An Improved Method of Folding, Shaping, Stringing, and Hanging Paper and other Bags.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 20th May, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 15th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 26th Mar., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of Folding, Shaping, Stringing, and Hanging
Paper and other Bags.
I, JOHN HIGHAM of 9 Bridgewater Street, Farnworth near Bolton in the
County of Lancaster, Paper Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of my said
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved method of folding, shaping, stringing, and
hanging what are known as cone shaped, tapered, pointed, or corner bags made
from paper, linen, cloth, leather, and any other suitable substance or material, and
has for its object that of shaping and hanging the same so as to be more handy for
use than as at present. This I effect by folding the material of which the bag is
composed in such a manner that the layer forming the front half or side of the bag
is cut off at a lower point than the larger part forming the back half or part of the
bag, by which easy means are effected for opening the bag ready for the insertion
of any substance or material. The seam of the bag can be in any convenient
position to produce the same with a minimum of waste or otherwise. Stringing for
hanging purposes is effected by perforating the upper end of the single back layer
of each bag and inserting cord, wire, or other suitable substance, which allows of
the same being hung in such a manner that the front half or side of the bag can be
grasped and opened at one and the same time by the person using the same.
Dated the 19th May 1891.
EDMUND CHADWICK,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of Folding, Shaping, Stringing, and Hanging
Paper and other Bags.
I, JOHN HIGHAM of 9 Bridgewater Street, Farnworth near Bolton in the
County of Lancaster, Paper Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of my said
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 an improved method of folding, shaping, stringing, and
hanging what are known as cone shaped, tapered, pointed, or corner bags made from
paper, linen, cloth, leather, and any other suitable substance or material, and has for
its object that of shaping and hanging the same so as to be more handy for use tlían
as at present. This I effect by folding the material of which the bag is composed in
such a manner that the layer forming the front half or side of the bag is cut off at
a lower point than the larger part forming the back half or part of the bag, by
which easy means are effected for opening the bag ready for the insertion of any
substance or material. The scam of the bag can be in any convenient position to
produce the same with a minimum of waste or otherwise. Stringing for hanging
purposes is effected by perforating the upper end of the single back layer of each
bag and inserting cord, wire, or other suitable substance, which allows of the same
being hung in such a manner that the front half or side of the bag can be grasped
and opened at one and the same time by the person using the same.
Fig. 1 is a plan or form of paper or other material to form my improved bag.
Fig. 2 is an elevation of back side of bag with side seam open.
Fig. 3 is an elevation of back side of bag with side seam closed.
Fig. 4 is a front view of my improved bag completed and hung.

page_text: Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation through line A B in Fig. 4.
Fig. is a side view of my improved bag open and ready to be filled.
Fig. 7 is a side elevation of the old method or system of making paper bags with
the seam on the front, and
Fig. 8 is a front view of Fig. 7 when the bag is open.
My improved cone shaped, tapered, pointed, or corner bags are made from
paper, linen, cloth, leather, and any other suitable substance or material of the
form or shape shown in Fig. 1. The dotted lines in the latter figure represent the
points for folding. the same. After the paper or other material or substance has
been folded so as to place the point C to the point D the bag will assume the form
shown in Fig. 2 with the side seam open. After the side lap from the point C
to E in Fig. 1 has been folded over the back side of the bag, as in Fig. 3, it can
be secured or fastened by pasting, cementing, stitching, or other means according
to the substance or material the bag is made of, thus completing the manufacture
of the same in a manner hitherto unknown. The old or present system of manu-
facturing corner bags is represented in Fig. 7, wherein both sides of the bag are of
equal dimensions and the seam is on the front edge and also on the front of the bag
when open as shown in Fig. 8. Under all conditions the seam of my improved bag
is on the side whether open or closed as will be seen on referring to Figs. 3, 4,
and 6. In stringing the old or present system of corner bags it is necessary to
perforate both sides of the same as shown in Fig. 7, and which when the bag is
open would be as in Fig. 8 provided the upper part was not torn away in the act
of removing the same from the string, wire, or other substance. In stringing my
improved bag it is only necessary to perforate the upper part or point of the back
of the bag with one hole as shown in Figs. 4 and 5. When the bag is hung in this
manner and owing to the front of the bag being level with the points D and H the
bag is partly open as shown in section in Fig. 5, and which allows of the fingers
being inserted to remove the same from the string or its substitute, at the same
time opening the bag ready to insert any substance it is intended for. This system
of hanging and forming bags dispenses with the system of opening them by a blast of
air from the mouth of the person using the same as is the case with the old kind of
paper bags shown in Figs. 7 and 8.
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-
1. Constructing cone shaped, tapered, pointed, or corner bags manufactured from
paper, linen, cloth, leather, and any other suitable substance or material with a
seam that will remain a side seam whether the bag is open or closed, substantially
as described.
2. Folding and shaping cone shaped, tapered, pointed, or corner bags manu-
factured from paper, linen, cloth, leather, and any other suitable substance or
material so that the upper edge of the front side extends to the corners D and H
whether open or closed, and at a point below the back to allow of the same being
readily opened and removed at one operation from the supporting string or its
substitute by inserting the fingers, substantially as described and as shown in the
annexed drawings in Figs. 1 to 6 inclusive.
Dated the 12th February 1892.
EDMUND CHADWICK,
Agent.