AN IMPROVED SAMPLE' BAG FOR POSTAL AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Morgan, of the Firm of Dalton and Morgan,
Wholesale Stationers, of No. 3, Budge Row, in the City of London, for
the Invention of "AN IMPROVED SAMPLE' BAG FOR POSTAL AND OTHER
PURPOSES."
Sealed the 5th April 1864, and dated the 13th October 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Morgan at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 13th
October 1863.
I, GEORGE MORGAN, of the Firm of Dalton and Morgan, Wholesale
Stationers, of No. 3, Budge Row, in the City of London, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED SAMPLE' BAG FOR POSTAL
AND OTHER PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
The Invention relates principally to bags made of paper or other suitable
material intended to enclose samples, or small quantities of tea, coffee, seeds,
or other such articles to be sent by post; but is applicable also to bags used
for other purposes whenever it is requisite to close the mouth of a bag
effectually, and still to allow of its being opened when required and reclosed
without injury to the bag.

page_text: The Invention consists in folding the mouth of the bag either transversely,
diagonally, or otherwise (a double diagonal fold being preferred), so as to
perfectly close the mouth, and then perforating the same so that it can be
secured by a string or strings. It will be evident that upon removing the
string the bag can be opened when required, and that upon refolding the bag
in the same creases as before the perforations will correspond, so that the
string can be easily passed through and retied. One or more of the per-
forations may be protected by a metal eyelet if preferred, so as to prevent the
liability of the string being torn out.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Morgan in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
13th April 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
MORGAN, of the Firm of Dalton and Morgan, Wholesale Stationers, of No. 3,
Budge Row, in the City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the 27th year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said George Morgan, Her special license that I, the said
George Morgan, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said George Morgan, my executors, administrators, or 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
IMPROVED SAMPLE BAG FOR POSTAL AND OTHER PURPOSES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said George Morgan, executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, or under the
hand and seal of one of them, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Morgan, do hereby declare
the nature of my 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 in writing, and on reference being had to the accompanying Sheet
of Drawings, that is to say:-
The Invention relates principally to bags made of paper or other suitable
material intended to enclose samples or small quantities of tea, coffee, seeds,
or other such articles to be sent by post; but is applicable also to bags used
for other purposes whenever it is requisite to close the mouth of a bag
effectually, and still to allow of its being opened when required and reclosed
without injury to the bag.
The Invention consists in folding the mouth of the bag either transversely,
diagonally, or otherwise (a double diagonal fold being preferred), so as to
perfectly close the mouth, and then perforating the same so that it can be
secured by a string or strings. It will be evident that upon removing the
string the bag can be opened when required, and that upon refolding the bag
in the same creases as before the perforations will correspond, so that the
string can be easily passed through and retied. One or more of the per-
forations may be protected by a metal eyelet if preferred, so as to prevent the
liability of the string being torn out.
Such being the nature and object of my said Invention for "An Improved
Sample' Bag for Postal and other Purposes," I will now proceed to describe
more in detail the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed
or carried into practical effect, and in order that the same may be distinctly
understood, I have annexed hereunto a Sheet of Drawings illustrative thereof,
and have marked the same with figures corresponding with those in the
following explanation thereof, that is to say:-
In the annexed Drawing Figure 1 represents one of my improved sample
bags, the dotted lines showing the position of the diagonal folds; Figure 2 is
a view of the same when folded and tied; and Figure 3 is a view of the
reverse side of the same.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention for "An
Improved Sample' Bag for Postal and other Purposes," together with the
manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into
practical effect, I would remark in conclusion, that although I have shewn in
the Drawing, for the sake of illustration, one method only of folding and
perforating the mouth of the bag, yet I do not intend to limit or confine
myself to such precise method; but what I claim as my Invention is, folding

page_text: the mouth of such bags either transversely or otherwise, and then perforating
the same so that it can be tied or secured by a string or strings.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Morgan, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of April, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-four.
G. MORGAN. (L.S.)