AN APPENDAGE TO KNAPSACKS
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Drumgoole Brady, of Cambridge Terrace,
Hyde Park, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire, for the Inven-
tion of AN APPENDAGE TO KNAPSACKS."
Sealed the 25th April 1854, and dated the 25th October 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Drumgoole
Brady at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 25th October 1853.
I, JOHN DRUMGOOLE BRADY, of Cambridge Terrace, Hyde Park, in the
County of Middlesex, Esquire, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN APPENDAGE TO KNAPSACKS " to be as follows:-
The said appendage consists of a supplementary pouch or ammunition
case (which may be made of leather, gutta percha, or other waterproof
material) capable of containing twenty rounds of ammunition, or a
greater or less quantity. I suspend this pouch at the inner side of the
knapsack from a cross strap attached thereto, or to the slinging straps
of the knapsack, in such a position that it may be readily detached by:
unbuckling its suspending strap without taking the knapsack off, and
then placed upon the waistbelt when required for immediate use.

page_text: When empty this pouch may be carried within the pack, and when
filled it will form a portion of the pad requisite to keep the pack in a
perpendicular position on the back of the wearer. Or it may be
suspended as to lic immediately on the wearer's back below and just
clear of the knapsack. In cases where the knapsack is provided with
flaps or a pocket at the inner side (by which I mean that side which
comes against. the..wearer's back). I.place. the.. supplementary pouch
beneath the flaps or pocket, or I provide a special flap or pocket for the
purpose of protecting the pouch from 'wet or friction
SPECIFICATION. in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Drumgoole Brady in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 25th April 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JOHN DRUMGOOLE BRADY, of Cambridge Terrace, Hyde Park, in the
County of Middlesex, Esquire, send greeting.
-
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the
seventeenth year of. Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Drumgoole Brady, Her special
licence that I, the said John Drumgoolé Brady, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Drumgoole
Brady, my executors, 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 Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"AN APPENDAGE: TO KNAPSACKS," upon the condition. (amongst others).
that I, the said John Drumgoole Brady, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, 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

page_text: within six calendar months next-and. iminediately after the date of the
said Letters.Patentad
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Drumgoole Brady, 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: thereof, reference being had to the
Drawings hereunto annexed, that is to say
1.5
;
My Invention consists in the employment as air appendage.: to
knapsacks of a supplementary pouch or ammunition case suspended åt
the inner side. of the knapsack from across strap attached thereto, or
to the slinging straps of the. knapsack, in such a position that it may
be readily detached by unbuckling its suspending strap without taking
off the knapsack, and then placed upon the waistbelt when required
for 'immédiate use. This supplementary pouch may be made of leather,
gutta percha, or other waterproof material, and may be capable of
containing twenty rounds of ammunition, or a greater or less quantity,
as may be required. When empty it may be carried within the pack,
and when filled it will form a portion of the pad requisite to keep the
pack in a perpendicular position on the back of the wearer." Or the
pouch may be suspended so as to lie immediately on the wearer's back
below and just clear-of-the-knapsack.In cases where-the-knapsack is:
provided with flaps or a pocket at the inner side (by which I mean that
side which comes against the wearer's back) I-place the supplementary
pouch beneath the flaps or pocket, or where the knapsack is not thus
provided I furnish a special flap or pocket for the purpose of protecting
the pouch from wet or friction.
Figure 1, of the Drawings hereunto annexed is a back view of a
knapsack having a supplementary pouch or ammunition case suspended
thereto, the flap or pocket of the knapsack being thrown back in order
to shew the pouch better. Figure 2, is a back view of the knapsack,
with the flap or pocket folded over the pouch and secured in its place.
A, A, is the body of the knapsack; B, B, the slinging straps; and C,
the cross strap from which the pouch is suspended; D, is the pouch;
and E, the strap which suspends it from the cross strap C; F, is the
buckle by which the ends of the strap E are secured together, the strap

page_text: being placed round the pouch in such a position that the buckle Fis
brought beneath it, where it can be readily reached without removing
the knapsack to allow of the pouch being detached when required for
use. Figures 3, 4, and 5, are respectively a front,. back, and end
view of the pouch detached; D, is the body of the pouch; G, the flap
thereof; and H, I, a button and strap by which the flap is fastened;
J, is a cross strap attached to the back of the pouch, under which the
strap E passes when the pouch is slung from the knapsack, and which
also serves to suspend the pouch from the waistbelt.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim
as my Invention is,-
The employment as an appendage to knapsacks of a supplemen-
tary pouch or ammunition case suspended thereto, as herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Drumgoole Brady, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of
April, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
JOHN D. BRADY. (L.S.)