IMPROVEMENTS IN ARTICLES CONSISTING OF MUFFS COMBINED
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Josef Loebl and Ignac Pick, both of Godfrey's
Court, Milk Street, in the City of London, Manufacturers, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN ARTICLES CONSISTING OF MUFFS COMBINED
Sealed the 26th February 1867, and dated the 29th August 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Josef Loebl and Ignac
Pick at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
on the 29th August 1866.
We, JOSEF LOEBL aud IGNAC PICK, both of Godfrey's Court, Milk Street,
in the City of London, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ARTICLES CONSISTING OF MUPFS COMBINED
WITH BAGS, POCKETS, OR SIMILAR RECEPTACLES," to be as follows:-
Muffs combined with bags, pockets, or like receptacles are articles of
especial utility to ladies, as when so combined they are enabled to carry and
use readily these two almost indispensable objects, and they are not obliged to
remove their hands from the muff to carry a bag or its equivalent; such
advantages are not attained when the bag is separate and uncombined.
The object of our first improvement is to combine a bag with a muff in

page_text: such manner as to obtain such expansion that the insertion of the hands in
the muff shall not interfere with the filling of the bag or pocket (nor the
filling of such bag or pocket with the use of the muff). For this purpose
(the muff being placed at the back of the bag or pocket by adding a band or
piece of material to the bag, behind the same, passing from the top to the
bottom thereof) we use an elastic or expansible and contractible connection
between the lower end of the bag and the side of the muff (or the piece, which
when combined with the bag forms a muff). Such expansible or elastic con-
nection consists of one or more strips, bands, cords, or pieces of elastic
material; and this we prefer to effect by using caoutchouc or like elastic cords
passed freely through eyes or orifices in the bottom part of the bag, and
through other eyes or orifices in the bottom part of the muff.
The bodies of muffs have hitherto been made mainly of fur, seal skin, or
textile fabric; whereas according to our Invention we combine in the manu-
facture materials not hitherto so combined for the purpose, whereby we render
a muff duly expansible for use and yet sufficiently substantial to receive a
pocket. For this purpose we form the body or main part of the muff of
leather or similar substantial material, and we form the ends of fur, seal skin,
or similar elastic substance, and on the front of the muff at the outside of the
leather or other similar material we form a pocket, the opening of which we
cover by a flap, so that articles may be readily and safely carried in a pocket
thus contrived without having to remove the hands from the muff.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Josef Loebl and Ignac Pick in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 28th February 1867..
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOSEF
LOEBL and IGNAC PICK, both of Godfrey's Court,. Milk Street, in the City of
London, Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of
Her reign did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant. unto
us, the said Josef Loebl and Ignac Pick, Her special licence that we,
the said Josef Loebl and Ignac Pick, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or. such others as we, the said Josef Loebl and Ignac Pick,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,

page_text: 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN ARTICLES, CON-
SISTING OF MUFFS COMBINED WITH BAGS, POCKETS, OR SIMILAR RECEPTACLES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Josef Loeb! and Ignac Pick,
our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or
their, or one of our or their hands and seals, 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 we, the said Josef Loebl and Ignac Pick, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the accom-
panying Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to
say
Muffs combined with bags, pockets, or like receptacles are articles of
especial utility to ladies, as when they are so combined ladies, aro enabled to
carry and use readily these two almost indispensable objects, and they are
not obliged to remove their hands from the muff to carry a bag or its
equivalent, such advantages are not obtained when the bag is separate and
uncombined.
The object of our first improvement is to combine a bag with a muff it
such manner as to obtain such expansion that the insertion of the hands in
the muff shall not interfere with the filling of the bag or pocket, nor the filling
of such bag or pocket with the use of the muff. For this purpose the muff
is formed at the back of the bag or pocket by a band or piece of material
bebind the bag, extending from the top to the bottom, and we use an elastic
or expansible and contractible connection between the lower end of the bag
and the corresponding part of the muff or the piece which when combined
with the bag forms a muff; such expansible or elastic connection consists of one
or more strips, bands, cords, or pieces of elastic material, and this we effect
by using caoutchouc or other elastic cords passed freely through eyes or orifices
in the bottom part of the bag, and through other eyes or orifices in the bottom
part of the muff. The bodies of muffs have hitherto been made mainly of
fur, seal skin, or textile fabric; whereas according to our Invention we combine

page_text: in the manufacture materials not hitherto so combined for the purpose,
whereby we render a muff duly expansible for use and yet sufficiently
substantial to receive a pocket. For this purpose we form the body or main
part of the muff of leather or similar substantial material, and we form the
ends of fur, seal skin, or similar substance, and on the front of the muff at the
outside of the leather or other similar material we form a pocket, the opening
of which we cover by a flap so that articles may be readily and safely carried
in a pocket thus contrived without having to remove the hands from the
muff.
I proceed to describe, with reference to the accompanying Drawings, more
particularly in what manner the Invention may be performed.
Figure 1 is a side view of a combined bag and muff constructed according
to the arrangement first herein-before described. A is the muff; B is the
bag. The muff and bag are connected together by annular or endless elastic
cords or loops a, b, passing through eyes c, c, formed opposite each other in
the muff and bag, and protected by metallic eyelets c, c. i is the handle of the
bag muff.
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Figure 2 is a front view of a muff and bag or pocket combined according
to our second arrangement. D is the body of the muff, made of leather, and
lined with silk. At the ends of the muff are attached rims or edges of fur or
seal skin E, E. G is a pocket formed of leather attached in front of the
muff. The back of the pocket is formed by a portion of the front of the
muff. The pocket is lined with silk. g is the flap of the pocket on which is
an ordinary fastening h. i is the handle of the muff.
We sometimes modify the arrangement, as shewn in Figure 8, in which the
fastening is on a frame l, m, instead of on a flap. D is the muff, and G, the
pocket, as before. 7 is a metal frame fixed to the pocket, and m, a similar
frame fixed to the muff. The frames carrying any ordinary fastening h. Some-
times instead of making only the ends of seal skin or fur we cover the whole muff
and pocket with seal skin, fur, or similar material, and instead of making the
body of leather we sometimes make it of glazed linen, or of silk stiffened by
glazed linen, or of similar substantial material.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner
the same may be performed, we declare that we claim,-.
First, 'as regards our first arrangement, the employment of elastic cords as
described, for the purpose set forth.
Secondly, the arrangement and combination of a muff with a bag or pocket,
substantially in the manner herein-before described.

page_text: Thirdly, the combination of leather or similar substantial material with
seal skin, or fur, or similar yielding material, substantially as described, for the
manufacture of muffs combined with bags or pockets.
In witness whereof, we, the said Josef Loebl and Ignac Pick, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-seventh day of
February, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-seven.
Witness,
ERNEST DE PASS,
68, Fleet Street,
London.
JOSEF LOEBL. (LS.)
IGNAC PICK. (L.B.)