AN IMPROVED SPORRAN OR EXCURSION BAG, ESPECIALLY SUITABLE FOR VALISUSED REDITURE AND TOURISTO
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Dunn O'Halloran, of Kensington, in the
County of Middlesex, Colonel in Her Majesty's Service, for the Invention
of "AN IMPROVED SPORRAN OR EXCURSION BAG, ESPECIALLY SUITABLE FOR
VALISUSED REDITURE AND TOURISTO "
Sealed the 23rd July 1861, and dated the 24th January 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Dunn O'Halloran
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
24th January 1861.
I, HENRY DUNN O'HALLORAN, of Kensington, in the County of Middlesex,
Colonel in Her Majesty's Service, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED SPORRAN OR EXCURSION BAG, ESPECIALLY SUITABLE
FOR VOLUNTEER RIFLEMEN AND TOURISTS," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in combining with a sporran or Highlander's apron a
bag with compartments for containing various articles necessary for personal
comfort and convenience during short periods of absence from home, for
example, articles for the toilet, for eating and drinking, for correspondence,
towel and socks, tobacco pipe and pouch, and housewife. In some cases I
also furuish the sporran with compartments for carrying ammunition, tools,
and other necessaries for keeping a gun in order.
The sporran er excursion bag is supported by a strap passing round the

page_text: body above the hips, and being so supported enables a man to carry the afore-
said articles in walking, on a march, or otherwise, with little or no fatigue and
without interfering with his military evolutions and exercises. The front of
the sporran may be ornamented with fur or otherwise.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Dunn O'Halloran in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 24th July 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
DUNN O'HALLORAN, of Kensington, in the County of Middlesex, Colonel in
Her Majesty's Service, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Henry Dunn O'Halloran, Her special licence that I, the said Henry
Dunn O'Halloran, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Henry Dunn O'Halloran, 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 SPORBAN OR EXCURSION BAG, ESPECIALLY SUITABLE FOR VOLUN
TEER RIFLEMEN AND TOURISTS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Henry Dunn O'Halloran, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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 I, the said Henry Dunn O'Halloran, 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 thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say :-
My Invention consists in combining with a sporran or Highlander's apron
or bag, compartments for containing various articles necessary for personal

page_text: comfort and convenience during short periods of absence from home, for
example, articles for the toilet, for eating and drinking, for correspondence;
towel and socks, tobacco pipe and pouch, and housewife. In some cases I also
furnish the sporran with compartments for carrying ammunition, tools, and other
necessaries for keeping a gun in order.
The sporran or excursion bag is supported by a strap passing round the
body above the hips, and being so supported enables a man to carry the afore-
said articles in walking, on a march, or otherwise, with little or no fatigue.
and without interfering with his military evolutions and exercises. The front
of the sporran may be ornamented with fur or otherwise.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a view of one side of a bag pro-
vided with compartments for the reception of such articles as those shown, a
comb, spoon, knife and fork, pipe, and looking glass.
Figure 2 is a view of the other side of the bag, fitted with a compartment
for a plate, at the top of which a flexible drinking cup is placed. There are
other compartments on this side of the bag to receive such requisites as may
be required to be carried. The centre of the bag contains a pocket to carry a
towel and other requisites for the toilet. A strap is connected to the upper
part of the bag, by which it is supported from the waist or over the shoulders.
Figure 3 shows an outer bag or case forming the sporran, for containing the
bag just described, having a flap at top for buttoning over and preventing
water or dirt entering the inside bag. The front of the sporran may be orna-
mented with fur, goats' hair, or other ornamental material.
Figure 4 is a view of one side of an "ammunition leaf," fitted with appli-
ances suitable for the requirements of a volunteer; this "leaf" is capable of
containing ten rounds of ammunition, it has a compartment for copper caps,
turnscrew, nipple wrench, picker, worm and oil reservoir combined in one,
lock cramp, and gun rag. This leaf can be used with or without the one before
described. The articles not shown in the Drawings, but which can be carried,
if required, are socks, forage cap, housewife, clothes brush, soap, tobacco pouch,
fusee case, writing apparatus, and other appliances, there being a distinct com-
partment for each article.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that although the shape I have
shown is that which I prefer, I do not limit myself to it, for the same may be
considerably varied without departing from the Invention, neither do I bind
myself to the employment of the particular articles shown; but what I claim
is, the combination of a sporran or Highlander's apron or bag with compart-
ments for containing such articles as before described, the said bag being

page_text: constructed and fitted substantially in manner herein-before described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Dunn O'Halloran, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of July, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-one.
H. D. O'HALLORAN, COL. (L.S.)