US1581535A - Rug bag - Google Patents

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Patented-Apr. 20, 1926.

GERTRUDE VAN GIESEN GrEtANGEIR.,OF SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.

RUG Baer.y

PATENT oFFicE.

'Bassum Application lelA July 17, 1925. Serial No. 44,327.

To all. *whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, GERTRUDE VAN GrEsEN GRANGER, a citizen of the United States, re-

siding at Savannah, .in the county of Chatham and State of Georgia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rug Bags; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled yin the art to which it appertains to make and use tliesame.` y

" This invention relates to improvements in bags, more specically moth-proof rug bags.

The object of the bag is to furnish the housewife with a convenient receptacle in which to place her rugs while not in use and thus protect them from dust and destructive insects, such as moths. Briefly stated, the use of the bag is as follows:

The rug to be protected-is rolled on a pole, the bag opened and the rug placed therein. The bag carries a permanently attached top,with a reinforced segment in back which acts as a hinge, with closure means for placing the bag in a moth-proof,

dust-proof condition. i

The novelty of the bag lies chiefly in using a section of the bag as a hinge for thetop.

A further improvement is mounting the closure means on beading, theV beading in turn being mounted on tape which, in turn, is-mounted on the bag in such a way as to allow 4the edge ofthe bag to project up into the top and so make a dust-proof, mothproof joint.- y

Other novelty lies in the use of a triangular clasp in thecornerI of the opening of the bag, so as to keep the bag, when the bag 1s not drawn shut, in a semi-open position,7 which facilitates the placing'of rugs therein.

In the drawings, f

Fig. 1 is a perspective of the bag in opened therein.

Fig. 2 is a Yrear elevation showing the bag 1n a semi-closed position with a part of the rear broken away.

position, with the rug partly inserted Fig. 3 is a plan View of fastener carrying 50 tapes.,

Fig. 4 is afragmentary cross-sectional view drawn through the top, tape vand fastener. A v

As shown in Fig. 1, the invention comprisesa bag 1, open, with top -2 held in. position by segment of the bag 3, used as a hinge to swing the top into a closed position when the bag is desired-to beshut.

Top 2'is in such relative position as to .60 allow the edge of bag 4 to project beyond the closure means l1 and thus prevent dust and insects from enteringwhen'the bag 1s in a closed position and also protects the con.- tents of the bag from chafing on the ,closure/65 means 11.

The top 2 is fastened to a tape 6, which runs around the bottom ofthe top tothe side lof'hinged section 3. A similar tape continues around the bag below top 4, as

J at 5. Each of these tapes are secured to the top and bag respectively, by a line of stitching, adjacent its' lower edge, so that the adjacent edges of tapes are left free. 0n`the free edges of these tapes is mounted 7.5 closure means 10 and 11. At the juncture of the tapes 6 and 5, adjacent to the hinge 3 is a triangular shaped clasp 9, which serves to keep the bag 1 ina semi-opened condition when the fastening means 10, and 11A is not 80 drawn shut the triangular metal vclasp acts as a wedge, the point of the triangle ositioned4 in the corner of the opening o the bag. When the closure means is not in operation, the Ybag will be kept in. a sero-l open position by said clasp acting as a wed e. This facilitates theplacing of rugs in t e -bag and yet when the bag is in a closed position presen-ts no opening for moths or other insects to enter as the alp on the inside will cover any crevice left.

Aname plate 15 is shown in'connection with bag 1. In Fig.l 2, hinged section 3 is shown reinforced by an interlocking of the folds of the cloth in the form of a seam. The closure means 10 and 11 is operated by a pulling member 14. l

In Fig. 3, tapes 6 and 5 which arefastened In a tubular bag, av top, the top attached 1o on the top 2 and bag 4 as described, show tothe bag by means of a section of the attached to the edges of tapes, beading 12 bag, said section acting as a hinge, a closure and 13 respectively, upon which closing means, the closure means having a triangumeans is strung. `lar clasp'between the edges of the closure In Fig. 4, the top 2 is shown attached means in order to keep the bag in a semi- 15 to tape 6, andthe beading 12 attached thereopen position.

on, with the closing means attached thereto. In testimony whereof I afix my signature. What I claim is: g cmmwma VAN clEsEN GRANGER.

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