USRE7070E - Improvement in trunks - Google Patents

Description

G. B. JENKINSON.

TRUNK.

Reissued April 18, 1876.

-LITHOGRAPNE UN TED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE B. JENKINSON, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT m TRUNKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,158, dated May 20, 1873, reissue N0. Z070, dated April 18, 1876; application filed March 23, 1876.

-To all whom it may concern A specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements in the manufacture'of trunks or travelin g-cases, by means of which lighter and thinner leather may be employed in their construction than has hitherto been used, without impairing their utility, but, on the contrary, rather increasing it.

The accompanying drawing fully illustrates the nature and character of my invention, in which the figure represents a trunk combining and illustrating my improvements, similar lettersof reference indicating correspondin g parts in the figure.

My invention consists in securing a strip of heavy leather around the valance of a trunk, and also in binding the corners of a trunk, portmanteau, valise, or the like with heavy leather firml y secured thereto, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

To enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will proceed to describe more particularly its construction and operation.

Referring to the accompanying drawing, A represents the body of a trunk; B, the lid of the trunk, and a the valance around the front and ends of said lid. Ordinarily pieces of some thin material are secured on the inside, which are continually tearing olf in conse-v quence of the friction caused by opening and shutting the trunk. This difficulty, which pertains more particularly to trunks, is obviated by means of the strip G, of heavy leather, above referred to, said strip being riveted along its upper edge to the lid B, and along the lower edge to the valance a, substantially as shown and indicated in Fig. 1. 'D represents strips of heavy leather bound firmly around the corners of both the body and lid of a trunk, and riveted to the same, and

' burred on the inside, substantially as shown and indicated in Fig. 1.

By this mode of binding the ends'or corners a great saving of stock is efiected, it not being necessary to use such heavy leather all through, thereby avoiding weight and expense, and making a trunk, &c.,just as durable, or more so, as if made of the heaviest material, besides utilizing the smaller pieces of stock in the said corner-strips.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure byLetters Patentof the United States, is-

1. A traveling-case the edges of which are protected by strips of heavy leather, in the manner set forth.

2. The traveling-case provided with leather strips D, applied. and secured to the corners and edges in the manner shown, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The leather strips 0,-secured around the valance of a traveling-case in the manner shown, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. I

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

. GEO. B. J ENKINSON.

Witnesses:

OLIVER DRAKE, JOHN G. TUNBRIDGE.

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