A DEVICE TO BE USED IN CARRYING PARCELS
Year: 1884

page_text: I CHERUBINI HALSEY of 64 Richmond Road Dalston in the County of Middlesex
Baker do hereby declare the nature of my invention for A NEW DEVICE TO BE
USED IN CARRYING PARCELS to be as follows:-
:
The object of this invention is to manufacture a cheap device by means of which
parcels tied with string and having a loop of string by which to hold them can be
conveniently carried.
.
:
My device consists of a bar or piece of wood or other suitable material, and by
preference of round or oval section, with a slit or slot cut in each end thereof;
these slits or slots extend about half to three quarters of an inch along the bar and
are enlarged at their inner ends. When it is required to carry a parcel by means
of the loop of string above referred to, the two sides of the loop are respectively
slipped into the two ends of the bar until they reach the enlarged inner ends; the
parcel can then be lifted and carried by taking hold of the bar; the enlarged ends
of the slits prevent the string slipping out. I prefer to make the bar with a
transverse slot or groove at the middle thereof in addition to the slits or slots above
described so that a person may have the option of simply slipping the loop into this .
transverse slot.
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page_text: I CHERUBINI HALSEY of 64 Richmond Road, Dalston, in the County of
Middlesex, Baker do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "A NEW
DEVICE TO BE USED IN CARRYING PARCELS" and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :—
The object of this invention is to manufacture a cheap device by means of which
parcels tied with string, and having a loop of string by which to hold them can be
conveniently carried.
My device consists of a bar or piece of wood, metal or other suitable material and
by preference of round or oval section with a slit or slot cut in each end thereof;
these slits or slots extend about half to three-quarters of an inch along the bar and
are enlarged at their inner ends. When it is required to carry a parcel by means
of the loop of string above referred to, the two sides of the loop are respectively
slipped into the two ends of the bar until they reach the enlarged inner ends, the
parcel can then be lifted and carried by taking hold of the bar; the enlarged ends
of the slits prevent the string slipping out. I prefer to make the bar with a
transverse slot or groove at the middle thereof in addition to the slits or slots
above described so that a person may have the option of simply slipping the loop
into this transverse slot.
Figure 1 of the annexed drawings is a top view, Figure 2 a side view and
Figure 3 an end view of a device made as above described, a is a bar or piece of
wood or other suitable material which may be either of round section as shown or
of other desired form, b, b are slots cut in the ends thereof; c, c are enlargements
at the inner ends of the slots. f is a transverse slot or groove at the middle of
the bar.
Sometimes in addition to the slots b, b I form the bar a with a transverse slot in
line with the inner end of each slot b as shown at g, g in Figures 4 and 5 which
are respectively a top view and a side view and these slots g, g may be continued
around the bar in the form of grooves h, h. The slots g, g and grooves h, h allow
of the string being passed, if desired round the bar after having been slipped into
the slots b, b.
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:-
...
A device formed substantially as hereinbefore described and represented in the
drawings to be used in carrying parcels and specially the slots b b in the ends of
the bar a as shown.