IMPROVEMENTS IN TRAVELLING BAGS AND APPARATUS USED THEREWITH
Year: 1862

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Louis Leins at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 21st May 1862.
I, LOUIS LEINS, of Bucklersbury, in the City of London, do hereby declare
the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TRAVELLING BAGS AND
APPARATUS USED THEREWITH," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in travelling bags and
apparatus used therewith. For these purposes, in constructing a travel-
ling bag and the apparatus used therewith, the bag is formed in two parts,
which fold on their lower edges, which are attached to a base plate or surface
forming the bottom of the bag. Each of the two parts of which the bag is
formed has applied to it parts of the two ends of the bag, so that when the
two parts of the bag are folded together the two ends of the bag are closed,
and the joint where the parts of the ends come or butt together are covered
by a strap or handle, by preference of metal, the lower ends of which strap or
handle are attached to the ends of the bottom of the bag, and the strap or
handle is so formed as to cover the joint where the two parts of the bag come
together, both at the two ends and also at the top. The upper part of the
strap or handle is arranged to turn on hinges or joints, so as to fold either
towards the one or the other half of the bag when the same are separated.
The upper part of this strap or handle is capable of being bolted or fastened
so as to retain it in an upright position. The upper part of the strap or handle.
has applied to it the lock or parts of the fastenings by which the two parts of
the bag, when folded together, are retained closed, and such fastenings, it is
preferred, should be two clasping elastic instruments which fold down on either
side of the strap or handle when the bag is closed and hold the two parts from

page_text: separating from each other and also from the strap or handle.
The lock is,
by preference, in the middle of the strap or handle, and the keyhole is covered
by a folding or hinged cover which is constantly pressed open by a spring, but
which can be fastened down by a sliding bolt or fastening. At the upper part
of the strap or handle there is a small handle applied, which, when the bag is
being carried, is the part held in the hand. The hasps or parts which are
received into the lock and are. locked thereby when the bag is closed are
respectively applied to the two parts of the bag. The outside of each of the
two parts of the bag may be formed with pockets, as has before been the case
in travelling bags. The interior of the two parts of the bag may also have
pockets fitted therein suitable to receive articles of dress or otherwise.
Interior of the bag, though made separate therefrom, is a case, which it is
preferred should be formed larger at the bottom than the top, with upright
ends and inclined sides. This interior case is arranged in a peculiar manner
in order to its being fitted in a suitable manner for containing articles and
instruments usually introduced into dressing cases and also in writing cases.
At the upper part or top is formed a tray, the upper part or lid of the box
being arranged to open on hinges. At the bottom of the case there is a
drawer suitably fitted to receive cutlery and other instruments suitable for a
dressing case. On one side of the case there are two folding doors in order to
get at the interior space which is between the tray at the top and the drawer
at the bottom. In this interior space is an upright partition, which is hinged
at its lower edge so that it may, when this side of the case is open, be caused
to incline forward in order that it may be removed from the case. On the
side of this partition, which is towards the folding doors, straps and other suit-
able fittings are applied to receive brushes and other articles suitable for a
dressing case. The side of the case opposite to the folding doors is made to
turn on hinges at its lower end, so as, when turned down, to form a writing
desk; and so much of the interior of the case as coines between the partition
above mentioned and the folding side, which, when open, forms the writing
desk, is fitted up with the ordinary instruments and materials of a writing
case. The top or cover of the case above the tray inay, if desired, have a
looking glass fitted therein, and there is another looking glass arranged in a
suitable frame to slide out at one end of the case, at other times it is between
the partition above mentioned and the back of the writing case.