An Improvement in the Manufacture of Travelling Bags.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Feb., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 9th Oct., 1890-Accepted, 7th Feb., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in the Manufacture of Travelling Bags.
WILLIAM HIGHFIELD JONES, WILLIAM HALL JONES & BENJAMIN HIGH-
FIELD JONES, Japanners Tinplate Workers and Enamellers Ablow Street
Wolverhampton trading as Jones Brothers & Company, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In travelling bags which open wide there is usually a fixed partition which
prevents a small size being packed inside a size larger.
By our invention the partition can be removed and replaced at will so that the
bags can be packed one inside the other. Our invention consists of fixing a strip
or rod of steel or other metal capable of springing on the partition in place of the
ordinary hinge. Each end of the rod or strip is formed into a pivot which work in
eyes fixed to the frame of the bag.
When the bags are required to be packed one inside the other a slight pressure
in the centre of the spring rod or strip will draw the pivots out of the eyes and the
partition can be removed and the smaller bag will then pack in the larger one.
When required the partitions can be refixed by springing the metallic spring
rod or strip into the eyes again in the same way as they were taken out.
Dated this 11th day of February 1890.
WILLIAM HIGHFIELD JONES.
WILLIAM HALL JONES.
BENJAMIN HIGHFIELD JONES.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in the Manufacture of Travelling Bags.
WILLIAM HIGHFIELD JONES, WILLIAM HALL JONES & BENJAMIN HIGH-
FIELD JONES, Japanners, Tinplate Workers & Enamellers, Ablow Street,
Wolverhampton trading as Jones Brothers & Co., do hereby declare the nature of
this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularlý
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
In travelling bags there is usually fixed a partition. When the travelling bags are
required to be packed closely this fixed partition prevents a small bag being packed
inside a larger one. By our invention the partition can be taken out and refixed
at pleasure.
Our invention is as follows.
A rod marked A or strip of steel or other metal capable of springing fixed to
and forms part of the partition, instead of an ordinary hinge, each end of this rod
or strip is formed into a pivot B which works in eyes C fixed on the frame D of the
travelling bags. When the bags are required for packing one inside the other, a
slight pressure in the centre of the spring rod A. or strip will draw the pivot out of
the eyes and the partition can be removed. This will allow a smaller one being
packed inside a larger one. When required the partition may be refixed in its
place by springing the metallic rod or strip into the eyes again in the same way as
it is taken out.
.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be prepared, we declare that what we
claim is
(Claim 1.) The easy removal & refixing of a partition in travelling bags so as to

page_text: afford facilities in packing. Thus, instead of the ordinary hinge or partition of the
bag, a metallic rod or strip capable of springing may be slipped into eyes
fastened on the bag frame by being slightly pressed in the centre of the spring rod
or strip. The rod will be released from the eyes and the partition may be
taken out.
The partition may be refixed in the bag by pressing the spring in the same way.
Dated this 8th day of October 1890.
WILLIAM HIGHFIELD JONES.
WILLIAM HALL JONES.
BENJAMIN HIGHFIELD JONES.