IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE METAL FRAMES OF PURSES, PORTEMONNALES, LEATHER AND CARPET BAGS, CIGAR CASES, AND OTHER ANALOGOUS ARTICLES
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Carl Eduard Schwartz and Carl Richard
Schwartz, both of Waterloo Road, in the Parish of Lambeth, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE METAL
FRAMES OF PURSES, PORTEMONNALES, LEATHER AND CARPET BAGS, CIGAR
CASES, AND OTHER ANALOGOUS ARTICLES."
Sealed tho 25th August 1871, and dated the 28th February 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Carl Eduard Schwartz
and Carl Richard Schwartz at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 28th February 1871.
We, CARL EDUARD SCHWARTZ and CARL RICHARD SCHWARTZ, both
of Waterloo Road, in the Parish of Lambeth, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF
THE METAL FRAMES OF PURSES, PORTEMONNAIES, LEATHER AND CARPET BAGS,
CIGAR CASES, AND OTHER ANALOGOUS ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
Our Invention relates to that class of purses, bags, and other analogous
articles in which the mouth of the bag is formed of a hinged metal

page_text: frame to which the flexible material of which the bag is formed is
secured by rivetting.
As now made the metal frames when the article is open are unsightly,
and one of the objects of our Invention is to impart to the article a
neater appearance than heretofore by so attaching the flexible material
to the metal frame that the rivets or other fastenings may be hidden
from view. To this end the two sides of the flexible material (including
the lining) are secured either by sewing, rivetting, or otherwise to two
separate metal bars or frames of suitable shape, according to the article
to be produced, and these metal bars or frames are introduced into the
recessed or hollow part of a hinged metal frame which is made with a
groove or of U-shaped section for the purpose of receiving the metal
bars. When these metal bars or frames with the flexible material and
lining attached thereto are in place in the grooves of the hinged mouth-
piece the ends of the grooved frame, or those parts nearest the hinges,
are compressed so as to make them hold in and retain the metal bars or
frames to which the flexible material is attached; or the inside metal
frame or bars may be secured in the grooves of the hollow outer frame
by rivets if preferred.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, 2
filed by the said Carl Eduard Schwartz and Carl Richard Schwartz
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 28th August 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, CARL
EDWARD SCHWARTZ and CARL RICHARD SCHWARTZ, both of Waterloo
Road, in the Parish of Lambeth, send greeting.
2
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters l'atent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of February, in tho
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the
thirty-fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and succes-
sors, give and grant unto me, the said Carl Edward Schwartz and Carl 3
Richard Schwartz, Her special licence that we, the said Carl Edward
Schwartz and Carl Richard Schwartz, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Carl Edward Schwartz and Carl

page_text: which is made with a groove or of U-shaped section for the purpose of
receiving the metal bars.
The Figures in the accompanying Drawing represent various views of
the several parts of a purse or portemonnaie.
Fig. 1 is a top view, and Fig. 2 a side view of one of the metal bars 5
or frames a to which the flexible material of which the body of the
purse or portemonnaie is formed is secured. Fig. 3 is an end or odgo
view of the same, and Fig. 4 is a cross section, from which it will be
seen that the metal bar or frame a is made hollow. The flexible
material of which the purse is composed having (with the lining) been 1
secured or attached to the bars or frames a, a, the latter are placed
inside the hollow metal frame b, b, shewn in side elevation at Fig. 5, in
end elevation at Fig. 6, and in transverse section at Fig. 7. The two
parts of the frame are hinged together as at c, so that they may be
opened, as shewn at Figures 8 and 9, which are two views of the purse. 1
When the purse is closed the two parts of the frame b, b, are held
together by means of the spring catch d. When the metal bars or
frames a, a, with the flexible material and lining attached thereto arc
in place in the grooves of the hinged mouthpiece or frame b, b, the ends
of the grooved frame b, b, or those parts nearest the hinges c, are 2
compressed so as to make them hold in and retain the metal bars or
frames a, a, to which the flexible material is attached; or the inside
metal frame or bars may be secured in the grooves of the hollow outer
frame by rivets if preferred.
Although we have only shewn and described one article made according 2
to our Invention, and which may be used as a purse or portemonnaic, or
as a tobacco pouch, it will be evident that leather or carpet bags, cigar
casos, and other analogous articles may be constructed in the same
manner.
Having now described our Invention of "Improvements in the Con- 3
struction of the Metal Frames of Purses, Portemonnaies, Loather and
Carpet Bags, Cigar Cases, and other analogous Articles, and having
explained the manner of carrying the same into effect, we claim as tho
Invention secured to us by Letters Patent as aforesaid, the combination
of the bars or frames a, a, with the hollow hinged metal frame b, b, for 3
the purpose of securely holding in its place the flexible material of

page_text: which the sides and lining of the purse, bag, or other article may be
composed, as hercin set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Carl Edward Schwartz have here-
unto set my hand and seal, the Twenty-eighth day of August,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
one.