangement the strap having been attached to the hook j
is passed around the bag in the mauner herein before described and then attached
to the buckle upon the short strap p the free end of the binding strap c being
passed under a second bar u with which the fitting 8 is provided.
With both of the arrangements hereinbefore described it will be obvious that
the pulling up of the strap causes the pulling together of the two parts of the
frame.

page_text: Although I have described my invention as applied to a Gladstone Bag or the like,
it is to be understood that it is also applicable to portmanteaus and solid leather
cases in which case the straps instead of being attached to the frame may be attached
to any suitable part of the body.
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 :-
1. The method of closing and securing or fastening Gladstone or other bags,
pormanteaus, cases or similar articles having hinged frames, consisting in connecting
one end of each securing strap to one part of the frame then passing the strap over
the other part of the frame and around the bag and then securing the strap to the
last mentioned part of the frame, substantially as described.
2. The combination with a Gladstone or other bag, portmanteau or the like having
a hinged frame, of a strap detachably connected to one part of the frame and
adapted to be secured to a fastening on or in connection with the other part of the
frame, substantially as described.
3. The combination with a Gladstone or other bag, pormanteau or the like of a
strap adapted to be connected to a hook on one part of the frame and to be
connected to a clamp or clip upon the other part of the frame, substantially as
described by reference to figures 1 to 7 of the accompanying drawings.
4. The combination with a Gladstone or other bag, pormanteau or the like of a
strap adapted to be connected to one part of the frame and secured to a buckle on a
strap on the other part of the frame, substantially as described by reference to
figures 8 and 9 of the accompanying drawings.
5. A Gladstone or other bag, portmanteau or the like provided with means for
securing it by straps, substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.