IMPROVEMENTS ON KNAPSACKS OR SIMILAR RECEPTACLES
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Carl Kesseler, of 63, Mohrenstrasse, Berlin, W., in the
Empire of Germany, Civil Engineer and Patent Solicitor, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS ON KNAPSACKS OR SIMILAR RECEPTACLES." A commu-
nication from Samuel Hirsch, of Berlin, in Prussia, Empire of Germany.
Sealed the 23rd May 1879, and dated the 2nd December 1878
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Carl Kesseler at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd December 1878.
"
CARL KESSELER, of 63, Mohrenstrasse, Berlin, W., in the Empire of Germany,
Civil Engineer and Patent Solicitor. IMPROVEMENTS ON KNAPSACKS OR SIMILAR
RECEPTACLES." [A communication from Samuel Hirsch, of Berlin, in Prussia,
Empire of Germany.]
"
This Invention relates especially to the improvements of military knapsacks to
facilitate the taking out of cartridges, but the same could as well be applied for
tourists or travellers to take out easily from the sack they carry on their back any
food, drinks, cigars, or other object they may require without being compelled to
take the sack off. Nevertheless the following description as well as the enclosed
Drawing relates principally to military knapsacks, but the Invention stands as well
for sacks or knapsacks of any kind:-The boxes or packets of the reserved
cartridges have been carried till now either in a knapsack buckled up or in a knap-
sack provided at the top with a receptacle or reservoir and at the sides with
openings, the soldier requiring reserved cartridges has therefore been obliged to
unbuckle the knapsack or to rely on the assistance of his comrades, so doubtful in
wal. The present arrangement of the cartridge receptacles permits the reserved
cartridges being taken from the bottom in a vertical direction by the soldier
without requiring any assistance whatever, nor is the soldier compelled to unbuckle
the knapsack and is therefore less exposed to danger. The arrangement is repre-
sented in Fig. I. and II. of the adjoined Drawing. A represents the cartridge.
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page_text: boxes or packets; D, the cartridge receptacle opened; E, the same closed; a and b
are moveable covers of which the mechanism is represented at a larger scale in
Fig. III. and IV. By pulling the ring c the small cover beats inwards while the
cover a looses its fulcrum and beats outwards, whereby the cartridge receptacle falls
into the hand held under to receive it. The covers can also be replaced by slide t
pieces or plates and the lock arrangement be made in different manners; therefore
the improvements upon which the claims are principally based consist :-
In the arrangement of knapsacks or similar sacks or bags to be provided with
vertical receptacles, reservoirs, or pockets for cartridges or other objects, with a
Jock arrangement of covers or slides to be opened from the outside, so that the 1
contents falls automatically into the hand placed underneath for the purpose and
in the manner herein described and represented in the adjoined Drawing.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Carl Kesseler in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 28th May
1879.
"
CARL KESSELER, of 63, Mohrenstrasse, Berlin, W., in the Empire of Germany,
Civil Engineer and Patent Solicitor. IMPROVEMENTS ON KNAPSACKS OR SIMILAR
RECEPTACLES." A communication from Samuel Hirsch, of Berlin, in Prussia,
Empire of Germany.
This Invention relates especially to the improvements of military knapsacks to
facilitate the taking out of cartridges, but the same could as well be applied for
tourists or travellers to take out easily from the sack they carry on their backs any.
food, drinks, cigars, or other objects they may require without being compelled to take
the sack off. Nevertheless the following description as well as the enclosed Drawing
relates principally to military knapsacks. The Invention stands as well for sacks
or knapsacks of any kind. The boxes or pockets of the reserved cartridges have
been carried till now either in a knapsack buckled up or in a knapsack provided
at the top with a receptacle or reservoir and at the sides with openings, the soldier
requiring the reserved cartridges has therefore been obliged to unbuckle the knap-
sack or to rely on the assistance of his comrades, so doubtful in war. The present
arrangement of the cartridge receptacles permits the reserved cartridges being
taken from the bottom in a vertical direction by the soldier without requiring any
assistance whatever, nor is the soldier compelled to unbuckle the knapsack and is
therefore less exposed to danger. The arrangement is represented in Fig. I. and II.
of the adjoined Drawing. A represents the cartridge boxes or packets; D, the
cartridge receptacle opened; E, the same closed; a and b are moveable covers of
which the mechanisın is represented at a larger scale in Fig. III. and IV. By
pulling the ring c the small cover beats inwards while the cover a looses by it, its
fulcrum and beats outwards, whereby the cartridge-receptacle falls into the hand
hold under to receive it. The covers can also be replaced by slide pieces or plates
and the lock arrangement be made in different manners. Having thus herein
before described the nature of the Invention, and the manner to carry it into effect,
it will be understood that the improvements upon which the claims are principally
based consist,
In the arrangement of knapsacks or similar sacks, or bags, or receptacles, to be
provided with vertical pockets, reservoirs, or receptacles for cartridges or other
objects, with a lock arrangement of covers or slides to be opened from the outside,
so that the contents falls automatically into the hand placed underneath, for the
purpose and in the manner herein described and represented in the adjoining
Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Carl Kesseler, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand night hundrad ond coventre nin
CARL KESSELER. (L.S.)