Improvements in or Applicable to Dressing Bags, Ladies' Bags and the like.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Mar, 1887.
Complete Left, 29th Oct., 1887
Complete Accepted, 29th Nov., 1887
Improvements in or Applicable to Dressing Bags, Ladies' Bags
and the like.
I MORITZ WOLFSKY of Tudor Street, Bridewell Place, in the city of London,
Leather Bag Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to the construction and application to the frames of dressing
bags, ladies' bags and the like of an additional fastening or fastenings so arranged
that when the handle of the bag is in a vertical position the said fastening or
fastenings shall be protected or covered by the handle rings so that the bag cannot be
opened without the handle being turned down or partly turned down when the said
fastening or fastenings can be depressed so as to allow of the bag being opened in
the usual manner.
The improved fastening which I find it advantageous to use for the purpose of my
invention consists of a vertical spring slide in a box or case fitted to one part of the
bag frame under the handle ring the said spring slide being adapted to take into and
retain a catch on the other part of the bag frame. The spring slide passes through
the top of the bag frame the upper end thereof when in its closed position nearly
reaching the handle ring so that it cannot conveniently be operated until the 'handle
is turned down.
When the bag is closed in order to release my additional fastenings the handle is
turned down and the vertical spring slides can then be depressed and will he held in
their depressed position by a small spring catch and the bag can be opened and the
vertical spring slides will return to their normal position. The bag is closed in the
usual manner, that is to say, by simply pressing together the two parts of the bag
frame.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Applicable to Dressing Bags, Ladies' Bags,
and the like.
1, MORITZ WOLFSKY, of Tudor Street, Bridewell Place, in the city of London,
Leather Bag Manufacturer 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 :—
This invention relates to the construction and application to the frames of dressing
bags, ladies' bags, and the like of an additional fastening or fastenings so arranged
that when the handle of the bag is in a vertical position the said fastening or fastenings
shall be protected or covered by the handle rings so that the bag cannot be opened
without the handle being turned down or partly turned down when the said fastening
or fastenings can be depressed so as to allow of the bag being opened in the usual
manner.
The improved fastening which I find it advantageous to use for the purpose of my
invention consists of a vertical spring slide in a box or case fitted to one part of the
bag frame under the handle ring the said spring slide being adapted to take into
and retain a catch on the other part of the bag frame. The spring slide passes
through the top of the bag frame the upper end thereof when in its closed position
nearly reaching the handle ring so that it cannot conveniently be operated until the
handle is turned down.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood 1 will proceed to describe
the same by reference to the accompanying drawing in which figure 1 is an elevation
of part of a frame of a bag fitted with one additional fastening according to my
.invention; figure 2, is a rear elevation drawn to a larger scale, of one of the additional
fastenings detached from the bag frame; figure 3 is a transverse section through the
bag frame and through the additional fastening and showing the two parts of the said
bag frame locked together the respective positions of the parts when unlocked being
represented in dotted lines. Similar letters of reference indicate similar parts
throughout the drawing.
a, represents the bag frame of ordinary construction and b, b, the handle rings
which are pivotted in the brackets or blocks c, c, secured to the frame by rivets or
other convenient means. d, is the vertical slide or bolt and e, is the spiral spring
the lower end of which bears upon the lower side of the case f, and the upper end of
which bears against a shoulder formed on the spring slide or bolt d, and raises it to
its normal position after it has been depressed. The case f, is rivetted to the frame a,
in such position that the, upper end of the spring slide or bolt d, passes up through
the horizontal part of such frame and through the bracket or block where its end
reaches nearly to the underside of the handle ring b, as shewn at figures 1 and 3.
is the catch and h, is a flat spring (represented in dotted lines in figures 2 and 3)
9,

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to which it is secured and by means of this catch the bolt d, is retained in its depressed
position as hereinafter described ready to admit of the bag being opened in the usual
(figure 3) is the catch rivetted into the hinged part of the frame a; j, is
a lock of ordinary construction rivetted to the frame a, but it is to be understood that
the hereinbefore described improved fastening may be applied to bags with or without
any other fastenings or locks."
Assuming the bag to be closed as shewn in figure 3 in order to release my
additional fastening the handle ring b, is turned down and the vertical spring slide
or bolt d, can then be depressed (as shewn in dotted lines at figure 3). The spring
catch g, actuated by its flat spring h, then passes beneath the catch i, and retains
the bolt d, in its depressed position and thus leaves the bag free to be opened in the
ordinary manner by the lock j. So soon as the bag is thus opened the spiral spring e,
forces the bolt d, up into its normal position which is then ready for engaging with
the catch i, when the bag is again closed. The bolt d, and the catches g, and i, are
formed with inclined or equivalent surfaces in the manner common to ordinary bag
locks so as to enable the bag to be closed by pressing together the two parts of the
bag frame.
The additional fastening hereinbefore described is one which gives good results in
practice but it will be obvious that other fastenings operating in a similar manner
can be employed without departing from the principle of my invention; it will also
be understood that an additional fastening can be adapted to each handle ring.
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
1. The construction and application to frames of dressing bags, ladies' bags and
the like of an additional fastening or fastenings placed under and protected by the
handle rings the said fastenings being arranged and operating substantially as and
for the purpose herein before described and represented in the accompanying
drawing.
2. The improved additional fastening for bag frames herein before described and
represented in the accompanying drawing.
Dated the 28th day of October 1887.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicant.