Back Pack Convertible To Hand-Bag (Patent No: 605327)

Inventor: Brewster, Forrest Oliver "Pat"

Location: Banff

Comments: b 1896 b Banff; active in guiding and outfitting business; served WWI; returned to outfitting; wrote books on local history; see Glenbow Archives and Whyte Museum and Archives (has information about inventions)

Description: The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:

CLAIM l. A dual-purpose container having a planar bottom wall of rectangular outline, a pair of end wall sections and a pair of rectangular side wall sections having closing means along their upper marginal edges, and a harness for supporting the container alternatively as a back pack or as a handbag, said harness comprising a pair of straps having their one ends loosely joined with said bottom wall intermediate the side margins thereof and having their other ends detachably and adjustably connected adjacent the side margins of said bottom wall, said strap ends being spaced from each other and from said end walls, whereby to form
a pair of shoulder straps, and pairs of retaining guide means spaced apart and secured adjacent the upper margins of said side walls intermediate the ends of said container for holding said strap loops thereunder when said container is used as a handbag.

CLAIM 2. A container as in Claim 1 wherein said end walls have a straight bottom edge joined with said bottom wall and a curved upper edge, and said bottom wall is stiffened.

C LAIM 3. A container as in Claim 1 or 2 wherein said one ends of said straps are connected with said bottom wall by a ring secured along a median longitudinal line thereof.