US763740A - Bag-frame. - Google Patents

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PATENTED JUNE 28, 1904.

B. VOM EIGEN.

BAG FRAME.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 10. 1904.

N0 MODEL.

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PATENT OFFICE.

BENNO VOM EIGEN, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO AUG.

GOERTZ & (30., OF NEWVARK, NEWV JERSEY, A FIRM.

BAG-FRAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 763,7 10, dated'J'une 28, 1904.

A li ati fil d March 10, 1904. Serial No. 197,520. (No model.)

To a whom, itnuty concern.-

Be it known that I, BENNO VOM EIGEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have inventodcertain new and useful Improvements in Bag-Frames; 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, reference being had to the' accompanying drawings, and to characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

My present invention relates generally to improvements in frames for traveling-bags, satchels, chatelaine, and other bags; and the invention has reference more particularly to a novel construction of bag-frame section and a method ofproducing the same.

My invention has for its principal objects to provide a novel and simply constructed bag frame section and a method of producing the v same, the frame-section comprising a main body anddownwardly-extending legs or pivot members at the respective ends of the said main body, the said main body and each pivot member comprising a pair of surface members bent at right angles to each other, or ap proximately so, to provide sharp angular corners and the overlapping portions, which form the joint, being reduced by compression to half the thickness of the metal of the other parts of the frame-section, whereby the said overlapping portions at the joints are perfectly flush with the main surface of the body and leg or pivot members of the frame-section,and, furthermore, to provide a means whereby du ring the process or method of construction of the frame-section the integrally-united main body and pivot members can be bent at right angles to each other, or approximately so, without causing. the metal to produce a pucker at the corners and by my invention forming a sharp and neat corner-angle, as will hereinafter appear.

Other objects of my present invention will appear from the following detailed description of the same.

My present invention consists in the novel bag-frame section hereinafter described, and, further, this invention consists in the various arrangements and combinations of parts, as well'as in the details of the construction of the same, all of which will be more fully set forth in the following specification and then finally embodied in the clauses of the claim.

The invention is fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a face view of a bag-frame section embodying the principles of my present invention, and Fig. 2-is a top edge view of the same. Fig. 3 is aperspective view of the said framesection and an inlay detached therefrom, the said view representing the inner face portions of the main body and the pivot members of the frame-section and the overlapping metal portions at each joint or corner of the frame-section. Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional representation, on an enlarged scale, said section being taken on line t ain Fig. l,'looking in the direction of the arrow and illustrating the reduced thickness by compression of the overlapping metal portions. Figs. 5, 6, 7, and'8 are views of a metal strip, certain portions thereof being represented as being broken away, the said views illustrating the various steps in the method of producingthe framesections. Figs. 9 and 10 are a faceand edge view, respectively, of a blank from whichthc inlay is made. Fig. 11 is a detail view of the blank representing thefirst step in the bending operation to provide the end members or legs of the inlay; and Fig. 12 is a top edge view of the parts represented in said Fig. 11. Fig. 18 is a face View of one of the corner portions of the finished inlay, illustrating the rounded corner portion represented in Fig. 11 in its compressed condition to provide a sharp angular corner portion; and Fig. 14 is the same comprising a main body portion 2 and right-angled lip portion 3 and the end or pivot members or legs 4, provided with their right-angled lip portions 5. In Figs. 5, 6, 7 and 8 I have represente the various steps in the method or process of producing the angularly-bent frame member or section 1. (Illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 of the drawings.) The steps in the method or process of thus producing the frame-section is as follows: A blank 6 of the proper width and length, according to the size of frame desired, is struck up in a suitable die or made, by means of suitable machinery, with the rounded and preferably perforated or other suitably-shaped end portions 7 and with alip 8, bent at right angles to the main body of the said blank and extending along one of the marginal edges of the said body, as clearly illustrated in the figures of the drawings. In the outer face of this lip, at the desired points where the two joints or angular portions of the frame-section are to be made, there are formed by the application of pressure a pair of depressions 9, as clearly illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6 of the drawings, the metal at 10 being compressed to one-half of its original thickness or that of the lip portion 8, substantially as shown in Fig. 6 and for the purposes to be hereinafter set forth. A portion of the outwardlyforced and rounded-edge portion 11 of the said depression is then cut away and a suitable opening or slot 12 formed in each depression 9, the said slot 12 extending laterally across the lip 8 to a point near the main body of the blank 6, and the said slot 12 at this point terminating, preferably, in a A-shaped end 13, as illustrated in Fig. 8. During the same operation the remaining part of the edge portion 11 is cut or trimmed away to provide a lip 14, preferably of the shape illustrated. Suitable perforations or holes 15 and 16 are also provided. When thus made, the parts have the appearance illustrated in Figs. 8 and 9 of the drawings, thus forming the main body2 and the pivot members 4, suitably separated by the slots 12. The said pivot members 4 are then bent at right angles, or approximately so, to the said main body portion at the points 13 of the slots 12, slipping the reduced portion 17 of the depression 9 directly beneath the reduced portion 18, whereby the hole or perforation 15 is made to register with the hole or perforation 16, and these parts are then secured together by means of the pins or rivets 19, as clearly illustrated in Figs. 1, 3, and 4 of the drawings, to provide the right-angled corners of the frame-section 1. When these parts are thus secured, the metal having been squeezed or compressed, as above stated, to one-half its original thickness, a perfectly flush joint will be the result, as clearly illustrated in Figs. 1 and 4:, especially upon the outer surface of the frame-section, thus permitting the covering of the frame-section with the usual covering of thin leather or the like and avoiding all possible bulky and unsightly effects at the corners of the frame-section.

As is well known, a metal inlay is usually employed with bag frame sections, and in Figs. 3 and 13 I have represented a form of inlay 20 which may be used. In constructing this inlayI take a strip of metal 21 (see Figs. 9 and 10) and bend the same in such a manner that the rounded corner portions 22 and end legs 23 will be formed, as clearly illustrated in Figs. 11 and 12 of the drawings. Suitable pressure is then applied upon the rounded corner portions 22, along the line i y in Fig. 11, to squeeze themetal, and thereby produce the right-angled corners 24. (Indicated in Figs. 3 and 13.) At the same time the thickness of the metal at the right-angled corners 24 is sufficiently reduced to provide a suitable depression 25, as indicated in Figs. 13 and 14, which is fitted over the rivet-head 26 of the rivet 19 when the inlay is arranged against the inner surfaces of the parts comprising the frame-section 1.

From the foregoing description of my invention it will be seen that I have devised a simple construction and method of producing bag-frame sections-and an inlay therefor, the frame-sections having sharp angular corners, whereby a neat frame is the result and one in which the puckering and cracking of the metal at the corners in bending the framesection during the process of its manufacture is clearly obviated, and especially is this so when the metal frame-section isfinally to be covered with leather.

Of course I am aware that some changes may be made in the general arrangements and in the method of producing the parts without departing from the scope of this invention. Hence I do not limit my invention to the exact details of the construction of the framesection and the inlay, no do I confine myself to the exact method of producing the same as described in the foregoing specification and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is V l. A bag-frame section comprising a main body and a pivot member at each end of said main body, the said body and each pivot member having overlapping portions of a reduced thickness from the normal initial thickness of said body and that of the pivot members, whereby a flush and finished surface is produced, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. A bag-frame section comprising a main body and a pivot member at each end of said main body, the said body and each pivot member having overlapping portions of a reduced thickness from the normal initial thickness of said body and that of the pivot members,

whereby a flush and finished surface is pro' ITO duced, and means for securing the said reduced portions in their overlapped relation, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. A bag-frame section comprising a main body and a pivot member at each end of said main body, the said body and each pivot member having overlapping portions of a reduced thickness from the normal initial thickness of said body and that of the pivot members, whereby a flush and finished surface is produced, the said main body and one of said overlapping portions being provided with perforations which register with each other, and a rivet in said perforations for securing the said reduced portions in their overlapped relation, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

4. A bag-frame section comprising a main body having a right-angled lip portion, and a pivot member at each end of said main body, each pivot member being provided with a lip portion, the lip portions of said body and said pivot members having overlapping portions of a reduced thickness from the normal initial thickness of said lip portions, whereby a flush and finished surface is produced, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

5. A bag-frame section comprising a main body having a right-angled lip portion, and a pivot member at each end of said main body, each pivot member being provided with a lip portion, the lip portions of said body and said pivot members having overlapping portions of a reduced thickness from the normal initial thickness of said lip portions, whereby a flush and finished surface is produced, and means for securing the said reduced portions in their overlapped relation, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

6. A bag-frame section comprising a main body having a right-angled lip portion, and a pivot member at each end of said main body, each pivot member being provided with a lip portion, the lip portions of said body and said pivot members having overlapping portions of a reduced thickness from the normal initial thickness of said lip portions, whereby a flush and finished surface is produced, the lip portion of said main body and one of said overlapping portions being provided with perforations which register with each other, and rivets adapted to be inserted in said perforations for securing the said reduced portions in their overlapped relation, substantially as and with depressed portions contiguous to the slot, and means adapted to be connected with said depressed portions for securing them in their overlapped relation, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

8. The herein-described bag-frame section comprising a main body 2 and right-angled pivot members 4, the said parts being separated by a slot 12 and respectively provided with depressed portions contiguous tothe slot, the said main body 2 being provided with perforations 16 and the depressed portion of each member 4 being provided with a perforation 15 adapted to register with said perforations 16, and rivets adapted to be inserted in said perforations for securing the said pivot members at right angles to said main body, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

9. A bag-frame section comprising a main body having a right-angled lip portion, and a pivot member at each end of said main body, each pivot member being provided with a lip portion, the lip portions of said body and said pivot members having overlapping portions of a reduced thickness from the normal initial thickness of said lip portions, whereby aflush and finished surface is produced, the lip portion of said main body and one of said overlapping portions being provided with perforations which register with each other, and rivets adapted to be inserted in said-perforations for securing the said reduced portions in their overlapped relation, all combined with an inlay having right-angled corner portions, said corner portions being of a reduced thickness from the normal initial thickness of the other parts of the inlay, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

10. The herein-described bag-frame section comprising a main body 2 and right-angled pivot members 4, the said parts being separated by a slot 12 and respectively provided with depressed portions contiguous to the slot, and means adapted to be connected with said depressed portions for securing them in their overlapped relation, all combined with an in lay having right-angled corner portions, said corner portions being of a reduced thickness from the normal initial thickness of the other parts of the inlay, substantially-as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the invention set forth above I have hereunto set my hand this 5th day of March, 1904. I

BENN O voM EIGEN.

Witnesses:

FREDK. (J. FRAENTZEL, GEO. D. RICHARDS.

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