AN IMPROVED DEVICE FOR SECURING POCKET BOOKS, PURSES, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES TO THE HAND
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Robert Lake, of the Firm of Haseltine,
Lake, & Co., Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, for
the Invention of "AN IMPROVED DEVICE FOR SECURING POCKET BOOKS,
PURSES, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES TO THE HAND."-A communication
from abroad by Jefferson Brown, junior, and William Henshaw
Buxton, both of the City and State of New York, United States
of Amoning
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Robert Lake
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 28th April 1871.
I, WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co.,
Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED DEVICE FOR SECURING POCKET
Books, Purses, aND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES TO THE Hand,” a communication,
to be as follows:-
The nature of this Invention consists in a pocket book, purse, or
other money receptacle provided with a ring or bracelet, or both, and
so arranged that it may be carried in the palm of the hand.

page_text: Figure 1 is a perspective view of my Invention; Figure 2 shews the
same in position in the hand; Figure 3 shews the lock of the pocket
book.
The pocket book A or other money receptacle, which may be of any
desired construction, is connected with the bracelet B by means of a
spring 9. This spring is preferably covered with leather or other
suitable material, and is fastened to the back of the pocket book by
sewing or otherwise. The bracelet has a slot & at one end and a button t
at the other for fastening the same around the wrist. The ring E is
attached to the other end of the pocket book by means of a band x, and
is placed upon the forefinger in such a manner that the pocket book
will occupy the palm of the hand. The said bracelet and ring may be
so made as to be removeable from the pocket book if desired.
This device for securing a pocket book is susceptible of a great many
variations, all, however, involving the same principle, namely, the
securing of a pocket book or other money receptacle to one finger,
or to the wrist, or both conjointly. For instance, the pocket book
may-be-attached-to-a-bracelet_by_making_the_lower end of the spring
in the form of a loop or other equivalent device. This spring or a
band of elastic or other suitable material may encircle the hand below
the thumb, and hold the pocket book without a bracelet, or it may be
made adjustable by means of loops, or an elastic band may be attached
by buttons to a pocket book and adjusted to any bracelet by a loop; or
it may be attached to a glove by a projecting piece of any suitable
material, or a frame may be secured to the pocket book and attached
to the glove by sewing or otherwise.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Robert Lake in the Great Scal Patent
Office on the 27th October 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty- 3

page_text: fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Robert Lake, Her special
licence that I, the said William Robert Lake, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Robert Lake,
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 IMPROVED
DEVICE FOR SECURING POCKET BOOKS, PURSES, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES TO
'THE HAND,” a communication to me from abroad by Jefferson Brown,
junior, and William Henshaw Buxton, both of the City and State of
New York, United States of America, upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said William Robert Lake, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the saine was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Robert Lake, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawing forming a part of this Specification :-
The nature of this Invention consists in a pocket book, purse, or
other money receptacle provided with a ring or bracelet, or both, and
so arranged that it may be carried in the palm of the hand.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a pocket book with ring and bracelet
attached; Figure 2 shews the same in position on the hand; and
Figure 3 shews the back of the pocket book.
A represents a pocket book or other money receptacle of any desired
construction connected with a bracelet B by means of a spring 9. This
spring is preferably covered with leather or other suitable material, and

page_text: fastening the same around the wrist; E is a ring attached to one end
of the pocket book by means of a band x, and which is placed upon the
the
forefinger in such a manner that the pocket book A will occupy
palm of the hand. The bracelet B and ring E may be so made as to be
removeable from the pocket book if desired.
This device for securing a pocket book is susceptible of a great many
variations, all, however, involving the same principle, namely, the
securing of a pocket book or other money receptacle to one finger, or
to the wrist, or to both conjointly. For instance, the pocket book may
be attached to a bracelet, by making the lower end of the spring g in
the form of a loop or other equivalent device. This spring 7 or a band
of clastic or other suitable material may encircle the hand below the
thumb and hold the pocket book without a bracelet. It may be made
adjustable by means of loops, or an elastic band may be attached by
buttons to any pocket book and adjusted to any bracelet by a loop, or
it may be attached to a glove by a projecting piece of any suitable
material, or a frame may be secured to the pocket book and attached
to the glove by sewing or otherwise.
Having thus fully described-the-said-Invention, as communicated-to-
me by my foreign correspondents, I claim, a pocket book or other money
receptacle provided with a stationary or removable ring or bracelet, or
both, and so arranged that it may be carried in the palm of the hand,
substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Robert Lake, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
Witness,
EDWARD C. JACKSON.
W. ROBT. LAKE. (L.S.)