Improvements in Handles for Facilitating the Carrying of Parcels and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Aug., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 18th Apr., 1300-Accepted, 19th May, 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Handles for Facilitating the Carrying of Parcels
and the like.
We, THOMAS WALLACE LESSLIE,
ALBERT WILLIAM BREWER, 56,
105, Antill Road, Bow, London, E., Engineer,
Osborne Road, Forest Gate, Gentleman, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:―
Our invention relates to a rigid handle, of metal or other substance or metal
covered with suitable material, bent, flanged, and with a slot, or slots, at each end,
for the strap, or band, to pass through, for the better carrying of the object, or
parcel, secured by the strap, or band."
Illustrating the said handle, by the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1, shows the rigid handle in position for carrying, with the strap, or band
passing through the slots and over the handle, the handle easily sliding along the
strap, to any position.
Fig. 2 & 3, shews the rigid handle alone, bent, flanged, and with the slot at
each end, to accommodate the strap, or band.
Dated this 1st day of August 1899.
THOMAS W. LESSLIE.
ALBERT WILLIAM BREWER.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Handles for Facilitating the Carrying of Parcels
and the like.
We, THOMAS WALLACE LESSLIE, of 105, Antill Road, Bow, E., Engineer, and
ALBERT WILLIAM BREWER, of 56, Osborne Road, Forest Gate, Gentleman, 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 improvements in handles for facilitating the carrying
of parcels and the like, the object of this invention being to provide a simple
rigid handle designed to be used in connection with a strap, and which is capable
of being slid along the said strap to any required position, for facilitating the
carrying of a parcel or the like.
In order that this invention may be fully understood, we will describe same
with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:-
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the handle shown in connection with the strap.
Fig. 2 is a plan of the handle detached.

page_text: Tew thereof, and
Fig. 4 a cross section.
Our new or improved handle comprises a metal plate a which may be covered
with any suitable material as required, furnished with side flanges a¹, and bent
approximately to the form shown in the drawings, while at each extremity a hole
or perforation his formed, or more than one hole or perforation such as h may be
formed in each extremity.
The strap s is passed through the hole or perforation h at one side, over the top
of the handle and through the hole or perforation in the other side of the handle,
60 as to rest upon the top of the plate a and be contained between the side
Hanges a¹ a¹.
The handle is thus free to slide along the strap to any required position, but
upon raising the parcel thereby bringing pressure to bear upon the strap s, the
latter is firmly gripped by the said handle.
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 :-
17. The new or improved handle for facilitating the carrying of parcels or the
like, comprising preferably a metal plate such as a, more or less curved, furnished
with side flanges or edges such as a a¹, and having one or more holes or perfora-
tions such as formed at each extremity, substantially as herein described and
shown with reference to the accompanying drawings, and for the purposes
specified.
2/. The combination with an ordinary strap such as s, of a more or less curved
plate such as a having side flanges such as a¹ a¹, and one or more holes or per-
forations such as at each extremity, designed to slide over the strap to any
required position and to form a handle for facilitating the carrying of a parcel or
the like, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 19th dov of A1 1000
CASSELL & Co.,
22, Glasshouse Street, Regent Street, London, W.,
Agents for the Applicants.