IMPROVEMENTS IN PURSES,
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederic Jenner, of the Firm of Jenner and
Knewstub, of Saint James' Street, in the City of Westminster, Dressing
Case Manufacturers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PURSES,
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederic Jenner at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
26th October 1864.
I, FREDERIC JENNER, of the Firm of Jenner and Knewstub, of Saint
James' Street, in the City of Westminster, Dressing Case Manufacturers,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
PURSES, CIGAR CASES, BAGS, AND OTHER SIMILAR RECEPTACLES," to be as
follows:-
This Invention refers chiefly to those purses, cigar cases, card cases, pocket
books, bags, and other like articles, which are formed of two similar parts
or halves united by a hinge, and the object of the Invention is to combine
simplicity with lightness of construction and facility of repair when necessary.
The Invention consists, firstly, in turning the edges of the leather or other
material of which the body of each half of the purse or other article is formed
over and around a metal rim or open plate.
And, secondly, in securing the metal or other frame, which carries the
hinge and constitutes the finished edge or frame of each half of the purse, to

page_text: the turned over portion of the leather, and to the metal rim or open plate of
each half by screws or rivets, which are passed through the finished edge or
frame, and the leather into or through the metal rim or open plate.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Frederic Jenner in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 26th
April 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERIC
JENNER, of the Firm of Jenner and Knewstub, of Saint James' Street, in the
City of Westminster, Dressing Case Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Frederic Jenner, Her special licence that I, the said Frederic Jenner, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Frederic
Jenner, my 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
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PURSES, CIGAR
CASES, BAGS, AND OTHER SIMILAR RECEPTACLES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Frederic Jenner, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their 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 I, the said Frederic Jenner, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the fol-
lowing statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say:-
This Invention refers chiefly to those purses, cigar cases, card cases, pocket
books, bags, and other like articles, which are formed of two similar parts or
halves united by a hinge, and the object of the Invention is to combine
simplicity with lightness of construction and facility of repair when necessary.

page_text: The Invention consists, firstly, in turning the edges of the leather or other
material of which the body of each half of the purse or other article is formed
over and round a metal rim or open plate.
And, secondly, in securing the metal or other frame, which carries the
hinge and constitutes the finished edge or frame of each half of the purse, to
the turned over portion of the leather, and to the metal rim or open plate of
each half by screws or rivets, which are passed through the finished edge or
frame, and the leather into or through the metal rim or open plate.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a transverse section of a purso
constructed according to my Invention; Figure 2 is a view of the inner face
of one of the halves.
a is a metal rim or open plate, over and round which the edges of the
leather of the purse are turned, as shown; c is the metal frame, which
carries the hinge of the purse, and constitutes the finished edge. I secure it
to the leather 6 and rim or plate a by screws or rivets d, d, which are passed
through the frame c, leather b, and into or through the rim or plate a.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as my "Improve-
ments in Purses, Cigar Cases, Bags, and other similar Receptacles."
First, turning the edges of the leather or other material of which the body
of each half of the receptacle is formed over and round a metal rim or open
plate, as herein-before described and represented in the accompanying
Drawings.
Second, securing the frame which carries the hinge and constitutes the
finished edge or frame of the receptacle to the turned-over portion of the
leather or other material, and to the metal rim or open plate by screws or
rivets, as herein-before described and represented in the accompanying
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederic Jenner, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of April, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-five.
FREDERIC JENNER. (L.s.)