US1200030A - Moth-proof bag. - Google Patents

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G. ROTTMAN.

MOTH PROOF BAG.

APPLICATlON FILED SEPT. 30. 19x5.

Patented Oct. 3, 1916.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE ROTTMAN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

MOTH-PROOF BAG.

Application filed September 30, 1915.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE ROTTMAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident. of the borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Moth-Proof Bags, of which the following filling alarge bag with bulky" articles through a single top opening of restricted size.

The object of my invention is to provide a moth proof bag which cannot only be opened at the top to admit the articles to be stored but which may be opened atthe front and for the full width of the bag, to allow ample freedom for placing the ar ticles of clothing in or removing them from the bag. WVhile the bag is open at the top and front for placing and removing the articles nevertheless it may be very quickly and securely closed so as to exclude moths.

The above advantages are attained without substantially increasing the cost of manufacture of the bag. The present bag is lurable because there is less likelihood of :he bag being torn when being filled or :mptied.

In the drawings forming part of this apilication, Figure 1 is a perspective view of he bag when closed, Fig. 2 is a perspective 'iew thereof when opened, Fig.3 is a secional view taken on the line 33 of Fig. 1, nd showing the parts on an enlarged scale, nd Fig. 4, is a sectional view taken on the ne 4-4: of Fig. 1. 4

The bag 1 consists of the front 2, the back side folds 4, 5, and bottom 6, all of which lay be made from the same piece of marial.

There is a hanger or hook 7 at the back 1d at the upper portion of the bag, which ay be engaged with any suitable wall iok, whereby the bag and its contents may hung up, so that the clothing within the g will hang down and not become uncessarily creased. The hook 7 is attached a plate 8 at the back of the bag and there Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 3, 1916.

Serial No. 53,210.

is a plate 9 inside the bag, having hooks w on which the garments may be hung and' the plates 8 and-9 are riveted together and to the back.

A substantial portion of the front 2 and for its full width, is adapted to be turnedv down to give ample space for inserting and removing the garments.

For this purpose the portion 11 of the front is adapted to bebent down on the line 12 as shown in Fig.

2, so that the bag will then be open at the top and also at the front.

The side folds, 4, 5, are connected with the lower half 2 of the, front up to the line 12 on which the'upper half of the front bends. Above this the side folds are detached from or at least they are not permanently attached to, the portion 11. Each of the side folds, 4, 5, at the upper part has attached thereto an extension piece 13 having a fold line 14. The foldingfront 11 also has extensions 15 attached along the outer edges near the side folds 4:, 5, and

in position to. correspond with thefexten-q.

sions 13. The extensions 15 also have fold lines 1G corresponding to the fold lines 14* 'tion with the extension 17. The extension 19 also has a fold line 20 corresponding with the fold line 18. I prefer to glue'reinforcing pieces of cloth 21 at the top of the fixed portion 2 of the front Where it joins the side folds. There are preferably provided snap buttons 22 on the several extensions intermcdiate their ends to facilitate folding the extensions.

In using the bag it is hung up as shown in Fig. 2 to receive the articles ofclothing. In this position the top and a considerable portion of the front are open, allowing ample space for placing the garments in the, bag. The front member 11 hangs down out of the way. so that the bag does not have to be held open. The opening 23 extends the fullwidth of the front so that it is just as easy to place garments at the sides as in the middle of the bag. When th articles have all been placed in the bag, the l'uovable front portion 11 is swung up-into the same plane as the fixed portion 2, when its extensions 15 will be superimposed on the extensions 13. The extensions 13 and the extensions 15 are then folded while in overlapping position, upon their fold lines 14, 1 6 and the extensions-13, are then folded over against the front member 11 as "shown in Fig. l. The bottom catches 2% are then moved upwardly to lock the extensions 13, 15 in this folded position. These catches 24, mayjbe the same as the catches shown and described in my copending application Serial ,No. 22,223. The buttons on the top extensions 19, 17 will then be snapped together and these top extensions 19, 17 will then be folded, in overlapped condition, upon ,their fold lines 20, 18. They are again folded,

,and this last fold brings them against the front member 11 and, against the folded side extensions. The catches are then moved inwardly and they look the top extensions in this position and they also lock the upper ends of the side extensions. In this condition the bag is completely sealed against moths and other insects.

The present device is simple to manufacture and the bag is not apt to be torn when being filled or emptied.

Having described my invention, what I claim is:

1. A bag of the class described 'having'a back, a fixed front portion and side folds, a movable front portion extending across the full width of the bag above the fixed front portion and adapted to be turned down for the purpose described, extensions on the side folds and extensions on the side edges of the movable front portion, said exten-.

the movable front member is closed and.

adapted to be folded upon themselves and against the front, extensions on the top I edges of the movable front and on the back and the side folds, above the top edges of the extensions on thesides of the movable front and the side folds, said top extensions being adapted to be folded, together, upon themselves and against the movable front and the folded side extensions, and means for holding the several-extensions in folded position.

Signed at the-city, county and State of New Yorln'this 24th dayof'Se'ptember, 1915.

GEORGE ROTTMAN.

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