Improvements in Travelling, Dressing and other Bags, Jewel Cases, Sample Cases, Portmanteaus and like Articles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Dec., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Sept., 1899-Accepted, 6th Dec., 1899
Improvements in Travelling, Dressing and other Bags, Jewel Cases,
Sample Cases, Portmanteaus and like Articles.
We, JETHRO FOOT and ROBERT JETHRO FOOT, of 171, New Bond Street, in the
County of London, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in travelling, dressing and other bags,
jewel cases, sample cases, portmanteaux, and like articles, the object being to
provide a bag or the like in which access can be had to the articles contained
therein with facility and which is so constructed that the weight of the contents
is sustained by the frame directly instead of through the leather as was hereto-
fore the case with articles of this kind.
According to the invention we form our travelling or other bag or the like
with a frame comprising a top piece connected at each end to metal bands which
extend down each end of the bag to the bottom thereof and are connected at
their lower ends by a longitudinal band. One side of the bag is rigidly connected
to the frame but the other side is formed in two parts, that is to say, the lower
part is rigidly fixed to the bag frame by means of lateral extensions on the said
frame so as to form a permanent recess in the bottom of the box or bag and the
other part is hinged to the said bottom portion in such a manner that it can be
opened downwards so as to expose the contents of the bag or box, the inside of
which is fitted with drawers for receiving the various articles. The different
parts of the frame may be stiffened by angle iron.
With this construction of bag and frame the weight of the contents is carried
directly by the frame instead of indirectly through the medium of the leather
forming the bag as in bags as usually constructed and which it is found in
practice is liable to become torn away from the frame owing to its having to
support the weight of the contents.
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Improvements in Travelling, Dressing and other Bags, Jewel Cases,
Sample Cases, Portmanteaus and like Articles.
We, JETHRO FOOT and ROBERT JETHRO FOOT, of 171, New Bond Street, in the
County of London, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
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page_text: and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in travelling, dressing and other bags,
jewel cases, sample cases, portmanteaus, and like articles, the object being to
provide a bag or the like in which access can be had to the articles contained
therein with facility and which is so constructed that the weight of the contents
is sustained by the frame directly instead of through the leather as was hereto-
fore the case with articles of this kind.
According to the invention we form our travelling or other bag or the like
with a frame comprising a top piece connected at each end to metal bands which
extend down each end of the bag to the bottom thereof and are connected at
their lower ends by a longitudinal band. One side of the bag is rigidly connected
to the frame but the other side is formed in two parts, that is to say, the lower
part is rigidly fixed to the bag frame by means of lateral extensions on the said
frame so as to form a permanent recess in the bottom of the box or bag and the
other part is hinged to the said bottom portion in such a manner that it can be
opened downwards so as to expose the contents of the bag or box, the inside of
which is fitted with drawers for receiving the various articles. The different
parts of the frame may be stiffened by angle iron.
With this construction of bag and frame the weight of the contents is carried
directly by the frame instead of indirectly through the medium of the leather
forming the bag as in bags as usually constructed and which it is found in
practice is liable to become torn away from the frame owing to its having to
support the weight of the contents.
In the accompanying drawings,
Figure is a perspective view of a bag made according to the invention, the
said bag being shewn closed:
Figure 2 is a similar view shewing the bag opened; and
Figure 3 is a perspective view of the frame in the position it assumes when
the bag is opened.
is the top piece forming the frame and b, bare the metal bands to which the
ends of the said top piece a are connected and which said bands b, b extend down
each end of the bag to the bottom thereof, as clearly shewn in Figure 3; e is the
longitudinal band or strip of metal which connects the two lower extremities of
the aforesaid end bands 6, b.
d is the half or side of the bag which is rigidly connected to the above described
frame a, b, and c is the lower part of the other side which is rigidly secured to the
bag frame so as to form a permanent recess in the bottom of the bag. This lower
part e is, as above mentioned, rigidly secured to the main frame a, b, c by
auxiliary framing comprising the lateral extensions f, which are connected at
their outer ends by angle iron pieces h. ¹ are angle iron strips secured to the
end bands b, b for strengthening the frame; 2, 12 are angle iron pieces secured
transversely to the frame to serve as supports for the lowermost of a set of
drawers, with which the fixed half d of the bag is fitted; and 3 is an angle
iron strip connecting the lower ends of the pieces for strengthening the auxiliary
framing.
is the upper part of the hinged side of the bag, the said upper part being
mounted upon a frame formed of the top piece connected at either end to the
curved lateral strips k, k; these two lateral strips are hinged at their lower
ends upon a rod m which connects the two angle iron connecting pieces h, h,
as clearly shewn in Figure 3. With this construction the upper part of the
bag can be opened, as illustrated in Figure 2, and closed so as to present the
appearance shewn in Figure 1. The upper part of the part i can be partitioned
off and provided with a lid o as shewn.
In bags constructed as above described the weight of the contents is carried
directly by the framing instead of indirectly by the bottom of the leather or

page_text: other material of which the bag is formed, as is the case with bags as heretofore
usually constructed; as above mentioned it has been found in practice that such
a bag is liable to become torn away from the frame owing to the leather or other
material having to directly support the contents of the bag which exerts a direct
pull tending to tear the material away from the frame; by carrying the weight
directly by the frame this tendency to tearing is obviated.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is: -
1. In travelling, dressing and other bags, jewel cases, sample cases, port-
manteaus, and like articles the employment of a main frame passing completely
around the bag or the like and having a laterally extending frame at its lower
part to which an upper frame is hinged, substantially as herein before described
and illustrated.
2. Travelling, dressing and other bags, portmanteaus, sample cases, jewel cases
and like articles constructed substantially as herein before described and illus-
trated in the accompanying drawings.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicants.