US412473A

US412473A - George crouch

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Publication number: US412473A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1889-10-08
Anticipated expiration: 1906-10-08

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(No Model.)

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Patnted Oct. 8, 1889..

UNITED STATESv PATENT OEEICE. 7

GEORGE OROUOH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TRUNK-CORNER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 412,473, dated October 8, 1889. Application filed April 15, 1889- Serial No. 307,230. (No model.)

Vapen of the corner by an open frame having projections or knobs thereon. These rawhide corners have been stamped up to shape out of a single piece of material whenin a moist condition and pliable, and then afterwardv dried. I'have found that these corners are expensive and wasteful of material, and that economy is effected and other materials made available for this purpose by making this corner out of two pieces and suitably protecting and securing the same on the corner of a trunk by malleable corner-frames and angle-frames.

In carrying out my invention I employ for cornenpieces rawhide, vulcanized ber, or any other suitable material, and construct the same of two pieces=one piece being at and the other bent at right angles-the two being adapted to come together at their edges and cover the trunk-corner, and I employ cornerframes and angle-frames of malleable cast metal, which surround the corner of the trunk and cover up the joint in the rawhide or ber corner, the parts together making a very strong and desirable corner for trunks.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view representing the trunk-corner complete according to vmy invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the rawhide or ber corner in two pieces. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section at the line w rr, and Fig. i is a cross-section at the line y y.

a represents the body of the trunk, and b the usual angle covering riveted thereto.

c c represent the corner-pieces, of rawhide, vulcanized ber, or other similar material. This corner is made of two parts, the portion c being cut out of a at piece, with one straight edge and a curved edge, and the sameis bent central and equally upon the line 4 4, the halves being at right angles. The portion c is also at, and has two straight edges at right angles to each other and one curved edge, and the same is adapted to t directly upon the edges of the portion c, as will be seen in Fig. 2, and when thus brought together forms a complete corner-piece for a trunk.k

I employ the metal corner-frame d, covering the apex of the double corner and at the same time covering part of the lapjoint of the two portions c c', and I also employ the angleframes c c', which surround the edges of the trunk-corner over the other portions of the lap-joint of the corner-pieces c c', and these frames d c c are secured by rivets, as shown in Fig. l, through the rawhide or vulcanizedber .corner to the main body of the trunk.

The ends 9 of the corner-frames d are concaved to receive the tapering ends l0 of the angle-frames e c', as will be seen in Fig. 3, and the outer ends of the angle-frames e c have projections or lips at f, which cover up and also act to consolidate and bind together the ends of the lapjoints of the portions c c', and it will be observed that the cornerframes d, together with the angle-frames e e', as described, completely cover, protect, and obscure the lap-joint of the portions c c', so that in use nothing could engage or get in between the lap-joints to separate thesame or injure the arts.

The rawhide or vulcanizedltber corner is secured to the trunk also by rivets at 5, and I employ a metal strap h, passing around the corner of the trunk and conforming in contour to the lower edge of the rawhide or vulcanizedber corner, and the same is also secured by rivets at 6.

I prefer, for sake of lightness, to make the corner-frame dwith openings at 7 8 but these openings do not materially reduce or interfere with the strength of the corner.

I claim as my invention-m l. The trunk-corner, of rawhide or vulcanized ber, in two parts, in combination with metallic corner and angle frames covering` the lap-joint of the twopart corner, and secured by rivets withv said twopart corner to the body of the trunk, substantially as set forth.

2. The trunk-corner, of rawhide or vulcanized ber, in two parts, in combination with corner and angle frames covering the lapjoint of the twopart corner, and secured by IOO frames covering and protecting the lap-joint of the two-part rawhide or vulcanized-fiber corner, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

Signed by me this 11th day of April, A. D. 1889.

GEO. CROUCH.

Witnesses:

GEO. T. PINCKNEY, WILLIAM G. MOTT.