US841620A

US841620A - Trunk-harness.

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Publication number: US841620A
Application number: US31007206A
Authority: US
Inventors: Eleanora N Buchanan
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1906-04-05
Filing date: 1906-04-05
Publication date: 1907-01-15
Anticipated expiration: 1924-01-15

Description

PATENTED JAN. 15, 1907.

E. N. BUCHANAN. TRUNK HARNESS.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 5. 1906.

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ELEANORA N. BUCHANAN, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

TRUNK-HARNESS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 15, 1907.

Application filed April 5.1906. Serial No. 310,072-

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ELEANORA N. BU- OHANAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Portland, in the county of Multnomah, State of Oregon, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trunk-Harness; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has relation to trunk-straps and being made up for separate trunks may, for the purposes of this specification, be called a trunk-harness. The straps in their construction and arrangement subserve the purposes of additional ropes and trunkstraps that are almost essential nowadays to supply, after all of the usual means are employed to keep the trunk from being smashed by the transfer and other baggagemen on railway and steamboat lines.

It is the object of my invention to provide a thoroughly eflicient means that will completely envelop and take the place of all other needed straps-and ropes in ordinary'travel and for locking and securing the trunk at home and to so make up the harness that they can be quickly and evenly adjusted, and, moreover, to form them so that persons of ordinary skill can adjust them quite tightly around the trunk. There being quite a large number of buckling-points, by tightening one after another after they have been once gone over the straps first tightened are put in readiness for a second going over for the purpose of tightening.

It is, moreover, the object of the invention in making a trunk-harness serviceable in the highest degree in the respects mentioned to do so at a relatively low cost, in the end cheapening the cost of the trunk to a very material extent.

To these ends the invention consists of straps that completely envelop the trunk and have their ends buckled together without loss of material. At points where the straps pass around the edges or corners or are otherwise subjected to unusual wear they are studded with rivets of copper, brass, or other metal, so as to make them durable, and they are otherwise connected and provided with keepers and buckles as to keep their cost down to a minimum degree consistent with requisites and necessities. I

Reference is to be had to the annexed drawings, which illustrate the invention and form a part of this specification, of which- Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a trunk with the harness in place. Fig. 2 is a plan view showing the harness detached.

The same figures of reference designate the same parts or features wherever they occur In carrying out my invention I propose to make the straps of the very best material such, for example, as is employed by harnessmakers in the constructlon of surcingles. The side straps 3that is, those that go around the trunkare two in number and are each provided at one end with a buckle 12 for connecting the ends of the strap at one end of the trunk. Supposing it to be best to put on the side straps 3 first, they are provided with keepers or loops 11 at points where other straps cross them, through or under which loops or kee ers the said other straps pass. The said si e straps, as well as those that go around the trunk over the top, sides, and bottom, are thickly studded with rivets 10 where they pass around sharp corners or are likely to be subjected to undue wear.

11 designates the keepers, 12 the buckles, and 13 the holes formed through the straps to receive the tongues 5 of the buckles on other straps.

All of the straps designated by 3 are designed to extend around the sides and ends of the trunk, while the short length 14 extends centrally along the bottom. The keepers 11 are made so that a strap crossing the one to which the keeper is secured may freely slide under it and be tightened. By once securing a correct understanding as to the proper position the short length of strap should take under the trunk it is an easy matter to get all of the straps in proper place and adjust them by the buckles accordingly. The harness once made up will not need remaking and once adjusted can be adjusted with greater ease a second time.

One advantage of my trunk-harness is that it is made up, as far as that thing can be done, (and it is done to a very advanta eous extent,) ready to be applied to a trun when it is ready to be finally closed, and it greatly shortens the time necessary for this purpose and lessens the perplexity attendant thereon. Of course the straps may be made as broad and as strong as is necessary or as may be desired, it being understood that a small trunk will require smaller straps than a larger one.

I claim A trunk-harness consisting of straps adapted to be secured around a trunk horizontally, said straps being provided at one end with buckles for connecting the ends of the straps, three straps adapted to extend around the trunk at right angles to the firstmentioned straps, keepers connecting the stra s at points Where they are crossed, buc ing means at the ends of the three straps to connect said ends on the top of the 1 trunk, and a transverse strap arranged to extend longitudinally and centrally on the bottom of the trunk and connected to the longitudial straps.

In testimony whereof I afiiX my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

ELEANORA N. BUCHANAN.

Witnesses:

H. DENLINGER, Mrs. F. W. BENNETT.