Improvements relating to Rolls of Paper for Toilet and other Purposes.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 6th May, 1890-Accepted, 7th June, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by SETH WHEELER, of Colonic, Montgomery, and
North Lansing Streets, Albany, New York, United States of America,
Manufacturer.]
Improvements relating to Rolls of Paper for Toilet and other
Purposes.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to toilet paper rolls and is designed to provide a roll of paper
from which sheets of more economical shape than heretofore may be torn. It also
relates to the new shape of the toilet paper sheets.
In carrying my said invention into practice I provide a roll of paper the web of
which is perforated, incised or otherwise weakened diagonally that is to say, along
inclined lines, instead as of heretofore having the perforations, incisions or the like
where the sheets are to be taken off, running at right angles across the web. There
has always heretofore been a resultant waste of paper. By employing a web however
which has its lines of weakness extending diagonally across the paper, a more
economical form of sheet is produced than heretofore which with a minimum amount
of paper gives perfect safety in the use of the sheet. By holding one of my improved
sheets in the palm of the hand with the long points placed in the direction of the
length of the hand, it will be seen that it is superior in this respect to the usual form
of sheet viz.: the 5 in. x 7 in. sheet as ordinarily used being in fact equivalent to
a 5 in. x 3 in. sheet, yet there is not so much paper in my improved sheet as in
the 5 in. x 7 in. sheet.
The sheets detached from a roll formed with diagonal perforations are of diamond
form giving a considerable gain in the length of the sheet between its extreme points
beyond that attainable with the ordinary form of sheet composed of the same quantity
of paper.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Rolls of Paper for Toilet and other
Purposes.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co. Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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 :-
This invention relates to toilet and other paper and is designed to provide a roll of
paper provided with perforations, incisions or lines of weakness so arranged that sheets
may be torn from the said roll, which by reason of their shape are more economical
than sheets of the form usually employed in such rolls.
In carrying my said invention into practice I provide a roll of paper the web
forming which is perforated incised or otherwise weaked, diagonally or obliquely that
is to say along lines inclined to the edges which form the roll of the web instead of as
heretofore along lines at right angles to the edges of the said web, so that the sheets
will be diamond-shaped or lozenge-shaped.

page_text: Rolls of toilet-paper containing a web capable of being separated .nto sheets by
reason of perforations, incisions or other lines of weakness made the.ein either by
creasing or by the use of chemical means, have heretofore had the perforations
incisions or other indications of points where the sheets are to be taken off so placed
on the web that the sheets produced were not of economical shape for se. There is
in them always a resultant waste of paper. By taking off a sheet however from a web
which has its lines of weakness extending obliquely across the paper a mo economical
sheet is produced than heretofore; also one where with a minimum amc nt of paper
there is also perfect safety in the use of the sheet. If one of my improved sheets is
held in the hand, with the long points placed in the direction of the length of the
hand it will be seen that it is superior in this respect to the usual-say five by seven-
sheet as ordinarily used, being in fact, equivalent to a five-and-one-half-by-eight sheet,
yet there is not so much paper in my improved sheet by about thirty per cent. as in
the five-by-seven sheet (which latter is the size of sheet generally used). There is
also a saving in the reduced space occupied by a given number of sheets. For
instance, one thousand sheets of the ordinary perforated paper of the size mentioned
above, namely, five by seven inches, will make a roll three and three-fourths inches in
diameter and five inches long, while a roll containing the same number of diamond-
shaped or lozenge-shaped sheets, each sheet five and one half by each inches in size,
will measure less than four and one half inches long and three inches in diameter.
In the accompanying drawings.
Figure 1 is a roll of toilet-paper made according to my invention with oblique lines
of perforations.
Figure 2 shows a detached portion of a similar roll having perforations and incisions
combined.
Figure 3 shows a detached portion of a similar roll having incisions only.
Figure 4 shows a sheet detached from the roll.
a, a, a are lines of weakness composed of perforations and made obliquely across
the web of paper, b, b, b are the sheets of paper which in Figure 2 are still attached to
the web.
In Figure 2 the oblique lines of weakness are formed by making perforati
and incisions c combined as shown.
In Figure 3 the lines of weakness are composed of incisions c only.
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In Figure 4 is seen a detached diamond-shaped or lozenge-shaped sheet.
gives the elongated points. It will be observed from the measurements thereon
there is a considerable gain in the length of the sheet as hereinbefore described.
results from severing the sheet from the roll obliquely which gives a very econon
and convenient sheet. It is obvious that this may be less perfectly accomplished by
alternating oblique with straight or curved lines, or both across the web, but I prefer
the use of oblique lines alone as being the most simple and practicable.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondent I wish it understood that I claim :--
A roll of paper the web forming which has straight parallel edges and oblique lines
of weakness transversely dividing it into diamond-shaped or lozenge-shaped sheets
substantially as described.
ԹՈՒԼ 1.- CA 1900
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.