Shopping Purse.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Apr., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 11th June, 1892-Accepted, 16th July, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Safety Shopping Purse.
I, WILLIAM MATTHEW WARD of 20 Larkfield Road, Richmond, Surrey, a
Clerk in the Bank of England, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
us follows:
One or more pieces of metal chain attached to corner of the purse and con-
necting the purse with a wristlet of metal chain, metal band, or any other suitable
material, for the purpose of preventing the purse from being snatched from the
hand of the wearer.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Safety Shopping Purse.
I, WILLIAM Matthew Ward of the Dividend Office, Bank of England,
Threadneedle Street, London, Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of my 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 purses for carrying money and particularly to those
used by ladies for the purpose of shopping; and has for its object the provision of
means whereby the purse is attached to the person and cannot thus be lost, left on
the counter, snatched away or stolen in any manner.
My invention consists in providing flexible attachments for attaching the purse
to the wrist or hand, so that it cannot be snatched therefrom.
In order that my invention may be the better understood, I will now describe it
in relation to the drawings hereunto annexed, reference being had to the letters
and figures marked thereon.
Like letters refer to like parts in the various figures.
Figure 1 is a general view of a purse with my attachment affixed thereto.
Figure 2 is a view showing a purse attached to the wrist.
Figure 3 shows a purse attached to an ordinary wristlet for carrying a watch.
To carry out my invention I arrange two eyes or rings A upon the purse B
preferably upon the corner of one of the edges, and to these eyes A I attach two
pieces of flexible material C such as chain, which are in turn attached to a bracelet
of such a form that it cannot be pulled off the wrist_by_snatching.
This bracelet may consist of a piece of chain D Figure 1 or it may be an
ordinary chain bracelet, or a leather wristlet such as are used for carrying watches
as shown in Figure 3.
Each point of attachment is made by a spring hasp E provided with a swivel,
so that the chain may be detached from the wrist and from the purse with ease and
celerity.
In Figure 1 the short chains C are each provided with a spring swivel hasp E
which engage upon the purse rings or eyes A, their other ends being joined to the
ring F of the chain bracelet D; the hasp E on the end of the chain D is hooked
on to the ring F to form the bracelet.
In Figure 3 the short chains Care provided with a spring swivel hasp E at
each end so as to be attached to the purse rings A and bracelet ring F respec-
tively; this arrangement of short chains C is applicable for use with any bracelet
having a ring or other means for attachment of the chains C.
If the arrange-
ment is worn as shewn in Figure 2 on the left wrist, the purse can readily be

page_text: opened and closed and anything can be extracted from or put into it without dis-
connecting it from the chain or wrist.
I do not confine myself to the particular number of chains, attachment rings or
to any particular disposition of them, as it is obvious these may be varied in
many ways without departing from the essence of my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
'claim is':-
:
1st. A bracelet or wristlet of a form that it cannot be snatched off the wrist,
in combination with a purse and flexible means of attachment of the bracelet or
wristlet with the purse.
2nd. A purse provided with one or more eyes or rings in combination with 'a
chain or chains attached to or forming part of a bracelet..
1.
3rd. A safety shopping purse arranged and constructed substantially as described
and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 2nd day of June 1892.
FELL & WILDING,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.