US302999A - Trunk-handle - Google Patents

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TRUNK HANDLE. No. 302,999. Patented Aug. 5, 1884.

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UNITED STATES PATENT TIMTHY GINGRAS, OF BUFFALO, NEIV YRK.

TRUNK-HANDLE` SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 302,999, dated August 5, 1884.

Application filed December 3, ISES.

(No model.)

'useful Improvements on Trunk-Handles; and

I do hereby declare that the following description ofmy said invention, taken in connection with the accompanying sheet of drawings, forms a full, clear, and exact specification, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My present invention has general reference to trunk-handles; and it consists, essentially, in the novel and peculiar combination of' parts and details oi' construction, as hereinafter rst fully set forth and described,and then pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings already mentioned, which serve to illustrate my said invention more fully, Iigure l is a longitudinal sectional plan of the handle-lling. Figs. 2 and 3 are Fig. 4. is a similar View slightly modified. Figs. 5 and 6 are transverse sectional elevations in line a"- x of Fig. l. Fig. i is a rear view of a sliphandle and sockets.

Like parts are designated by corresponding letters of reference in all the figures.

The object of my present invention is the production of a simple, convenient, and cheap trunk-h andle in such manner as to render the utilization of several Waste products available and practical. To this end I construct my improved trunk-handle essentially of a tubular jacket, A, surrounding a iilling strip or strips, B. This tubular jacket I can produce in various manners-aa for instance, I may construct the same of leather` of proper width and thickness, as shown in Fig. 6, where the jacket is shown to bewrapped around the lling B, the ends C G overlapping each other, and the parts secured together by means of two rows of stitches, G C; or I may construct the jacket from sail-cloth (canvas) or other strong and durable textile fabric, and apply the same to the filling in substantially the same manner as the leather jacket heretofore mentioned, and, again, I may construct the jacket from a tubular Woven fabric similar to cotton hose, Woven around the inner filling or passed over the same after Weaving, the latter plan being the most practical and economical manner of producing the article mentioned, such tubular jacket and filling being clearly illustrated in Fig. 5. For the filling I may use strips of leather, canvas,

or other flexible material sufficiently cheap.

to enable its use for the purpose mentioned, although I prefer to construct this iillingpiece in the forni of a s'piral, as shownin Fig. l, from strips of waste rleather suitably secured together to produce a strip of sufdcient length to make a complete illing-piece. In making these iilling-pieces I prefer to reduce the strips of Waste leather, such as result from the manufacture of leather belting, to uniform size. I then begin to wind this strip into the form of a long spiral, leaving on the end-s, if desired, oblong openings D D, Figs. 1, 2, and 3, and continuing the winding until a filling-piece of proper Width is produced. In this construction I shall use cement to secure the sepa-rate layers together, thereby. securing-a nearly integral mass at but atrifling expense.

Handles substantially as described are used with a slipsocket, F', having a pin, G, engaging the slotted aperture in the ends of the fillingpiece B in a manner clearly illustrated in Fig. 7.

In constructing the canvas jacket, as illustrated in Figs. 3 and 5, I prefer to use old sailcloth or similar waste material, andwhen the handle is all completed to coat the same with a layer of paint of suitable consistence to protect the saine against the inclemency of the Weather, dampness of the atmosphere, Src.

It will now be readily observed that by constructing my trunluhandles with a Iilling of leather of spiral form I am enabled to utilize a Waste product of comparatively little value and convert the same into a useful article, such utilization embracing, also, the material for thejacket, which in its original shape 95 (old sails, dre.) has but little value.

Having thus fully described my invention, I l F, substantially as' described, and forVv the pur- Io claim asl new and desire to secure by Letters poses set forth. Patent of 'the United States- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as The trunk-handle herein described, con- Iny invention I have hereto set my hand in 5 sisting of the tubular jacket A, having the the presence of two subscribing` Witnesses.

lling strip or strips secured thereto and TIMOTHY GINGRAS. Wound spirztily, as described, and provided Attest:

v with slotted apertures, as shown, pins G, MICHAEL J. STARK, which engage said apertures, andl the sockets WILLIE O. STARK.

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