AN IMPROVE- MENT IN THE FRAMES OF TRAVELLING BAGS
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edwards Cole, of Hemmings Row, in the City of
Westminster, Leather Case Maker, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVE-
MENT IN THE FRAMES OF TRAVELLING BAGS."
Sealed the 14th July 1854, and dated the 4th February 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edwards Cole at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 4th
February 1854.
I, EDWARDS COLE, of Hemmings Row, in the City of Westminster, Leather
Case Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IM-
PROVEMENT IN THE FRAMES OF TRAVELLING BAGS" to be as follows:-
Much inconvenience having arisen from the frames of travelling bags, as
hitherto constructed, from their admitting wet and dust to the contents of the
bag; now my improvement is intended to obviate these inconveniences, and
consists in forming both upper frames or the top part of the frames of angle
iron, which, being properly fitted, form an air and water tight joint sufficiently
perfect to prevent dust and water entering to the contents of the bag, and at
the same time the frames are stronger than those now in use.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edwards Cole in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 4th
August 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARDS
COLE, of Hemmings Row, in the City of Westminster, Leather Case Maker,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Edwards Cole, Her special licence that I, the said Edwards Cole, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edwards
Cole, 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE FRAMES
OF TRAVELLING BAGS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Edwards Cole, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
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 Edwards Cole, 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 following state-
ment thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, that is
to say :-
Much inconvenience has arisen from the frames of travelling bags as hitherto
constructed, owing to their admitting wet and dust to the contents of the bag;
now my improvement is intended to obviate these inconveniences, and con-
sists in forming both upper frames or the top part of the frames of angle iron,'
which being properly fitted form an air and water tight joint sufficiently perfect
to prevent dust and water entering to the contents of the bag, and at the same
time the frames are stronger than those now in use.
Figure 1 of the Drawings hereunto annexed represents a plan of the under
side of the frame of a travelling bag shewn detached from the bag, and also

page_text: opened out; Figure 2, a similar view of the frame as closed; and Figure 3, a
section on the line a, b, of Figure 2. A and B are the two portions of the
frame which are formed of angle iron, and connected together at their two ends
by means of the toggle joints C, C, which admit of the bag being opened to its
full extent, the bag being attached in the usual manner to the sides c, c, of the
frames. These joints are hinged to the frames by means of pieces of metal d, d,
which are rivetted to the ends of the frames, and bent over at top, the pin e,
upon which the ends of the rods forming the toggle joints turn, being passed
through and rivetted or otherwise secured to the top angle of the frame. The
frame B is made slightly smaller in length and breadth than the frame A, so
that when the frames are brought together in closing the bag, the frame B
shall fit into and lie close to the frame A, as represented in Figure 3, and
thereby effectually prevent all dust and wet entering the bag. D is the lock,
and E the hasp, which are attached in the ordinary manner to the frames.
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―
The constructing of the upper frames of travelling bags of angle iron in the
manner and for the purposes herein-before described and represented in the
Drawings hereunto annexed.
I also claim the connecting the top frames of such travelling bags together
by means of the joints C, C, attached to the ends of the frames, in the manner
herein-before described and represented in the Drawings hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edwards Cole, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fourth day of August, One thousand eight hundred and
fifty-four.
EDWARDS COLE. (L.S.)