AN IMPROVED MODE OF OR A NEW ARRANGEMENT OF STRAPS FOR SLINGING KNAPSACKS
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Drumgoole Brady, of Cambridge Ter-
race, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVED MODE OF OR A NEW ARRANGEMENT OF STRAPS FOR
SLINGING KNAPSACKS."
Sealed the 16th May 1854, and dated the 23rd November 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Drumgoole
Brady at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 23rd November 1853.
I, JOHN DRUMGOOLE BRADY, of Cambridge, Terrace, in the County of
Middlesex, Esquire, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "AN IMPROVED MODE OF OR A NEW ARRANGEMENT OF STRAPS FOR
SLINGING KNAPSACKS" to be as follows:-
I make use of two straps, each of which passes through two slides
on the top of the knapsack, and terminates in a buckle at one end.
These straps are passed round the knapsack, and are buckled at
the bottom and inner edge. By this part of the arrangement the
wearer has great facilities afforded in getting at the contents of

page_text: the knapsack, the opening to which is at the bottom and on the
inside. On each of the straps just described I fix permanently, or by a
slide, a strap, which passes over the shoulder and is brought round to
the back and fastened to a hook or other fastening on the under side
of the knapsack. In order to afford the wearer case I make these
shoulder straps broad at those parts which bear upon him, and then
taper them towards one or both ends.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Drumgoole Brady in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 23rd May 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE. PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JOHN DRUMGOOLE BRADY, of Cambridge Terrace, in the County of
Middlesex, Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the
seventeenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and succes-
sors, give and grant unto me, the said John Drumgoole Brady, Her
special licence that I, the said John Drumgoole Brady, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Drum-
goole Brady, 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 Inven-
tion for "AN IMPROVED MODE OF OR A NEW ARRANGEMENT OF STRAPS FOR
SLINGING KNAPSACKS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said John Drumgoole Brady, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Drumgoole Brady, 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 statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings
hereunto annexed, that is to say:
The object of my Invention is to enable knapsacks to be slung in
such manner that they shall always preserve their perpendicular posi-
tion on the wearer's back. According to my Invention I make use of
two straps, each of which passes through two loops on the top of the
knapsack or on a level with the top of the knapsack, and terminates in
a buckle at one end; these straps are passed round the knapsack and
are buckled at the bottom and inner edge. By this part of the arrange-
ment the great coat may be carried on top of the knapsack without
any additional I straps. On each of the straps just described I fix, by
means of a slide or loop of any convenient description, a strap, which
passes over the shoulder and is brought round to the back and fastened
to a hook or other fastening on the under side of the knapsack; or the
knapsack may be carried by one broad strap round the body, to
which the two shoulder straps may be connected by one loop or
slide.
Figure 1 of the Drawings annexed is a view of a knapsack with my
improved arrangement of straps for slinging the same; and Figure 2
is a plan or top view of the same. A, is the body of the knapsack, and
B, B, the slinging straps, which are passed round the knapsack and
through the loops C, C, and then buckled at the bottom and inner
edge. D, is a cross strap by which the slinging straps B, B, are con-
nected together; E, E, are the shoulder straps; and F, F, the slides or
loops by which they are connected to the slinging straps B, B. Figure 3
shews a portion of one of the shoulder straps detached. E, is the strap,
and F, the slide by which it is connected to the slinging straps of the
knapsack.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim as my Invention is,
The connecting of the shoulder straps of knapsacks to the slinging

page_text: or body straps or strap thereof, by means of a loop or slide, so as to
enable the knapsack when slung to preserve its perpendicular position,
as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Drumgoole Brady, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of May,
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
JOHN D. BRADY. (L.8.)