Improvements in Envelopes or Wrappers for Bottles and other Articles.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Feb., 1899-Accepted, 22nd Apr., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Envelopes or Wrappers for Bottles and other
Articles.
I, WILLIAM JOHN SYDNEY DAY, of 16, Burgoyne Road, Harringay, London, N.,
Printer, 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 the manufacture of wrappers or envelopes (for bottles
and other articles) made of paper or pasteboard corrugated in accordance with the
method described in the Specification of Letters Patent No. 2005 dated January
25th 1898 granted to G. Leske, and the invention has for its object to adapt such
corrugated fabric to the formation of bottle envelopes (in substitution for ordinary
straw envelopes used for packing) or wrappers for other fragile articles by the
combination with the corrugated fabric of ligatures whereby the sheet of corru-
gated fabric may be quickly wrapped about the bottle or other article and se-
cured in such manner as to prevent all liability of the bottle slipping out of the
envelope when being handled.
In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 represents a cross section of a corru-
gated wrapper with a ligature of wire or cord threaded through the corrugations.
Figure 2 shews a perspective view of the corrugated wrapper as enveloping a
bottle, the ligatures being secured. Figure 3 represents a cross section of the
ribbed plates between which the corrugated wrapper is held whilst the ligatures
are being threaded through it, the needle for threading the ligature being shewn in
the act of threading. Figures 4 and 5 represent longitudinal sections of the
plates as separated and closed together respectively. The same letters of
reference indicate the same parts in all the Figures.
a is the sheet of paper or pasteboard which has been corrugated with corrugations
preferably of dovetailed form in cross-section, and 6 is a wire or cord which has been
threaded through the webs of the corrugations a sufficient length of the ends of
the wire or cord being left projecting at the sides of the sheet for twisting or
tying purposes. Preferably the wire or cord is not threaded through the last
three or four corrugations at each side of the sheet in order that when the edges
of the sheet overlap after the latter is wrapped round the bottle or other article
the overlapping of the wrapper on itself shall not interfere with the twisting or
tying together of the two ends of the wire or cord. Two, three, or more such
cords or wires may be similarly threaded through the corrugated wrapper on
parallel lines at suitable distances apart according to the size of the sheet and the
shape of the article it is intended to enclose, the object in the case of a wine or
similar bottle being to so apply the ligatures as to effectually prevent the latter
from slipping out of the envelope or wrapper whilst being handled in packing or
unpacking or whilst being carried.
In Figure 2 the positions of the three wires or cords is indicated at 61, 62, 63.
The wrappers provided with such ligatures may be supplied in the flat and
wrapped round the bottles or other articles as required and secured by tying the

page_text: ends of the ligatures or they may be made into bottle envelopes in readiness to
receive the bottles, the wrapper in that case being lapped round a temporary
mandrel of proper shape and the ligatures drawn tight at 61, 62, and secured by
twisting together the ends of the wires. The ligature at 63 would be left loose
and be drawn tight and similarly secured after the bottle is inserted, the enve-
lope being made so much longer than the bottle that this ligature will be beyond
the base in order that when drawn tight the envelope or wrapper will be con-
tracted until it is smaller than the base of the bottle as shewn so that the
bottle cannot possibly slip out, this being especially useful in the case of a single
bottle to be carried in the hand.
The means by which the ligatures are inserted in the corrugated wrapper com-
prise a bed plate c and a top plate d hinged to the bed plate or otherwise arranged
so as to enable it to be raised to permit the insertion of the wrapper and to be
brought down so as to hold the wrapper firmly on the bed plate as shewn in
Figure 3. Each plate is formed with parallel ribs e which intermesh and are
adapted to enter the corrugations of the wrapper on opposite sides as shewn in
Figure 3 in order to prevent the corrugations being distorted or injured by the
threading of the ligatures through them. The ribs are cross-notched as at f
along the lines at which the ligatures are to be introduced, the notches in the
two plates coinciding when the plates are brought together so as together to
form guide holes through the ribs to give passage to, and to guide the needle g
carrying the ligature. The needle has an eye h near the point like a bodkin
through which the end of the ligature is threaded and is of sufficient length to
completely traverse the plates c d between which the wrapper is held. It is pro-
vided with a handle ; whereby it may be easily thrust through as many of the
corrugations of the wrapper as may be desired, carrying the ligature along with
it. After being thus threaded through the-wrapper the end of the ligature is
removed from the eye of the needle which is withdrawn leaving the ligature in
place.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. The combination with a wrapper or envelope made of corrugated paper or
pasteboard, of one two or more ligatures of cord or wire threaded through the
webs of the corrugations transversely thereto, with the ends of the ligatures left
projecting for the purpose of tying substantially as specified.
2. A bottle wrapper or envelope made of corrugated paper or pasteboard having
one two or more ligatures of cord or wire threaded through the webs of the
corrugations transversely thereto the ends of the ligatures being tied together
after the envelope has been formed and the end of the wrapper being contracted
beyond the base of the bottle to a diameter less than that of the bottle substan-
tially as specified.
Dated this 25th day
11000.
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
Chartered Patent Agents, 53, Chancery Lane, London.