Improvements in the Manufacture of Ladies' Bags and other Hand Bags, Portmanteaus, and the like.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Mar., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 7th Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 8th Jan., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Ladies' Bags and other Hand
Bags, Portmanteaus, and the like.
I, ERNST PFEIFFER, of 63, Queen Victoria Street, in the City of London, Merchant,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communication from abroad by
Messieurs Huppe and Bender, of Offenbach-on-the-Main, in the empire of Germany,
Manufacturers,) to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved method of connecting the material of bags,
portmanteaus and the like to their metal frames.
Hitherto the edges of the material forming the bags has been placed between the
inner and outer parts of the frame and the whole clamped together by means of rivets
passing through holes in the two parts of the frame and through the material which
had to be perforated to allow the rivets to be passed through.
According to my invention instead of using rivets as hitherto. I form or provide
the outer side of the hinged frame with a number of pins or studs pointed at their
ends, the sheens of the frame being provided with holes corresponding with the said
pins. To fix the bag to the frame the said pointed pins or studs are passed through
the edges of the lining of the bag and through the holes in the sheens of the frame
and the projecting ends are then turned down so as to securely hold the parts
together; the outer part or covering of the bag is then stitched to the lining in the
usual manner.
Dated the 12th dov of March 1888
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Ladies' Bags and other Hand
Bags, Portmanteaus, and the like.
".
I, ERNST PFEIFFER, of 63, Queen Victoria Street, in the City of London, Merchant,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communication from abroad by
Messieurs Huppe and Bender, of Offenbach-on-the-Main, in the Empire of Germany,
Manufacturers,) 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 method of connecting the material of bags,
portmanteaus, and the like to their metal frames.
"Hitherto the edges of the lining material of the bags has been placed between the
inner and outer parts of the frame and the whole clamped together by means of
rivets passing through holes in the two parts of the frame and through the material
which had to be perforated. to allow the rivets to be passed through.
According to my invention instead of using rivets as hitherto, I form or provide
the outer side of the hinged frame with a number of pins or studs pointed at their
ends, the sheens of the frame being provided with holes corresponding with the said
pins. To fix the bag to the frame, the said pointed pins or studs are passed through
the edges of the lining of the bag and through the holes in the sheens of the frame
and the projecting ends are then turned down so as to securely hold the parts
together; the outer part or covering of the bag is then stitched to the lining in the
usual manner.
In the accompanying drawing,
•
Figure 1 is an elevation of the outer side (that is to say the side to which the
material of the bag is fixed,) of a hinged frame suitable for a lady's combined muff
and bag and made according to my invention.
Figure 2 is an edge view of the same.
Figure 3 is a similar view to figure 1 but showing the frame with the lining of the
bag portion of the muff secured' thereto.
Figure 4 is a section on the line A B of figure 3.
Figure 5 is a section of part of the frame and lining drawn to an enlarged scale in
order to clearly show the way in which they are secured together.
Similar letters in all the figures indicate similar parts.
a, a are the two parts of the frame hinged together at b,'b and provided with
fastening c, d as usual.
e, e, e are the pointed pins or studs with which I provide the outer side of the hinged
frame a, a.
1
ff are the sheens of the frame formed with holes corresponding with the pins or
studs e.
g (figures 3, 4, and 5) is the lining of the bag which, as will be seen clearly by
reference to figure 5, is placed between the frame a and sheen f the pins or studs e

page_text: being passed through the lining and sheen, the projecting ends of the pins being then
turned down onto the outer face of the sheen so as to securely hold the parts
together.
The edge of the lining is left slightly projecting round the edge of the frame as
indicated at hand to this projecting portion of the lining g the outer part or covering
(not shown) of the bag is then stitched in the usual manner.
I have shown by way of example my invention applied to the bag portion of a lady's
combined muff and bag, the frame being suitably curved to adapt it for this purpose.
Its application to band bags, portmanteaus, and other like articles being substantially
the same, will be understood without illustration.
Having now particularly described and. ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
(1.) The method herein described of connecting the material of bags, portmanteaus,
and the like, to their metal frames, substantially as hereinbefore described.
(2.) A frame for bags, portmanteaus, and the like, having a number of pointed pins
or studs on the outer side thereof substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated the 6th day of December 1888