An Improved Device for Carrying Parcels or for Attaching Parcels and the like to Hand Bags, Bicycles and other Articles.
Year: 1896

page_text: An Improved Device for Carrying Parcels or for Attaching Parcels
and the like to Hand Bags, Bicycles and other Articles.
We, WILLIAM HENRY WINFIELD of No. 31, Hutton Street, Nechells, Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, Toolmaker, and JAMES WINFIELD of No. 31, Hutton Street,
Nechells, aforesaid, Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to an improved device for attaching Parcels and the like to
Hand Bags and other articles and has for its object to provide a simple, cheap,
arrangement whereby a parcel or other similar object may be expeditiously attached
or detached to or from a hand bag or other articles such for example as a parcel strap
or the back of a bicycle saddle.
Our invention consists essentially of a parallel bar provided with a swivel at each
end for the purpose of connecting to the handle loops of a hand bag the said bar is
furnished with two or more spring clips by which a parcel may be suspended or
held.
In carrying our invention into effect we provide a flat parallel bar preferably
metallic though we may use leather or any other suitable material and in some cases
make it round or any other geometrical section. The said bar being of a length
equal or nearly equal to the distance between the loops of an ordinary hand-bag that
is to say the loops which connect the handle to the bag. At the extreme ends of the
said bar we form an eye or loop to which we attach a swivel or clip by means of
which the said bar may be connected or disconnected to the loop of a bag aforesaid.
We provide the said bar with two or more spring clips made from sheet metal
blanks bent into the form of a loop which clips the bar the lower part depending
therefrom forms a jaw which may be opened and closed by means of a cranked lever
which depresses or releases the clip as desired. By this means a parcel or other object
may be held depending from the bag.
Our said invention may be applied to a parcel strap in a like manner to the bag or
we may attach the said device to the loops at the back of a cycle saddle by means of
swivels for the purpose of carrying parcels or other objects. We may when desired
use our improved device as a separate parcel carrier by connecting a handle to the
swivels and using the spring clips for holding or suspending a parcel.
Our invention may be modified in any detail as may be necessary to carry the same
into effect.

page_text: An Improved Device for Carrying Parcels or for Attaching Parcels
and the like to Hand-Bags, Bicycles and other Articles.
We, WILLIAM HENRY WINFIELD of No 31 Hutton Street, Nechells, Birmingham in
the County of Warwick Toolmaker and JAMES WINFIELD of No 31 Hutton Street
Nechells aforesaid 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 an improved device for attaching parcels and the like to
Hand Bags and other articles and has for its object to provide a simple cheap
arrangement whereby a parcel or other similar object may be expeditiously attached or
detached to or from a hand bag or other article such for example as a parcel strap or
the back of a bicycle saddle.
Our invention consists essentially of a parallel bar provided with a swivel at each
end for the purpose of connecting to the handle loops of a hand bag: the said bar is
furnished with two or more spring clips by which a parcel may be suspended or held.
In carrying our invention into effect we provide a flat parallel bar preferably metallic
though we may use leather or any other suitable material and in some cases make it
round or of any other geometrical section. The said bar is of a length equal or nearly
equal to the distance between the loops of an ordinary hand bag that is to say the
loops which connect the handle to the bag. At the extreme ends of the said bar we
form an eye or loop to which we attach a swivel by means of which the said bar may
be connected or disconnected to or from the loop of the bag aforesaid. We provide
the said bar with two or more spring clips made from sheet metal blanks bent into
the form of a loop which clips the bar, the lower part depending therefrom forms a jaw
which may (or may not) be opened and closed by means of a cranked lever which
depresses or releases the clip as desired. By this means a parcel or other object may
be held depending from the bag. Our invention may be applied to a parcel strap in
a like manner to the bag or we may attach the said device to the loops at the back of
a cycle saddle by means of swivels for the purpose of carrying parcels or other objects.
We may when desired use our improved device as a separate parcel carrier by
connecting a handle to the swivels and using the spring clips for holding or suspending
a parcel. Our invention may be modified in any detail as may be necessary to carry
the same into effect. We will describe our invention by reference to the
accompanying drawings the same letter of reference indicating similar parts
throughout:
Figure 1 shows our improved device attached to a hand bag.
Figure 2 shows the device attached to the handle bar of a bicycle.
Figure 3 shows in front and side elevation a clip detached from the bag.
Figure 3 is a modification of our invention.
Figure 4 illustrates a metallic blank for forming the bag clip.
Figure 5 illustrates the finished clip detached from the bag.
Figure 6 illustrates a metallic blank for forming a clip for bicycle handles.
Figures 7 and 8 show the finished clip detached from the handle bar.
Figure 4 represents a sheet metal blank cut by suitable tools consisting of the cross
bar A and the projections B, B, B, the holes C, C, are furnished with swivels D, D for
attaching to a bag as shown at Figure 1. Parcels or other objects may be held or
suspended by means of the spring clips B2, B2, B2, Figure 3 shows a similar clip which
is capable of sliding on the bar A, the jaws E, E, may be opened and closed by means
of the lever F for holding or releasing a parcel as desired. Figure 3* is a modification

page_text: adapted to fit a bicycle handle bar by means of the hook I; parcels and the like are
held or suspended by the bent parts B2 and retained in position by means of the
flap B3 working on the hinged joint b. Figure 2 illustrates the manner in which our
improved clip is applied to the handle bar of a bicycle. In Figure 6 the blank is first
cut from sheet metal and the projections B, B, bent into the spring clips B2, B².
Figures 7 and 8 may be used for holding an umbrella, parcel or the like; the
projections H, H, in Figure 6 are bent into the shape shown at I, I, for clipping the
handle bar K as shown at Figure 2, or the same may be attached to the back of a
saddle or to some other convenient part of the machine.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the saine is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. In the improved device for carrying parcels or for attaching parcels and the like
to hand bags, bicycles and other articles substantially as described and illustrated in
the several figures of the accompanying drawings.
Dated L
T 100
WILLIAM HENRY BARACLOUGH,
36 Temple Street, Biriningham, Agent for the Applicants.