IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BAGS AND POUCHES
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Archibald Jaques, of Tottenham, in the
County of Middlesex, Chemist, and Louis Sterne, of Victoria
Chambers, in the City of Westminster, Civil Engineer, for the
Sealed the 22nd May 1872, and dated the 19th December 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Archibald Jaques
and Louis Sterne at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 19th December 1871.
We, JAMES ARCHIBALD JAQUES, of Tottenham, in the County of
Middlesex, Chemist, and Louis STERNE, of Victoria Chambers, in the
City of Westminster, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BAGS AND
POUCHES," to be as follows:-
Our Invention consists in making bags and pouches of vulcanized
india-rubber by means of a moulding process, whereby these articles are
made of better quality and more sightly than heretofore.

page_text: The bags are by preference made of an oval form and contain two
pockets, having a central flap between them, and which may be folded.
over either pocket so as to prevent anything placed therein from falling
out.
In carrying out our Invention the rubber is prepared in sheets in the
usual manner, and is cut up in pieces of the required shape to form the
sides of the article. A metal core is placed between these two pieces of
rubber, and the raw or cut edges are brought into contact and are
pressed together by two plates which form the outsides of the mould and
which may be engraved or cut with any device it may be desired to
produce on the external surface of the article.
A cheaper form of pouch or bag may be made by dispensing with the
central flap, if desired, but these more simple pouches are otherwise
moulded and made from sheet rubber in precisely the same manner as
the pouches with flaps. When the pieces of sheet rubber are secured in
the mould the articles are submitted to heat in the usual manner in
order to produce the change known as vulcanizing.
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If desired any suitable fastening, either metallic or otherwise, may be
adapted to the central flap or to the pockets so as to prevent them from
accidentally discharging the contents of the pouch.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Archibald Jaques and Louis Sterne in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 19th June 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JAMES
ARCHIBALD JAQUES, of Tottenham, in the County of Middlesex, Chemist,
and LOUIS STERNE, of Victoria Chambers, in the City of Westminster,
Civil Engineer, send greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing c
dato the Nineteenth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in
the thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said James Archibald' Jaques and
Louis Sterne, Her special licence that we, the said James Archibald

page_text: Jaques and Louis Sterne, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as we, the said James Archibald Jaques and Louis Sterne,
our 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
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BAGS AND POUCHES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said James Archibald Jaques
and Louis Sterne, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under our, 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 Louis Sterne, on behalf of myself
and of the said James Archibald Jaques, do hereby declare the nature
of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and
to the figures marked thereon (that is to say): :-
Our Invention relates to an improved mode of making bags and
pouches which are intended more particularly to be used as tobacco
pouches, but bags for other purposes may be made on the same plan.
The improved bags or pouches are made of vulcanized india-rubber by
means of a moulding process, whereby these articles are made of better
quality and more sightly than heretofore.
The bags or pouches when used as tobacco pouches are by preference
made of an oval form, and contain two pockets having a central flap
between them, which may be folded over either pocket so as to prevent
anything placed therein from falling out, or the flap may be attached to
one or other of the pockets. This plan we prefer as being the most
convenient form of pouch, and is the plan shewn in the accompanying
Drawing, in which Fig. 1 is a side view of one of our improved pouches
folded up and filled with tobacco or anything else for which it may be
used; Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same; Fig. 3 is a longitudinal
vertical section of the pouch empty and not folded up.

page_text: In carrying out our Invention the rubber is prepared in sheets in the
usual manner of making vulcanized sheet rubber, and is cut up in pieces
of the required shape to form the sides and other parts of the article.
Fig. 4 represents a piece of rubber to form the back of the article ;
Fig. 5 is a piece to form the front and flap of one pocket; and Fig. 6
to form the front of the other pocket. The raw or cut edges of the
several parts are brought into contact and are pressed together by two
plates which form the outsides of the mould and which may be engraved
or cut with any device it may be desired to produce on the external
surface of the article. A metal or other core is placed inside the bag,
and when the mould is closed and secured the article may be submitted
to the vulcanizing process in the usual manner, care being taken in the
usual manner to prevent the flap when placed inside the pocket from
adhering thereto in the vulcanizing process.
A cheaper form of pouch or bag may be made by dispensing with the
central flap, if desired, but those more simple pouches are otherwise
moulded, and made from sheet rubber in precisely the same maner as
the pouches with flaps.
Having now described our Invention of "Improvements in the Manu-
facture of Bags and Pouches," and having explained the manner of
carrying the same into effect, we claim as the Invention secured to us
by Letters Patent as aforesaid, making bags or pouches as herein set
forth of vulcanized rubber by means of a moulding process.
In witness whereof, I, the said Louis Sterne, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Eighteenth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.