US642680A - Bonnet trunk or carrier. - Google Patents

Description

No. 642,680. Patehted Fab. 6, I900. .1. cummmas.

BONNET TRUNK 0B CARRIER.

(Application filed Dec. 8, 1898.) (No Model.)

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NITED STATES JOSIAH CUMMINGS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BONNET TRUNK OR CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 642,680, dated February 6, 1900.

Application filed December 8, 1898. Serial No. 698,598. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSIAH CUMMINGS, of Boston, countyof Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, haveinvented an Improvementin Bonnet Trunks or Carriers, of which the following description,in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the production ofabonnet trunk or carrier adapted to support a series of trimmed bonnets, it being especially advantageous for traveling salesmen and for ladies requiring a large number of bonnets.

My improved trunk is composed of a bottom piece having hinged wings at each edge, some of the'said wings being double-jointed, and, as I have illustrated my invention, each wing has a plurality of bonnet holders or forms.

When the trunk is opened, the wings and bottom piece may be laid out fiat, and when closed the wings are provided with means or devices whereby they look each otherin place, and the trunk when closed is, in this instance of my invention, shown as provided with a cover which acts as a keeper to retain'the shut-up trunk in traveling position.

Figure 1, in front elevation. represents a bonnet-trunk embodying my'invention, the same being closed in position for traveling. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section thereof, one of the forms or holders having applied to it a trimmed bonnet. Fig. 3 shows the trunk opened and spread out to exhibit its contents, and Fig. 4 is a detail to be referred to.

My improved trunk A consists, essentially, of a bottom piece a, two hinged side wings a, and two hinged end wings a the end wings having supplemental hinged extensions a The wings a are hinged to the bottom piece a by, as herein shown, leather or other flexible strips 1), suitably attached to the said bottom piece and wings, which may be of leatherboard or other usual thin material, having sufficient stiffness to stand up when formed into a trunk, the strip being united to the wings and .bottom plate by, as herein shown, rivets b. The end wings a are united to the bottom piece by means of other suitable flexible strips of leather or other material b united thereto in the manner described or by bonnet or hat f.

other usual or suitable means. The extensions a of the wings a are united to the said wings by means of suitable leather or other flexible strips or hinge portions 11 (shown in Fig. 2,) and the ends 0 of the extensions a are in practice provided with asuitable strapand-buckle contrivance, (shown at (Z, Fig. 2,) the strap being upon one extension and the buckle upon the other extension.

Fig. 3 shows the trunk opened, and it will be noticed that the bottom piece and the wings a eachhave two suitable holders or forms (2 and that the end wings and their connected extensions each have suitable like holders or forms, one of the said forms in Figs. 2 and 3 having applied to it a trimmed (Represented by dotted lines.) Vhen the open front (represented in Fig. 3) is closed, it must be held rigidly and stiff in its closed position, and to provide for this I have provided holding means at the meeting ends or edges of the wings. As herein shown, the holding means consists of grooves 9, formed at the opposite edges of the end wings and their extensions, said grooves being continuous when the trunk is laid out fiat, it acting to receive in it the edges h h of the side wings a when the latter are set up at right angles to the bottom piece a. The groove in the end wing a fits the edge h of the side wing a,while the continuation of the groove in the extension a from said end wing overlap each, respectively, a part of the edge h of the said wing.

To retain the closed trunk in position for traveling and add strength and stiffness to the same, I apply to it a cover at and I provide the end wings a one with a strap m,

having a buckle m and the other with a strapv m to engage said buckle, as represented in Fig. 1. I further provide locking means to retain the end wings and the side wings in position firmly each with relation to the other when the trunk is closed, said locking means consisting, as herein represented, essentially, of two straps a a, one having a metallic loop or eye of and the other a metallic eye-engaging device, as n but instead of this particular locking means I may employ any other usual or suitable devices capable of being easily locked and disengaged.

. In the production of the grooves g in Fig.

4 I have shown a portion of one wing a The edge of the wing is bent upwardly substantially at right angles to the wing, as at a, and inside the said edges I apply by suitable rivets p a flanged piece 13', preferably of leather-board, the material used in making the end wing; but instead, if desired, an angle iron or other suitable material may be used; but leather-board is the lighter and cheaper and answers the purposes.

By the term leather-board I mean any of the compounds, so called, which are as substantially rigid and preferably capable of be ing bent to assume desired shapes.

The groove g referred to is the space between the upturned flange a and a part of the flange-strip p, and into this groove enters, as shown in Fig. 4:, the side wing or.

The holders 6 have suitable ears e to receive nails by which to fasten them in place.-

The whole of the interior of the trunk may have applied to it a cloth lining 0', (partially shown in Fig. 3,) of cotton, silk, or any other usual lining material.

' The trunk shown is adapted to hold ten trimmed bonnets; but this number may be more or less according to the size of the trunk.

Having described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A device of the class specified, consisting of a bottom, side and end wings hinged thereto and arranged in pairs, the respective members of the pairs being of substantially duplicate form, and the end wings of each consisting of two hinged parts, and the innermost parts of said end wings being of substantially the same height as the side wings,

while the outermost parts are adapted to lap over and close the upper side of the device, and both parts of the end wings having alined grooves, those grooves in the innermost parts being adapted to receive the opposite edges of the side wings, while the grooves in the outermost sections of said wings are adapted to receive the upper edges of the side wings when the box is in its closed condition.

2. A device of the class specified, consisting of a bottom, side and end wings hinged thereto and arranged in pairs, the respective members of the pairs being of substantially duplicate form, and the end wings of each consisting of two hinged parts, and the innermost parts of said end wings being of substantially the same height as the side wings, while the outermost parts are adapted to lap over and close the upper side of the device, and both parts of the end wings having alined grooves, those grooves in the innermost parts being adapted to receive the opposite edges of the side wings, while the grooves in the outermost sections of said wings are adapted to receive the upper edges of the side wings when the box is in its closed condition, means uniting the adjacent ends of the outermost sections of the two-part end wings when the device is in closed form, a cover, and means for rigidly securing the cover in place.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSIAH CUMMINGS.

Witnesses: I

GEO. W. GREGORY, EMMA J. BENNETT.

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