US1710041A - Boston bag - Google Patents

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Filed Sept. 7, 1926 2 Sheet55he3 *y l I n l l l l f l 1 1 INVENTOR Hm', ATTORNEY April 23, 1929. 1 w, BRANDT 1,710,041

BOSTON BAG Filed sept. V, 1926 2 sheets-shesM 2 INVENTOR HQ ATTOR NEY Patented Apri 23, 1,929.

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Bosron BAG.

` Application fried september v, 192s. semi No. 133,752.

My invention relates to bags, and relates particularly to bags of the cBostonl type. n Afn object of my invention is to' provide a Boston bag of relatively inexpensive construction which is capable of standing' upon its bottom' in upright position to facilitate. .lilling or emptying the bag or inspecting .its

contents.

' Another object of my invention is to provide a bag of the class described which will stand erect when placed upon its bottoni to Vpermit the insertion, inspection,` or lremoval of articles and at thesanie time when empty may he folded in collapsedr form so as to be carried under yone"s arm or, rolled in ones hand with a minimum ofdiscomfort. y,

- Another object of my invention is to pro vide removable innerliner pockets for a bag of this characterwhich maybe inexpensive ly manufactured and. which willy be capable of receiving and dispensingarticles from wi thin and when without the bag.

' Other objects of niy invention, and the iny vention itself will become apparent byreference to the following description of an em-y bodiment thereof,land in whiclidescription reference will be had to the accompanying drawings illustrating the said embodiment.

Fig. 1 shows a view in side elevation, the lower portion in medial longitudinal vertical section of an embodiment of my invention. Fig. EZk is a section taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line 3h53' of Fig. 2Q

Fig. 4t is a View of a bag embodying my yinvention in half open condition. The inner skeleton-frame of the bag being indicated by dotted lines.

Fig.y 5 is a view taken on the line Fig. 6.y f

Fig. 6 is a section taken on the line 6`G of Fig. 1.,

Figs. 7 and 8 are views ofthe bag, empty, in collapsed form. f Y

Referring know to the drawings, all of which illustrate a single embodiment of my invention, comprising a bag of the Boston k5--5 of type sometimes known as a students type bag which is characterized by a relatively stili", heavy bottoni 1 sloping upwardly, and inwardly sloping longitudinal sides 2 and `3,

terminating in substantially U-shaped hinged frame elements 4 and 5 wherebya mouth is f provided which, when entirely opened, perf inits the insertion of articles of greatest width ycapable of being of the bag.` also, by joining together the two side walls at the ends 6 and 7 along a seam such as 8,

dle vtopinost portions of the side walls. Such bags generally are well-known 'and iu common use. The bag of my invention, however, is provided with a reinforcing strip 11 einbedded between the bottom facing 12 and the relatively stiff sheet 13 of bottom material such as pulp board or like material to the upper side of which a bottoni lining` facing 14 is preferably ailixed. The different layers of bottom material 11, 13 and 141. and the reinforcing strip 11, preferably of metallic material, arey secured in place .in proper superposed relation by rivets `l5 of whichV at least four are preferably provided which have enlarged heads 16 coiivexly rounded, adapted to engage the surface upon which the bag is placed to support the saine to hold the bottoni facing 11 out of'contact with such surface.r A. pair of rivets 17 are also prov`vided to assist in carrying out this function and at the saine time yeach rigidly secures a substantially L-shaped reinforcing rod 18 with thn arnisthereof disposed closely along the end portion of the liner facing 14 and along the inner surface of the bag and walls G and 7 to a point approximately half the height of the opened bag where the rod terminates in an eye 19 which is riveted by a rivet 2O to the material of the bag substantially in the center of the end wall.

rlflie arrangement at each end of the bag is the saine and the end walls are supported in erect position along their mid-portions as illustrated in the different figures, and partieularly in Figs. 1, and l to 6 inclusive. The rods 18 terminate at the ends of each of their arms in eyes, the eyes for the lower arms being shown at 21, the rivets 17 passing therethrough to secure the rods to the reinforcing strip llthr'ough intermediate layers of inter posed bottom sheets 13 and 14. By supporting the end walls to a height approximately that half of the open bag, the bag while being form-sustaining when placed upon its bottom to facilitate the insertion or removal of articles in the bag or inspection of the bag contents, nevertheless, when empty, may be folded as illustrated in Figs. 7 and S. The hinged frame elements 4 and 5 to which the materials of the sides 2 and 3 are secured accommodated by the width Such a bag is preferably made,

`and handles 9 and 10 are allixed tothe inidpreferably stantially about an axis closely approximating a line drawn between the rivets 2O so that the bag may beV collapsed in compact forni as illustrated. It Will be noted Ythat in the making of tlie'bag, no special sewing vneed be had in order to providefor the placementof the rod 18, it being put in place preierably after the bag isotherxvise connaleted.V

Y At 22'and 23 I show a pair oit' pocket sup'- porting sheets, preferably of leather or leather substitute material having` snap fastener sockets alongltheir upper edges at 2li,v adapted f to cooperate with snapfastener eyes 25 proy @Pens such sheets may jecting inwardly from the inner surface of the upper portions ofthe bag sides whereby suspended from the bag sides.vr As illustrated Jfor the sheet23, these pockets, as shounia-t 35, may be relatively shallov,rv and normally orfthey may comprise a liap 26-With a snap'fastener means 2T cooperating with snap fastener means 28 kof the sheet to permit closure of the pockets which, in such a ease, may be made deeper as'illustrated on the sheet 22, Fig. 6. WThen desired, the pocketsearryv ing sheets suchV as that shown at 22, may be removed entirely from the by disasseoiating the snapy fastener elements 2% and 25.

Having thus described my invention in a preferred embodiment, I am aware that numerous and extensive departures may bemade from the embodiment oti'ny inventiony herein'illustrated and described but Without de` parting from vthe spirit'of myinvention,

by sewing, being rotatable submouth traine, a'p air of substantially be removably secured to andk I ela-im:

l. In va foston bag the combination with a relatively stiI bottom and relatively exible side and Yend Wails and a hinged L shaped metallic supports for theend Walls, each having eyelet 'openings atv its extremities, said supports being secured 'to' the material of the bottoni Wall, of a length approximately halt the height of Vthe bag, and being secured to the endivall thereof at their eyelet portions, and a metallic,reinforcing strip embedded Within the bottom oli' the bag and securing means interconnecting the 'bottom eyelet portionsot the L shaped supports andthe strip through an interposed layer oi bottom 1natef rial.r Y

2( Inf a 'Y Boston bag, @a relatively stiff bottom therefor comprising superposed layers ot'vbottoin materia-l, a stiifening strip Wit-hin the outermost layers thereof extending longitudinally of the middle of the bottom and embedded therein, 'of a pair of L shaped end Wall metallic supports each secured to an end'Wall at its end at approximately half the lheight out the bag and secured at their Vlower ends to the strip with an interposed layer of bottom materialvbetween the supportsand'the strip, and a hinged top frame tor the bag .disposed between the upper eX- trem'ities ot the supports.

In testimonyvwhereof I hereunto affix 'my Ysignature this 4th day of Aug., 1926.V

JOHN W. BRANDT.

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