Improvements in the Construction of Blue or other Color Packages.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 14th May, 1887.
Specification Accepted, 1st July, 1887.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Blue or other Color Packages.
I, WILLIAM EDGE of 48 Raphael Street, Brownlow Fold, Bolton in the County of
Lancaster, Manufacturing Chemist and Dye 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 principally to improvements upon the subject-matter of
Letters Patent granted to me bearing date the 22nd day of September 1884,
No. 12666, and consists in providing means for the purpose of dispensing with the
attachment or handle named therein, at the same time producing an efficient stirrer.
The blue or other color used by bleachers, dyers, or for domestic purposes is
wrapped or parcelled up for sale in a bag or cloth of any suitable fibrous material,
being secured in the latter by means of tieing with string or other equivalents. The
bag or cloth is elongated beyond the choke, which part is stiffened by means of glue,
adhesive liquid, paste, or other analogous substances which are insoluble in water to
form a handle for the purpose of stirring the same in water, starch, or other liquid as
desired.
Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of my improved blue or other color package, and
Fig. 2 is an outside view of same.
The blue or other color A in Fig. 1 is wrapped or parcelled up in a bag or cloth B
of any suitable fibrous material, being secured at the choke E by the cord F or other
equivalents. The bag or cloth B is of sufficient size to allow, after tieing up, of the
elongated end from C to D in Fig. 2 which forms the handle. The elongated fabric is
folded, twisted, or otherwise, after which it is stiffened by being dipped or otherwise
in glue, liquid paste, or other analogous substances which become insoluble when placed
in water, thus forming a handle to enable the bag of blue or other color to be handled
and stirred in water, starch, or other liquids without staining the operators hands or
fingers.

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Glue, liquid paste, or other analogous substances employed for stiffening the
elongated end from C to D are made insoluble in water by the following methods:-
1. The elongated cloth from C to D forming the handle is dipped into a strong
glue liquor and then into a solution of potassium or sodium bichromates and allowed
to dry exposed to the action of daylight.
2. The cloth end may be dipped into melted paraffin wax, or into melted resin,
or preferably into a mixture of these substances. In lieu of paraffin wax beeswax
or other similar waxy materials may be used. Beeswax made be substituted by
ceresine or other so called mineral waxes.
3. The cloth end may be dipped in a solution of shellac dissolved in methylated
spirit, ammonia, or other solvents.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is:-
In a blue or other color package, wrapped or parcelled up for sale, the use of
the stiffened elongated end of the bag or cloth B from C to D for the purpose of
forming a handle, substantially as herein described and as shown on the drawing.
EDMUND CHADWICK, Fel. Inst. P.A.,
92, St. George's Road, Bolton,
Agent for Applicant.