An Improved Wrapper for Margarine and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: An Improved Wrapper for Margarine and the like.
I, HENRY MASTERS, of 175 to 185, Hackney Road, London, N.E., Provision
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
It is necessary that wrappers used for margarine, should bear that word dis-
tinctly printed or otherwise impressed upon them.
My invention consists in providing a wrapper fulfilling this condition but so
made that when desirable (as for instance when the wrapper is required for other
substances) the portion bearing the word margarine may easily and readily be
detached from the remainder of the wrapper. To accomplish this I prefer, in
cutting the wrapper, to leave a projection at one end, this projecting part bearing
the word margarine and being perforated for detachment. Or I punch out on
two or three sides the portion of the wrapper bearing the word margarine and
perforate the remaining side or sides; or I use a label (bearing the word mar-
garine) cemented at ends or otherwise partially affixed to the wrapper in such a
way as to be readily torn off.
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Dated this 4th day of October 1800
An Improved Wrapper for Margarine and the like.
1, HENRY MASTERS, of 175 to 185, Hackney Road, in the County of London.
Provision Mechant, 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:-
My invention relates to an improved wrapper more particularly designed for
enclosing margarine although it can be used for other substances.
As is well known it is necessary that wrappers containing margarine must bear
that word distinctly printed or otherwise impressed upon them.
Now, my invention has for its object to provide a wrapper fulfilling this con-
dition but which at the same time enables the portion bearing the word "Mar-
garine or the like to be easily and readily detached from the wrapper when
desired, for instance when the wrapper is required for another substance, or after
the substance it encloses, has been sold.
To this end I cut the wrapper of the usual shape with the exception that a
projecting portion is left at one end or edge the said projecting
portion bearing the word margarine (or the name of any other sub-
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page_text: stance which it is designed to enclose) and being perforated so that it can be
easily detached or torn off as above mentioned.
In the accompanying drawing,-
Figure 1 is an elevation of a wrapper made according to the invention; and,
Figure 2 is a perspective view shewing the wrapper folded upon a piece of
margarine.
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a is a paper forming the wrapper proper and 6 is the projecting portion which,
when the wrapper is cut out, is left projecting at one end or edge; this pro-
jecting portion 6 has printed upon it the word "margarine" as shewn in the
drawing, or the name of any other substance for which the wrapper is designed.
c, c are the perforations which, in the arrangement shewn in the drawing, are
formed in the projecting portion b in alignment with the edge of the wrapper
proper a.
Figure 2 shews the wrapper applied to a piece of margarine, the projecting
portion being indicated as lying loosely upon the top of the folded parcel so
that it can be easily torn off, as shewn by the dotted lines, after the parcel has
been made un. but, if necessary it can be torn off before the wrapper is used.
In lieu of the above described arrangement I can punch out, on two or three
sides of the wrapper, the portion bearing the superscription and I can perforate
the remaining side or sides; or I can use the label bearing the superscription
cemented at the ends or otherwise partially affixed to the wrapper so that it can
be torn off.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
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1. A wrapper for margarine or the like comprising the wrapper proper of
ordinary shape and a projecting portion, label or the like, which bears the word
"margarine or the like and which is attached to the wrapper proper in such a
manner that it can be readily detached therefrom, substantially as herein before
described.
2. The manufacture and use of the improved wrapper for margarine and the
like herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated the fith day of Tul.. 1000
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.