An Improved Strap Holder or Carrier for Rugs and Umbrellas or Walking Sticks and the like.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd June, 1889-Accepted, 6th July, 1889
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Strap Holder or Carrier for Rugs and Umbrellas or
Walking Sticks and the like.
I, HUGO VON MANN-TIECHLER of Munich in the Kingdom of Bavaria, Retired
Lieutenant of the Army, do hereby declare the nature of iny 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 consists in an improved construction of holder or carrier with handle
and straps which may be adjusted for holding a rug or shawl or the like and also an
umbrella or umbrellas, walking stick or the like, or may be connected as a shoulder
strap or belt for carrying umbrellas, walking sticks, or other devices or articles.
a
In the accompany drawing-Fig. I shows the improved holder arranged as
shoulder strap or carrier, Fig. II illustrates the holder as arranged for carrying both
rugs and umbrellas or the like.
The holder comprises the two main straps a and b of equal length and preferably of
such length that the two straps buckled together as shown in Fig. I may reach from
the shoulder to about the hip of the wearer. So that any person who has previously
used the straps in this fashion may easily and quickly join them again in the same
manner for the length desired, the holes in the straps are numbered consecutively.
C
The handle is preferably bent in the form shown in the drawing. At or near each
end it is provided with a swivelled loop or eyelet d. When the holder is used as a
shoulder strap the handle is slipped on the strap below as shown in Fig. 1 and over-
coats or the like may be conveniently carried by folding them over the handle c and
under the strap between the loops d.
Larger coats, so suspended will not fall or slip out by reason of their weight
operating to cause the strap to press down upon then, the greater the weight the
greater this pressure. Smaller or lighter articles such as ladies wraps may be fastened
in for instance by small straps e if desired, these being slid along and strapping the
main strap onto the handle c.
On the main straps are also the sliding loops g g to each of which is rivetted a small
strap with buckle fastening. These straps being movable on their rivets as upon
pivots.
These straps being arranged as shown in Fig. I, the lower one resting upon the
buckle of one of the main straps, will be in convenient position for carrying an
umbrella when not in use, or a knapsack or even a tent properly rolled up.
An advantage of this arrangement is that the articles may be carried upon the body
leaving the arms entirely disengaged, and that the whole contrivance may be easily
removed with the articles suspended thereon, and hung up or laid aside at the end
of a journey.
To arrange the straps as shown in Fig. II, the main straps a bare disconnected and
each passed through one of the loops d. The small strap loops y are then passed onto
the ends of the straps a band will be supported against the buckles of the latter when
the main straps are fastened up.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is ;-
1) The combination of two straps a b with a handle having swivelled loops d
whereby the straps may be employed in the manner set forth.
2) The combination with a shoulder belt of a bar c having eyes d at or near its ends
for passage of said helt, for employment substantially as set forth.
3) The combination with a handle e two straps a band two loops 9 g having
swivelled upon them the straps ƒ ƒ substantially as set forth.

page_text: 4) The combination of the following separable parts, the handle c having swivelled
eyelets d d, two straps a and b, and two straps ff having loops g g respectively con-
nected to them by a swivel rivet, to be relatively used and adjusted substantially in the
manner hereinbefore described and illustrated.
Dated this 3rd day of June 1889
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C., London, Agents to Applicant.