Improvements in Compartment Bags.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Mar., 1892-Accepted, 23rd Apr., 1892
COMELIN DIBUITION
Improvements in Compartment Bags.
We, WILLIAM ALBERT LORENZ and WILLIAM HENRY HONISS, residing at
96 Garden Street, in the City and County of Hartford, State of Connecticut, one of
the United States of America, Mechanical Engineers, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be par-
ticularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :—
This invention is a collapsed compartment bag consisting of two main outer
walls united at one edge, and of plicated side walls respectively uniting another
edge of each of the main walls, and of one or more plicated partitions attached to
the insides of the main walls, and dividing the bag into compartments having
plicated sides. These plicated side walls and partitions allow the bag to remain
flat and in small compass until required for use. The bag, when expanded, is
adapted to hold and carry a series of articles, whose brittle or fragile character
renders it desirable that they be kept separate, and each one securely and inde-
pendently held until it is required for use.
Figure 1 of the drawings is a view of a rectangular piece of paper provided
with the paste lines 1, 2, 3, and 4, 5. This paper, when folded transversely on the
line a b, between those two series of paste lines, is adapted to form the outer
walls 14 and 15 of the bag.
Figure 2 is a view of a rectangular piece of paper suitable to be folded and
pasted between the outer walls of the bag, so as, together with them, to constitute
a complete bag.
Figures 3 and 4 are an end view and a side view, respectively, of the sheet of
Figure 2, folded on the dot and dash lines thereof.
Figures 5 and 6 are a side view and an edge view, respectively, of the completed
bag, after the blank of Figures 3 and 4 has been placed between the outer walls,
forined by folding the blank of Figure 1; so that the paste lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, on
the blank of Figure 1, adhere to the surfaces 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, respectively, of what
was the blank of Figures 3 and 4.
Figure 7 is a cross-section on the line e d, of Figure 5, and represents the bag
as partly expanded, in order to show more plainly the arrangement and relation
of the two blanks. The bag thus completed, has the compartments 11, 12,
and 13; and has the walls 14 and 15 extending beyond the mouths of those com-
partments.
Figure 8 is a perspective view of the bag of Figures 5 and 6, when that bag
has been expanded; the extension of the wall 14 being bent down to allow of
looking into the mouths of the open compartments 11, 12, and 13.
Figures 9 and 10 are an end and a side view, respectively, of a bag identical
with that of Figures 5, 6, and 7, except that it has two additional compartments,
16 and 17, which are duplicates of the compartments 12 and 13, respectively, of
the bag of Figures 5, 6, and 7, and except that the wall 14, does not extend beyond
the compartments, and except that the wall 15 has a line of gum 18 thereon to
form a sealing flap.
Figure 11 is a view of the right hand edge of the bag of Figures 9 and 10 when
its compartments are expanded and the bottom flattened down.
Figures 12, 13, and 14, are an end, a side, and an edge view, respectively, of a
bag identical with that of Figures 5, 6, and 7, except that the middle compart-
ment 12, is represented as being wider than in the bag of Figures 5, 6, and 7,
in order to adapt the bag to contain objects of varying sizes, or to enable it to
contain two of such objects as may be contained singly in the compartments 11
and 13.
Figures 15, 16, and 17, are an end, a side, and an edge view, respectively, of a

page_text: bag like that of Figures 5, 6, and 7, (Figure 15 being slightly expanded) except
that the folded paper pasted between the outer walls is in two pieces instead of
one; and except that the plicated side walls of the compartments 11 and 13 are
folded outwardly instead of inwardly; while the plicated side walls of the com-
partment 12 are folded inwardly instead of outwardly. Two different ways of
folding the inner edges of the two different pieces are also shown in those figures.
Figures 18, 19, and 20, are an end, a side, and an edge view, respectively, of a
bag made by pasting together the walls 14 of two bags, similar to that of
Figures 5, 6, and 7, thus constituting in one bag, a double series of compart-
ments 11, 12, 13, and 19, 20, 21.
Figure 21 is a perspective view of that bag when all its compartments are
opened into substantially rectangular forms with the bottoms flattened down, a
portion of one wall 15, being cut away to show the compartments more clearly.
Figure 22 is a view of a rectangular sheet of paper provided with the longi-
tudinal paste lines 22, 23, 24, and 25; and with the pasted surfaces 26.
Figure 23 is a view of another rectangular piece of paper of a size to adapt it,
when folded, to be joined to the blank of Figure 22.
Figures 24 and 25 are an end and a side view, respectively, of the blank of
Figure 23, plicated along the dot and dash lines thereof.
Figures 26 and 27 are a side and an edge view, respectively, of the bag, com-
pleted by placing the blank of Figures 24 and 25 upon the blank of Figure 22,
with the lower edge of the former blank coinciding with the line ef of the last
mentioned figure, and by folding on that line the shorter wall 14, which is then
secured to the lower border of what was the blank of Figures 24 and 25, by its
pasted surfaces 26.
Figure 28 is a perspective view of the bag of Figures 26 and 27, with one of
its compartments expanded by a cigar thrust therein.
Figures 29 and 30 are a side and an edge view, respectively, of a paper bag,
having two groups of compartments, united side by side by a middle reach of
paper 27, of a sufficient width to allow the two groups of compartments, when
filled, to be folded one upon the other, being connected by the reach of paper 27
as by a hinge.
Figure 31 is an edge view of a paper bag having two groups of compartiments
united at their mouth ends by their walls 15, which serve as a hinge, and as a
cover for the ends of the compartments, when those two groups are filled and are
folded, one upon the other.
Figure 2 is an edge view of a bag having two groups of compartments, united
at their bottom ends by a reach 29, sufficiently wide to allow the two groups, when
filled, to be folded one upon the other, the reach serving as a hinge.
These bags may be made of paper, cloth, leather, imitations of leather, or of
any material having sufficient flexibility or pliability to allow it to be folded into
the forms shown. They may be either pasted or sewed together; or the pasting
may be reinforced by stitching, as shown at 28 in Figure 13.
The outer walls of the bag may be ornamented by printing, stamping, or
embossing thereon any desired design or business card.
The proportions of the bags shown in most of the figures are those which adapt
the bags to the reception of cigars. Figures 18 to 21, inclusive, however, repre-
sent proportions suitable for an egg or fruit bag. All of the modified forms of
bags shown in the drawings may be adapted in size and number of compartments
to any purpose for which compartment or cellular bags are desirable, by suitably
proportioning the sizes of the blanks, and the number and depths of the plications.
The walls 14 and 15, are for convenience made of unequal length, to facilitate the
opening of a collapsed bag. These projecting walls also protect the ends of the
cigars or other objects contained, and may be used as a handle or margin by which
to seize the bag without crushing its contents when placing it in or removing it
from the pocket. Or they may be folded and pasted down over the mouths of the
compartments so as to cover the contents thereof.

page_text: In using any of the forms of bags shown in Figures 1 to 21 inclusive, the
objects to be enveloped should first be thrust into those compartments, the plicated
walls of which are folded outward from the centres thereof; because the objects
will enter those compartments more easily; and because the filling of those com-
partments operates also to expand the adjacent compartments, which can them-
selves then be filled more readily. When filling these bags with cigars or other
objects having pointed ends, a series of three or more compartments can be filled
at one operation, as easily as the same number of cigars might be pushed into a
plain bag, for the reason that the points of the series of cigars will enter all
together the centres of the series of compartments adapted to contain them.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
1. A. collapsed compartment bag, each compartment having its wall or walls
plicated these plications enabling the bag to remain collapsed while empty, and
to be expanded when articles are inserted therein; substantially as described.
2. A collapsed compartment bag, consisting of two outer walls united at one
edge of each, having between them a series of compartments, and one of those
outer walls being shorter than the other wall, substantially as described.
3. A collapsed compartiment bag, consisting of two main walls united at one
edge of each, and of two plicated side walls, respectively uniting another edge of
each of the main walls, and of one or more plicated partitions attached to the
insides of the main walls, and dividing the bag into compartments; the plications
in the side walls and partitions enabling the bag to be expanded, and the compart-
ments thus opened, by simply pulling or pushing the main walls apart; all
substantially as described.
4. A collapsed compartment bag, consisting of two main walls united at one
edge of each, and of two plicated side walls, respectively uniting another edge of
each of the main walls, and of one or more plicated partitions attached to the
insides of the main walls, and dividing the bag into compartments; the plications
in the side walls and partitions enabling the bag to be expanded and the com-
partments thus opened by simply pulling or pushing the main walls apart; and
one or more of the compartments having its side walls folded outward from
the longitudinal centre of such compartment or compartments; substantially as
described.
Dated this 28th day of January 1892.
WILLIAM HENRY HONISS.
WILLIAM ALBERT LORENZ.
J. C. Chapman, C.P.A.,
70, Chancery Lane, London, Filing Agent.