Improvement in Wrappers for Bottles and other articles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Apr., 1893-Accepted, 13th May, 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Wrappers for Bottles and other articles.
We, RICHARD GEORGE BRONACK, Manufacturer, of 93 Classon Avenue,
Brooklyn, New York, and AMOS WOODRUFF, Gentleman, of 2703 Creston Avenue,
New York City, New York, both in the United States of America, 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:-
This invention relates to that class of wrappers consisting of an outer sheet or
cover, of paper, and an inner sheet or lining, of cardboard, or like material heavier
than the paper. Said lining is usually cut smaller than the cover; and prior to
this invention it has been kept in the required position on the cover by being secured
thereto, in one instance throughout its area, and in another instance at one of its
edges. This method of retaining the lining upon the cover is objectionable, for the
reason that in applying the wrapper to a bottle or other article, the lining draws
and exerts a strain on the cover, or vice versa, with a tendency to wrinkle or tear
the parts.
The general object of this invention is to hold the lining in a fixed position upon
the cover of the wrapper without permanently securing the lining thereto, and to
this end it consists in providing the cover with a pocket to receive one edge of the
lining, as hereinafter more fully described.
In the accompanying drawing,
Figure 1, represents a plan view of a wrapper embodying this invention, with a
portion of the pocket broken away to expose the lining therein.
Figure 2, represents a cross section of the wrapper.
Figure 3, represents a perspective view of the cover.
Figure 4, represents a like view of the lining.
Similar letters of reference indicate similar parts.
The letter A, indicates the cover and B, the lining of the wrapper, and C,
indicates the pocket of the cover. The cover A, is a sheet of paper, and the
lining B, a sheet of cardboard, which may be embossed as in Figures I and II, or
left plain as in Figure IV; or the lining may be composed of a sheet of felt or
other soft elastic material.
In the manufacture of this wrapper we take a sheet of paper and fold one of its
edges, which should be straight, upon the body of the sheet. We then cut and
refold the two extremities C₁ of the folded edge, and secure these parts to the body
of the sheet, as by means of glue, and, leaving the intermediate portion of said
folded edge free or detached, form the pocket C, at that point. We then cut the
lining B, so that it shall fit snugly into the pocket C, at one end of its edges; and
it will be apparent that when the lining is properly inserted in the pocket, it is
thereby retained in a fixed position, which in this example is central of the cover,
upon the latter, so that the lining maintains a proper relation to the cover in the
adjustment of the wrapper in the well known manner to the bottle or other article,
without its being secured to the cover, permitting the parts to move freely upon
each other so as to obviate wrinkling or tearing thereof by strain.
The edge of the cover A, opposite the pocket C, is usually coated with an
adhesive substance as at d, in order to facilitate the fastening of the wrapper.
It may be remarked that the pocket C, can be formed in other ways than by
folding the cover, as for example by means of a separate piece of material properly
secured at the required point.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :
1-A cover for a wrapper of the character specified, composed of a sheet of
paper with a pocket to receive one edge of the lining, substantially as shown and
described..
2: A cover for a wrapper of the character specified, composed of a sheet of
paper with one of its edges folded and secured to the body of the sheet, to form a
pocket for receiving one edge of the lining, substantially as shown and described.
3-A wrapper for a bottle or other article, consisting of the combination of a
cover of paper with the pocket at one of its edges, and the lining with one of its
edges fitted into said pocket, for retaining the lining in fixed position on the
cover, substantially as shown and described.
Dated this. 27th day of March 1893.
ALLISON BROS.,
Agents for the Applicants.