Improvements in or Applicable to Dressing Bags, Ladies' Bags, and the like.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Feb., 1887
Complete Left, 29th Oct., 1887
Complete Accepted, 29th Nov., 1887
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Applicable to Dressing Bags, Ladies' Bags, and
the like.
I MORITZ WOLFSKY of Tudor Street, Bridewell Place, in the city of London,
Leather Bag Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in dressing bags, ladies' bags, and the like
in which the bag cannot be opened without the handle being first turned down or
partly turned down and the present improvements consist in adapting to the handle
rings of the bag eccentric or cam-shaped pieces moving on centres or supports and so
arranged that when the handle of the bag is turned down it withdraws the spring
bolts from the catches of the bag frame so that the bag can be opened but when the
handle is in its upright or normal position the said eccentric or can shaped pieces
keep the bolts closed so that the bag cannot be opened until the handle is turned down
or partly down. At the same time however my improved arrangement will allow of
the bag being closed without it being necessary to turn down the handle.
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G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Applicable to Dressing Bags, Ladies' Bags, and
the like.
I, MORITZ WOLFSKY, of Tudor Street, Bridewell Place, in the city of London,
Leather Bag Manufacturer, 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 improvements in dressing bags, ladies' bags, and the like,
in which the bag cannot be opened without the handle being first turned down or
partly turned down and the present improvements consist in adapting to the handle
rings of the bag, eccentric or cam-shaped pieces moving on centres and so arranged
that when the handle of the bag is turned down it withdraws the spring bolts from
the catches of the bag frame so that the bag can be opened but when the handle is in
its upright or normal position the said eccentric or cam-shaped pieces keep the bolts
closed so that the bag cannot be opened until the handle is turned down or partly down.
At the same time however my improved arrangement will allow of the bag being
closed without it being necessary to turn down the handle.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood I will now proceed to
describe the same by reference to the accompanying drawing in which figure 1 is an
elevation of a frame of a dressing or like bag provided with my improvements, the
said frame being shown open and the handle represented in its upright or normal
position; figure 2 is a transverse section of the same taken on the line A B of figure 1,
and shown with the parts thereof in a locked or closed position; figure 3 is a similar
view to figure 2, but showing the parts unlocked and with the handle in its lowered or
unlocking position. Similar letters of reference indicate similar parts in all the
figures.
a, is the ordinary handle of the; bag b, b are the usual handle-rings and c, c, are
the eccentric or cam-shaped pieces which I adapt to or form upon the said handle
rings b, b; d, d, are the centres upon which the cams c, c, on the handle rings b, b,
pivot ; e, e, e, e, are blocks or standards which support the pivots or centres d, d, and
which are rigidly secured to one part f, of the bag frame, by dome plates 9, 9, and
rivets h, h, h, h, or otherwise; i, i, are the bolts the upper ends of which are pressed
upwards against the surface of the eccentric or cam-shaped pieces c, c, by springs ], ], ], ],
(represented in dotted lines at figure 1,) which springs bear against the underside of
projections k, k, k, k, formed on the bolts i, i; or, in place of employing spiral
springs,, in the manner shewn at figure 1, it is obvious that other springs may
be used; 1, 1, are the catches rivetted or otherwise fitted into the hinged part of the
bag frame; m, is a bag lock of ordinary construction and secured to the part f, of the

page_text: frame, and n, n, are its catches secured to the other or hinged part f¹, of the bag frame
in the usual manner, but it will be understood that a bag or bag frame with my
improvements applied thereto, may be constructed with or without such lock m.
From the preceding description it will be seen that assuming the frame of the bag
to be locked in the manner shown at figure 2, and the handle a, to be in its upright or
normal position as shown at figures 1 and 2, and that it is desired to open the bag,
the handle a must be turned down into the position shown at figure 3, by which action
the eccentric- or cam-shaped pieces c, c, will depress the bolts i, i, and release them
from the catches 1, 1, and leave the bag free to be opened by its lock m, in the ordinary
manner. The bolts i, i, and the catches 1, 1, are shaped so that by pressing the two
parts of the frame f, together the said bolts i, i, are depressed and the bag locked in
the manner common to bags fitted with ordinary spring fastenings and without it
being necessary to turn down the handle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
1. The herein described improved fastening for dressing bags, ladies' bags, and the
like, such improved fastenings being opened or released by the moving down of the
handle of the bag substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accom-
panying drawing.
2. In fastenings for dressing bags, ladies' bags, and the like the combination with
spring bolts in the frame of cams or eccentrics on the handle rings arranged and
operating substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawing.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicant.