An Appliance or Device for use by Travellers as a Leg-rest and as a "Hold-all" or Means for Securing Rugs, Umbrellas, or other Articles.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Sept., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 9th June 1890-Accepted, 12th July, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Appliance or Device for use by Travellers as a Leg-rest and
as a "Hold-all" or Means for Securing Rugs, Umbrellas, or other
Articles.
I GEORGE BECKETT BATTEN of Walton Lodge Lordship Lane in the County of
Surrey Doctor of Medicine do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My Invention has for its object to provide a device or appliance which is simple in
construction and capable of use as a leg rest and also as a "hold-all" for securing
rugs umbrellas or other articles.
The device or appliance consists of strips or bars of rigid material which are con
nected together by flexible material capable of being secured when the device is
wrapped around rugs umbrellas or other articles of luggage. I prefer to make the
device of strips of wood of a length sufficient to reach from seat to seat of a railway
carriage and to secure them by rivets or otherwise to straps place.l transversely of the
strips and provided with buckles or other fastenings. Or I may use a sheet of
webbing provided with short straps or other means of fastening it together at its
edges. When the device is used as a "hold-all" it is wrapped round the articles
which it is to hold and the straps are, or web is, secured by the buckles or other
fastenings the strips lying lengthwise and acting as longitudinal supports and as a
protection. When the device is to be used as a rest it is unfastened opene out.
and placed with the strips resting at one end on one seat and at the opposite
end on the opposite seat of a carriage or in other convenient position to act as the
desired rest.
Dad thin 10th Janne Contrashan 1000
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Appliance or Device for use by Travellers as a Leg-rest and
as a Hold-all" or Means for Securing Rugs, Umbrellas, or other
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Articles.
I GEORGE BECKETT BATTEN of Walton House Lordship Lane in the County of
Surrey, Doctor of Medicine do hereby declare the nature of this Invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :—
My Invention has for its object to provide a device or appliance which is simple
in construction and capable of use as a leg rest card table or other like purpose and
and also as a "hold all" for holding any articles or as a means for securing rugs
umbrellas or other articles.
The device or appliance consists of strips or bars of rigid material which are
connected together by flexible material capable of being secured when the device is
wrapped around rugs umbrellas or other articles of luggage or folded to retain the
articles which the "hold all" contains.
I will describe with reference to the accompanying drawings manners in which my
Invention may be carried into effect.
Figures 1 and 2 shew the device as used for a combined rug or umbrella strap
and leg rest or table or the like. Figure 1 shewing it open for use as a leg rest
table or the like and Figure 2 shewing it strapped around a rug. Figure 3 shews
a portion of a sheet or piece of waterproof or other material which may be used in
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page_text: combination with it and Figures 4 and 5 shew the Invention as applied to a
"hold all" to allow of it also being used as a leg rest table or the like. Figure 4
shewing it open and Figure 5 shewing it closed and secured.
I prefer to make the device of strips of wood A but they may be of any other
material of sufficient rigidity and strength. These strips A are of a length sufficient
to reach from seat to seat of a railway carriage and they are secured together by
straps B (of which any convenient number may be used) the said straps being
secured to the strips by rivets or otherwise the said straps being placed transversely
of the strips and being provided with buckles or other means for fastening them. I
may use in combination with the strips a sheet of webbing C which may be provided
with short 'straps or other means of fastening it together at its edges. The strips A
may be secured to this sheet by any suitable means such for example as by placing
them in recesses or tubes in two thicknesses of the material used for the sheet or by
forming pockets at the edge of the sheet as at d Figure 3 into which pockets the
ends of the strips A are received. When the device is used in combination with a
"hold all the strips may he secured in or upon one or both sides of the "hold all "
which may be secured by straps and buckles or other fastenings the strips being length-
wise and acting as in the preceding case as longitudinal supports and as a protection.
When the device is to be used as a rest it is unfastened opened out and placed with
the strips A resting at one end on one seat and at the opposite end on the opposite seat
of a carriage or in other convenient position to act as the desired rest. If it is to
be used as a table it may be opened out and supported on the knees of
the users.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is
1. A device constituting a combined leg rest (or the like) and rug strap substantially
as herein before described and illustrated by Figures 1 and 2 whether the waterproof
material be used in combination therewith or not.
2. A device constituting a combined leg rest (or the like) and a "hold all "
substantially as herein before described and illustrated by Figures 4 and 5 of the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 4th day of June 1890.
GEORGE BECKETT BATTEN.