Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Nov., 1886.
Complete Left, 8th July, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 9th Aug., 1887.
I, GUSTAV ELLIS, of No. 92, New Bond Street, in the County of Middlesex,
Wholesale and Manufacturing Furrier, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows :-
My invention relates to an improved construction of travelling sack.
Travelling sacks, as heretofore constructed, have been open at the top, and also, for
a short distance, down the back. This method of making them has always been open
to the objection that there has been two unconfined corners, which could and would
slip away from the person of the wearer, and allow the sack to gravitate gradually
downwards, and the wearer, aroused by a sensation of unexpected cold, would find the
sack down about his knees.
If the user of the ordinary sack attempted to keep the corners close to him, and the
sack up, by pressing it to his side with his elbows, the fatigue to the arms has always
been too much to be agreeable.
Now my invention consists in fitting the top of the sack with a spring, preferably
metallic, which is incorporated with the material of the sack, and can close round the
waist of the wearer as soon as he has adjusted the sack, with sufficient tightness to
prevent the latter from slipping downwards.
Datel this 201 1
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PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Agents for the Applicant.

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I, GUSTAV ELLIS, of No. 92, New Bond Street, in the County of Middlesex,
Wholesale and Manufacturing Furrier, 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:-
My invention relates to an improved construction of travelling sack.
Travelling sacks, as heretofore constructed, have been open at the top, and also, for
a short distance, down the back. This method of making them has always been open
to the objection that there have been two unconfined corners, which could and would
slip away from the person of the wearer and allow the sack to gravitate gradually
downwards, and the wearer, aroused by a sensation of unexpected cold, would find the
sack down about his knees.
If the user of the ordinary sack attempted to keep the corners close to him, and the
sack up, by pressing it to his side with his elbows, the fatigue to the arms has always
been too much to be agreeable.
Now my invention consists in fitting the top of the sack with a spring, preferably
metallic, which is incorporated with the material of the sack, and can close round the
waist of the wearer as soon as he has adjusted the sack, with sufficient tightness to
prevent the latter from slipping downwards.
I attain the object of my invention by means of the device illustrated in the
accompanying drawings in which-
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of my improved travelling sack, while
Fig. 2 shews the same in use.
A is the sack and B the spring which is preferably of steel.
The spring is flat, sufficiently flexible to admit of the sack being opened easily, and
sufficiently resilient to close upon the person of the wearer and then support the
front a and the corners a' at the desired level thereabout.
The ends b are shewn as bent downwards, and I prefer that they should be made in
this form although I do not confine myself to it inasmuch as this feature of my
invention may be varied according to convenience.
I do not confine myself to the use of a flat band-spring as illustrated, inasmuch as
the cross section of the spring may be varied without departing from the nature of
my invention.

page_text: The spring is to be attached to, or incorporated with, the top of the sack in any
convenient way.
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 :-
The use of a spring incorporated with the top of a travelling sack, and extending
along the top edge thereof for the purpose of closing the same upon the person of the
wearer by its own resilience, substantially as described with reference to the accom-
panying figures.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
22, Southampton Buildings,
Chancery Lane, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.