AN IMPROVEMENT IN TRAVELLING BAGS
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Philipp Schäfer and Frederick Schäfer, of
Brewer Street, in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturers, for
the Invention of
T
AN IMPROVEMENT IN TRAVELLING BAGS.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Philipp Schäfer
and Frederick Schäfer at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 1st August 1853.
We, PHILIPP SCHAFER and FREDERICK SCHAFER, of Brewer Street,
in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN TRAVELLING
BAGS" to be as follows:-
Our improvement consists in constructing the frames of travelling
bags in such manner that they shall open to the full extent of the
breadth of the bag.
Figure 1, of the annexed Drawings represents an end view of a
leather bag constructed according to our Invention, and shewing
the bag closed; Figure 2, is a similar view of the bag open; and,
Figures 3, and 4, are respectively views of the frame shewn detached
from the bag. A, A, are end frames, to which the bag portion B, is

page_text: attached; C, C, are pieces which are hinged to the frames A, A, at a, a.
These pieces C, C, support the frames D, D, which form the mouth
portion of the bag, and are opened and closed in the usual manner.
E. E. are the handles.
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 1st February 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
PHILIPP SCHÄFER and FREDERICK SCHAFER, of Brewer Street, in the
County of Middlesex, Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent- Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the seventeenth
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, administra-
tors, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein ex-
pressed, 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," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Philipp
Schäfer and Frederick Schäfer, by an instrument in writing under our
hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us, should par-
ticularly 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

page_text: ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being
had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, that is to say:
Our improvement in travelling bags consists in so constructing the
frames that when the bag is opened great facility is afforded for pack-
ing, and when closed the sides are to a great extent prevented from
pressing on the articles placed in the bag, whereby they are less liable.
to be soiled or otherwise injured.
Figure 1, of the annexed Drawings represents a front elevation,
and Figure 1, an end view of a leather bag constructed according to
our Invention, and shewing the bag closed; Figure 2, is an end view
of the bag open; and Figures 3, and 4, are respectively views of the
frame shewn detached from the bag. A, A, are end frames to which
the bag portion B, is attached. C, C, are pieces which are hinged to
the frames A, A, at a, a. These pieces C, C, support the frames D, D,
which form the mouth portion of the bag, and are opened and closed
in the usual manner. E, is the handle of the lag.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we claim as
of our Invention the construction of the frames of travelling bags
in the manner herein-before described and represented in the Drawings
hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Schäfer, on behalf of
myself and Philipp Schäfer, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this First day of February, One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-four.