Improvements in Wallets or Pouches.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wallets or Pouches.
We, ADOLF TIMPE of 6 Phoenix Street, Cycle Dealer, and PERCY WAGSTAFF
DEACON of 47 Mosley Street, Commission Agent, both in Manchester in the
County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to wallets or pouches adapted for use by cyclists and its
objects are to provide better accommodation for tools and similar articles, to render
such articles more easily accessible, and to avoid noise or rattling when the machine
is being ridden.
A wallet or pouch constructed according to these improvements consists of a strip
or sheet of leather or other suitable material provided with straps or clips by means
of which it may be suspended from or fastened to the saddle or other convenient
part of the machine. The strip or sheet is arranged so as to fold into three parts
and is furnished with a strap or lock to retain the three parts in their folded
positions.
One of the parts has attached to its inner side a strip which forms a pocket and
is provided with loops or the like to hold tools and an oil can or similar articles aud
a pouch to contain a tyre repairing outfit. The pocket formed by the attached
strip may be utilised to carry needles and thread or any other desired articles.
This part of the wallet may also be provided with side or lateral flaps to fold
over and fasten together and thus retain the enclosed articles securely in place.
Another part of the strip or sheet which forms the wallet is similarly provided
with a pocket for containing a duster or cleaning cloth.
A wallet thus formed is easily opened and the contained tools or other articles
may be readily removed or replaced. It will also be easily apparent whether any
particular tool or other article is in its place or not.
Dated this 11th day of June 1896.
W. E. HEYS & SON,
Agents for the Applicants.
We, ADOLF TIMPE of 6 Phoenix Street, Cycle Dealer, and PERCY WAGSTAFF
DEACON of 47 Moseley Street, Commission Agent, both in Manchester in the
County of Lancaster, 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 exclist's nouches or wallets especially designed,

page_text: according to this invention, to more readily contain, in a convenient arrangement,
such tools appliances and articles as the cyclist is likely to require on a journey
and in such a manner that each of such articles is in a separate holder or
receptacle.
We will describe our said invention with reference to the accompanying drawings,
in which :-
Figure 1 shews the new pouch closed, and
Figure 2 represents it open.
It consists of an oblong strip of leather A, which forms the outer part. Across
this there is sewn, cemented or otherwise secured, another longer strip B, the ends
of which form flaps bb. A third strip C. is sewn or secured upon B in such a
manner as to form two loops e c', and in addition, a pocket D may also be sewn
thereon. A third loop, c², may or may not also be sewu on for the reception of the
handle of the adjustable spanner S. Below the cross strip B there is a pocket E,
preferably closable by the flap e, for the better protection of the articles therein.
The flaps 66 are provided with a buckle F and a strap G, by means of which they
may be securely connected when folded over the central part, as when the pouch is
closed. Outside the pouch there is another strap H, and buckle I, to hold the
pouch closed when in that condition. There are also means for attaching the
pouch to the machine, such as the straps and buckles J J, which are for suspending
the pouch on say a horizontal bar or tube of the machine. In addition, there may
be another buckled strap K which passes round the pouch longitudinally and may
be made to embrace a vertical member of the machine framing, and so entirely
prevent oscillation of the pouch. The. straps H and J as well as K, when used,
may be prevented from moving laterally by passing them through slits ss in the
part A
The pouch represented by the drawings has been constructed to carry the
monkey wrench or adjustable spauner S, the handle of which is passed through
the loops c and c; an oil can O, which is carried in the loop c'; and a box con-
taining a patching outfit, P, in the pocket D. The pocket E may be utilised for
carrying a sponge cloth or duster, and other loose articles.
An additional pocket may be formed with advantage and without trouble, by the
simple device of sewing the strip B upon A along three sides of a rectangle, as
indicated by the dotted line Q. The mouth of this pocket is at M and the pocket
itself is of especial use for ladies, being adapted to carry hair-pins, needles and
thread, and other small articles.
When the herein before described pouch is in use, it will be obvious, when
the pouch is open, whether or not all the tools and other articles are
present.
These pouches can be produced with a minimum amount of labour and material
and have therefore the advantage that they can be manufactured at very low
prices. Every article being separately held, there is no rattling or friction between
them.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. In cyclist's pouches, a cross piece with flaps, sewn or cemented upon the base
and having thereon receptacles for tools and appliances, substantially as
berein before described and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
2. In cyclist's pouches, the combination and arrangement with the base A, of a
cross strip B whose ends form flaps b, receptacles on the cross strip such as c c
and D, and a pocket E, substantially as herein before described and as illustrated
by the accompanying drawings.
3. In cyclist's pouches, the combination and arrangement with the base A, of a
cross piece B sewn along three sides so as to form a pocket with its mouth at M,

page_text: and of receptacles for tools and appliances upon the cross piece which is provided
with flaps, substantially as herein before described and as illustrated by the
accompanying drawings.
D&D 1007
W. E. HEYS & SON,
Agents for the Applicants.