US1430267A

US1430267A - Bag

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Publication number: US1430267A
Application number: US495619A
Authority: US
Inventors: William H Smith
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1921-08-26
Filing date: 1921-08-26
Publication date: 1922-09-26
Anticipated expiration: 1939-09-26

Description

W. H. SIVIITH.`

BAG.

APPLICAUON FHYED AUG 26.1921.

l ,41:30 ,26? u Patented Sept. 26, 1922.,

Y Patented sept. 2a, i922.

BAG.

Application led August 26, 1921. Serial No. 495,619.

To aZZ whom t 'may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Newark, county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bags, of which the following is a speciiication.

This invention relates to an improved bag that is held in shape by an inconspicuous means so that the upper or softer part of the bag, which also serves to hold up the bag frame, does not collapse and the center of the bag does not fall in, the weight of this upper portion of the bag and of the frame being sustained by the aforesaid means.

The invention is designed to provide a device of this kind which does not add Inaterially to the wei ht of the bag and which does not make the. ag any more bulky, and which is cheaply placed in the bag.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, inwhich Figure l is aperT spective view of a bagmade according to my improved invention, on an enlarged scale, taken on the plane indicated by the line 2-2 in Figure 1 and showing the corner of the.bag. Figure 3 is an enlarged section taken on line 3-3 in Figure 2. Figure 4 is a perspective view of one end of one of the bag sections, showing a modified form of construction, and Figure 5 is a detail section taken on the plane indicated by line 5 in Figure 4.

The particular kind of bag is immaterial, the illustration, however, showing a ba with a lowerl portion 10, the sides 11 and ends 12 of which are made substantially stiii' at the lower portion and have their upper portions flexible, being adapted to be drawn together at the center and held closed by any suitable form of bag frame 13, which bag frame is not described in detail since its details do not form a part of this invention.

The upper exible portions of bags of this kind, after the bag has been used a while or if any weight has been sustained by the bag, settle or collapse and become misshapen, and as a result of this the leather eventually cracks. To overcome this Il arrange spring means which do not exert suiiicient pressure to. interfere with the opening of the bag, but such spring means holding the upper part of the bag in its flexed natural shape. Such means includes spring wires 14, these being preferably placed one in each corner of the and Figure 2 is a section bag and being secured so as to be not seen from the outside and to form no appreciable obstruction on the inside. The wires are se` cured at their upper ends to the top of the bag and are arranged in channels or passa es in the corners of the bag, being exten ed intothe lower stiff part of the bag, but terminating short of the bottom so that when the bag is opened and the wires are thus straightened, the bottom ends of the wires can move longitudinally, thus making the opening of the bag easier and preventing the ends of wires from doing any damage by an endwise thrust on the material of the Pghe preferred way of fastening this spring wire 14 is by securing it in a welt 15, which, as will be seen particularly from Figure encloses the wire 14, and the ends 16 of the welt being sewed to the abutting edges of the side and end of the bag, this makes a substantial stem or backing for the welt and has a normal tendency to hold the weltin its curved position, as shown in Figures 1 land 2. The upper part of the wire can be arranged so that it swings with the vbag frame and can be attached thereto in different ways; either by securing it directly to the frame or having it attached thereto by some intermediate element.

In Figures 1 and 2 I show the wire secured directly to the frame by forming a loop 17 which can be in the bag, in the case of a pinned in bag one of the pins for fastening the material of i the bag to the frame being convenient for such attachment.

Bags other than have the wire attached as shown in Figures 4 and 5, in which the end of the wire and the end of the welt abut against the bag frame 13, the stitching 19, which is sewed through perforations in the bag frame, oingv through the ends of the welt and thus orming an abutment so that when the bag is swung vopen the welt and the wire in it are carried away ,from the` center of the bag. The bottom end 20 of the wire is preferably terminated short of the bottom of the welt so that there is excess room beyond the end of the wire so that the wire can be slid in the welt, and as bags of this kind are usually provided with a corner piece 21, this portion of the bag is substantially stiff.

The .welt usually lits around the wire tightly so that @helfe is no longitudinal move` pinned in bags cany passedover a pin 18 ment of the wire under normal conditions, and the wire is held in position in the welt by friction when the welt is flexed, as in .Figures 1 and 2, but when the bag is open and the welt is straightened out along With the sides of the bag, the wire has room so that its end can travel longitudinally in the welt and there is no excessive resistance to the opening of the bag, and furthermore, the end of the wire will not puncture the bag, since it is so arranged that it does not abut against any portion of `the bag, and furthermore, no rigid inside elements are necessary for holding this end of the Wire in position.

Bags have been made previously wJith Sllh wire strips in them, but their attachment to the bag being placed at an unprotected part of the bag eventually causes the end of the spring strip or wire to pass through the leather, or the end of the wire is secu-red to a metal frame which is built into the bag and which makes the bag very heavy.

ll claim:

1. A bag having a welt in each corner thereof, and a springwire enclosed in each welt, the top of the wire being attached to the bag frame and the bottom end of the wire terminating short of the bottom of the welt, whereby the wire can move longitudinally in the welt when the wire is straightened by reason of opening the bag.

A bag having its sides and'ends joined at the corners and having a welt arranged at such junctures, a bag'frame to which the sides and ends are joined at the center of the bag, and a spring wire in each welt and attache-d to the frame so as to be moved outwardly when the bag is opened, the wire fitting in the welt so as to be held therein against longitudinal movement when the welt is flexed, the wire terminating short of the bottom of the welt so as to permit longitudinal movement of the wire in the welt when the welt is straightened.

3. A bag having a lower part that is comparatively stift' and an upper part that is flexible, a bag frame to which the upper part is secured, the body portion of the bag including welts located at the corners and extending through the lower and upper portions, and spring wires in the welts, said reenforced welts forming the sole means for holding the upper part of the bag in shape by applying a diagonal outward tension thereon when the bag is shut.

4. A bag having a stiff lower portion and a flexible upper portion, the bag havingy I passages for wires extending from the top ofthe bag into the stili' lower portion, and wires in said passages, said wires terminating short of the bottom of their respective passages when the bag is shut.

lin testimony that ll claim the foregoing, l have hereto set my hand, this 25th day of August, 1921.

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