Improvements in Dressing-bags and the like.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Dec., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 17th Sept., 1890-Accepted, 25th Oct., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Dressing-bags and the like.
1, ERNST PFEIFFER, of 63, Queen Victoria Street, in the City of London, Merchant,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communication from abroad
by Messieurs Huppe & Bender, of Offenbach-on-the-Main, in the Empire of Germany,
Manufacturers) to be as follows:-
This invention relates to dressing bags and the like and consists chiefly in providing
improved means for supporting the detachable partition in an upright position when
removed from the bag or the like.
According to my invention the frame of the partition has legs pivoted to it at each
end which legs are adapted to spring outwards when the partition is removed from
the socket or clip for containing it in the bag.
In practice I prefer to connect the ends of the legs at each end by toggle arms, and
to arrange springs to bear upon the junction of the said arms so as to force the legs
outwards. The springs are preferably located in tubes forming guides.
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G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Dressing-bags and the like.
I, ERNST PFEIFFER, of 63, Queen Victoria Street, in the City of London, Merchant,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communication from abroad by
Messieurs Huppe & Bender, of Offenbach-on-the-Main, in the Empire of Germany,
Manufacturers) 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 dressing bags and the like, and consists chiefly in providing
improved means for supporting the detachable partition in an upright position when
removed from the bag or the like.
According to my invention the frame of the partition has legs pivoted to it at each
end, which legs are adapted to spring outwards when the partition is removed from
the socket or clip for containing it in the bag.
In practice I prefer to connect the ends of the legs at each end by toggle arms, and
to arrange springs to bear upon the junction of the said arms so as to force
the legs outwards. The springs are preferably located in hollow rods working in
guides.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe how it
can be carried into practice by reference to the accompanying drawing in which :-
Figure 1 is a side elevation partly in section of the frame of a dressing-bag shewing
the detachable partition provided with my improvements:
Figure 2 is a transverse section on the line x x of Figure 1; and,
Figure 3 is an end elevation of the detachable partition removed from the bag-
frame.
Similar letters in all the figures indicate similar parts.
a is the frame of the dressing-bag, bis the hinge rod thereof, and c is the detachable
partition, all of which are of usual construction.
d is the frame of the detachable partition c, and e, e are the legs with which I
provide it, the said legs being pivoted or hinged at ff to pins or blocks f¹ fixed in
tubular guides g, g on the ends of the frame d.

page_text: h, h are the toggle arms by which the lower ends of each pair of legs e, e
are connected, through the medium of a hollow rod i, working through the
guide g.
, are the springs located in the hollow rods i and having their lower ends
bearing upon the inside of the rods i, i at or near the junction of the arms h, h
and their upper ends on the pins f¹ fixed to the guides and passing through slots k, k
in the rods i, i.
1, are stops on the heads of the rods for limiting their downward movement and
consequently the outward movement of the legs e, e.
m, m are the clips or supports of the detachable partition mounted upon the
hinge-rod 6 of the bag-frame a as usual, and made of a shape adapted to receive the
legs e, e when folded up, as shewn in Figures 1 and 2.
By this construction when the detachable partition c is to be placed within the bag
the legs e, e are pressed together by hand and inserted in the clips or supports m and
the parts will be in the position shewn in Figures 1 and 2. Directly, however, the
partition is removed from the bag the legs e, e automatically spring open into the
position shewn in Figure 3, so as to support the partition in an upright position.
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 :-
1. The combination with the detachable partition of a dressing-bag or the like of
pairs of legs pivoted or hinged to the ends of the partition, of toggle arms connecting
the free ends of each pair of legs, and springs arranged to bear upon the junction of
the arms, substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying
drawing and for the purpose specified.
2. The improved detachable partition for dressing-bags and the like hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated the 17th day of September 1890
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.