IMPRAREMENTS IN TRAWALZING
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to August Peter Boothby, of Dean Street, Soho, in the
County of Middlesex, Travelling Bag Manufacturer, for the Invention
of IMPRAREMENTS IN TRAWALZING
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said August Peter Boothby
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 4th November 1859.
I, AUGUST PETER BOOTHBY, of Dean Street, Soho, in the County of Middlesex,
Travelling Bag Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TRAVELLING AND SUCH LIKE BAGS," to be as follows:-
The improvements relate to novel adaptations in the arrangements of parts
of travelling bags, by which increased facilities are obtained in the disposition
of and means of access to the contents. For this purpose the frames are
formed in various parts hinged together, so that not only at the unlocking of
the top a square opening is obtained, as heretofore, but the side pieces to
which the top parts are connected are also hinged to the lower portions of the
sides; and the ends are also hinged, so as to fold outwards, leaving at the
bottom, when desired, a part adapted for trays or cases for dressing apparatus,
or for other purposes freely accessible. The sides and ends are capable of
being held together by spring bolts, or such like means when the bag is to be,

page_text: closed. Holding means which I find to answer well for connecting together
parts of bags, consists of a spring bent into a curved form, such that the inner
turned up edge may rest on the notch of a bolt.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said August Peter Boothby in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 3rd May 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, AUGUST
PETER BOOTHBY, of Dean Street, Soho, in the County of Middlesex, Travelling
Bag Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said August Peter Boothby, Her special licence that I, the said
August Peter Boothby, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said August Peter Boothby, 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 TRAVELLING AND SUCH LIKE BAGS," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said August Peter Boothby,
my executors or administrators, 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 August Peter Boothby, 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:-
The improvements relate to novel adaptations in the arrangements of parts
of travelling bags, by which increased facilities are obtained in the disposition
of and means of access to the contents. For this purpose the frames are
formed in various parts hinged together, so that not only at the unlocking of

page_text: till the parts b, b, are fastened to them by spring catches h thereon taking on
to the hooks i, i, affixed to the part d, and when it is desired to release these
parts, so as to admit of the parts c, c, folding on their hinges, as represented
by Figure 1, this is effected by pressure applied to the knob h' of the spring.
catch h, when such catch will clear the hooks i. I have not thought it
_ necessary to shew the covering of the bag, or any method of filling up the
interior or exterior thereof, as such may and will be varied.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, I would have it
understood that I do not confine myself to the precise details shewn, as these
may be varied; but what I do claim. is, the adaptation, arrangement, and
combination of parts forming a travelling or such like bag, as explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said August Peter Boothby, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Second day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
A. P. BOOTHBY. (L.S.)
Witness,
B. J. B. MILLS,
Clerk to William Brookes, Patent Agent,
73, Chancery Lane.