IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF RENDERING CERTAIN CASES OD READ FYMNIE
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Christian Henry Richard Ebert and Lippmann Jacob
Levisohn, both of Old Street, St. Luke's, in the County of Middlesex, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF RENDERING CERTAIN
CASES OD READ FYMNIE"
Sealed the 9th March 1855, and dated the 11th December 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Christian Henry Richard
Ebert and Lippmann Jacob Levisohn at the Office of the Commissioners
of Patents, with their Petition, on the 11th December 1854.
We, CHRISTIAN HENRY RICHARD EBERT and LIPPMANN JACOB LEVISOHN,
both of Old Street, St. Luke's, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE
OF RENDERING CERTAIN CASES OR RECEPTACLES EXTENSIBLE" to be as follows,
that is to say -
Our said improvements, which have reference to the construction of pocket
books, porte-monnaies, and other pocket cases or receptacles for money, notes,
stamps, small papers, and documents, and other small articles to be carried on
the person, such as penknives, pen and pencil cases, scissors, and the like, and
also of blotting books, portfolios, and other receptacles for papers, drawings,

page_text: plates, and the like, included between covers in the form of book covers, and
also of expansible desks or cases for money, papers, articles of stationery, and
articles commonly used in connection therewith, and of housewives, needle
cases, lady's companions, and the like receptacles, consist in rendering the said
receptacles extensible, and capable of accommodating an additional number of
articles, by a more effectual process than has hitherto been employed. And
to carry into effect these objects, I cause the back ends of the said pocket
books, pocket cases, blotting books, portfolios, and the like, and the bottom of
the said porte-monnaies, and the backs of the said desks, and of any com-
partments therein, to be formed by an extensible band or connecting piece,
composed wholly or partly of india-rubber, gutta percha, or other suitable
elastic material.
And I claim the construction of the above articles with extensible bands or
connecting pieces of india-rubber, gutta percha, or other suitable elastic
material in the parts, and for the purposes herein-before described and set
forth.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Christian Henry Richard Ebert and Lippmann Jacob
Levisohn in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 11th June 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, CHRISTIAN
HENRY RICHARD EBERT and LIPPMANN JACOB LEVISOHN, both of Old Street,
St. Luke's, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Christian Henry Richard Ebert and Lippmann Jacob Levisohn, Her
special licence that we, the said Christian Henry Richard Ebert and Lippmann
Jacob Levisohn, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
we, the said Christian Henry Richard Ebert and Lippmann Jacob Levisohn,
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

page_text: Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF
RENDERING CERTAIN CASES OR RECEPTACLES EXTENSIBLE," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Christian Henry Richard Ebert and
Lippmann Jacob Levisohn, by an instrument in writing under our 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 Christian Henry Richard Ebert
and Lippmann Jacob Levisohn, do hereby declare the nature of our said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be parti-
cularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement (that
is to say):-
Our said improvements, which have reference to the construction of pocket
books, porte-monnaies, and other pocket cases or receptacles for money, notes,
stamps, small papers, and documents, and other articles to be carried on the
person, such as penknives, pen and pencil cases, scissors, and the like, and also
of blotting books, portfolios, bill cases, and other receptacles for papers,
drawings, plates, and the like, included between covers in the form of book
covers, and also of expansible desks or cases for money, papers, articles of
stationery, and articles commonly used in connection therewith, and of house-
wives, needle cases, lady's companions, travelling bags, and necessaries, and
the like receptacles, consists in rendering the said receptacles extensible, and
capable of accomodating an additional number of articles, by a more effectual
process than has hitherto been employed. And to carry into effect these
objects, we cause the back ends of the said pocket books, pocket cases, blotting
books, portfolios, and the like, and the top and bottom of the said porte-
monnaies and lady's companions, and the backs of the said desks, and of any
compartments therein, to be formed by an extensible band or connecting piece,
composed wholly or partly of india-rubber, gutta percha, or other suitable
elastic material.
But in order that these our said improvements may be more fully under-
stood and readily carried into effect, we now proceed to describe them by the
aid of the accompanying Drawings, reference being had to the letters and
figures thereon marked (that is to say) :-
:-
Fig. 1 represents a front view of our improved pocket purse, which we
denominate "the paratonic pocket case;" Fig. 2, an edge view; Fig. 3, an
end view thereof, showing the purse or case open; and Fig. 4, the same

page_text: extended or expanded by the contents. In cach Figure the same letters of
reference denote similar corresponding parts. A, A, front lap or cover;
B, B, folding sides or gussets; C, C, back and front covers of the purse;
D, D, ligature of extensible or elastic material secured to and uniting the
lower sides of the covers of the said case or purse; E, E, belt or band for
keeping the purse closed in the ordinary manner; F, F, pockets or receptacles
for money or otherwise; G, G, inner lap for securing the contents of the
pocket H together with the postage and receipt stamps.
In Figs. 5 to 20 we have shown several other modifications of the principle
of these our said improvements, by which they may be rendered applicable to
the various articles enumerated in the preceding part of this our Specification;
that is to say, Fig. 5 represents a front view of a ladies pocket companion;
Fig. 6, an end view thereof; Fig. 7, the same extended; and at Fig. 8, the
same when opened flat. In these Figs. the elastic material is inserted at the
top and bottom of the said companion. In like manner, Figs. 9, 10, 11, and
12 represent corresponding views of a cigar case, the elastic material ren-
dering the cigar case extensible for the reception of the cigars, as shown in the
Drawings. Figs. 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17 represent a description of travelling
case or bag, in which the clothes and other necessaries are to be placed in
the pockets or receptacles on either side, in the direction indicated by the
arrows, the elastic material admitting of an extension or contraction of
the bag or case as the articles are inserted or withdrawn. Figs. 18, 19, and
20 represent a description of ladies' travelling bag or reticule, the novelty of
which consists in inserting elastic material extending round the bottom to the
sides or edges of the said bag or reticule, in the manner shown in the Draw-
ings, the metallic frame or clasp forming the mouth of the said bag, through
which the various articles are inserted. We would here briefly remark that
we have not given separate Drawings of all the articles to which these our
said improvements are applicable, but have confined ourselves to those articles
from which the principle of our said improvements, and the modifications of
which they are susceptible, may be most fully and clearly understood.
Iaving now fully described the nature of this our said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed and carried into effect, we would
have it clearly understood that we do not by any means intend to confiue our-
selves to the precise details herein-before set forth and described, as the same
might be varied without departing from the general character of these our said
improvements; but that which we do claim as new and of our said Invention
is, the general mode or modes of arranging or constructing extensible cases or

page_text: receptacles of the various denominations herein-before enumerated and set
forth for the purposes herein-before described.
In witness whereof, we, the sad Christian Henry Richard Ebert and
Lippmann Jacob Levisohn, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
Ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-five.
CHRISTIAN HENKI KICHARD EBERT.
LIPPMANN JACOB LEVISOHN.
Witness to both signatures,
(L.S.)
(L.S.)
FRED. R. D. CAMPBELL,
Clerk to Messrs. Weatherdon & Co.,
77, Chancery Lane.