IMPROVEMENTS IN OR CONNECTED WITH THE FRAMES OF " BAGS AND LIKE ARTICLES THE IMPROVEMENTS BEING ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER PURPOSES "
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Valentin Huppe of the firm of Huppe and Bender
of Offenbach-on-the-Main, in the Empire of Germany, Manufacturers for
an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN OR CONNECTED WITH THE FRAMES OF
"
BAGS AND LIKE ARTICLES THE IMPROVEMENTS BEING ALSO APPLICABLE TO
OTHER PURPOSES
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Valentin Huppe at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st September 1882.
VALENTIN HUPPE of the firm of Huppe and Bender, of Offenbach-on-the-Main,
in the empire of Germany, Manufacturers, "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR CONNECTED
WITH THE FRAMES OF BAGS AND LIKE ARTICLES THE IMPROVEMENTS BEING ALSO
APPLICABLE TO OTHER PURPOSES
"1
This invention relates to an improved method of connecting the pull or "tirette"
to the frames of bags and like articles, the improvements being also applicable to
drop down handles of all kinds and the object of the improvements is to avoid the
necessity of employing pins or pivots for the tirettes or handles to work upon
as hitherto, and consequently dispensing with the usual bearings for the said pins
or pivots.
In carrying out my invention I form the end of the "tirette" (or the ends of
the handle as the case may be) with a knob or ball and with a neck below the
ball; the bearing for the tirette consists of a metal piece formed with a hemi-
spherical shaped hollow boss having a vertical slot, therein just wide enough to
receive the hereinbefore described neck.
By this arrangement the ball of the tirette may be introduced into the herein-
before described hollow boss by passing the neck of the tirette in the said slot;
and if the bearing be now fixed to the frame, the hollow boss and the slot will
allow the tirette to move freely but will prevent it coming out without removing
or breaking the bearing.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Valentin Huppe in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 28th February
1883.
VALENTIN HUPPE of the firm of Huppe and Bender of Offenbach-on-the Main,
in the empire of Germany, Manufacturers "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR CONNECTED
WITH THE FRAMES OF BAGS AND LIKE ARTICLES, THE IMPROVEMENTS BEING ALSO
APPLICABLE TO OTHER PURPOSES
"
This invention relates to an improved method of connecting the pull or "tirette"
to the frames of bags and like articles, the improvements being also applicable to
drop down handles of all kinds and the object of the improvements is to avoid the
necessity of employing pins or pivots for the " tirettes or handles to work upon
as hitherto, and consequently dispensing with the usual bearings for the said pins
or pivots.
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In carrying out my invention I form the end of the "tirette" (or the ends
of the handle as the case may be) with a knob or ball and with a neck below
the ball; the bearing for the "tirette" consists of a metal piece formed with a
hemi-spherical shaped hollow boss having a vertical slot therein just wide enough
to receive the hereinbefore described neck.
In order to enable my invention to be better understood I will proceed to
describe the same by reference to the accompanying drawing in which figure 1,
is a detached front view of the bearing of the pull or "tirette"; figure 2, a
detached view of the "tirette"; figure 3, a section of figure 1; figure 4, a section
of the bearing shewing the
applied thereto; figures 5, and 6; front
and side views of the "tirette" in its bearing and figure 7, a side view of the
same the "tirette" being raised up. Similar letters in all the figures represent
similar parts.
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tirette "
a, is the knob or ball on the upper end of the "tirette"; b, the neck below the
ball; c, is the hemispherical hollow boss in the bearing for the "tirette"; d, is the
vertical slot in the boss c, such slot being just wide enough to allow the neck b,
to pass through the same.
By this arrangement the knob or ball a, of the "tirette"
may be introduced
into the hollow boss c, by passing the neck b, of the "tirette" in the said slot & ;
and if the bearing now be fixed to the frame e, of the bag or like article the hollow
boss c, will retain the ball of the "tirette" and prevent it becoming detached from
the bearing while the slot d, will allow the "tirette" to move freely in a vertical
direction as shewn in figure 7.
I have described my improvements as applied to a pull or "tirette" of the frame
of a bag; the application of the improvements to like articles such as ordinary
drop down handles is substantially the same as for "tirettes" and therefore needs
no further description.
Having thus described my invention and the best means I am acquainted
with for carrying the same into effect I wish it to be understood that What
I claim is:
The herein described method of connecting pulls or "tirettes" (or other drop
down handles) to the frames of bags or to other articles by forming the end of

page_text: the "tirette" (or the ends of other drop down handles) with a knob and neck
in combination with a bearing having a slotted hollow boss substantially as herein-
before described and represented in the accompanying drawing,
In Witness whereof I the said Valentin Huppe have hereto set my hand
and seal this twenty fourth day of February in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eighty three
VALENTIN HUPPE. (L.S.)