AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKING PINS FOR SALE
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Boulton Ladbury, of Balsall Heath, in
the County of Worcester, Pin Manufacturer, for the Invention of
A Tway AD TWODAY Wa
DIORADAD RALI
Sealed the 30th May 1873, and dated the 18th December 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Boulton Ladbury
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 18th December 1872.
I, ROBERT BOULTON LADBURY, of Balsall Heath, in the County of
Worcester, Pin Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKING PINS FOR SALE,"
to be as follows:-
My Invention has for its object to produce a small packet or parcel of
pins presenting heads of the pins at each of its four sides.
In packing pins for sale according to my Invention I take strips of
paper of a width somewhat greater than the length of the pins to be
packed and of any required length. I make the usual folds across the

page_text: strips of paper and stick the pins in the usual way through the said
folds. The said folds however are alternately made on opposite sides of
the strips, and the rows of pins alternately stuck on opposite sides of the
strips. When one of these strips provided with pins is folded up it
forms a packet presenting the heads of pins at two opposite sides, the
intermediate sides of the packet being without pins. By taking two of
the said strips provided with pins and placing them at right angles to
one another, the end of one strip lying upon the end of the other strip,
and then folding the said strips alternately upon one another, there is
produced a packet or parcel of a rectangular figure, the thickness of 1
which depends upon the length of the strips of paper, and the number
of folds made by the said strips, each side of the packet presenting a
series of rows of pin-heads.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Robert Boulton Ladbury in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 13th June 1878.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
BOULTON LADBURY, of Balsall Heath, in the County of Worcester, Pin
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Robert Boulton Ladbury, Her special license
that. I, the said Robert Boulton Ladbury, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Robert Boulton Ladbury, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT
.

page_text: OR IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKING PINS FOR SALE," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Robert Boulton Ladbury, 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 performed, 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 Robert Boulton Ladbury, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and 'by
the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
My Invention has for its object to produce a small packet or parcel of
pins presenting heads of the pins at each of its four sides.
In packing pins for sale according to my Invention I take strips of
paper of a width somewhat greater than the length of the pins to be
packed and of any required length. I make the usual folds across the
strips of paper, and stick the pins in the usual way through the said
folds; the said folds however are alternately made on opposite sides of
the strips, and the rows of pins alternately stuck on opposite sides of
the strips. When one of these strips provided with pins is folded up-it
forms a packet presenting the heads of pins at opposite sides, the inter-
mediato sides of the packet being without pins. By taking two of the
said strips provided with pins, and placing them at right angles to one
another, the end of one strip lying upon the end of the other strip, and
then folding the said strips alternately upon one another there is produced
a packet or parcel of a rectangular figure, the thickness of which
depends upon the length of the strips of paper, and the number of folds
made by the said strips, each side of the packet presenting a series of
rows of pin heads.
The folded strips of paper may be fixed in their folded positions by an
ornamental binder placed on each side, and secured together by a cross
fastening or by sewing.
Having explained the nature of my Invention I will proceed to
describe with reference to the accompanying Drawing the manner in
which the same is to be performed.
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page_text: Figures 1 and 2 represent in plan and edge view the two strips of
paper provided with pins which I use in packing pins for sale according
to my Invention, or for making a small packet or parcel of pins presenting
heads of the pins at each of its four sides. Figure 3 illustrates the
manner in which the said two strips are arranged prior to folding them¸t
to produce the packet or parcel of pins represented in Figure 4. The
two strips of paper provided with pins are marked respectively a and b.
Across each strip the folds c, c, and d, d, are made, the folds, c, c, being
made on one side of the paper and the folds d, d, on the opposite side of
the paper, the folds c, c, on one side of the paper alternating with the :
folds d, d, on the opposite side of the paper, as best seen in the edge
view of Figure 2. Through these folds c, c, and d, d, rows of pins are
stuck as represented, so as thereby to produce a strip having rows of
pins alternately stuck on opposite sides of the strip. In making a packet
of pins from the strips a, b, provided with rows of pins alternately stuck
on opposite sides, I place the said strips a, b, at right angles to one
another in the manner represented in Figure 3, and. alternately fold the
said strips upon one another, that is to say, the strip b, Figure 2, is
inverted, and upon the end e of the said strip 6 the end f of the other
strip a is laid at right angles, as illustrated in Figure 3. The strip 6 is
now thrown in the direction of the arrow over the end f of the strip a,
and folded at the line g upon the said end f. The strip a is next folded
upon the folded strip 6 by throwing it in the direction of the arrow, the
folding of the strip a upon the strip 6 taking place at the line h. The
strip 6 is now folded back upon the strip a, and the strip a similarly
folded back upon the strip b. By thus alternately folding the strips a, b,
upon one another a packet or parcel of pins of a rectangular figure is
produced, as illustrated in Figure 4, each side of the packet presenting a
series of rows of pin heads...
Although in, the accompanying Drawing I have only represented strips
of paper provided with pins having a length suitable to form a packet
with two rows of pins on each of its sides, yet it will be understood that
by increasing the length of the strips and the rows of pins stuck therein
a packet or parcel of pins may be produced having three or more rows
of pins on each of its four sides. After the strips a, b, have been folded
in the manner described and represented the folded parts are fastened
together by sewing, the sewing being concealed by labels pasted on the
faces of the packet; or instead of sewing the folded parts together they

page_text: may be fastened together by an ornamental binder passed through the
middle of the packet or fastened together in any convenient manner.
Having now described the nature of my Invention and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do
not limit myself to the precise details herein described and illustrated,
as the same may be varied without departing from the nature of my
Invention; but I claim as my Invention the improvement or improve-
ments in packing pins for sale herein-before described and illustrated in
the accompanying Drawing, that is to say, producing a rectangular
packet or parcel of pins, cach of its sides presenting a series of rows of
pin heads by taking two strips of paper provided with rows of pins
alternately stuck on opposite sides of the strips and placing the strips at
right angles to one another, the end of one strip lying upon the end of
the other strip, and then folding the said strips alternately upon one
another, substantially as described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Boulton Ladbury, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
ROBERT BOULTON LADBURY. (L.S.)
Witness,
RICHARD SKERRETT,
Clerk to George Shaw,
Birmingham.