Tracelarm Exploding messenger bag thing? Info request

[PrairieHunter]

My brother picked this thing up somewhere and I'm assuming it was used to transport money by traveling salesmen ect.. but I can't find anything much online about it other than trademark info ect..

It has the manual and instructions saying it fires 4 .45 blanks and a smoke charge when it gets pulled away from a ring with a tripwire that you were supposed to wear on the hand carrying it.

It's called a Tracelarm by Bankers Protection Co. (Co. has been crossed out and replaced with Div. on the Mimeo)

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Re: Tracelarm Exploding messenger bag thing?

Wow that thing is cool. Heres a mention of the bag in the 1937 Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright entries. I havent found the patent but Ill try later.

http://tinyurl.com/y9bjjhf

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Re: Tracelarm Exploding messenger bag thing?

Would like to see bigger pics.

 

[PrairieHunter]

Re: Tracelarm Exploding messenger bag thing?

Would like to see bigger pics.

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[Bigcypresshunter]

Re: Tracelarm Exploding messenger bag thing?

Would like to see bigger pics.

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[Charlie P. (NY)]

Re: Tracelarm Exploding messenger bag thing?

Extremely neat. But be mindful - in NY and possibly elsewhere the laws would probably identify it as a concealed pistol (if the barrels also allow non-blank cartridges) or a booby-trap device.

 

[FISHEYE]

Re: Tracelarm Exploding messenger bag thing?

Neat item.Now wheres all the loot that was in the bag when you found it?

 

[taz42o]

Re: Tracelarm Exploding messenger bag thing?

There are two patents for it filed only a few months apart.? The first one filed is listed as a security bag the second for firing mechanism invented by different people??. The first one filed is the second one issued.?? But both are from the 30s and it is a bank messengers bag not salesman.

http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=njdWAAAAEBAJ&dq=messenger+money+bags

http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=8FdWAAAAEBAJ&dq=messenger+money+bags

 

[Jay Plunder]

Re: Tracelarm Exploding messenger bag thing?

That thing looks straight up Gangsta

 

[GopherDaGold]

Re: Tracelarm Exploding messenger bag thing?

Would like to see bigger pics.

That's a switch! Usually they are gi-normous!

 

[PrairieHunter]

I marked it solved as I think all the info that's available online has been linked here.


Thanks to everyone for the help and input.