Improvements in and relating to Trunks, Portmanteaus, and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Feb., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Nov., 1897-Accepted, 8th Jan., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Trunks, Portmanteaus, and the like.
We, HARVEY HOAR PHILLPOT and JOHN BATHURST, both of Junior Army &
Navy Stores Limited, of 15 Regent Street, London, Inventor and Secretary respec-
tively, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in and relating to trunks portmanteaus
and the like and our invention consists in the improvement hereinafter described.
It is well known that most trunks portmanteaus and the like have hitherto been
provided with external strengthening strips said strips extending along the bottom
and partly along the sides, of said trunk, portmanteau, or the like. The main
defects appertaining to trunks, portmanteaus, and the like provided with said
strips are (1) They render the appearance of said trunks portmanteaus and the
like unsightly and if made of iron are likely to injure the material of said port-
manteau or the like by reason of the rust which in time covers portions of said
strips.
In carrying out our invention we provide the trunk portmanteau and the like
with internal strips instead of with the external strips hitherto employed and we
provide the underside and also if desired the sides or other external part of said
trunks portmanteaus and the like with studs, washers or the like which studs,
washers or the like are fixed to the internal strips referred to by means of rivets
said rivets passing through the material of the trunk portmanteau or the like.
We prefer to make the studs, washers or the like of brass & to employ a copper
rivet as these give the best result although we do not confine ourselves to any
material or materials.
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Improvements in and relating to Trunks, Portmanteaus, and the like.
We, HARVEY HOAR PHILLPOT and JOHN BATHURST, both of Junior Army and
Navy Stores Limited, of 15 Regent Street, London, Inventor and Secretary respec-
tively, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
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page_text: same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
This invention refers to improvements in and relating to trunks, portmanteaus,
and the like and the special objects of this invention are to enhance the appear-
ance of said trunks, portmanteaus and the like and also to prevent the material
of said trunks, portmanteaus and the like from being injured by the rust with
which the external iron strengthening ribs or equivalents become coated.
In order that our invention may be readily understood reference is made to the
accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1 represents a portmanteau in side elevation,
said portmanteau having the invention herein described applied thereto, and Fig. 2
shows one form of our improved device.
In carrying our invention into practice and describing the same with reference
to a portmanteau we provide the portmanteau A with inner strengthening ribs B
(shown in dotted lines) in place of the outer strengthening ribs hitherto usually
employed. On the outside of the portmanteau-preferably at the bottom and
sides we affix a series of preferably brass or copper washers D said washers being
attached by means of rivets C-which pass through the material of the port-
manteau to the aforesaid inner strengthening ribs B.
By these means the bottom and sides of the portmanteau are effectively protected
against a great deal of wear and tear, its appearance is enhanced and on account
of the absence of the external iron strengthening ribs, rusting of said ribs and
.consequent injury of the material thereby prevented.
Our improvements, we wish it to be understood, are equally applicable to trunks,
bags or other receptacles, and we do not confine ourselves to any particular shape
of the washers D.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
A trunk, portmanteau or the like having washers such as D fixed to inner
strengthening ribs such as B, for the purposes and substantially as described and
illustrated.
Dated sword day of November 1891.
By their Agents,
H. H. PHILLPOT.
J. BATHURST.
Hom, Son & Co.,
151 Strand (next to Somerset House), London.