AN IMPROVED METHOD OF FASTENING OR SECURING PORTE-MONNAIES, BAGS, AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES WITH FRAMES
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Louis Berge, of Newgate Street, in the City of
London, Manufacturer of Leather Goods, for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVED METHOD OF FASTENING OR SECURING PORTE-MONNAIES, BAGS, AND
OTHER LIKE ARTICLES WITH FRAMES."
Sealed the 28th February 1860, and dated the 31st August 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Louis Berge at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 31st
August 1859.
I, LOUIS BERGE, of Newgate Street, in the City of London, Manufacturer
of Leather Goods, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVED METHOD OF FASTENING OR SECURING PORTE-MONNAIES, BAGS, AND
OTHER LIKE ARTICLES WITH FRAMES," to be as follows:-
My Invention is intended to apply chiefly to such porte-monnaies and bags as
have an outer pocket or pockets, and it consists in securing the article by means
of a piece or pieces of elastic web, the ends of which are fastened to each side
of the bag, purse, or other article under the frames, the web itself being carried
round the article.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Louis Berge in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 29th
February 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LOUIS
BERGE, of Newgate Street, in the City of London, Manufacturer of Leather
Goods, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Louis Berge, Her special licence that I, the said Louis Berge, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Louis
Berge, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF
FASTENING OR SECURING PORTE-MONNAIES, BAGS, AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES WITH
FRAMES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Louis Berge,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascer-
tain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to
be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Louis Berge, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
that is to say:-
My Invention is intended to apply chiefly to such portemonnaies and bags
as have an outer pocket or pockets, and it consists in securing the article by
means of a piece or pieces of elastic web, the ends of which are fastened to
each side of the bag, purse, or other article, under the frames, the web itself
being carried round the article.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a side elevation of a bag
having an outer pocket fitted with my improved fastening. Figure 2 is a view
of the same bag with the outer pocket closed, and the frames open. Figure 3

page_text: open.
is a perspective view of the same bag with the outer pocket and the frames
a is an elastic web attached to the inside of the frames b, c, and
extending round the bag, as in Figures 1 and 2. To undo the fastening, push
outer pocket is open, as in
the elastic web a from beneath the bag, and the
Figure 3. The compartment e formed by the leather attached to the frames
b, c, can be opened without slipping off the elastic web, as shown in Figure 2.
For greater security a lock may be fitted to the outer pocket. Two outer
pockets may be fitted to the bag, one on each side.
Figure 4 is a side elevation of a porte-monnaie closed, with my improved
fastening thereto; Figure 5 is a similar view of the same open.
a is the
elastic web; b is the outside pocket kept closed by the web. When the
elastic web is pushed from beneath the porte-monnaie, the pocket unfolds, as
shown in Figure 5. The Drawings shew only one elastic web applied to the
bags and porte-monnaies, but two or more webs may be similarly applied at
different points along the frame.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as my improved
method of fastening or securing portemonnaies, bags, and other like articles
with frames, securing the outer pocket or pockets by means of a piece or
pieces of elastic web, the ends of which are fastened to each side of the bag
or other article under the frames thereof, as herein-before described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Louis Berge, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of February, Oue thousand
eight hundred and sixty.