AN IMPROVED EXPANDING OR FOLDING TRAVELLING BAG OR WALLET
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph James Welch and John Stewart Margetson,
of Cheapside, in the City of London, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
EXPANDING OR FOLDING TRAVELLING BAG OR WALLET."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph James Welch
and John Stewart Margetson at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 23rd January 1858.
We, JOSEPH JAMES WELCH and JOHN STEWART MARGETSON, of Cheapside,
in the City of London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVED EXPANDING OR FOLDING TRAVELLING BAG OR WALLET," to be as
follows:-
This Invention consists in an improved form of expanding or folding bag or
wallet without any metal framing as heretofore. It may be made of American
cloth, leather, or other suitable material, and is composed of a series of
pockets so arranged that when various articles are placed therein it is
folded over and fastened by two lengthening straps attached to the bag or
wallet, which straps may be let out according to the contents. These straps,
which entirely encompass the bag, are fastened to a cross-piece or strap which
forms a handle. The bag or wallet being without any framing, may expand

page_text: to any width according to the quantity of articles inserted. Small flap
pockets are also made upon either of the inside pockets, and when not in use
the whole may be folded up in a small space.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph James Welch and John Stewart Margetson in the
Great Seal Patent Office.on the 23rd July 1858. .
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOSEPHI
JAMES WELCH and JOHN STEWART MARGETSON, of Cheapside, in the City of
London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of
Her reign, did, for Herself,; Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Joseph James Welch and James Stewart Margetson, Her special
licence, that we, the said Joseph James Welch and James Stewart Margetson,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
Joseph James Welch and James Stewart Margetson, our executors, adminis-
trators, 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 Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED EXPANDING OR FOLDING TRAVELLING BAG
OR WALLET," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Joseph
James Welch and John Stewart Margetson, our executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under our or their hands and seals, or under the
hand and seal of one of us or them, 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 I, the said John Stewart Margetson, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention: consists in an improved form of expanding or folding bag

page_text: or wallet, without any metal framing as heretofore, and may be made of
American cloth, leather, or other suitable material, and is composed of a series
of pockets so arranged that when various articles are placed therein it is
folded over and fastened by two lengthening straps attached to the bag or
wallet, which straps may be let out according to the contents. These straps,
which entirely encompass the bag, are fastened to a cross-piece or strap which
forms a handle. The bag or wallet being without any framing, may be
expanded to any width according to the quantity of articles inserted: Small
flap pockets are also made upon either of the inside pockets, and when not
in use the whole may be folded up into a small space.
In order to explain our said Invention as completely as possible, we now
proceed to describe the best means we are acquainted with for carrying the
same into practical effect, reference being had to the illustrative Sheet of
Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the numeral figures and letters of
reference marked thereon respectively as follows:-
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DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a plan view of the outer surface of the bag or wallet laid open;
Figure 2, side view of the bag when closed and ready for use; Figure 3, plan
view of the inside of the bag shewing the pockets and flaps herein-after de-
scribed. Similar letters of reference are placed upon and denote corresponding
parts in so far as such parts appear or can be seen at each of such said Figures
respectively. At Figure 3 will be seen our Invention laid wide open, in the
centre fold of which is a place for boots and shoes, the toes of which are
inserted in pockets A, A. The side flaps B, B, are then drawn over the boots
and fastened with a stap C. Two or more large pockets D, D, (each being
the size of the bag or wallet when folded in half) are made with a straight
gusset all the way round, the flaps being provided with small straps and
buckles E, E, to secure the mouths of the said pockets. Upon one or other
of the pockets D, a small shallow pocket F is made for containing small
articles, such as pocket handkerchiefs, neck-ties, or any small articles to be
kept apart from the larger ones; the pockets being packed it is only necessary
to double the bag in half, and with the long straps G, G, secure the whole.
A handle H slides on the strap G, for the purpose of keeping it always in the
centre of the bag. An important feature in our Invention is, that the boots
and shoes are not brought into contact with other articles of clothing, thereby
preventing their being soiled.
Having now fully described the nature and object of our said Invention of

page_text: "An Improved Expanding or Folding Travelling Bag or Wallet," together
with the best means we are acquainted with for carrying the same into practical
effect, we would remark, in conclusion, that' what we claim as our Invention
is the general combination of the parts shewn by the illustrative Drawing
hereunto annexed, and for the purpose herein described and set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Stewart Margetson, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
JOHN STEWART MARGETSON. (L.B.)
Witness,
ALEX. PRINCE, Patent Agent,
4, Trafalgar Square, Charing Cross.