A. NEW MOUNTING FOR TRAVELLING BAGS."
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Schloss, of Wellington Chambers, Cannon
Street West, London, County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "A.
NEW MOUNTING FOR TRAVELLING BAGS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by, the said. Joseph Schloss at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on. the 6th
November 1855.
I, JOSEPH SCHLOSS, of Wellington Chambers; Cannon Street West, London;
County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"A NEW MOUNTING FOR TRAVELLING BAGS " to be as follows:-
My Invention consists of a new mounting for travelling bags, &c., the chief
feature, of which is the use of rectilineal grooves, suitably arranged for guiding
the clasps in their closing and opening motion.
In the annexed Drawing, A is a plate fixed on each side of the bag, in
which are three grooves, two horizontal B, C, and the other vertical D. E, F,.
are the two closing clasps; connected together at the lower ends by a pivot,
which passes through the groove D; to each of the clasps, is attached another
pivot, b, c, one passing through the groove B, and the other through the
groove.C.

page_text: It is evident that by separating the clasps E, F, in opening the bag, the
pivots b, c, will slide back in their respective grooves, thus removing the pivot
a, which will then slide up the groove. D, and appear in the position indicated
in red.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Schloss in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
6th May 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
SCHLOSS, of Wellington Chambers, Cannon Street West, London, County of
Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand. eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Joseph Schloss, Her special licence that I, the said Joseph Schloss, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph
Schloss, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A NEW MOUNTING FOR TRAVELLING
BAGS," upon the .condition (amongst others) that I, the said Joseph Schloss,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Schloss, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
My Invention relates to an improved mounting applicable to travelling
bags, &c., and is characterized by the application of rectilinear grooves or
guides so contrived as to guide the motion of the jaws as they open or shut.
In the annexed Drawing, which illustrates the Invention, A. is the plate

page_text: fitted on each side of the bag, &c., and in which there are three grooves,
two of which, B & C, are made bow bent, and the other, D, vertical.
E, F, are the two jaws, connected together at their lower end by a pin a
going through the groove D; the said jaws are also provided with two other
pins b, c, going the one through the groove B, and the other through C. It
is obvious, that on taking the two jaws E and F apart for opening the bag, the
pins b and c will be set apart too in their grooves, and actuate the pin a, which
rising will assume the position shown in red.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in which
the same is or may be carried into effect, I wish it to be distinctly understood
that what I claim as novel, and therefore being secured to me by the herein-
before in part recited Letters Patent, is, a new mounting for travelling bags,
&", which Invention is characterized by the three grooves or slots forming as
it were sliding hinges.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Schloss, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this 5th day of May, One thousand eight hundred and
fifty-six.
JOSEPH SCHLOSS. (L.S.)