Improved Bags for Containing Asher, Coal, or other Material.
Year: 1899

page_text: I, CHARLES DE GRUCHY, of 26, Chapel Walks, in the City of Liverpool, Linen
and Canvas Merchant and Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improved bags for containing ashes, coal, or other
material, and has reference more particularly to bags for removing aslres from
steam-ship stoke-holds.
A bag according to this invention possesses a rectangular bottom and four flat
sides and is adapted to stand upright when empty.
I take a sheet of sacking, canvas, or cloth, of rectangular shape, and I fold this
sheet. in four, forming the four sides of the bag. I then cut the cloth at three
corners of the bag (the fourth corner being already cut) a distance equal to one-
half the width of the side of the bag. This cutting of the cloth forms four tongues
of cloth which I turn inwards to form the bag-bottom. These tongues are stitched
together in pairs and the stitching of one pair runs at right angles to the stitching
of the other pair. The bag thus possesses a double bottom. The four corners
and edges of the bag are lined with rope, and a piece of rope is stitched across
the bag bottom to, form a handle as at present. The bag also possesses the usual
rope-handles..
The bag above described possesses but one vertical seam or joint, and that is
disposed at a corner of the bag. The bag may however be formed of two pieces
of cloth in which case there will be two seams disposed at corners diagonally
opposite each other.
In order to stiffen the bag so that it may stand upright when empty, I may
bind the edges thereof with wire rope, or with hemp rope in which one or more
wires are inserted. Or I may insert wires or other stiffening material in the
cloth of the bag.
Improved Bags for Containing Asher, Coal, or other Material.
I, CHARLES DE GRUCHY, Junior, of 26, Chapel Walks, in the City of Liverpool,
Linen and Canvas Merchant and Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
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page_text: this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to improved bags for containing ashes, coal, or other
material, and has reference more particularly to bags for removing ashes from
steam-ship stoke-holds
A bag according to this invention possesses a rectangular bottom and four flat
sides and is adapted to stand upright when empty.
In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 illustrates a piece of cloth planned to
form a rectangular bag. Figure 2 is a bottom plan of the bag, showing how the
cloth is folded. Figure 3 is a view of the completed bag. Figure 4 shews a
piece of rope used in constructing the bag.
I take a sheet of sacking, canvas, or cloth, of rectangular shape as shewn in
Figure 1, and I fold this sheet in four, forming the four sides a of the bag. I
then cut the cloth at these folds a distance equal to one-half the width of the side
of the bag, with a little extra cloth to form a selvage or hem. The cuts are shewn
in black lines and the folds and selvages in dotted lines in Figure 1. This
cutting of the cloth forms four tongues of cloth which I turn inwards to form the
bag-bottom as shewn in Figure 2. These tongues are stitched together in pairs
and the stitching of one pair runs at right angles to the stitching of the other pair
as shewn in Figure 2. The bag thus possesses a double bottom. The four corners
and the mouth of the bag are lined with rope b, and a piece of rope c is stitched
across the bag bottom to form a handle, as at present. The bag also possesses the
usual rope handles.
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In order to stiffen the bag so that it may stand upright when empty whereby
ene fireman may fill the bag with ashes without requiring another man
hold the bag open, I incorporate with the bag or with its edge rope b suitable
metallic or equivalent stiffeners. The plan which I at present adopt is to incor-
porate wire with the hemp rope by which the bag is lined. Such a rope is shewn
at Figure 4 and consists of a three-strand hemp rope whereof each strand possesses
a wire core d. By employing three strands of wire in this way I find that there is
no difficulty in passing the needle through the rope when sewing the latter to
the cloth. I do not confine myself to a three-strand rope, although this type is
the most common.
Instead of employing a wire in each strand of the rope or in one or more of
such strands, the rope itself may possess a single central core of wire or of cane
or other suitable stiff but comparatively pliant material. Or the wire or other
stiffener may be bound to the rope instead of forming its core. In other cases
the rope may be dispensed with and the wire or other stiffener alone bound to the
corners and mouth of the bag, the wire in the latter case being cut into such
lengths as will permit the bag to he folded for storage. Instead of being incor-
porated with the rope b wire or other suitable stiffeners may be incorporated with
the cloth sides a of the bag and such incorporation may be effected by lacing
vertical wires through the cloth or stitching such wires to the cloth. Or the wire
may be incorporated partly with the rope and partly with the cloth of the bag.
In another modification of my invention I employ internal wires which lie across
the bottom and extend up the corners of the bag. For instance one wire may
extend across the bottom diagonally, the extremities of the wire passing up
diagonally opposite corners of the bag.
Instead of using hemp rope with wire insertions I may employ wire rope for
the purpose of lining the corners of the bag.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
1. The employment in combination with a flat bottomed textile bag for con-
taiing ashes and other material, of rope possessing wire insertions, for the

page_text: purpose of lining the corners, bottom, mouth or other parts of such bag, whereby
such bag is better adapted to stand upright when empty, substantially as described.
2. The employment in combination with a flat bottomed textile bag for con-
taining ashes and other material, of wire rope for the purpose of lining the corners
bottom, mouth or other parts of such bag, whereby such bag is better adapted to
stand upright when empty, substantially as described.
3. The employment in combination with the cloth or rope of a flat bottomed
textile bag for containing ashes and other material, of wire, cane, or other equiva-
lent stiffening material, combined or arranged substantially as described, whereby
such bag is better adapted to stand upright when empty.
J. A. COUBROUGH,
Chartered Patent Agent, 10, St. George's Crescent, Liverpool,
Agent for the 'Applicant.