Improvements in Gladstone and other Bags.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Oct., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 16th Apr., 1891-Accepted, 16th May, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gladstone and other Bags.
I, GEORGE HONNOR GREGORY, of 3 Park Road, Leyton, in the County of
Essex, Silversmith, do hereby declare the nature of iny said invention to be as
follows:--
The object of my invention is to fit the boards, used in Gladstone and other bags,
with standards, for supporting the same in a vertical position, when removed from
the bag and placed upon a table or other article.
In carrying out my invention I fit a grooved metallic support inside the bag, at
each end. Each end of the movable board is fitted with an inserted metallic
Tpicce, the two horizontal portions of which can be folded together, and so held
by the grooved supports inside the bag. The T pieces attached to the movable
board are hinged and fitted with springs, so that, when the movable board is
removed from the bag, the two arms of each T piece spring outwards, and thus
form horizontal supports to the board when placed upon a table.
When reinstating the board in the bag, the form of the fixed grooves automati-
cally closes the two arms of the T pieces.
Did anth Octoho” 1900
GEO.
DOWNING,
8, Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gladstone and other Bags.
I, GEORGE HONNOR GREGORY, of 3, Park Road, Leyton, in the County of
Essex, Silversmith, 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 improvements in Gladstone and other bags having
removable boards, such boards when removed from the bags being adapted to stand
in a vertical position so that they can be used as a separate toilet stand and the
invention consists in providing means whereby the removable board can be more
easily placed in position in the bag than hitherto.
In order to enable the invention to be fully understood I will describe the same
by reference to the accompanying drawing, in which,
Figures 1 and 2 are respectively an elevation and a plan shewing a portion of a
bag frame with its removable board provided with my improvements.
Figure 3 is a section on the line x, x of Figure 1.
Figures 4 and 5 are respectively a side elevation and an end elevation of a
portion of the removable board having its operating parts in the position they
occupy when the board is removed from the bag.
Similar letters in all the figures indicate similar parts.
a is the bag frame of the ordinary construction the two parts of which are
hinged to metal plates b, b which are advantageously connected to a channelled or
grooved bar c or they may be connected to the usual rod. The plates b, b form the
bottoms of vertical guides d, d, the lower parts of which, as clearly shown in
Figures 1 and 2, are widened out and extended inwards so as to form supports or
receptacles e, e having their sides, f formed with inclines for the purpose herein-
after described. On the sides of the vertical guides d, d are feathers on which
slide the sleeves connected to the bag frame by links i. The object of these

page_text: sliding sleeves and links is to maintain the guides and the board in the same relative
position to the two parts of the frame.
jis the removable board of ordinary construction the frame k of which is pro-
vided with corner pieces 7, l, to which are hinged legs or L-pieces m, the hinges n
of which are provided with springs o. P, p are stops for limiting the outward
movement of the legs m.
By this construction when the removable board is to be placed within the bag
it is simply necessary to insert the corner pieces 1, 1 in the vertical guides d, d, and,
as the board is moved downwards, the legs m, on coming against the inclines on the
sides ff will be turned inwards and will enter the supports e where they will be
securely held in position the lower edge of the board resting in the channel c.
On the board being taken from the bag the legs will, under the action of their
springs move automatically outwards into the position shown in Figures 4 and 5
and serve as a stand for the board.
It will thus be seen that by my invention I avoid the necessity of folding the
legs of the board by hand and of holding them in that position while the board
is being placed in the bag as, by merely inserting as above described the corner
pieces of my board into the vertical guides and pressing down the board the legs
are caused to fold inwards automatically.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
(1.) A Gladstone or other bag having a removable board with legs the said
board and the supports in the bag frame for holding the same being so arranged
that the act of putting the board in place in the bag causes the legs of the board
to be turned inwards against the board substantially as hereinbefore described.
(2.) The combination with the removable board of a Gladstone or other bag, of
pairs of spring legs or L-pieces hinged to the board and of supports having
inclines arranged and operating in the manner substantially as hereinbefore
described.
(3.) In a Gladstone or other bag frame having supports for receiving a removable
board, forming the supports with inclines to cause the leg pieces of the board to be
turned in against the board substantially as herein before described.
(4.) The improvements in Gladstone and other bags hereinbefore described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated the 16th day of Anil 1901
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.