US144340A - Improvement in the manufacture of traveling-bags - Google Patents

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l 1. w. LIEB. *Manufac'cure of Travelling-Bags,

hlm-144,340, Patented N,ov.4,l873.-

UNITED STATES PATENT JOHN W. LIEB, or NEWARK, NEW JEEsEY.

`nvlPRovlalvlENT |N THE MANuFAcTuRE oF TRAvELlNe-BAGS.

Speeication forming part of Letters Patent No. 144,340, dated 'n'ovember 4, 1873; application led July 3, 1873.

To all whom it may concern.' d

Be it known that I, JOHN W. LIEB, of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Y Jersey, have invented certain Improvements in In the manufacture of those traveling-bags,

which have a frame covered with leather, canvas, enameled cloth, or like material, with the edge of the body secured to said covering, it has been, and is now, the universal practice to proceed as follows: First, the frame is made,

and the two parts or jaws hinged together.

The frame is then covered by folding or wrapping the material over it, the covering being sometimes pasted fast. The two edges of the covering are brought together inside of the frame, and then the edge of the body sewed fast thereto by hand. After this the lining is sewed fast to both the body and the cover, also by'hand. These operations are slow, laborious, and expensive, and the bags produced thereby are not only costly but wanting in that smoothness and elegance of finish which is attained by the use of machinery.

The object of my invention is to construct the bags entirely, or as nearly as may be, by

machinery, in order to reduce their cost, and

render them neater in appearance. This I accomplish by sewing the covering, body, and lining together on a sewing-machine, then slipping the two jaws separately into the covering, and, finally, uniting or hinging the two jaws, and giving the little nishing touches to the bag.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my completed bag, Fig. 2, a cross-section ofthe folded 'coverin for the frame Fi 3 a cross-section of the covering and bodyin position to be sewed together, Figs. 4, 5, and 6, cross sections, showing the covering, body, and lining sewed together in different shapes; Figs. 7 and 8,

views showing the hinge before and after being closed or completed.; Fig. 9, a cross=section of the two parts or jaws of the frame complete, as in the finished bag.

In proceeding to construct a bag on my plan, I first take the usual strip of material B for covering the frame, and fold or double it length wisethrough the middle, as shown in Fig. 2i I then take the body C of the bag, made in the proper and usual shape, and lay the folded covering-strip B along on its outer side, so that the edges of the two parts are in line, as shown in Fig. 3. I next take a strip of lining material, D, and lay it upon the outside of the body, over the covering-strip B, taking care to keep the edges of the three parts in line and close together. Having thus arranged the parts, I place them on a sewing-machine, and at one operation sew through all four thicknesses, as shown at c, Fig.` 4, thus securing the cover, body, and lining strongly and quickly together. A center piece of lining is then sewed fast, by the machine, to the strip I), and a piece also sewed to the side, if there is one to the bag body or gusset. The body, thus produced entirely by machinery, is next turned inside out, and is then ready to receive the frame. The two parts or jaws of the frame, constructed, as usual, with hinges, but not connected together, are next pushed endwise into the respective covering-strips B of the body, and then, finally, the jaws hinged together, as usual.

It will be seen that, by the above-described method of procedure, I am enabled to do away with most of the hand labor heretofore necessary in the manufacture of this class of bags, and to substitute therefore the use of machinery. This change reduces the cost of labor very greatly, and, consequently, lessens the cost of the bags; while, at the same time, a neater, stronger, and more serviceable bag is produced.

Instead of using a covering-piece separate from the body of the bag, the material which forms the body may be folded in either of the shapes shown in Figs. 5 and 6 to receive the frame.

It is obvious that when jaws are used in which the jaw, instead of being made of a single piece bent at right angles, is composed of a vertical piece, with the flange or horizontal part atn tached thereto by brackets, the side or vertical FFICE.

part only may be covered by the material l and, finally, hing-ing the jaws together, as

and the ange or horizontal be japanned; in Which ease the lattery will be attached after the vertical portion is inserted Within the fold herein set forth.

2. The hem or pocket made from a separate piece, and seeured to the body and the lining by one or more rows of stitches, the saine being,` prepared, as described, previous to the insertion ofthe jaws, substantially as set forth.

JOHN W. LIEB.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM ITNA, T. MAYER.

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