IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKING BONNET FRONTS, ROUCHES, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES
Year: 1863

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Harrington Haywood' and
William Vernon at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 16th February 1863.
We, JOHN HARRINGTON HAYWOOD and WILLIAM VERNON, both of the Town
and County of the Town of Nottingham, Lace Manufacturers, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKING BONNET
FRONTS, ROUCHES, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES," to be as follows:―
Our Invention consists in constructing a spindle or spindles of any required
size and shape, and composed of wood, paper, or other material, and of the
requisite length of or for the articles to be packed, upon which spindle or
spindles we fix two or more pieces of perforated cork, india-rubber, or other
material to form cushions, to which these articles are attached by tacks, pins,,
or hooks, or we fix upon these spindles two or more collars of tin, pasteboard,
or other material, in which are punched any required number of slits or
grooves, into which the goods to be packed are placed; and further, to pro-
tect the articles from pressure in carriage transit or otherwise, we fix pieces
of wood, wire, pasteboard, or other material of different shapes at the ends
and at intervals on the spindles, and of such length that the ends protrude
beyond the articles, and which also hold two or more longitudinal pieces of
wood, pasteboard, or other material, which will protect the goods length-
wise. For most purposes these holders may be used without any box or cover,
but when covers are desirable we use a tube of a circular or other shape
in section of wood, paper, or other material, or in order to economize space in

page_text: in packing we cover the articles, only allowing the protectors to project over
the ends of such tube or case. And further we employ two standards of wood,
iron, or other material, upon which we place the spindles for the purpose of
packing the articles upon them. These standards are capable of adjustment
to divers lengths apart. At the ends of the aforesaid tube or covers we use
dises or lids of a similar shape. We sometimes use similar tubes or covers which
open at the centre, or open at the centre and at one or both ends; we also
make them to open longitudinally. We sometimes make both the spindles
and covers of such length that two or more lengths of goods may be placed on
the same spindle, in such case we use three or more cushions, discs, wires, or
other shape on the spindles, and for the packing of some goods we employ a
larger cushion, discs, wires, or other shape in the centre of the length of the
spindle, so that goods which are larger in the centre than at the ends thereof
may be securely packed, the enlarged centre giving more room where required.
We sometimes employ a sheet of paper, cardboard, wood, calico, or other
material, the width of such sheet being somewhat longer than the goods to be
packed. At certain distances on the sheet we secure, by gumming, pasting, or
otherwise, strips of similar material in such wise that when the sheet is rolled
up such strips will point towards the centre, and in the spaces thus formed
we place the goods previously to rolling up the sheet, and when the sheet is
rolled up we place one or more bands of paper or other material round it to
At either end we place a lid enclosing the end, or we use lids
or covers formed of a disc or other shape with two rims, the inner rim taking
into the inside of the end of the round or other shaped roll, and the outer rim
enclosing the outside of the end of such rolls, so that the roll cannot be crushed
inwards.