IMPROVE- MENTS IN ARTICLES CONSISTING OF MUFFS COMBINED WITH BAGS OR SIMILAR RECEPTACLES, AND IN THE FRAMES OF SUCH RECEPTACLES
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Moritz Vogl and Heiman Van Dyk, of Castle Street,
in the City of London, Manufacturers, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN ARTICLES CONSISTING OF MUFFS COMBINED WITH BAGS OR SIMILAR
RECEPTACLES, AND IN THE FRAMES OF SUCH RECEPTACLES."
Sealed the 15th April 1868, and dated the 15th October 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Moritz Vogl and Heiman
Van Dyk at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 15th October 1867.
We, MORITZ VOGL and HEIMAN VAN DYK, of Castle Street, in the City of
London, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of the said, Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ARTICLES CONSISTING OF MUFFS COMBINED WITH BAGS OR.
SIMILAR RECEPTACLES, AND IN THE FRAMES OF SUCH RECEPTACLES," to be as
follows:-
The main object of our Invention is to combine a bag or other receptacle
with a muff in such a manner that the muff shall be of the ordinary round
shape.
Our improvements consist,-
Firstly. In the construction and employment of a frame for the bag or other
receptacle constructed as hereafter described.

page_text: And, secondly, in providing an arrangement for opening the bag or other
receptacle from the inside of the muff.
Our frame consists of an upper and an under part; the ends of these parts
are curved to correspond to the circular form of the muff, and the upper part
when the bag is closed comes upon the lower part. The upper part is pivoted
to the lower at one side of the frame, while the other side is provided with a
depending catch or lock, which takes into a corresponding appliance on the
lower part.
To release the catch or lock we carry down from its under side a rod or
projection extending to the inside of the muff; by pushing or moving this rod
or projection by the hand inside the muff the catch or lock is released, and
springs fitted between the two parts of the frame then raise the upper part..
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Moritz Vogl and Heiman Van Dyk in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 15th April 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, MORITZ
VOGL and HEIMAN VAN DYK, of Castle Street, in the City of London, Manu-
facturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her, most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Moritz Vogl and Heiman Van Dyk, Her special licence that we, the
said Moritz Vogl and Heiman Van Dyk, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Moritz Vogl and Heiman Van Dyk,
our 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN ARTICLES
CONSISTING OF MUFFS COMBINED WITH BAGS OR SIMILAR RECEPTACLES, AND IN THE
FRAMES OF SUCH RECEPTACLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the
said Moritz Vogl and Heiman Van Dyk, or one of us, our executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or one of our or their,
or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the

page_text: nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-.
formed, 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 Moritz Vogl and Heiman Van Dyk, do
hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and.
by the following statement, reference being hal to the accompanying Drawings,
and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to say :—
The main object of our Invention is to combine a bag or other receptacle
with a muff in such a manner that the muff shall be of the ordinary round
shape.
Our improvements consist,-
Firstly. In the construction and employment of a frame for the bag or other
receptacle constructed as hereafter described.
And, secondly, in providing an arrangement for opening the bag or other
receptacle from the inside of the muff.
Our franie consists of an upper and an under part; the ends of these parts
are curved to correspond to the circular form of the muff, and the upper part.
when the bag is closed comes upon the lower part. The upper part is pivoted
to the under at one side of the frame, while the other side is provided with a
depending catch or lock, which takes into a corresponding appliance on the
under part.
To release the catch or lock we carry down from its under side a rod or
projection extending to the inside of the muff; by pushing or moving this rod
or projection by the hand inside the muff the catch or lock is released, and
springs fitted between the two parts of the frame then raise the upper part.
Our Invention will be fully understood by the accompanying Drawings.
Figure 1 is a perspective view of the frame with the two parts unlocked or
unfastened; Figure 2 is a cross section of a muff with one of our frames
applied thereto and showing the frame closed; Figure 3 is a similar view,
but with the frame open.
.
A is the upper and B the under part of the frame; the ends a, a, and b, b,
of these parts are curved, as before stated, to correspond with the circular
form of the muff (or nearly so). The upper part A is pivoted to the under
part B at one side at c, c, while the other side is provided with a depending
catch d to take on to a spring bolt in the box e on the under part. f is a rod
extending to the inside of the muff, and provided with a button or thumb-

page_text: piece g; by moving this piece 9 partly round by the hand inside the muff the
bolt is released from the catch d, and the springs h, h, between the two parts
A, B, of the frame then separate these parts and open the bag or receptacle.
It will be observed on reference to Figure 2 that when the bag frame is
closed the muff is of the ordinary round shape."
And having now described the nature of our said Invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we claim,-
First. The employment as herein-before described in articles consisting of
muffs combined with bags or similar receptacles of curved frames constructed
substantially as herein-before described and represented in the accompanying
Drawings.
Second. Providing articles consisting of muffs combined with bags or similar
receptacles with means of opening such receptacles from the inside of the muff,
substantially as herein-before described and represented in the accompanying
Drawings.
Third. Constructing curved frames substantially as and for the purpose
herein-before described and represented in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, we, the said Moritz Vogl and Heiman Van Dyk,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Fifteenth day of April,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
HEIMAN VAN DYK. (L.B.)