Improvements in Handles for Handbags, Gladstone Bags, Port- manteaus, Hat Boxes, Hold Alls, and other like Articles.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Jan., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 10th Apr., 1899-Accepted, 20th May, 1899
Date of Apprication, ruh vall. 1000
Complete Specification Left, 10th Apr., 1899-Accepted, 20th May, 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Handles for Handbags, Gladstone Bags, Port-
manteaus, Hat Boxes, Hold Alls, and other like Articles.
I, THOMAS FREDERICK BUCKMAN, of "Beddgelert," 27, Rosendale Road, West
Dulwich, in the County of Surrey, Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in handles for handbags, Gladstone bags,
portmanteaus, hat boxes, hold alls and other like articles and the object is to render
them more convenient and comfortable in use than are the handles as at present
made. Ordinary handles of this kind are constructed of leather or equivalent
material and stiffened, stuffed or cored with rope or other flexible material.
The consequence is that when the bag is loaded and carried the flexibility of
the handle allows its ends to bend downwards and compress the user's
fingers in a very uncomfortable manner and by thus preventing a firm grip
greatly impedes the carrying of the bag and its contents. In order to overcome
this defect I provide such handles with a rigid core instead of a flexible one, this
rigid core being made of solid, tubular or hollow wood, metal or any other
unyielding material. These rigid cores may have straight, bevelled or curved
ends and may be of any convenient cross section. They may be covered with
leather or other suitable material and attached to the bag or other article by
rings, hooks or other means. I prefer that the cores should be straight from
end to end on the under side. Handles with these rigid cores allow of a better
grip and entirely prevent the pinching together of the user's fingers however
loaded the bag may be. The user has consequently only the weight to deal with
and not the weight plus the inconvenience of a non-rigid handle.
Dated this Oth dow of Tanum 1900
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23, Coleman Street, E.C., Agents.
Improvements in Handles for Handbags, Gladstone Bags, Port-
manteaus, Hat Boxes, Hold Alls, and other like Articles.
I, THOMAS FREDERICK BUCKMAN, of "Beddgelert," 27, Rosendale Road, West
Dulwich, in the County of Surrey, Commercial Traveller, 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:-
My invention relates to improvements in handles for handbags; Gladstone bags;
portmanteaus; hat boxes and other like articles and the object is to render
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them more convenient and comfortable in use than are the handles as at present
made. Ordinary handles of this kind are constructed of leather or equivalent
material and stiffened, stuffed or cored with rope or some other flexible substance.
The consequence is that when the bag is loaded and carried the flexibility of
the handle allows its ends to bend downwards and compress the
fingers in a very uncomfortable manner and by thus preventing a firm grip it
greatly impedes the carrying of the bag and its contents. In order to overcome
this defect I provide such handles with a rigid core a (shown in longitudinal
section in the accompanying drawing) instead of a flexible one, the rigid core
being of solid, tubular or hollow wood, metal or other unyielding material.
These rigid cores may have straight, bevelled or curved ends and may be of any
convenient cross section. They may be covered with leather or other suitable
material and attached to the bag or other article c by rings, hooks or other
means. I prefer that the under side d of the core shall be straight from end
to end. Handles made with these rigid cores allow of a better grip and entirely
prevent the pinching together of the users fingers however loaded may be the
bag. The user has consequently only the weight to deal with aud not the weight
plus the inconvenience of a non-rigid handle.
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:-
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1. Providing the handles of handbags; Gladstone bags; portmanteaus; hat
boxes; hold alls and other like articles with a rigid core of wood, metal or
other unyielding material, of solid, tubular or hollow cross section and pre-
ferably but not necessarily straight from end to end on the under side, the whole
substantially as described in the above specification.
2. Bag and like handles provided with a rigid core substantially as described
in the above specification.
Doted this 21st da
1000