US1450570A - Bag - Google Patents

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Apr. 3, 1923. 1,450,570

D. ZUKERBERG BAG Filed Feb. 5, 1922 NTOR' 040M ATTORNEYS,

Patented Apr. 3, 1923.

UNITED STATES DAVID ZUKERBERG, 0F NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

BAG.

Application filed February 3, 1922.

To aZZ whom it may concern Be it known that 1, DAVID ZUKERBERG, a citizen of Poland, and a resident of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bags, of which the following is a specification.

More particularly the invention relates to that class of light hand luggage bags no-w popularly known as Boston bags, and the especial part of the bag with which the invention has to do is the attachment of the handles to the body of the bag.

The objects of the invention are to secure an improved attachment of the handles to the bag body which shall be stronger and neater; to rovide for this purpose holders for the ends of the handles which can be clamped or riveted to the bag body and retain their shape or form; to locate said holders so that they pinch the handle over the frame of the bag, and hold it with correspondingly increased firmness; and to obtain other advantages and results as may be brought out by the following description.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals of reference indicate the same parts throughout the several views,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a Boston bag having my improved handle holder thereon;

Figure 2 is a sectional detail, taken centrally and longitudinally through one end of a handle and its associated parts, showing a slightly modified construction of holder;

Figure 3 is an inner view of said modified holder, and

Figure 4t is an outer view of the same.

In the specific embodiment of the invention illustrated in said drawings, 1 indicates the body of the bag, which is of any usual construction provided with the hinged frames 2, 8 at the mouth of the bag. Handles l, 5 are applied to the outer sides of the jaws of the bag thus formed, and a strapG is commonly provided on one jaw of the bag to engage a buckle 7 on the other 1 The handles 4, 5 are of simila'r construction, and each of them usually comprises a cord 8 covered with leather as at 9. My invention inheres in the attachment of these handles to the body of the bag, and I accomplish this by means of holders 10, which are preferably stamped out of sheet material,

Serial No. 533,747.

such as metal, and provided at their edges with spurs 11 to be forced through the wall of the bag body and clinched or turned over on the inside, as shown in Figure 2. These holders may be of any suitable shape, although I have shown them shield-shaped, and each of them is provided at its inner side with a longitudinal groove 12 which extends through the upper edge of the holder or edge next the frame 2, or 3, of the body so as to receive the end of the handle, as shown in Figure 2. A rivet 13 is then passed through the holder, handle and wall of the bag body, as shown in Figure 2, the holder being apertured as at 14 in the bottom of its groove to receive the handle and countersunk inwardly around said aperture as at 15.

The construction thus described provides a firm attachment of the handle ends to the bag body, which cannot be distorted or twisted out of shape by use of the handles in carrying the bag, especially when it is filled. The holder is of somewhat rigid material and is located with respect to the frame 2 of the jaw so that its upper edge or edge adjacent said frame sharply pinches the handle between said edge and frame, as clearly shown in Figure 2. This pinching gives the bag handle a little kink or bend in direction, and this bending and pinching provides a much more secure anchorage of the end of the handle than a simple straight clamping would. I thus secure great strength and durability in a part of the bag which is usually the first to Wear out.

If preferred, there may be an extension at the upper edge of the holder of the material forming the groove for the handle, and I have shown the holders 16 in Figure 1 as provided with such extensions 17.

Obviously, many detail modifications and changes may be made in the manufacture of my device, without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention, and therefore I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself except as required by the following claims when construed in the light of the prior art.

Having thus described the invention what I claim is:

1. In a bag, the combination of a body part, a frame at the edge of said body part projecting laterally from the surface thereof, a handle with its end portion laid across said frame and onto the body part, and a.

holder secured to said body part over said handleen'd portion and pinching it against the frame.

2. In a bag, the combination of a body part a frame at the edge of said body part projecting laterally from the surface thereof, a handle With its end portion laid across said frame and onto the body part, and a holder secured to said body part and having an inner groove to receive the end portion of the handle,' said groove opening through the edge of said holder next the frame with its end edge contiguous thereto and bending the handle over the same.

3. In a bag, the combination of a body part, aframe at the edge of'said body part projecting laterally from the surface thereof, a handle, Withits end portion laid across said frame and onto the body part, and a holder secured to said body part and having an inner groove to receive the end portion of the handle, said groove opening through the edge of said holder next the frame and having its wall. extended beyond said edge and clamping the handle between itself and the frame.

DAVID ZUKERBERG.

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