IMPROVEMENTS IN TRAVELLING AND OTHER BAGS
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Walter Thornhill, of Number 144, New Bond
Street, in the County of Middlesex, Dressing Case and Travelling
Bag Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN TRAVELLING
AND OTHER BAGS."
Sealed the 27th October 1871, and dated the 29th April 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Walter Thornhill at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 29th April 1871.
I, WALTER THORNHILL, of Number 144, New Bond Street, in the
County of Middlesex, Dressing Case and Travelling Bag Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN TRAVELLING AND OTHER BAGS," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to certain improvements in travelling and other
bags, the object being to enable the toilet case to be removed from the
bag and replaced therein without interference with the packing or
unpacking.

page_text: I propose to apply to the bag an interior or supplementary moveable
or detachable frame corresponding with the permanent frame of the
bag. This interior frame is not joined or in any way connected with the
permanent frame, but each extremity is united by a cross bar or plate
serving as a rest for the frame on the permanent cross bar of the bag
between its hinges or joints. I propose to apply within this supple-
mentary frame a toilet case containing divisions, and the necessary
requirements of a dressing case, such toilet case bearing on the cross
bars of the frame, so that when the permanent frame is opened the
interior frame will serve to withdraw from the bag the toilet case and
contents, and thus leave the body of the bag free to be packed or
unpacked. The internal frame consequently forms a lifting tray,
whereby the toilet case is removed and replaced, the toilet case never
being turned over from side to side, or lifted out independently of the
frame or tray. The toilet. frame or case is consequently made in onc
piece, and is placed-in-the-centre-of-the bag, never projecting over the
sides of the bag when-it-is-opened, but remaining in a constant position,
whether the bag is open or closed, and is merely lifted out or replaced
by aid of the moveable frame, of which it forms a part. No interference
with packing or unpacking is caused by this arrangement, the same
space is given in the bag in all positions, and space is afforded on each
side of the moveable toilet case for small articles.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Walter Thornhill in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 28th October 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WALTER
THORNHILL, of No. 144, New Bond Street, in the County of Middlesex,
Dressing Case and Travelling Bag Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Walter-Thornhill, Her special licence
that I, the said Walter Thornhill, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Walter Thornhill, my executors,

page_text: 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
Ohannel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
TRAVELLING AND OTHER BAGS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Walter Thornhill, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Walter Thornhill, do hereby declare
the nature of my said 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 certain improvements in travelling and other
bags, the object being to enable the toilet case to be removed from
the bag and replaced therein without interference with the packing or
unpacking.
I propose to apply to the bag an interior or supplementary moveable
or detachable frame corresponding with the permanent frame of the
bag. This interior frame is not joined or in any way connected with
the permanent frame, but each extremity is united by a cross bar or
plate, serving as a rest for the frame on the permanent cross bar of the
bag between its hinges or joints. I propose to apply within this supple-
mentary frame a toilet case containing divisions and the necessary.
requirements of a dressing case, such toilet case bearing on the cross
bars of the frame, so that when the permanent frame is opened the
interior frame will serve to withdraw from the bag the toilet case and
contents, and thus leave the body of the bag free to be packed or un-
packed. The internal frame consequently forms a lifting tray, whereby
the toilet case is removed and replaced, the toilet case never being
turned over from side to side, or lifted out independently of the frame
or tray. The toilet case is therefore made in one piece, and is placed
in the centre of the bag, never projecting over the sides of the bag
when it is opened, but remaining in a constant position, whether the

page_text: bag is open or closed, and is merely lifted out or replaced by aid of
the moveable frame of which it forms a part. No interference with
packing or unpacking is caused by this arrangement, the same space
is given in the bag in all positions, and space is afforded on cach side
of the moveable toilet case for small articles.
In order that my said Invention may be completely understood I
annex the accompanying Drawings, in which Fig. 1 represents a plan
view of the open bag and toilet case with frame; Fig. 2 shews a plan of
the moveable toilet case and frame lifted out of the permanent frame
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of the bag, the divisions of the toilet case being turned outwards,
exposing their internal sides, but the toilet case may, of course, be
placed in a similar position while in the permanent frame of the bag,
so as to permit of free access to the contents of the bag; Fig. 3 is an
end view of the toilet ease and frame removed.
_a, a, shew in Fig. 1 the permanent frame of the bag; b, b, shewing 1
the moveable or detachablo frame-with-toilet-case_c; _d, d, are clasps for
fastening or holding down the divisions-of-the toilet case when in tho
position shewn in Fig. 2, they gear with spring catches beneath the
slots e, e; in this Fig. the letters b and c shew respectively the moveable
frame and toilet divisions, which are secured together by hinges f, f,
attached to flanges y, g, screwed to the bottom of the case; in Fig. 3
the letters b and c shew the frame and case. By these arrangements, it
is obvious, that the entire toilet case may be removed and replaced with
its frame from or in the permanent frame of the bag, or it may be turned
down on each side into the spaces h, h, of the permanent bag when the
same is thrown open, as in Fig. 1, so as to permit of free access to the
contents of the bag. The tray or frame may be provided with covers
containing the divisions for the articles; the lower parts of these covers
are fixed to the tray, and contain glass, and brushes, or other such like
articles, the upper part of each cover being hinged to the lower, and
containing sundry small articles secured in recesses or otherwise, and by
a flap or internal lid.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, I would remark, in
conclusion, that I do not restrict myself to the precise details or con-
figuration of parts-which-I have expressed and shewn, as the same may
be varied or modified without departing from the principles or objects-of
the Invention; but what I claim and desire to be secured to me by the
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page_text: hercin in part recited Letters Patent are, the improvements in travelling
and other bags, whereby a separate, moveable, or detachable frame is
made to secure or contain the toilet or dressing case in the permanent
frame of the bag in such manner that the entire case, frame, or tray
may be removed or replaced with the toilet or dressing case from or in
the bag, or may be turned over in divisions on each side of the open bag,
substantially as herein specified and shewn.
In witness whereof, I, the said Walter Thornhill, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
Witness,
ALEX. PRINCE,
Office for Patents,
4, Trafalgar Square,
Charing Cross.
WALTER THORNHILL. (L.S.)