Improvements in Handles for Bags, Rug Straps, Cases, and such like Articles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 11th May, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 11th Feb., 1895-Accepted, 16th Mar., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Handles for Bags, Rug Straps, Cases, and such
like Articles.
1, JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS, of Criterion Works, Great Charles Street,
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The improvement relates to what are known as sliding or collapsible handles, of
leather or other flexible material, in which the ends of the handle slide in loops, so
that the handle can be pressed down flat when not in use.
The ends of such handles are usually kept from pulling through the loops by
lateral extensions of the leather or similar material of which the handle is made;
but in place of this extension I substitute a T shaped piece of metal sewn in or
otherwise affixed at each end of the handle, the ends of the crosspiece projecting
on each side of the handle and of the loop & preventing the handle from pulling
through.
The arms of the T piece may be curved or bent as desired, and made of a single
piece of wire.
Dated this 10th day of May 1894.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Handles for Bags, Rug Straps, Cases, and such
like Articles.
I, JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS of Great Charles Street, in the City of
Birmingham, Manufacturer, 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, or additions to, handles for bags,
rug-straps, cases and such like articles, and pertains to handles of the type which
are made to straighten out or fold when not in use.
My improvements reside in the ends or end fittings outwards of the loops, and
by which the said handles are prevented from being drawn through the loops or
eyes, on the handle being in position for use.
According to my invention, I provide the said ends with metallic cross fittings,
which form stops and come against the metallic eyes or loops through which the
loose and stop fitted ends of the handle outwardly pass.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents, in side elevation, a rug strap,
with the handle provided with metallic cross end stops in accordance with my
invention. The handle is shown in its position of use with the metallic cross end
stops abutting up to, or taking their bearings against, the metallic or other rings
or eyes of the strap.
Figure 2 represents a like view as Figure 1, but with the handle straightened
out and with the metallic stop shown in a position away from the connection loops.

page_text: Figure 3 represents a topside plan of Figure 2.
Figure 4 represents a plan of an end part of Figure 1.
Figure 5 represents an end elevation of Figure 4, with the base plate of the
strap in section.
Figure 6 is a horizontal section of an end of the handle, showing the metallic
fitting in elevation.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in Figures 1 to 6.
a is the base strap or frame of a rug-strap, and bis the handle connected to the
said base framing by metallic or other rings or loops d, secured thereto by
attachment straps d', which also form loops through which the rug straps e, pass.
The terminal ends ', of the handle b, are fitted with metallic cross bars c,
preferably of a T figure, with the stems c', passing up the middle of the strap and
the stop ends c², of the T head or bar c³, forming an insertion between the opposed
inner parts 62, 63, of the terminal end b'.
Figure 7 represents a modified form of metallic stop bar, which consists of stop
ends c², and reduced middle part c³, into and around which the material of the end
of the flexible handle passes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
In flexible and other handles for bags, rug-straps, cases and such like articles,
providing, fitting or inserting within the ends of the same, metallic cross end stops,
substantially as and for the purpose as described and set forth.
Dated this 0th day of February 1805
JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.