Improvements in and connected with Marketing Bags, Nets, and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 28th Aug., 1893-Accepted, 28th Nov., 1895
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Marketing Bags, Nets,
and the like.
I, ALEXANDER IHN, of 61 Gneisen Strasse of Berlin, Kinglom of Prussia,
German Empire, Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
This invention refers to bags, nets and the like as usel for marketing purposes;
my improvements in said bags, nets an the like relate to the combination of the
same with a spring-scale, in such a manner that the weight of the contents of the
said bags may be quickly and easily determine !. The purpose of my improve-
ments, therefore, is to enable the buyer to control the correctness of the weight of
the ware bought.
Referring to Figs. 1-3 of the accompanying drawing, the handle a¹ of the
bow a carries a plate barranged in the plane of said handle, and provided with á
longitudinal slit 61. A casing c secured to the rear side of said plate contains
spring d; the latter supports a circular plate e provided with a pin e¹ taking
through said slot 6, and carrying outside of the said slot a hand, or, what is
preferred, a double hand, such as shown in the drawing.
The bow a afore mentioned passes through two lateral slots c¹ of the casing c
and carries a hook g adapted to take over the handle a¹, so as to transmit the
weight of the ware contained within the bag or net upon said handle a' (when the
spring-scale is not to be used). If, however, said spring-scale is to come into use,
the book g is taken off the handle a', when the bow a will be carried not by the
said handle, but by the spring d, the plate e with its pin e¹ and the hand being
situated between said spring and said bow a.
The buyer holds the bag or net by means of the handle a', and the whole weight
of the bag or net with its contents will, thus, act upon the said spring, so that the
latter is correspondingly compressed, and the handle findicates the weight upon the
scale or scales provided upon the plate b.
. In the modified arrangement represented in Figs. 4 & 5, the how a dues not
pass through slits of the casing c, but through eyes c 2 fixed to said casing. The
latter may, therefore, turn upon said bow from the position shown in Fig. 5.
(i.e. from its position of rest) into that shown in Fig. 4 (i.e. into its. working
position). The handle a' is also in this form of construction firmly connected with
the casing c, and is, therefore, in contradistinction from the arrangement first
described constantly connected with the bow a. If, therefore, the bag or net is
held in the manner shown in Fig. 5, the weight of the contents of the same cannot
act upon the spring of the scale. If, however, the ware bought is to be weighed,
the scale is turned into the position represented in Fig. 4, and the whole is held in
the manner shown in said figure. The pin connecting the hand with the (lower end
of the) spring connects said two parts also with the lower end of a vertical rod.h:
arranged within the casing e, and having at its upper end a handle a 4. This
handle is employed only if the spring-scale is to be used, whereas at all other times
it is situated inside the bag or net (compare Fig. 5).
I prefer to combine a bag or net provided with my novel arrangement with a
device for preventing the bag or net from being open whilst the ware is being:
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page_text: weighed. I have shown such a device in Figs. 6 & 7, in which the bows of the bag
or net are replaced by straight wooden bars (a 5 a 6) connected with each other by
cords; the cords themselves are connected by the handle a 7. Those ends of the
cords, that are fixed to the bar a 5, are passed through anertures of the bar a 6.
If, therefore, the bag or net is held by means of the handle a 7, the draught
exerted by the ware within the bag or net causes the two bars to lie close one
against the other; this position of said bars may be maintained also during the act
of weighing by first seizing with one hand the handle a 4 of the scale, and then
laying with the other hand (by the mediation of the handle a 7) the cords i against
that side of the bag or net which the scale is secured to.
Dated this 29th day of November 1895.
J. P. BAYLY,
18 Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in and connected with Marketing Bags, Nets,
and the like.
I, ALEXANDER IHN, of 61 Gneisenau Strasse, Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia,
German Empire, Manufacturer 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 relates to the arrangement of a balance or weighing device on
bags, nets or the like, in order to determine the weight of the contents of the
net or bag.
In the annexed drawing,
Fig. 1 is a front view,
Fig. 2 is a side view or cross-section of a net provided with a spring balance,
the latter hanging down out of use.
Figs. 3 and 4 show the bag also in side view and cross-section with the balance
brought up ready for use.
.: Figs. 5, 6, 7 and 8 show in side views and cross-sections a bag, the carrying bars
of which are formed in another manner.
On the one bow or rod a, of which always two are provided for carrying the net
forming the bag and which possess each a handle 4, is fixed the balance c which
may have any construction. This balance, the most convenient form being a
spring-balance, is provided with a movable handle c' so that when weighing the
contents of the net, the net with the balance can be held by the handle of
the latter.
In order to remove the load from the balance when not in use it is fastened to
turn round one of the bows, so that by carrying the net with the balance hanging
downwards it takes the position shown in Figs. 1 and 5.
During the weighing the balance carries the net with its contents. In order that
when weighing the net or the bag remains closed, there can be provided on the one
bow a wire hook which is put over the other bow, or on the under part of the
balance is arranged a hook, which engages the second bow when the balance is
raised as in Fig. 4.
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When the scale is not used, this hook is free (see Figs. 4 and 2 and 8 and 6).
In order to allow an easier carrying of the net when filled, this net being an
ordinary marketing net, in which each bow with its handle consists of one piece of
wire, the handle is fixed movably on the bow so that the handles lie one against the
ather when the net is filled and can be held more easily in the hand,
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page_text: The balance is used in the following manner :-In order to weigh the contents of
the net or bag, the balance is placed in the position shown in Figs. 3 and 4 or 7 and 8 in
which the hook engages under the second bow and the front side of the balance
lies outwards. On seizing now the handle c', the whole weight hangs on the
balance and the weight can be read off upon the scale of the balance. The weight
of the net is taken into consideration in dividing the scale, and the zero point of
the scale is correspondingly marked.
After weighing, the balance is turned back into the position shown in
Figs. 1 and 2 or 5 and 6 and the net is carried by the handles b. The balance is
thus discharged during the carrying and protected against damage.
The form of the handles and of the bows and nets may be of any kind.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The combination of a marketing net or bag a with a balance c for determining
the weight of the contents of the net or bag.
2. In marketing bags as in Claim 1, the combination of the balance c with a
bow a of the bag or net in such a manner that the balance when not used is turned
round this bow and hangs freely downwards.
3. In the balance c as in Claims 1 and 2 the hook 2 on the under end of the
scale for the purpose of keeping the two bows a, a, of the net or bag together
during the weighing.
4. In bags with wire bows the formation of a turnable wire handle on each
bow, in order to allow of an easier holding of the handles and an easier carrying
of the bag.
Dated this 28th day of August 1896.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18 Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C.,
Agents to the Applicant.