Improvements in the Mode of Making Up or Packing Dry Washing Blue for Sale, and in the Method of Using such Blue.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Oct., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 27th June, 1893-Accepted, 29th July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Mode of Making Up or Packing Dry Washing
Blue for Sale, and in the Method of Using such Blue.
I HENRY CARTER of 2 Nelson Street, Horwich, near Bolton, in the County of
Lancaster, Grocer and Draper, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
My said invention relates primarily to a new and useful mode of making up or
packing dry washing blue for sale. Such blue is usually sold in square blocks or
cylinders neatly packed in paper covers or envelopes. Before being used the block
has to be divested of its paper covering by the intending user, an operation which
not only cousumes time but also marks and discolours the fingers, while if the block
should happen to have been chipped or broken in handling, the chipped or broken
pieces are likely to drop on the ground while being unwrapped and so become
lost. To obviate these disadvantages and also with a further object which I will
explain, instead of packing the blue in paper coverings as before
wrap or pack it
in an envelope of textile material such for example as coarse musliu or any other
sufficiently cheap and permeable envelope or wrapper which will act as a strainer
and which is sufficiently pliable to wrap closely round the blue and fold neatly
down on the ends of the block of blue. When dry block blue is thus made up for
sale it is not necessary to remove the wrapper at all before using. The coarse
muslin or other wrapping being quite permeable and not affecting the nature of the
blue in the slightest degree allows the blue to become softened and filter through
when the block of blue has been placed in the usual outer covering or bag of flannel
or flannelette and immersed.
The muslin wrapping acts as a filter or strainer to the blue when in course of
use. Thus the blue does not require to be handled or unpacked but is simply
placed with its permeable packing in the outer covering or bag. The muslin
wrapper could be printed upon as in the case of the paper packing. In some cases
I might make up dry blue in powder for sale by wrapping it in muslin, the muslin
being previously treated with starch or other medium which would fill up the
interstices of the fabric and so prevent the escape of powder.
As a substitute for the coarse muslin strainer I might use wadding or other
permeable material which would act as an absorbent and transmitter as well as a
strainer. Such a strainer has a tendency to soften the blue more gradually and
prevent it being too quickly turned into a soft mud or paste as often happens.
It will be understood that the combination of the inner strainer with the outer
covering or bag has been already described with relation to a floating blue bag in
my former Patent No. 16951 of 1891.
The combination of the inner filtering or straining wrapper of muslin, wadding
or other suitable fabric with the outer covering or bag of flannel or flannelette
whether the said inner filtering wrapper be sold with the dry blue or not, is a novel
feature of my present invention as applied to non-floating blues of the ordinary
nature.
Dated this 8th day of October 1900
E. K. DUTTON & Co.,
5, John Dalton Street, Manchester, Agents.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Mode of Making Up or Packing Dry Washing
Blue for Sale, and in the Method of Using such Blue.
I HENRY CARTER of 2 Nelson Street, Horwich, near Bolton, in the County of
Lancaster, Grocer and Draper, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement that is to say :-
My said invention relates primarily to a new and useful mode of making up or
packing dry washing blue for sale. Such blue is usually sold in square blocks or
cylinders neatly packed in paper covers or envelopes.
Before being used the block has to be divested of its paper covering by the
intending user, an operation which not only consumes time but also marks and
discolours the fingers, while if the block should happen to have been chipped or
broken in handling, the chipped or broken pieces are likely to drop on the ground
while being unwrapped and so become lost."
To obviate these disadvantages and also with a further object which I will
explain, instead of packing the blue in paper coverings as before, I wrap or pack it
in an envelope of permeable textile material such for example as coarse muslin or
any other sufficiently cheap and permeable envelope or wrapper which will act as a
strainer, and which is sufficiently pliable to wrap closely round the blue and fold
neatly down on the ends of the block of blue. When dry block blue is thus made
up for sale it is not necessary to remove the wrapper at all before using. The
coarse muslin or other wrapping being quite permeable and not affecting the nature
of the blue in the slightest degree, allows the blue to become softened and to filter
through, when the block of blue has been placed in the usual outer covering or bag
of flannel or flannelette and immersed. The muslin wrapping acts as a filter or
strainer to the blue when in course of use.
When made up in accordance with my invention the blue does not require to be
handled or unpacked but is simply placed with its permeable packing in the outer
covering or bag.
The muslin wrapper could be printed upon as in the case of paper packing. In
some cases I might make up dry blue in powder for sale by wrapping it in muslin,
the muslin being previously treated with starch or other medium which would fill
up the interstices of the fabric and so prevent the escape of the powder..
As a substitute for the coarse muslin strainer I might use thin sheet wadding or
other permeable material which would act as an absorbent and transmitter as well
as a strainer. Such a strainer would have a tendency to soften the blue more
gradually and prevent it from being too quickly turned into a soft mud or paste as
often happens.
It will be understood that the combination of the inner strainer with the outer
covering or bag has been already described with relation to a floating blue bag in
my former Patent No. 16951 of 1891.
The combination of the inner filtering or straining wrapper of muslin, wadding
or other suitable fabric with the outer covering or bag of flannel or flannelette
whether the said inner filtering wrapper be sold with the dry blue or not, is a novel
feature of my present invention as applied to non-floating blues of the ordinary
nature.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is.
The employment of coarse. muolin
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page_text: for sale, the said wrapping or covering of permeable material not requiring to be
removed when the blue is put to use and also acting as a strainer and filter,
substantially as herein before described.
Dated this 26th day of July 1893°
E. K. DUTTON & Co.,
5, John Dalton Street, Manchester, Agents.