Fastening for Purses, Bags, and the like.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 13th Jan., 1891-Accepted, 14th Feb., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Fastening for Purses, Bags, and the like.
I, THEODOR WOHLMUTHI, of 6 Beatrixgasse, Vienna III, in the Austrian
Empire, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to the means for keeping purses, hand bags and the like
closed or open, and more especially to the said means for purses, hand bags, etc.,
which, as is usually the case, have their mouths bordered with a metal frame,
consisting of two hinge-jointed halves.
According to my invention, the ends of one half are arranged between the ends
of the other half of the said frame, and either or both halves are made with a
certain amount of clasticity. The ends of the outer or inner half of the frame have
formed on that surface, which faces the ends of the other half, one or more dogs, to
which correspond similarly shaped recesses in the ends of the other half, near the
hinge pins. In the closed purse or bag, the said dogs are engaged in the corre-
sponding recesses, and when the purse or bag is opened the dogs slide out of the
said recesses thereby forcing the ends of the elastic half or halves of the frame
asunder or together. Another set of recesses may be provided, into which the said
dogs take, when the purse or bag has been opened to a certain extent.
Dated this 17th day of March 1890.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Fastening for Purses, Bags, and the like.
I, THEODOR WOHLMUTH, of 6 Beatrixgasse, Vienna III, in the Austrian
Empire, Merchant, 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 :—
This invention relates to the means for keeping purses, hand bags and the like
closed or open, and more especially to the said means for purses, hand bags, etc.,
which, as is usually the case, have their mouths bordered with a metal frame,
consisting of two hinge-jointed halves.
According to my invention, the ends of one half are arranged between the ends
of the other half of the said frame, and either or both halves are made with a
certain amount of elasticity. The ends of the outer or inner half of the frame have
formed on that surface, which faces the ends of the other half, one or more dogs, to
which correspond similarly shaped recesses in the ends of the other half, near the
hinge pins. In the closed purse or bag, the said dogs are engaged in the corre-
sponding recesses, and when the purse or bag is opened the dogs slide out of the
said recesses thereby forcing the ends of the elastic half or halves of the frame
asunder or together. Another set of recesses may be provided, into which the said
dogs take, when the purse or bag has been opened to a certain extent.
The forms and positions of the dogs and of the hollows in which they engage may
be variously modified as I shall describe referring to the accompanying drawings,
in all of which A and B indicate the two hinge-jointed halves of the frame which
borders the mouth of a purse or hand bag, and a and b indicate the dogs or
projections and corresponding hollows that engage with one another, whilst
cindicates the hinge pins. As shewn in Figs. 1 1° 1° and 1ª the half frame A

page_text: has projecting from each of its hinge ends a dog a which in the closed condition
of A and B snaps into a hollow of B as shewn in Fig. 1°, whilst, in the open
condition it is withdrawn from the hollow as shewn in 1ª, or it may snap into
another hollow as shewn in Fig. 1. Fig. shews the border frames closed
together, Fig. 1 shews them open and somewhat sprung apart at the hinges when
the dog a is out of the hollow b as shewn in Fig. 2 and 2 the dog and hollow are
of the form of spherical segments_eccentric to the hinge pin c. As shewn in
Fig. 3 the dog a is wedge shaped. In 4 it is shewn quite crossing the face of A,
and the face of B as shewn in Fig. 4 has a corresponding notch and a cross-
notch The one frame may be arranged quite within the other as shewn in
Fig. 1, or they may be halved together at the joint as shewn in Figs. 5 and 5" or
connected as tenon and mortice as shewn in Figs. 6 and 6, the dog a projecting
on both sides of A and corresponding hollows formed in both limbs of B.
As shewn in Figs. 7 7 and 7 the dogs a and hollows may be formed by
stamping the plate of which the frames A and B consist. These frames as shewn
in Figs. 8 and 8ª may be made to close face to face with a rule joint, on the
meeting faces of which the dogs a and hollow bare formed; or, again, as shewn
in Fig. 9, the dogs a and hollows may be circumferential.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In a fastening for a purse, hand bag or the like, constructing the hinge by
which the closing frames are jointed with dogs projecting from the one frame and
hollows in the other wherein the dogs engage, substantially as described.
2. Forming the dog and hollow above referred to as spherical segments
eccentric to the hinge pin, substantially as described with reference to Figs. 2
and 24.
3. Forming the dog and hollow above referred to of wedge or semicylindrical
form substantially as described with reference to Figs. 3, 4 and 4ª.
4. Forming the hinge joint as tenon and mortice with the dogs and hollows on
each side of the tenon, substantially as described with reference to Figs. 6 and 6".
5. Forming the hinge joints with circumferential dogs and hollows substantially
as described with reference to Fig. 9.
Dated this 13th day of January 1891.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.