IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CASES OR PACKINGS FOR BOTTLES AND JARS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Barsham, of Kingston-upon-Thames, .in the
County of Surrey, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF CASES OR PACKINGS FOR BOTTLES AND JARS."
'Sealed the 19th August 1856, and dated the 20th February 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John-Barsham at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 20th February
1856.
I, JOHN BARSHAM, of Kingston upon Thames, in the County of Surrey,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CASES-OB -PACKINGS FOR BOTTLES AND JARS," to be
as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of cases
or packings for bottles and jars. For this purpose, tufts of separated or
unseparated fibres of the cocoa-nut husk; or flags, or rushes, or other vegetable
fibrous matters are used, and they are woven into tubes by wefts passing
spirally around so as to form a tubular case, the other vegetable matters before
mentioned acting as the warps. Such wefts are-not required to be continuous
from end to end of a case or packing, but may simply be near the middle or
at intervals in the length.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed.
by the said John Barsham in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
20th August 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
BARSHAM, of Kingston upon Thames, in the County of Surrey, Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said John Barsham Her special licence that I, the said John
Barsham, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said John Barsham, 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CASESS OR PACKING FOR BOTTLES AND JARS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Barsham, my
executors or administrators, 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 per-
formed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Barsham, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention consists of producing tubular weavings suitable for making
cases or packings for bottles and jars.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shows the tubular case or covering for a bottle or for a long jar,
made according to my Invention in which the tufts or bundles a, a, of rushes
or of cocoa-nut fibre, or of straw, or other vegetable fibrous matters' constitute
the longitudinal strands or warp of the woven tube, whilst the strings or yarns
4 constitute the transverse yarns or strands of the weaving, such yarns or

page_text: strings passing alternately under and over the bundles or strands of vege-
table fibrous matters a, a. The yarns or strings b, b, may be used at greater
or less intervals apart, but I have found that by using them at the intervals
shown a sufficient weaving of the bundles a, a, into a fabric is accomplished,
and is such as will retain its form.
Figure 2 shows a plan of the fabric as woven, before fastening the ends of
the transverse strings or yarns b, b, together, to make the sheet of fabric into
a tubular weaving.
I would state, that in making the fabric, Figure 2, suitable for the covering
of a bottle or jar, although it is requisite when the tubular fabric is formed
that the bundles or tufts a, a, of cocoa-nut fibre, or of rushes, or of other
vegetable fibrous matters as shall run longitudinally of the tubular fabric or
form the warp thereof, they may in the act of weaving the fabric Figure 2 be
either used as the warp or as the weft. When the fabric, Figure 2, has been
produced, and the ends of the yarns or strings tied together to make the same
into a tube, then, in order to complete the case or packing for a bottle or jar,
the upper end at c is to be bound or tied, as shown in Figure 1, and the woven
case according to my Invention will be produced.
I would state that I am aware that it is not new to cover bottles and jars
with covers made of rushes or of other vegetable fibrous matters, but hereto-
fore the same has not been woven.
And I wish it to be understood that my Invention consists in weaving such
vegetable matters into tubular covers or packings for bottles and jars.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Barsham, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
S. CARPMAEL.
JOHN BARSHAM. (L.S.)