Envelope or Bag for Bottles.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Oct., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 2nd July, 1890-Accepted, 27th Sept., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Envelope or Bag for Bottles.
I ALFRED GEORGE BEALE of 23 Monson Road Tunbridge Wells Kent Surgeon and
Physician, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
These envelopes are made long and narrow and of only sufficient width to allow of
the bottles to be inserted into them with case-and they may be narrowed at their
closed end for a distance corresponding to the length of the neck of the bottle and
inserted cork the opposite or open end having a flap of sufficient width to cover
the end of contained botile, and may be of quadrangular shape, if preferred, or partially
quadrangular and partially pointed the base or portion of the flap nearest the body of
envelope being quadrangular and the free margin being of pointed or any shape which
fancy may design-the Hap being gummed or otherwise as preferred.
These envelopes may be made of various standard sizes to suit the different
medicine bottles at present in common use, and of any suitable quality of paper.
Datod this First day of October 1889
ALFRED GEO. BEALE.
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
Envelope or Bag for Bottles.
I, ALFRED GEORGE BEALE of 23 Monson Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Surgeon
and Physician, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to supersede the use of wrapping paper for bottles
containing medicine, scent, or other liquids or objects, and to substitute therefor a
cheaper, neater and more expeditiously applied means for wrapping up bottles.
For this purpose I make a wrapping in the form of an envelope, which is closed at
the neck or mouth end, where it is tapered down to smaller dimensions and which can
be closed at the other or bottom end by means of a rectangular or other flap, which is
adapted to be folded down and fastened, so that the bottom of the contained bottle is
covered. I may if desired flute, fold or ornament the wrappers in any desired
manner.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is a plan view of an envelope in the partly
creased form for transmission or storage.
Figure 2 is a perspective view shewing the manner in which the neck end of the
envelope is formed; Figure 3 is an inverted plan shewing the bottom end with the
flap ready to be fastened down; Figure 4 like view shewing the flap fastened down,
and Figure 5 a side view of the finished closed envelope with the bottle inside. The
envelope blank, having been cut out of paper or analogous material of the required
shape for the finished article and all according to the size and shape of the bottle, is
folded over and gummed together, for instance along the seam a, a, Figures 1 and 5
the flaps c, c', are folded over and then the flaps b,, Figure 2, are folded over and
gummed down. The latter flaps have their edges doubled over for the sake of strength
and appearance, as shown. The cutting out of the blank, and the further completing
the envelope, including the gumming and folding in or creasing of the parts of the
neck and bottom ends may advantageously be done by a machine or machines con-
structed therefor. When the bottle has been put into the envelope, the neck end
foremost, the end parts are next folded down, having been by preference first creased
in the machine as stated, and the damped gummed flap may then be folded down upon
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page_text: the parts & and affixed thereto. Or the flap may be fixed by sealing wax or by other
suitable means if preferred.
Figure 6 is a side view of the bottom part of a modified form of envelope ready for
storage or transport, Figure 7 is a side view showing it applied to a bottle with the
flap fastened down. The form differs from the one just described, in that the bottom
end of the envelope has no parts to fold over like d and in that the flap fis
made longer or with a tongue which is fastened down upon the side of the envelope,
as shewn in Figure 7.
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 :-
First. A bottle wrapping in envelope form, having a closed tapered neck. end,
and having the other or bottom end provided with a closing flap, substantially as
set forth.
Second. A bottle envelope made of paper or analogous material, fastened together
along the seams a a, b, whereby the body of the envelope and the upper portion
thereof are closed, and having a flap at the lower portion integral with the body of
the envelope and adapted to close the bottom end of same substantially as set forth.
Third. In bottle envelopes with closed tapered neck end and having the other or
bottom end provided with a closing flap, the formation of bottom end and flap as
described with reference to Figures 1 to 5 and 6 and 7.
Dated this 2nd day of Jul 1900
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.