AN IMPROVEMENT CONNECTED WITH HAND BAGS, WITH MEANS FOR CARRYING PURSES AND THE LIKE WITHIN THE SAME to be as follows:
Year: 1884

page_text: I ROBERT WEINTRAUD of the firm Weintraud and Company, Offenbach °
Germany, Warehousemen do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for
"AN IMPROVEMENT CONNECTED WITH HAND BAGS, WITH MEANS FOR CARRYING
PURSES AND THE LIKE WITHIN THE SAME to be as follows:-
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The object of this invention is, to construct hand bags in such a manner that a
purse, note book or other small article of a like kind can be carried within the
same and be brought into position when the bag is opened for easy handling, such,
as removing money, jotting down memorandums, or other necessary manipulation
or the ready removal and replacing of the article.
For the purpose of my invention I make the frame of the bag with a rigid
depending plate or its equivalent this having a turned up or hooked lower end on
to which a link projecting from the frame of a purse or the like can be passed to
hang from the hooked plate.
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The hook of the plate is below the lock of the bag, if one be fitted, and the
mouth of the bag when opened square causes the hooked plate to come into a
horizontal position the purse then hanging straight down the top of the purse being
at the top of the bag.
The hooked plate may be from a separate piece of metal and be fixed in position
when the bag is made up.
I have described the hook as being on the bag but it may be on the purse and
the link on the bag if desired.
By this invention The purse is not loose in the bag and cannot get mixed with
the other contents.
The purse cannot be lost.
It is very handy to use the purse which by the opening of the bag has come up
to the top.
By fastening the purse close to the one side of the bag there is plenty of room
left to fill and empty the bag.
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The purse is fastened in the bag only when you use the bag and the purse can
be taken off at any time and used alone.
Dated thin 5th day of May 1984
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the Applicant.

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I ROBERT WEINTRAUD of the firm Weintraud and Company Offenbach /m
Germany, Warehousemen, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for
"AN IMPROVEMENT CONNECTED WITH HAND BAGS, WITH MEANS FOR CARRYING
PURSES AND THE LIKE WITHIN THE SAME," and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement -
The object of this invention is, to construct hand bags in such a manner that a
purse, note book or other small article of a like kind can be carried within the
same and be brought into position when the bag is opened for easy handling, such
as removing money, jotting down memorandum or other necessary manipulation or
the ready removal and replacing of the article.
For the purpose of my invention I make the frame of the bag with a rigid
depending plate or its equivalent this having a turned up or hooked. lower end on
to which a link projecting from the frame of a purse or the like can be passed to
hang from the hooked plate.
The hook of the plate is below the lock of the bag, if one be fitted, and the
(mouth of the bag when opened square causes the hooked plate to come into a
horizontal position, the puise then banging straight down, the top of the purse
being at the top of the bag.
The hooked plate may be from a separate piece of metal and be fixed in position
when the bag is made up.
I have described the hook as being on the bag, but it may be on the purse and
the link on the bag if desired.
By this invention the purse is not loose in the bag and cannot get mixed with
the other contents. The purse cannot be lost.
It is very handy to use the purse, which by the opening of the bag has come up
to the top.
By fastening the purse close to the one side of the bag there is plenty of room
left to fill and empty the bag.
The purse is fastened in the bag only when the bag is used and the purse can be
taken off at any time and used alone.
The annexed sheet of drawings illustrate, my invention. Figure 1 is a hooked
plate A to be affixed rigidly to the frame B of a hand bag or reticule C as at
Figure 3. The tongued part D of the hook is curved and sprung so as to slightly
grip a link or loop D' which I form on and project from the frame of a purse or
other like article E so that it may be suspended therefrom when the bag is open
as at Figure 4 as well as when the bag is closed as shown by the interval view
Figure 5. When the bag is open the action of the frame B brings the hook plate
to a horizontal position with a purse or note book E hanging to be easily opened
for the contents to be got at without dislodging or removing it from the hook
plate A.
Figure 6 represents sufficient of a bag shown in this position, the hook D being
slightly modified by attaching it to connecting wires F as an equivalent to the

page_text: plate A-Said wires are hinged to a plate A¹ as at Figure 2 fixed rigidly to the bag
frame B the construction and combination being substantially the saine as that
described with reference to Figure 1.
Figures 7 shows a bent wire hook D rigidly fixed to the bag frame B and having
a note book or memorandum tablet E suspended therefrom.
Figure 8 shows part interior of a hand bag with a loop D₁ attached to the
frame B the hook plate A, D, being upon the purse or it may be on any other
article to be suspended therefrom.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
First. The application of or affixing a hook plate or its equivalent to the inside
frame of a hand bag for the suspension of a purse or similar article therefrom
within said bag as described with reference to Figures 1, 3, 4 and 5 of the annexed
drawings.
Secondly. The modified appliances described with reference to Figures 2, 6,
7 and 8 of the annexed drawings for the purpose set forth,
The 5th day of February 1885.
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Robert Weintraud.