A Novel or Improved Mode of Packing or Securing Biscuits, Cakes and the like.
Year: 1888

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Novel or Improved Mode of Packing or Securing Biscuits, Cakes,
and the like.
I, WILLIAM GRAY trading as Gray Dunn & Co. Stanley Street Kinning Park.
Glasgow Biscuit manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows :-
My invention has for its object the packing or securing of biscuits, cakes and the
.like in quantities of a definite value; in carrying out which, I employ one two or
more ribbons, slips or tapes of paper or other suitable material preferably as trans-
parent as possible, by means of which a number of biscuits, cakes and like articles in
quantities of a definite value may be secured, either by tying (in the case of the
employment of a textile material, as for instance woven cotton, silk or the like,) or, in
the case of paper and the like by the aid of a suitable mucilage.
By the above described means of securing biscuits, cakes and the like in packets of
a definite value, said articles whether packed to serve as samples, or for sale, are at all
times visible or partially so to the purchaser or those desirous of testing the quality of
the packed article.
Dated this Twenty seventh day of Al 1000
JAMES STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers,
20, High Holborn, W.C.,
Agent for Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Novel or Improved Mode of Packing or Securing Biscuits, Cakes,
and the like.
I, WILLIAM GRAY, trading as Gray, Dunn and Co. Stanley Street, Kinning Park,
Glasgow, Biscuit manufacturer, 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:-
My invention has reference to a novel method of packing or securing biscuits,
cakes and the like in quantities of a definite value.
In order that my invention may be the better understood I have appended the
accompanying sheet of drawings in which Figure 1. represents a number of biscuits
secured by a number of strips of paper. Figure 2 shows a number of biscuits
secured by two tapes of textile material, and Figure 3 is a packet of biscuits secured
by two strips of paper and partly enveloped in a wrapper.
.
In accordance with my invention Lemploy one, two or more ribbons, bands,, slips
or tapes of paper or other suitable material A preferably as transparent as possible, by
means of which a number of biscuits, cakes and like articles B in quantities
representing a definite value, may be packed and secured either by tying (in the
case of the.eniployment of a textile matérial, as for instance woven cotton, silk or the
like), or, in the case of paper and the like, by the aid of a suitable mucilage.
Said bands or slips may be of any suitable width to meet the requirements of the
various sizes of biscuits, cakes or the like, it is desired to secure.
In addition to the bands or slips aforesaid, for securing the biscuits, cakes or the
like, I may under some circumstances bind the packet around its circumference by a
supplementary band and thus ensure to the interior cleanliness and freedom from
exterior influences.
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 novel and improved mode of packing and securing a number of biscuits
representing a definite value substantially as herein described and set forth.
Dated this Twenty seventh day of October 1888.
JAMES STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers,
20, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agent for Applicant.