Improvements in the Construction of Fitted Dressing-bags.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Mar., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Dec., 1891-4ccepted, 2nd Jan., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Fitted Dressing-bags.
I, ERNST ARTHUR GRIMMER of 66 Fore Street in the City of London,
Dressing-bag Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
1
I construct a small narrow bag of only sufficient width to take a fittings-board.
This bag I provide with knobs or other projections on the outside of the frame;
these serve as a means of holding the bag in the centre of the interior of a larger,
outside bag, which has tubes or other receptacles for holding the smaller inside
bag and yet allow this to be withdrawn from it.
Thus obtain a double bag, the outside for the ordinary purpose of packing
clothes etc., the inside to take the fittings only and protect same from contact with
the contents of the outside bag.
Dated this Third day of March 1891.
ERNST ARTHUR GRIMMER.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Fitted Dressing-bags.
I, ERNST ARTHUR GRIMMER of 66 Fore Street in the City of London, Dressing-
bag 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 :-
The dressing-bag of the shape which is usually called the "Standard" or
"Gladstone" bag is made by me on a frame which carries in its centre on double
hinges and a bottom-bar a pair of upright tubes which are held in vertical position
by means of sliding guides attached to the sides of the frame. These tubes are
made by me of a circular shape and are cut open lengthways by a vertical slot,
the cut-open parts of the two tubes facing each other towards the centre of
the bag.
I
I now construct a second, light frame of a corresponding smaller size, on the
outside or wide cap of which I attach on each end or side two round-headed knobs,
the thickness of their heads corresponding with the hollow of the tubes and the
thickness of their necks corresponding with the width of the slot in the tubes.
place one pair of these knobs near the bottom or hinge of the frame and the other
pair at such a distance higher up that when the second, light frame is inserted
into the interior of the outside bag by letting the knobs slide down into the tubes,
the upper or top knobs only just have entered into the tubes when the bottom knobs
have descended to the bottom of the tubes, thus holding the frame in the vertical
position of the tubes.
On to the inner frame I then make and attach a bag of just sufficient width to
hold a board or standard with the fittings required in a dressing-bag, and this
removable board I place in the bag in previously employed methods by means of
springs and wires or otherwise.
The object of fixing the knobs on the inner frame in the places indicated above
is to allow the inner bag to be fully opened and the contents thereof withdrawn
whilst the same is in its position within the open outer bag without any derangement
of the possible contents of the latter. This manipulation is achieved by a slight
lifting of the inner bag sufficient to set the upper knobs on same free from
retention by the tubes, when the bottom knobs remain engaged within the latter
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page_text: and serve as swinging centre points corresponding with the centre of the hinge of
the inner frame.
The accompanying drawing shows in Figure 1. the essential part of the outer bag
with its frame-parts marked A., the upright tubes. marked B., their sliding guides
marked C., the vertical slots marked D. and Figure 2. shows the inner bag with
the knobs attached marked E.
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 combination of two complete bags, an outer and an inner bag by the
insertion of the inner into the outer bag substantially as described and shewn in the
drawing herewith.
2. The construction of a bag which can be placed and fully opened within another
bag in the manner and for the purpose herein before described.
Dated this Second day of December 1891.
ERNST ARTHUR GRIMMER.