Improvements in and connected with Hand and Travelling Bags.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Oct., 1889
Complete Specification Left. 12th June, 1890-Accepted, 19th July, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Hand and Travelling Bags.
I, ADOLPHE TIMPE of 1 Greenwood Street Manchester in the County of Lancaster,
Travelling Bag Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows
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This Invention relates to hand, travelling and similar bags to which the ends of the
frames at the mouth of the bag are additionally secured in the closed position by
vertical bolts actuated by slides, the bolts engaging with catches formed on the
underside of the opposite part of the frame.
In such bags the bolts have to be slid into and out of engagement with the catch by
hand. The object of these Improvements is to secure the automatic engagement of
the bolts with the catches on the closing of the bag.
In carrying out my Invention I secure to the inner side of the overlapping part of
the mouth of the frame behind each of the vertical bolts, a steel spring having a detent
or catch formed or secured upon its free end in such a manner that when the bolt is
slid back it is caught and held by the detent and catch on the end of the spring.
Upon the closing of the bag the catch comes in contact with the spring and displaces
it, liberating the bolt. Another spring is arranged to press against the bolt or the
slide to which the bolt is attached, in a direction tending to force the bolt into
engagement with the catch when the bag is closed. By this arrangement when the
bag is closed and the detent spring is liberated the bolt is instantly forced into
engagement with the catch.
Dated this 21st day of October A.D. 1889.
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Hand and Travelling Bags.
I ADOLPHE TIMPE of 1 Greenwood Street Manchester in the County of Lancaster,
Travelling-bag Manufacturer, 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 hand travelling and similar bags in which the ends of the
frames at the mouth of the bag are additionally fastened and secured in the closed
position by vertical bolts actuated by slides, the bolts engaging with staples or catches
formed or secured on the underside of the opposite part of the frame to that to which
the slides and bolts are secured.
In such bags the bolts have at present to be moved into and out of engagement
with the staples or catches by hand, and the object of these Improvements is to secure
their automatic engagement on the closing of the bag.
In carrying out my Invention I secure to the inner side of the overlapping part of
the mouth of the bag frame, behind each of the vertical bolts, a steel spring having a
detent or catch formed or secured upon its free end in such a manner that when the
bolt is moved back, it is caught and held by the detent or catch on the end of the
spring. In the act of closing the bag, the staple or catch comes into contact with
the spring or with the detent thereon and displaces it, thus liberating the bolt.
Another spring is arranged to press against the bolt or the slide to which the bolt is
attached, in a direction tending to force the bolt into engagement with the staple or
catch when the bag is closed. By this arrangement when the bag is closed, the spring

page_text: I will proceed to more particularly describe in what manner my said Invention
may be carried into practical effect with reference to the accompanying drawings, in
which
Figure 1 is a longitudinal section shewing the positions of the slide bolt and detent
when the bag is closed;
Figure 2 a similar section shewing the positions of the slide bolt and detent when
the bag is opened;
Figure 3 a transverse section of Figure 1;
Figure 4 a transverse section of Figure 2;
Figure 5 a longitudinal section of a modification of the construction illustrated by
Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4, shewing the position occupied by the slide bolt and detent when
the bag is opened;
Figure 6 a longitudinal section of a further modification shewing the position of the
slide bolt and detent when the bag is opened;
Figure 7 a transverse section of Figure 6;
Figure 8 an inverted plan of the overlapping part of the bag frame, further
illustrating the construction illustrated by Figure 5, the bag being supposed to
be closed;
Figure 9 an inverted view of the two opposite parts of the mouth of an open bag
shewing the construction illustrated by Figures 5 and 8.
These Improvements may be applied with equal facility to bags in which the leather
or other material sewn to the frame as represented in Figures 1, 3, 8, and 9; or to
those in which the material is rivetted thereto as shewn in Figures 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7.
In each of the Figures in which they are represented, similar parts are represented
by similar letters of reference.
A is the overlapping part of the mouth of the bag frame; B is the opposite part of
the mouth; C is the bolt; D is the slide to which the bolt is attached; E is the detent
spring is the detent formed upon or connected to the detent spring; G is the
staple with which the bolt C engages when the bag is closed; is a second spring
the function of which is to force the bolt forward as soon as it is liberated by the
closing of the bag.
It is intended that two sets of the bolts and staples shall be employed as is usual, and
as illustrated by Figures 8 and 9, in which the iniddle parts are broken away so as to
bring the illustration within a shorter length.
The detent springs E E are secured to the inner part of the overlapping part of the
mouth of the bag frame, that is to say in such a manner that they lie along the inner
side of the frame behind the bolts C°C. As represented in Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4,
the detent spring is constructed of steel wire and is secured to the inner side of
the frame by passing one of the screws by means of which the slide is secured to the
bag frame, through a loop formed in the end of the spring. The spring is prevented
from turning by a rectangular recess formed in the base of the slide around the screw,
into which the looped end of the spring fits, and it is bent downward through a slot in
the frame so that the bent part may come into contact with the staple. The detent is
formed by making a bend in the wire to engage with the bolt as shewn in the Figures,
or a detent may be brazed or otherwise secured to the spring.
The construction represented in Figures 5, 8, and 9, is precisely similar to that
described with reference to Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4, but the arrangement is slightly
altered. The detent spring E instead of being connected upon the upper surface of A
is connected to its lower surface, the loop being secured between the nut I and
the frame. The grip of the nut will usually suffice in this case to prevent the turning
of the spring, but if desired, this may be additionally guarded against by a pin
which is let into the frame and which acts as an abutment for the spring. In this case
the spring and detent are otherwise constructed and arranged as already herein before
described.
I have hitherto described the detent spring as being connected to the horizontal

page_text: member of the bag frame but it may be alternatively connected to the vertical member
as shewn in Figures 6 and 7. In this arrangement the end of the spring is riveted to
the frame and it is bent outward so that the detent on its free end may engage with
the bolt and be displaced by the staple G when the bag is closed.
In either of the modifications it will be understood that the detent is formed on or
secured to a spring which is in the inner part of the frame or behind a plane passing
through the two vertical bolts, and that the detent engages with and holds the bolt
when it is withdrawn by hand.
Before the bag to which these Improvements have been applied can be opened, the
slides D must be moved by hand so as to carry the bolts (out of engagement with
the staples G. This movement of the bolts carries them beyond the detents F which
are then forced forward by their springs so as to engage with and hold them as
indicated in Figures 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 9. In closing the bag the staples or catches G
press against the detents F or the springs to which the detents are attached, and thus
force the detents out of engagement with the bolts, whereupon the springs H force the
slides and bolts forward into engagement with the staples G and thus automatically
attain the same object as would be secured if the slides D were pushed forward by
hand as in existing bags.
The opening in the staple is preferably made a little longer than in the ordinary
construction so as to enable the staple to be pushed sufficiently forward in closing the
bag to entirely displace the detent.
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 I
claim is-
(1) In hand travelling and similar bags, a spring detent engaging with the slide
bolt when the bag is opened and displaced from engagement with the bolt by the
staple when the bag is closed, constructed and arranged substantially as hereinbefore
described and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
(2) In band travelling and similar bags, the combination with a sliding bolt and
staple, of a spring detent, and a spring tending to force the bolt into engagement with
the staple; substantially as herein before described and as illustrated by the accom-
panying drawings.
Dated this 10th day of June A.D. 1890.
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for the Applicant.