IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKING OR FORMING MERCHANDIZE OR GOODS INTO BALES."
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Riddle, of 1, Westbourne Terrace, Barnsbury
Park, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN PACKING OR FORMING MERCHANDIZE OR GOODS INTO BALES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Riddle at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
19th October 1858.
I, WILLIAM RIDDLE, of 1, Westbourne Terrace, Barnsbury Park, in the
County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKING OR FORMING MERCHANDIZE OR GOODS INTO BALES,"
to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in packing or forming
merchandize or goods into bales. Heretofore in packing or forming mer-
chandize or goods into bales for facility of transport, it has been usual to
compress them by a suitable press, and to secure them when so compressed by
bands of hoop iron placed round them, and fastened at the ends either by
rivitting or by the method for which a Patent was granted to me, dated the
17th Feb. last. Now, the bands of hoop iron so applied have been found to
injure the goods which they surround.
My Invention consists in packing or forming goods into bales by com-
pressing them as heretofore, and securing them when so compressed by bands
of iron, each band covered, or coated, or lapped over with cotton, cloth, or
other textile material saturated with a solution of india-rubber or other gum

page_text: or resin, or with paint or other material, for closing the pores of the fibrous
material, and preventing the access of damp or moisture to the metal band for
the avoidance of injury or rust from sea water or otherwise.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Riddle in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
19th April 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
RIDDLE, of 1, Westbourne Terrace, Barnsbury Park, in the County of
Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Riddle, Her special licence that I, tho said William Riddle,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
William Riddle, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
PACKING OR FORMING MERCHANDIZE OR GOODS INTO BALES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that J, the said William Riddle, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Scal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Riddle, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in packing or forming
merchandize or goods into bales. Heretofore in packing or forming mer-
chandize or goods into bales for facility of transport, it has been usual to
compress them by a suitable press, and to secure them when so compressed
by bands of hoop iron placed round them, and fastened at the ends cither by

page_text: rivetting or by the
17th February last.
method for which a Patent was granted to me, dated
Now, the bands of hoop iron so applied have been found
to injure the goods which they surround.
My Invention consists in packing or forming goods into bales by com-
pressing them as heretofore, and securing them when so compressed by bands
of iron, cach band covered, or coated, or lapped over with cotton, cloth, or
other textile material saturated with a solution of india-rubber or other gum
or resin, or with paint or other material for closing the pores of the fibrous
material, and preventing the access of damp or moisture to the metal band,
for the avoidance of injury or rust from sea water or otherwise.
In covering hoop iron bands, I usually cut unbleached calico into strips the
lengthways of the stuff, each strip wide enough to surround the hoop iron to
be covered. Previously to this the calico is usually spread with a solution of
india-rubber or other suitable cement. The cutting the fabric into strips is
done with sharp knives when the india-rubber is sufficiently dry or in a tacky
state on the calico. The folding of the strips on to the iron hooping may be
done by hand, the seam either being a raised one, as in making india-rubber
beds, or, if a flat lap, then that part of the strip on which the cemented or
india-rubber coated surface closes, is also spread with a solution of india-
rubber by a brush or otherwise.
Or, in place of the covering fabric or material being folded longitudinally
one edge over the other, as above stated, the covering material may be wound
spirally around the hoop iron, the edges of the covering material being caused
to overlap in the winding in such manner as to be cemented one edge on the
other, so as to prevent moisture getting to the iron.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Riddle, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
WILLIAM RIDDLE. (L.S.)
Witness,
HENRY WILLIAM CARPMAEL.