An Improved Attachment or Securing Device for Purses.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd July, 1895
Completa Anna
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Attachment or Securing Device for Purses.
I FLORENCE LOUISA ELIZA OSBORNE, of Osborne Lodge, Park, Cheltenham,
Gloucestershire, (Married), do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:
The object of the present invention is to provide means whereby a purse may be
easily attached to the person of the owner, and prevented from being lost.
The attachment is chiefly intended for the use of ladies, who, when shopping,
frequently carry their purses in their hands, and are apt to lay them down on the
shop counter while effecting a purchase.
It consists of a clasp composed of a pair of bars of suitable material hinged
together at their ends, and provided at their opposite ends with a catch or snap.
The flap or hinge of the purse is inserted between these bars, which are then closed
and fixed by the snap, so as to grip the purse firmly. A light chain or chains is
attached to one of these bars, and to a bracelet or ring, which is worn on
the wrist.
The purse is thus suspended from the wrist, and cannot be dropped or laid down
and forgotten, while it may still be taken in the hand in the manner usually found
convenient by ladies.
The clasp may be readily attached to almost any purse, and detached therefrom,
when desired, the catch being preferably arranged so as to be accessible only when
the purse is open.
Instead of a bracelet for the wrist, the clasp may be adapted to a chatelaine, or
to a hook or other device to be secured to the dress, if preferred.
Dated thin 99.1 1
ST 1
1002
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Attachment or Securing Device for Purses.
I FLORENCE LOUISA ELIZA OSBORNE, of Osborne Lodge, Park, Cheltenham,
Gloucestershire (Married), 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, which is intended chiefly for the use of ladies, has reference to
suspenders or attachments for purses, whereby they are secured to the person of the
Owner, so as to avoid the chance of dropping them, or leaving them on a
shop counter.
I am aware that purses have sometimes been provided with chain attachments,
but in that case the purses have been specially provided with an attachment device.
According to my invention, however, the suspender is capable of attachment to
different purses of various sizes, so that it can be applied to or removed from, any
purse of ordinary form, as required.

page_text: My purse suspender consists of a clamp, within which the flap or hinge of the
parse is inserted and secured, the clamp being provided with a chain attached to a
bracelet or other device worn on the person of the owner.
In the accompanying drawing I have shown my invention both detached and
applied to an ordinary leather purse.
Fig. 1 is a side view of the suspender alone, with the clamp open.
Fig. 2 shows it applied to the purse.
Fig. 3 shows a slightly modified form of clamp applied to the purse, a portion of
the flap of the latter being cut away, the better to show the clamp.
Fig. 4 shows the clamp illustrated at Fig. 3, detached, and open.
On referring to the drawing (Figs. 1 and 2), it will be seen that the suspender
consists of a clamp A, comprising two metal bars a a', hinged together at a*, and
provided with a snap catch at a*1 The flap 6 of the purse B is placed between
the bars a a¹ and the clamp is closed and fastened by the catch a*1, thus gripping the
purse firmly. This does not prevent the purse from being opened or closed in
the ordinary manner. C is a light chain attached to rings cc on the bar a of the
clamp A, and to the bracelet D, which may be worn on the wrist.
The clamp shown at Figs. 3 and 4 is formed by bending stiff metal wire into the
form of a safety pin, between the bars a a¹ of which the purse is gripped. In this
form, the elasticity of the metal will not render the employment of a hinge
at a necessary.
It will be seen that, when thus secured, ladies will still be able to carry the purse
in the hand in the manner frequently adopted by them, but they will not be able to
lay down the purse and leave it, or drop it from the lap onto the floor, when rising
to leave a shop.
The clamp is readily applied to a purse, and needs no special fitting, as the
thickness of the leather does not appreciably vary in different makes of purse. If
the clamp is of sufficient length, there will be no difficulty in securing the flap of
the purse therein.
Instead of the bracelet, it is obvious that other means of attachment to the
wearer may be provided.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
A detachable securing device for purses, comprising a clamp wherein the flap of
the purse is gripped, and means for attaching the clamp to the person of the wearer,
as described with reference to the drawing.
Dated this 7th day of October 1895.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.