Nova Patents
US2989998A

Combination bag and auxiliary container

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US2989998A, drawing sheet 1
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Term

Term ended

Expired 27 June 1978, 48.2 years ago.

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  2. Granted
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  4. Today

3 claims: 3 independent, 0 dependent

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    Having thus disclosed my invention, I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent:1. In combination, a bag and an auxiliary container mounted on said bag, said bag having opposed flat side walls providing an opening along the top edge of said bag, a closing flap secured to one of said side walls and extending over said opening, and latch means on the other side wall for engaging said closing flap, said auxiliary container having opposed flat side walls providing an opening along one edge thereof and closure means for said opening, and means for detachably connecting said container to said bag with one side wall of said container in close contact throughout the extent thereof with said one side wall of the bag, said connecting means comprising a pair of laterally spaced latch means projecting outwardly from said one side wall of the bag adjacent the top edge
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    2 989 998 COMBINATION BAG AND AUXILIARY CONTAINER Abraham Harris, 28 Main SL, White Plains, N.Y. Filed Feb. 27,1958, Ser. No. 717,885 5
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    3 Claims. (Cl. 150—1.6) This invention relates to a combination bag and auxiliary container and more specifically concerns a brief bag provided with a detachable looseleaf binder portfolio, 10 purse or the like. An object of this invention is to provide the conventional brief bag, with a quickly detachable auxiliary container which will augment the carrying capacity of the bag;facilitate access to items segregated in either the bag 15 or container;permit the container and bag to be used independently of each other and to provide simple latch means for mounting the container on the bag. Other objects of this invention will in part be obvious and in part hereinafter pointed out. 20 In the drawings, FIG. 1 is a side elevational view of a combination brief bag and container carrying a looseleaf binder, in accordance with the instant invention, parts thereof being broken away;FIG. 2 is an end view thereof;23 FIG. 3 is an enlarged elevational view of the latch means for mounting the container on the bag;FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken on the line 4—4 of FIG. 3;FIG. 5 is a sectional view taken on the line 5—5 of 30 FIG. 3;FIG. 6 is a rear elevational view of said latch means. FIG. 7 is a front elevational view of a modified form of the invention;and FIG. 8 is an end view thereof. 35 Referring in detail to the drawings and particularly to FIGS. 1 and 2, 10 designates a combination bag and container embodying the invention. The same comprises a brief bag 11 with a looseleaf portfolio 12 detachably mounted thereon. 4θ Bag 11 is made up of leather, artifical leather or other suitable material, comprising side walls 13 interconnected by a flexible bottom gusset 14 and end gussets 15, a handle 16, closing flap 17 and closing latch 18. Comer reinforcements 1—9 may be provided on the lower corners 45 of side walls 13. The portfolio 12 is also made of flexible material similar to that used in making bag 11;the same being formed from a single sheet folded along a median line 20 to provide similar, opposed wall portions 21, 22. Wall por- 50 tions 21, 22 are retained by tapes 23, 24 respectively secured to the side and top edges of said wall portions and carrying conventional slide fastener elements 25. A conventional ring binder assembly 26 is secured along the fold line of the portfolio. 55 Latch means generally indicated at 27, detachably connects portfolio 12 to bag 11. Such latch means comprises a hollow rectangular shaped post 28 fixed to one side wall 13 of bag 11 and projecting outwardly thereof. Post 28 includes rearwardly extending prongs 29 which 60 pierce the wall 13 and are turned over to secure the post in place. Preferably, prongs 29 also extend through an apertured reinforcing plate 30 disposed in contact with the rear surface of side wall 13. Extending forwardly from post 28 is a turnable latch 65 member 31 having a rearwardly extending stem 32 with a spiral spring 33 mounted thereon for holding member 31 in vertical or horizontal positions. As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, wall portion 22 of portfolio 12 is formed with a rectangular shaped opening 34, 70 which opening is reinforced at the marginal portions thereof by a pair of metal plates 35, 36 located on op4 tions defining the opening in said container wall, a pair of said flange portions extending from one plate engaging the other plate to secure said plates in engagement with said container wall. References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 2.989.998 thereof and a pair of laterally spaced openings in said one side wall of the container for receiving the respective latch means, whereby said container is held in depending and closely abutting relation to said bag and the closure means on the container may be opened to gain access to 5 said pair of spaced latch means for manipulation thereof to detach the container from said bag while leaving said bag in a closed condition. 2. The combination as in claim 1 wherein said second mentioned latch means comprises a post fixed on the 10 outer surface of the bag wall, a latch member rotatably mounted on said post, the openings in the wall of said container being reinforced about the marginal portions thereof. 3. The combination as in claim 2 wherein said rein- 15 forcement comprises metal plates on opposite sides of said container wall, said plates having inturned flange por- 523,503 Alberschardt___________July 24,1894 922,567 Cosgrove--------------May 25,1909 2,372,845 Nelson_________________Apr. 3, 1945 2,562,499 Lifton-----------------July 31,1951 2,707,035 Lashley---------------Apr. 26,1955 2,778,397 Carrasco______________Jan. 22,1957 FOREIGN PATENTS 29,243 Norway------------... Nov. 18, 1918 980,200 France_________________Dec. 20, 1950
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