AF IMPROVED COMBINED BAG AND MUFF
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Zahn, Foreman to James Henderson
Dewar, of Farringdon Road, in the County of Middlesex, for the
Invention of "AF IMPROVED COMBINED BAG AND MUFF."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Zahn at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
14th September 1872.
I, EDWARD ZAHN, Foreman to James Henderson Dewar, of Farringdon
Road, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "AN IMPROVED COMBINED BAG AND MUR," to be as
follows:-
This Invention consists in combining in one article the advantages of
a muff and bag with this difference to those now in use, that the article
when used as a bag does not present the appearance of a muff or its
convertibility to that purpose, and vice versa. On one side of this
combined article is a pouch or bag, over the opening of which is a flap
which falls down and conceals said opening, and on the same side and at
either end of said article are arranged two flaps which when folded and
fastened together at the back of the bag cover over and conceal the

page_text: hand or muff openings, the article thus presenting the appearance of a
bag. A handle is fixed above the article, which when the two side flaps
are opened and the article is used as a muff falls or hangs down at the
back thereof and is concealed between it and the body of the wearer, the
said two side flaps covering the wrists and adding greatly to the effective- 5
ness of the article as a muff.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Zahn in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 14th March 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS' SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
ZAHN, Foreman to James Henderson Dewar, of Farringdon Road, in the
County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Edward Zahn, Her special licence
that I, the said Edward Zahn, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Edward Zahn, 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 "AN IMPROVED COMBINED BAG AND
MUFF," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edward
Zahn, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Zahn, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement and accompanying Drawings (that is to say):-

page_text: This Invention consists in combining in one article the advantages of
a muff and bag with this difference to those now in use, that the article
when used as a bag does not present the appearance of a muff or its
convertibility to that purpose, and vice versa. On one side of this
combined article is a pouch or bag, over the opening of which is a flap
which falls down and conceals said opening, and on the same side and at
each end of the said article are arranged flaps, which when folded and
fastened together at the back of the bag cover over and conceal the hand
or muff openings, the article thus presenting the appearance of a bag.
A handle is affixed to the upper part of the back of the article, which
when the two side flaps are opened and the article is used as a muff
falls or hangs down at the back thereof, and is concealed between it and
the body of the wearer, the said two side flaps covering the wrists and
adding greatly to the effectiveness of the article as a muff. Also the
article is manufactured without the metal clasp or hinge at the opening
of the bag or pouch such as has been in use heretofore, whereby the
appearance is much enhanced when the article is used as a muff, and
greater flexibility is obtained.
In the accompanying Drawings, Figs. 1 and 2 are front and back
views respectively of the improved bag.
Fig. 3 is a front view of the article when used as a muff, having the
two side flaps A, A, open.
And, Fig. 4 is a back view of the improved muff, in which is shewn the
muff or hand openings B, B, and side flaps A, A.
I claim the general arrangement and combination of parts of the
improved combined bag and muff, substantially as described and shown
in the Drawings.