AN IMPROVEMENT IN TRAVELLING BAGS, PORTMANTEAUS, AND OTHER SIMILAR BAGS AND CASES
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Philipp Schäfer and Frederick Schäfer, of Golden
Square, in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturers, for the Invention
of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN TRAVELLING BAGS, PORTMANTEAUS, AND OTHER
SIMILAR BAGS AND CASES."
Sealed the 29th August 1862, and dated the 4th March 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Philipp Schäfer and
Frederick Schäfer at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 4th March 1862.
WC, PHILIPP SCHÄFER and FREDERICK SCHÄFER, of Golden Square, in the
County of Middlesex, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN TRAVELLING BAGS, PORTMANTEAUS,
AND OTHER SIMILAR BAGS AND CASES," to be as follows:-
In travelling and other bags, portmanteaus, and other cases used for con-
taining clothes and valuables, much attention has been directed to the locks
to prevent their being picked, and the bags and cases being opened, but
hitherto such articles have not been protected from being cut or ripped by a
knife or other cutting tool.
Now, the object of our present Invention is to prevent access to the contents
of the bags, portmanteaus, and other cases by cutting, and we effect this by
inserting between the outer leather or other like material and the lining metal
cloth or wire gauze; or we form the lining itself of such cloth or gauze. We
prefer to employ that metal cloth composed of split steel rings.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Philipp Schäfer and Frederick Schäfer in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 4th September 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, PHILIPP
SCHÄFER and FREDERICK SCHÄFER, of Golden Square, in the County of
Middlesex, Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
Philipp Schäfer and Frederick Schäfer, Her special licence that we, the
said Philipp Schäfer and Frederick Schäfer, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said Philipp Schäfer and Frederick
Schäfer, our 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 IMPROVEMENT IN
TRAVELLING BAGS, PORTMANTEAUS, AND OTHER SIMILAR BAGS AND CASES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said Philipp Schäfer and Frederick
Schäfer, or one of us, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under our, or one of our, 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 same 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 we, the said Philipp Schäfer and Frederick
Schäfer, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say:-.
In travelling and other bags, portmanteaus, and other cases used for con-
taining clothes and valuables much attention has been directed to the locks
to prevent their being picked, and the bags and cases being opened, but
hitherto such articles have not been protected from being cut or ripped by a
knife or other cutting tool.
Now, the object of our present Invention is to prevent access to the
contents of the bags, portmanteaus, and other cases by cutting, and we effect
this by inserting between the outer leather or other like material and the

page_text: lining metal cloth or wire gauze; or we form the lining itself of such cloth
or gauze.
We prefer to employ that metal cloth composed of split steel
rings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Philipp Schäfer, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourth day of September, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-two.
PHILIPP SCHÄFER. (L.S.)