US1199979A - Bag. - Google Patents

Description

I 4H. GARST.

BAG.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 4, 1916.

Patented Oct. 3, 1916.

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C24/VVD 1N VENTOR HORACE GARST ATTORNEY.

H. GARST.

BAG.

APPLICATION FILED 1AN.4, |916.

1,199,979. Patented oct. 3,1916.

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HORACE GARST, 0F DENVER, COLORADO.

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' Specification of Letters Patent; l Patented Oct. 3, 1916.

. Application led January 4, 1916. Serial No. 70,149.

To aZ-Z whom t may concern Be "it known that I, HORACE GARsT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Denver, in the county of Denver and State of Colorado, have-invented certain new and.

useful Improvements in Bags, of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements iny bags-its primary object being to provide a bag of novel construction and .attractive appearance which retains its shape when opened `or closed,

which when not in use may be reduced in size for the purpose' of storing or packing it in a small space, and which being composed of few parts may be. economically produced.

With the above objects-in view, my improved bag consists of a bottom member reinforced by suitable stiffening material, a

collapsible circumferential wall member of sufficient rigidity to stand upright under normal conditions, and a top member provided with a mouth aording access to the interior of the bag and with adjustable means for retaining said mouth in either the open or closed condition. The three members are fastened together bv 'sewing and may be made of cloth or any other suitable flexible material.

A slit formed in the top member of the bag provides the mouth which affords access to its interior and sets of normallyalined sticks concealed in pockets at opposite sides of said slit, constitute the adjustable means by which the mouth is held in its open and closed conditions. 4 y

When the bag is open the sticks are relatively disposed to form a quadrangle which affords ready access to the interior of the bag.

Strings are applied at the points of juncture of the sticks of the two sets to secure the mouth of the bag in its closed condition, and handles fastened to the top-member at opposite sides of the mouth provide ready travelers, shoppers or hunters as well as for the storage of toilet requisites and other small. articles on desks 'and dressing tables.

In the accompanying drawings inthe various views of. which like parts are similarly designated, Figure lis a plan view of my improved bag in its closed condition, Fig. 2 a similar view of the bag withl itsmouth in the ,open position, Fig. 3, a section taken along the line 3-3, Fig. 1, drawn to -an yenlarged scale, Fig. 4,a correspondingly enlarged transverse section taken. along the;

line 4 4, Fig. l, Fig. 5, a fragmentary sectional view of the bottom portionof the bag showinga modified method of applying the reinforcement thereto, Fig. 6, -a development of the single piece of material of which j the top-member of the bag is composed, Fig. 7, a view ofthe piece shown in Fig. 6, after it has been initially folded in the process of forming the top-member, and Fig. 8, a perspective view of the top-member folded in a condition ready for its connection with the other members of the bag.

Referring to the drawings by numerical j reference characters,- 2 designates the bottom member, 3 the 1circumferential-wall-member, and 4 the top-member of the bag.

The bottom-member in its preferred form,

' is composed of two flexible 'sheets 23 sewed together around -anl interposed piece 24 of reinforcing material, such as broid, the

contour of which determines'the shape of the finished article.

The. sheets between which. the reinforcing piece is secured, are extended .beyond the .edge thereof to provide a ange 5 for fastenin'githe bottom-member to the lower edge of the side or wall-member of the bag. This last-mentioned member is made of two continuous vflexible strips 6 stitched together as at 7 and sewed along the lower edges to the up-turned flange of the bottom member as shown in Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawings. l

The two strips of which the wall-member is composed, render it sufficiently rigid to extend normally in an upright position, while at the same time it is flexible to the extent that it may collapse when subjected toPressure.

The top-member of the bag is made of a single sheet of cloth or other Hexible material the ends of which are connected and which is subsequently doubled to provide pockets or the sticks which bind the mouth of the The material before being folded or connected is as shown in Fig. 6, cut in the form` bag and which has a slit l2 bounded by upturned flanges 13. The flanges 13 are stitched as at 14 to 'form pockets for the reception of four sticks 15 ofV substantially equal length which define the mouth of the bag as hereinbefore explained.

The folded parts f the top-member are furthermore connected by rows of stitching 16 and the member is sewed at its outer edge along the upper edge of the wallmember as shown at 17. To conceal the stitches which connect the top and bottom members of the'bag with thewall-member, the edges of the latter are turned inwardly as shown in Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawings.

The sticks 15 placed in the pockets produced by the stitchings 14, are normally alined in pairs in the upturned flanges at opposite sides of the slit which constitute the mouth of the receptacle, as shown in At the points of juncture of the alined sticks, cords 18 are attached to the flanges of the top-member for tying the mouth in its closed condition, and handles 19 made of doubled strips of cloth are sewed to the top at points adjacent those at which the fastening cords are applied.

ln bags. of larger dimensions, the reinforcement of the bottom-member may be made separate from and placed removably within the bag as shown at 2O in' Fig. 5. By removing this reinforcement, a ba thus constructed may be collapsed and when not in use, and to still further reduce the compass of the collapsed article the reinforcement may be made in sections as shown in the drawin From the above description, taken together with the drawings, the operation of olded l my improved bag will be readily understood without further explanation at this point, it being observed that by vpressing the top and bottom members of the bag together, its normallyrigid wall may be collapsed to reduce the size of the article when not in use.

Having thus described my invention,

what I claim and desire to secure by* Letters-Patent is:

1. A bag comprising a' bottom-member, a top-member having a mouth provided by a reinforced slit, and a wall-member connecting the topand bottom-members, the said wall-member being composed of a plurality of strips of flexible material stitched together, whereby it is normally rigid and adapted to collapse when the top and bottom members are pressed together.

2. A bag comprising a bottom-member, a top-member having a mouth provided by a slit, sets of normally alined sticks at oppo` site sides of said mouth, and a wall-member connecting the .topand bottom-members, the said top-member being composed of a single piece of flexible material cut and folded to the required shape.

3. A bag comprising a bottom-member, a top-member having 'a mouth provided by a slit, sets of normally alined sticks at op; posite sides of said mouth, and a wallmember connecting the topand bottommembers, the said top-member being composed of a single piece of flexible material out and folded to the required shape and stitched to provide pockets for the said sticks.

4. A bag comprising a bottom-member, a top-member having a mouth provided by a slit, sets of normally alined sticks at opposite sides of said mouth, and a wallmember connecting the topand bottommembers, thel said top-member being com posed of a single piece of flexible material formed of two sections of the general shape of the finished bag, which are connected at their opposite ends and folded to provide a pair of upturned Hanges defining said slit and which are stitched to provide at the edges of said flanges, pockets for the said sticks. v

5. A bag comprising an annular wallmember turned inwardly at its edges, a topmember having a mouth provided by a reinforced slit, and a bottom-member, the said topand bottom-members being attached to said inturned edges of the wall-member.

6. A bag comprising a bottom-member, a top-member having a mouth provided by a slit, two sets of. normally lalined sticks at opposite sides of said mouth, handles alined upon the upper surface of said top-member at opposite sides of said mouth and each composed of a strip of cloth bent upon itself to provide a loop adjacent the mouth', and a Wall-member connecting said topand bottom-members.

7. A bagffcomprisng a bottom-member composed of a sheet of flexible material, a top-member having a mouth aordng access to the interior of the bag, and a Wallmember connecting said topand bottommembers, and a' reinforcement loosely sup- 10 ported upon the upper surface of the bottom-member and adapted to be removed from the bag through the mouth of its topmember.

In testimony whereof I have aIiXed my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

HORACE GARsT.

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