Packing Fragile Articles and like Purposes.
Year: 1887

page_text: [Communicated from abroad by WILLIAM ALONZO SIMMONS, of 280, Broadway, New
York, United States of America, Attorney-at-Law.]
Packing Fragile Articles and like Purposes.
I OLIVER IMRAY of No. 28 Southampton Buildings Chancery Lane in the County
of Middlesex Fellow of the Institute of Patent Agents, 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 :-
Various kinds of paper have been embossed by rollers or otherwise so as to present
protuberances of hemispherical or other forms, these protuberances giving variation
of form which renders the material, especially when it is variously coloured, suitable
for many decorative purposes such as covering walls; and these protuberances also
giving the material a yielding character and resiliency which adapt it for covering
floors or stairs under carpets, and for packing fragile articles such as bottles or ceramic
goods. This invention relates to a composition of material for this purpose, such as at
comparatively little cost gives it a strength and resiliency which render it better
adapted to the various purposes to which it can be applied. This composition consists
of a mixture of wood pulp and straw pulp in proportions which are varied within
certain limits according to the purpose for which the material is to be used.
When great resiliency of the protuberances is required, the proportion of straw
pulp should be large amounting to as much as 50 per cent. of the whole body of pulp.
When less resiliency but greater hardness is required, the proportion of straw pulp
may be less, such for instance as 25 per cent. of the whole. The pulp mixture is
made into strong paper in the usual way, and this paper before it has set and dried,
is embossed by pressing rollers or pressing blocks, causing it to present protuberances
on the one side and hollows on the other side in such patterns as may be desired.
When the paper is dried these protuberances permanently retain their form, giving
the material great elasticity and resiliency, which may be increased as desired by
using two or more thicknesses of the embossed material either as separate layers, or

page_text: connected together by paste or other suitable cementing substance. Also felt or other
fabric may be cemented to the embossed paper material or between two layers of it, to
give greater thickness and tenacity.
In employing the material above described for packing fragile articles such as
bottles, a strip of it is cut to the size of the circumference of the packing, and its
edges are cemented or sewn together so as to make a casing open at the ends into
which the bottle or other article is inserted. Or a long length of the material may
be folded over and have its edges sewn or cemented together so as to form a continuous
tube that is cut into lengths suitable for the packings required. Packings made in
either of those ways may have their ends left open, or they may be made of
somewhat greater length, so that they can be slit up some distance at either end or at
both ends, and that the flaps so formed can be folded in and secured together to form
end covers.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
1. The manufacture of embossed paper material of pulp compounded of wood fibre
and straw pulp, as and for the purposes set forth.
2. For covering walls, lining carpets or packing fragile articles, the use of embossed
paper material made of a mixture of wood pulp and straw pulp substantially as
described.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.