Improvements in Parcel Straps, Cords, and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 30th July, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 13th Apr., 1896-Accepted, 16th May, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Parcel Straps, Cords, and the like.
I, THOMAS ROSETHORN of 5 Withy Grove, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Commission Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to parcel or rug straps, tapes, cords, or chains, such as are
used for securing and carrying parcels, rugs, and the like, and consists in so forming
the strap, tape, cord, or chain, that in addition to the loop or loops for enclosing the
parcel or parcels, a separate loop is formed to serve as a handle which can conveniently
be grasped by the hand, and whereby the whole can be carried.
For this purpose the strap has a buckle or equivalent device, attached to one end;
and a second buckle or equivalent device, attached in any convenient manner to the
strap at a point situate a few inches distant from the first; and it has holes or
loops formed in the whole or part of its length from the second buckle to the
free end.
It is used as follows:-
The strap being caused to encircle the parcel, rug, or the like, the free end is passed
through the first or end buckle, drawn tight round the parcel, and buckled, thus
holding the parcel firinly. The free end is then passed through the second buckle,
and a loop is formed sufficiently long to serve as a handle. The strap is thus
buckled in two places and forms two loops, one of which encircles and holds the
parcel as above described, and the other forms a handle which can be grasped by
the hand.
A second loop may be formed if necessary in which a second parcel can be enclosed,
by attaching a hook or similar contrivance to the free end of the strap, and hooking it
in one of the pierced holes in the strap; or the surplus longth of the strap (after
having been passed through the second buckle) may be secured in an orderly manner
by similar means in accordance with an invention for which a Patent was granted me
Number 10,233 dated May 28th 1894.
or
The strap may have loops attached to it either near the buckles in the usual manner,
in any other part that may be desired, and in some cases I may dispense with the
second or end buckle or both of them, and substitute a loop or loops, either fixed or
moveable, in their place.
Dated this 30th day of L
1007
WILLIAM J. MUNDEN,
106 Priory Park Road, Kilburn, London, N.W.,
Agent for the Applicant.
1. THOMAS ROSETHORN of 5 Withy Grove, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Commission Agent 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 parcel or rug straps, tapes, cords, or chains, such as are

page_text: used for securing and carrying parcels, rugs, and the like, and consists in so forming
the strap, tape, cord, or chain, that in addition to the loop or loops for enclosing the
parcel or parcels, a separate loop is formed to serve as a handle which can conveniently
he grasped by the hand and whereby the whole can be carried.
For this purpose the strap has a buckle or equivalent device attached to one end,
and a second buckle or equivalent device attached in any convenient manner to the
strap at a point situate a few inches distant from the first; and it has holes or loops
formed throughout the entire length of the strap.
In order that my invention may be fully understood and ascertained I append a
sheet of drawings in which :-
Fig. 1 is a view of a strap according to my invention.
Fig. 2 is a view, on a smaller scale, of the same enclosing a large and a small
parcel.
Fig. 3 is a view of a special form of buckle, and
Fig. 4 is a view of the same as applied to a strap.
Fig. 5 shews a strap applied to a rectangular parcel.
In the simplest form of any invention, a strap A of any convenient. length is
employed, and this is perforated at intervals throughout the whole of its length by
holes a for receiving the tongue of a buckle or hook. At one end of the strap is
attached in the ordinary or any convenient manner a buckle B, and a loop bis in
general attached to the strap close to the buckle. Upon the strap is slipped loosely,
so as to be easily moved to any position upon it, a second buckle C, which may be of
any kind, but is preferably of the special description shown in Figs. 3 and 4.
When a strap of this description is used it is applied as shewn in Fig. 2 as
follows It is caused to encircle the parcel, rug, or the like D, and the free end a
is passed through the first or end buckle B, drawn tight round the parcel and buckled,
thus holding the latter firmly. The free end is then passed through the second
buckle C, a sufficient length being left to form a loop E which serves as a handle by
means of which the parcel may be carried. The strap is thus buckled in two places,
and forms two loops, one of which encircles and holds the parcel D, while the other
loop E serves as a handle which can easily and conveniently be grasped by the hand.
The surplus portion of the free end of the strap may be secured in any convenient
manner.
In some cases I attach a hook F or similar contrivance to the free end of the
strap A and by hooking this into one of the holes in the strap, a second loop can be
formed, in which a second parcel G may be enclosed or held.
The second buckle may be of any description and either fixed or movable on the
strap, but I preferably employ a buckle of the shape and construction shewn in
Figs. 3 and 4 in which a tongue c¹ is pivoted on the part c of the buckle frame,
and the latter has extending from side to side of it a cross-bar c², which may be
permanently fixed to or movable and slide freely on the sides of the buckle frame.
When a buckle of this description is used it is applied to the strap in the manner
shewn in Fig. 4.
Fig. 5 shews a strap applied in a different manner.
The strap may have loops attached to it either near the buckles in the usual
manner, or in any other part that may be desired; and in some cases I dispense
with the second or the end buckle, or with both of these buckles and substitute a loop
or loops, either fixed or movable, in place thereof.
It will be understood that although straps are shewn or mentioned, yet tapes, cords,
chains, or the like may be employed; and whichever is used some device must be
provided by which the hooks or similar contrivances may be inserted either into holes,
eyes, loops, or their equivalents.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what 1
claim is ;-
1. A parcel strap or the like, consisting essentially of a strap or the like perforated

page_text: at intervals throughout the whole of its length, and having one buckle or loop fixed to
its end, and a second buckle or loop either fixed thereto or inovably attached to it,
substantially as shewn and described.
2. A parcel strap or the like consisting essentially of a strap or the like perforated
at intervals throughout the whole of its length, and having a buckle or loop fixed to
one end and a hook or similar contrivance fixed to the other end as well as a second
buckle or loop either fixed or movably attached to it, substantially as shewn and
described.
3. parcel strap and buckles, substantially as shewn and described with reference
to Figs. 1 and 2.
4. For use with a parcel strap or the like, the buckle as shewn in Figs. 3 and 4
having a cross-bar c² either fixed or attached inovably to it.
Tlated this 11th day of Amil 1004
WILLIAM J. MUNDEN,
106 Priory Park Road, Kilburn, London, N.W.,
Agent for the Applicant.
WILLIAM J. MUNDEN,
106 Priory Park Road, Kilburn, London, N.W.,
Agent for the Applicant.