US1533149A - Bag-frame registering and handle connection - Google Patents

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H. TUECKMANTEL BAGYFRAXE REGISTERING AND HANDLE CONNECTION 4 Filed April 5, 1925 IN V EN TOR A TTORNE Y Patented Apr. 14, 1925.

YUNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HUGO TUECKMANTEL, OF NENARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE T. 8c L. CO. INC.,

i OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

BAG-FRAME REGISTERING AND HANDLE CONNECTION.

Application filed April 5,

To all eli/tom t may concern.' f Beitknown that I, HUGO TUECKMANTEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of N ew Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bag-Frame Registering and Handle Connections, of which the following is a specification. j This invention relates to improvements iii bag handle connections with special refeience to bags of the type used in traveling, in which a pair of liingedly united frames control the bag opening and by which the Vbag is carried. l Y

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a raised bracket, `having a pivotally carried loop or ring to which the handle is attached, witha plate member disposed on the upper side of the frame' and having a forwardly extending keeper element extending over the edge of the frame to engage its `lower surface, which, in connection with prongs integral with the brackets, afford unusually secure engaging means.

Another purpose is to provide means in tl'ie'bracket adapted to receive, guide and 1, effectively maintain a lug or keeper secured to the opposite frame member iii-such manner as to compel registration, avoid distortion, relative lateralinovement or separation Y of the frame members except by direct outward movement.

YA further aim is iii the provision of a strong, neat appearing handle connection of "simple construction, readily inade from sheet metal of suitable thickness by ordinary press operations.

These various objects are attained by the novel design and construction of parts hereinafter described in detail and shown in the drawing hereto annexed, and in which VFigure 1 is a perspective view showing fragments of a conventional type of bag and anembodiment of the invention applied thereto. Y

Figure 2 is a greatly `enlarged transverse sectional view of the structure taken in a central plane.

kFigure 3 is a bottom plan view of the upper or bracket casing element in detail.

The numerals 10 and 11 are used throughout the-views to designate the respective side walls of the bag, the material of which is stitched to coverings 12 and 13 completely enveloping the angular frame nieinbei's 1-1 1923. Serial No. 629,999.

and 15, this construction being that of usual manufacture.

A hollow oblong rect-angular casing, having rounded corners and preferabl f made of sheet metal, is formed with a top plate 16, having uniformly flanged end and side edges 17 and 1S, one of these side edges containing a shallow recess 19 opening downwardly.

A prong 20 extends centrally downward from each end wall 17 as shown by the broken lines iii Fig. 2, adapted to pass through the horizontal element of the frame member 1st and be bent thereunder, thus rigidly securing the casing to the frame.

Centrally between the ends of the top plate 1G the material is shaped upwardly to forni an ornainentally curved tansverse ridge 21, open at its ends, as at 22, to pivotally receive and retain the inwardly bent, registering ends of a i'iiig oi loop 23 engaging the bag handle 24.

Intermediate the lower edges of the walls 17 and 18, and the top of the bag frame is interposed a base plate 25, the saine extending marginally tlierebeyond as shown, and formed on the front edge of the plate, below the recess 19 is an extension 26 bent to tightly engage over the edge of the bag frame, its re-entrantly turned portion Q7 being folded ,firmly against the underside of the frame.

lt will be understood that appropriate openings are made in the plate 25 to perinit passage therethrough of the prongs 2() and that the plate is thus held in rigid relation with the casing, securely on the frame.

Firnily secured to the other ixienibcr l of the bag frame, by rivets or other fastening means, is the vertical element 28 of a keeper 29, the saine passing through the upper horizontal portion of the frame meinber to a spaced distance tliei'eabove corresponding to the combined thickness of the opposite frame element, as covered by the plate extension, the franie member passing below the element 27 and the forwardly extending keeper element 9.9 entering the recess 19, over the plate The forward or entering` end of the keeper 9.9 is rounded to readily enter the recess and its main portion is proportioned as to neatly tit the saine, so that when in engagement the frame nieiubers are prevented from relative movement in any direction whatever, laterallyV or vertically, but can be separated by drawing apart by a direct straight pull outwardly. Y

This simple but effective device avoids sagging of one trame member relative to the other, compels registration prevents distortion and obviously prolongs the usefulness of the bag beyond the ordinary period.

Although the foregoing is descriptive of the preferred embodiment of the invention, itwill be apparent that'minor changes may be made in its construction, without thevex- ,ercise of invention or conflicting with the scope of the claims hereto appended.

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

l. A bag handle connection comprising a recessed casing vtizredly engaged on one member of the bag frame, integral means for pivot-ally connecting a handle ring therewith, a base plate below said casing, an extension on said plateireuching over the edge and below the frame and a means adapted to rictionally engage the recess in said casing for holding the trame members oi said bag in register.

2. A bag handle connection comprising a recessed casing having a raised transverse ridge open at its ends, a handle carried ring pivotally mounted in said ridge, a base plate extending marginally beyond said casing,

prongs integral with the ends of said cas-V ing passing through said base plate and bag frame on which it is mounted, said prongs upon being bent acting to prevent separation, an extension on said plate bent reentrantly to entold the edge of the bag frame and a means on one of the frame members of said bag adapted to frictionally engage the recess in*V saidcasing for holding the frame members of said bag in register.

3. A. bag handle connection comprising" a casing having a recess in its front. wall, a transverseridge on said casing, a ring pivot ally engaged in said ridge, said ring being attached to a handle, a base plate below the casing, means integral with said casing and passing through said plate by which the casing is rigidly held to one of the bag traine members, an element on said. base plate eX- tending around the edge and under the frame vin front of the mentioned recess, and a keeper bar fixed to the other frame member suited to enter the recess when the bag is closed maintaining the frame members in register.

4L. A bag handle connection comprising a casing having a recess in its front wall, a transverse ridge on said casing, a ring pivot ally engaged in said rdge,said ring being attached to a handle, a base plate below the casing, means integral with said casing and passing through said plate by which the casi ing is rigidly held to one of the bagirame Y members, a clamp element-formed with said plate engaging said frame below the mentioned recess, anda keeperbar having-a part extending from the other bag frame member to engage over said clamp element in the mentioned recess, said keeper having` a rounded Jforward end and itted to ll the recess.

rlhis Vspeciiication signed and witnessed this 3rd day of April, 1923.

HUGO TUECKMANTEL.

Witnesses I FRnDn C. FISCHER, FERDINAND NOLL.

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