Improved Device for Handles of Portmanteaus and Bags of all kinds, also applicable for Handles to Doors, Carriages, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Nov., 1894-Accepted, 19th Jan., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Device for Handles of Portmanteaus and Bags of all
kinds, also applicable for Handles to Doors, Carriages, and the
like.
THOMAS HENRY HARPER Needle Manufacturer Phoenix Works Webheath
near Redditch I, THOMAS HENRY HARPER do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
See accompanying drawings:
Fig. 1. (sectional view). A. A. rubber caseing of any required shape and
thickness with a hole or channel passing through from end to end.
B. a piece of spring steel, metal coil or band of leather or other suitable material
passed through the rubber caseing A. A. and to each end is conveniently attached
a metal swivel D¹ & D2, by means of an eye or link as C¹ and C².
Fig. 2. represents an handle for portmanteau or bag complete, showing swivels D¹
& D2 linked to loops E¹ & E2 on frame of bag.
By this device a most perfect and easy handle for portmanteaus or bags is
obtained.
The handle can be made in any required shape and thickness, and connected to
frame of bag by any suitable method as herein described.
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Handles to doors, carriages and the like, can be made in a similar manner, and
the spindle or coil B-as referred to in Fig. 1.-being connected to bearings or
brackets as most suitable for the purpose.
Dated this 3rd day of February 1894
THOMAS HENRY HARPER.
Improved Device for Handles of Portmanteaus and Bags of all
kinds, also applicable for Handles to Doors, Carriages, and the
like.
THOMAS HENRY HARPER Phoenix Works Webheath Redditch, Needle
Manufacturer. I, THOMAS HENRY HARPER, 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 :---
(See drawings accompanying Provisional Specification.)
The device constituting this invention is illustrated in one of its forms by
Fig. 1 and 2 in the drawings filed with the Provisional Specification already
referred to.
Fig. 1 represents a sectional view. A. A. is a rubber caseing-and can be-of
any required shape and thickness and of sufficient length for the purpose required,
with a bole or channel passing through from end to end; the rubber being the
thickest in this case-in the underside of B. B is a piece of spring steel, metal
coil, band of leather or other suitable material conveniently constructed-passed
through the hole in rubber case A. A. and to each end of B is attached a metal
swivel of suitable shape as shewn in one form-by D' and D2 and with an eye or

page_text: link as C and C2 shewing a very convenient method of attachment. B can also be
extended a sufficient distance from the ends of rubber case A. A. as to admit of a
larger eye or spring hook being formed-instead of the small eye as at C¹ and C²
(Fig. 1) for the purpose of directly connecting the handle to the portmanteau
or bag.
Fig. 2. represents the handle as described in Fig. 1. complete and attached to
the furniture of an ordinary portmanteau or hand bag, by the connection of the
swivels D1 and D2 with the loops or rings E' and E².
By this invention a most perfect and easy handle is obtained applicable to
portmanteaus, hand bags and baskets of every description, and can be made in
any required shape, thickness, length and strength, and is easily attached or
detached.
The caseing A consisting of a flexible composition made sufficiently pliable for
the purpose required, readily gives to the "grip" and enables the carrier to handle
a weighty or bulky portmanteau or bag with considerable more ease, and without
the possibility of blistering the hand as is often the case with the old handle usually
constructed of leather.
This invention is also applicable for handles to doors, carriages and the like.
Fig. 3. (on the sheet of drawings filed with the Complete Specification)
represents a convenient form for door or carriage handle, fixed, A is the rubber
case.
The spring or coil B as refered to in Fig. 1 can be made in any proportion to
the handle as may be convenient for the purpose and can be attached to standard
bearings such as two metal pillars K. K. pins or brackets-fixed to door G
screwed on to or bolted in-such furniture (as it is commonly known by this term)
standing out at right angles to the door, and each pillar shaped with a shoulder
having a reduced centre pin of the required height and screwed, over which the
eyes C1 and C2 at the ends of the steel bar B, are passed and secured by means of
a nut or knob H screwed on to the centre pin of each pillar, or, pillars K. K. can
be made with a screwed socket into which a screwed knob or uut (as H) can be
inserted whereby the handle is held secure to each pillar. (A similar handle can
be made with pillars having a centre hinge or joint about the middle of each
pillar or where most convenient for the purpose-which will allow of the handle
being hinged or folded back against the door when not actually in use-if
equired.)
Fig. 4. shows the handle is also applicable to the handle bars of cycles and the
like (ie. children's perambulators, mailcarts) and can be fixed in a similar manner
to that described to doors that is :-The one end of B flattened out and with eye C,
can be fastened to handle bar O in a similar way to that described in Fig. 3 by
means of a screwed knob, and with a cap or knob L at the other end. A is the rubber
case, or, the spring steel bar B can be screwed at the one end for attachment and
by screwing same into a socket N in handle bar O, and finished off at the other end
by a cap or knob L, or in any suitable manner as indicated by Fig. 5. A, being
the rubber case.
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. An improved handle consisting of a rubber caseing fitted with a piece of
spring steel, coil or other suitable material with eyes, swivels or spring hooks for
attachment to portmanteaus and bags of all kinds.
II. Also an handle applicable for attachment to doors, carriages, cycles and the
like in a similar manner to that herein described.
Dated this 2nd day of November 1894.
THOMAS HENRY HARPER.