AN IMPROVED MODE OP COMIZED FARRICS
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Sam Mendel, of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Merchant, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED MODE OP
COMIZED FARRICS"
Sealed the 1st February 1870, and dated the 19th November 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Sam Mendel at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
19th November 1869.
I, SAM MENDEL, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Merchant,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED.
MODE OF PACKING BALES OF COTTON AND OTHER FABRICS," to be as follows:-
My Invention is particularly beneficial in packing fabrics that are
intended to be shipped to foreign parts, and from which air and moisture
must be excluded.
My Invention consists in an improved mode of packing bales with
blue woven fabric, paper, oiled cloth, tarpauling, and canvas, whereby
the air and moisture are excluded, and consequently the fabrics are
preserved from injury.

page_text: In performing my Invention the ends and sides of the bale are pro-
tected, first, by a wrapper of strong blue fabric marked with dark blue
stripes; secondly, by a wrapper of strong paper, then by oiled cloth,
then tarpauling, and the outside consists of striped canvas. The top
and bottom of the bale which are generally exposed more than the sides
and ends are protected, first, by a wrapper of white paper marked with
blue stripes, then by brown paper, then by very thick paper, then oiled
cloth, then tarpauling, then another sheet of paper, and the outside
consists of striped canvas.
The fabrics to be packed are pressed by hydraulic or other power,
and the balo is secured by metal bands or cords in the usual manner.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Sam Mendel in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 22nd February 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAM
MENDEL, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Sam Mendel, Her special licence,
that I, the said Sam Mendel, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Sam Mendel, my exccutors, adminis-
trators, 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 IMPROVED MODE OF
PACKING BALES OF COTTON AND OTHER FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Sam Mendel, 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 Scal Patent Office within

page_text: six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Sam Mendel, 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 (that is to say) :-
:-
My Invention is particularly.beneficial in packing fabrics in bales that
are intended to be shipped to foreign parts and from which air and
moisture must be excluded, and it consists in an improved mode of
packing such bales.
In performing my Invention the ends and sides of the bale are pro-
tected, first, by a wrapper of strong blue fabric marked with dark blue
stripes; secondly, by a wrapper of strong paper, then by oiled cloth,
then tarpauling, and the outside consists of striped canvas. The top
and bottom of the bale which are generally exposed more than the sides
and ends are protected, first, by a wrapper of white paper marked with
blue stripes, then by brown paper, then by very thick paper, then oiled
cloth, then tarpauling, then another sheet of paper, and the outside
consists of striped canvas.
The fabrics to be packed are pressed by hydraulic or other power,
and the bale is secured by metal bands or cords in the usual
manner.
And in order that my Invention may be more fully understood I will
proceed to describe the mode of operation.
I first take a piece of striped canvas of the size required to correspond
with the bale to be packed; this piece of striped canvas is placed on the
follower of the press; then I place a sheet or sheets of paper on the
canvas, then a piece of tarpauling, then a piece of oiled cloth, then a
sheet or sheets of very thick paper, then brown paper, and then a
wrapper of white paper marked with blue stripes. The pieces of fabric
to be packed are then piled up on the follower of the press, and then a
similar set of sheets of white paper with blue stripes, brown paper, very
thick paper, oiled cloth, tarpauling, paper, and striped canvas is placed
on the pile of fabrics; the press is then set to work, and when the pile
of fabrics is compressed to the required degree the ends and sides of the
bale are surrounded first, by a wrapper of strong blue fabric marked
with dark blue stripes; secondly, by a wrapper of strong paper; thirdly,
by a wrapper of oiled cloth; fourthly, by a wrapper of tarpauling; and,

page_text: fifthly, by a wrapper of striped canvas. In surrounding the bale with
these wrappers the overlapping sides and ends of the paper, oiled cloth,
tarpauling, and canvas, forming the protection for the top and bottom
of the bale must be folded over alternately with the wrappers of the sides
and ends. When the whole is completed the outer wrappers of striped
canvas are stitched together, and the metal bands or cords are secured
in the ordinary manner.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention and described the
manner of performing the same, I wish it to be understood that I do not
intend to limit myself to the details given, as the number of layers of
paper, oiled cloth, tarpauling, and canvas may be increased or reduced;
but what I claim is, the use of blue woven fabric marked with dark blue
stripes; also, white paper marked with blue stripes, and striped canvas
for packing bales of cotton and other fabrics.
In witness whereof, I, the said Sam Mendel, have hereto set my
hand and scal, this Nineteenth day of February One thousand
eight hundred and seventy.
SAM MENDEL. (L.S.)