TRAVELLING BAGS BOXES AND SUCH LIKE RECEPTACLES
Year: 1884

page_text: We ALFRED JOSEPH ALEXANDER of 103 Pembroke Road Clifton Bristol
Gentleman and HENRY MASTERS of 18 Meridian Place Clifton Bristol aforesaid
" IMPROVEMENTS IN
Architect do hereby declare the nature of our invention for
TRAVELLING BAGS BOXES AND SUCH LIKE RECEPTACLES to be as follows:-
"
This invention has for its object improvements in travelling bags boxes and such
like receptacles.
For this purpose two or more bags or receptacles are combined and attached to
each other in such manner as to form one package.
In the ordinary travelling bags it is necessary when more space is required than
the bag will contain to have a separate receptacle which may or may not be tied or
strapped to the bag but such an arrangement has been hitherto of a temporary
character and the bags or receptacles have not been specially made for securing
together and it has been found that such temporary arrangement has been
inconvenient and insecure.
Figure 1 shews an ordinary travelling bag hinged at C and below it is a
receptacle marked B having at its angles pins or slide bars, upon the angles of the
upper bag are holes or slides that will fit over the pins or slides D D so that the
upper bag may be fitted to the lower either by being closed together or by being
slid over the lower bag.
Figure 2 shews an arrangement whereby the upper bag may be locked to the
lower receptacle either by having a lock at each end or a lock at one end and a
bolt or pin at the other.
Figures 3 and 4 shew automatic arrangements by which the upper bag may be
secured to the lower receptacle by an attachment which is controlled by the upper
bag being opened or shut.
Figure 5 shews the arrangement of an ordinary bag attached to a receptacle.
Figure 6 shews an arrangement by which a box provided with a double cover
may be attached to a lower receptacle bolts controlled by springs being used.
The box has holes in the bottom into which lugs fixed on the lower receptacle
enter. The double cover of the box when closed presses down a stem and inclines
at the lower end of the stem then cause spring bolts to shoot forward through the
lugs. When the box is opened the springs draw back the bolts.
Dated this 20th day of January 1884.
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicants.

page_text: We, ALFRED JOSEPH ALEXANDER of 103 Pembroke Road Clifton, Bristol,
Gentleman and HENRY MASTERS of 18 Meridian Place Clifton, Bristol aforesaid
Architect do hereby declare the nature of our invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
TRAVELLING BAGS, BOXES, AND SUCH LIKE RECEPTACLES" and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in travelling bags boxes and such
like receptacles.
For this purpose two or more bags or receptacles are combined and attached to
each other in such manner as to form one package.
In the ordinary travelling bags it is necessary when more space is required than
the bag will contain to have a separate receptacle which may or may not be tied or
strapped to the bag but such an arrangement has been hitherto of a temporary
character and the bags or receptacles have not been specially made for securing
together and it has been found that such temporary arrangement has been
inconvenient and insecure.
Figure 1 shews an ordinary travelling bag hinged at C and below it is a
receptacle marked B having pins at its angles.
Upon the angles of the upper bag are holes that will fit over the pins D D so
that the upper bag may be fitted to the lower by being closed together.
The act of closing the bag A when it is in place on the box or lower receptacle B
causes the pins to enter the holes prepared for them and so long as the bag remains
closed it cannot be separated from the lower receptacle, and a lock on the bag will
render all secure.
In place of employing pins projecting horizontally as shown in Figure 1 pins or
lugs may project vertically from the top of the receptacle B and be provided with
heads. Corresponding pins or lugs then replace the holes in the bag A and the bag
by being slidden over the lower bag or receptacle is caused to engage with it. The
lock on the lower receptacle then prevents the two parts being separated by raising
a bolt which prevents the bag from being slidden back the short distance requisite
to disengage the pins or lugs.
Figure 2 shews an arrangement whereby the upper bag may be locked at the
lower receptacle either by having a lock at each end or a lock at one end and a bolt
or pin at the other.
Figures 3 and 4 shew automatic arrangements by which the upper bag may be
secured to the lower receptacle by an attachment which is controlled by the upper
bag being opened or shut.
In both of these arrangements catches are pivotted to the bag one near either
end and at a short distance above the bottom. The bag when open is placed on
the lower receptacle and the catches pass through holes in the top thereof. Then
when the bag is closed a connection between the catches and the frame of the bag
causes the catches to turn about their pivots and to engage beneath the cover of the
box or lower receptacle.
Figure 5 shews the arrangement of an ordinary bag attached to a receptacle.
This figure is a side view of the bags of which the preceding Figures 3 and 4
represent sections, the mechanism it will be observed is hidden within the bag.
Figure 6 shews an arrangement by which a box provided with a hinged cover
may be attached to a lower receptacle, bolts controlled by springs being used,

page_text: The box has holes in the bottom into which lugs fixed on the lower receptacle
enter. The cover of the box when closed presses down a stem and inclines at the
lower end of the stem then cause spring bolts to shoot forward through the lugs.
When the box is opened the springs draw back the bolts. This arrangement of
bolts and sliding stem is provided at each end of the package. A single bolt in
each case may be employed in lieu of a pair of bolts.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:
(1.) Travelling bags, boxes and such like receptacles in two parts, an upper and
a lower, having pins and holes or equivalent appliances engaging and so holding the
parts together substantially as described.
(2.) Travelling bags, boxes and such like receptacles in two parts, an upper and
a lower having engaging instruments automatically operating as the upper part is
closed to secure the one part to the other substantially as described.
(3.) Travelling bags, boxes and such like receptacles substantially as described
and represented in the annexed drawings.