A NEW DEVICE TO BE USED IN CARRYING PARCELS
Year: 1884

page_text: We FRANK ERNEST SMALL of 87 Downs Park Road Clapton in the County of
Middlesex Commercial Traveller and CHERUBINI HALSEY of 64 Richmond Road
Dalston in the same County Baker do hereby declare the nature of our Invention
for "A NEW DEVICE TO BE USED IN CARRYING PARCELS" to be as follows:
The object of this Invention is to manufacture a cheap device by means of which
parcels tied with string in the ordinary way can be conveniently carried.
Our device consists of a piece, by preference cylindrical, of wood cane or other
suitable material with a central hole bored longitudinally throughout its length
and with a longitudinal slit or groove cut from the periphery down to the central
hole and likewise extending the entire length, the width of this slit or groove
should be sufficient to allow the string to pass in freely but somewhat less than the
width of the hole. At the middle of the piece of wood or other material is a .
transverse slit or groove which is cut down to the level of the bottom of the
central hole. To the outside of the piece of wood at each side of the transverse slit
or groove we paste or gum a strip of paper or other material possessing some degree
of elasticity. A free or unpasted part of the paper passes down the longitudinal
slit into the central hole.
When it is wished to use the device in carrying a parcel the device is slipped
under the string where it crosses in the middle of the parcel so that the cross pieces
of string slip respectively into the longitudinal and transverse slits down to the
central hole. The parcel is then carried by passing the fingers under the device
and lifting the parcel thereby. A heavy parcel can thus be carried without the
fingers getting cut. The strips of paper prevent the string slipping out when the
parcel is put down and the weight thereby taken off the string. These strips may
however be dispensed with although we think it better to use them.
Dated this 1st day of January 1884
J. C. MEWBURN,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: We FRANK ERNEST SMALL of 87 Downs Park Road, Clapton in the County of
Middlesex, Commercial Traveller and CHERUBINI HALSEY of 64 Richmond Road,
Dalston in the same County, Baker do hereby declare the nature of our Invention
for A NEW DEVICE TO BE USED IN CARRYING PARCELS" and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
The object of this Invention is to manufacture a cheap device by means of which
parcels tied with string in the ordinary way can be conveniently carried.
Our device consists of a piece, by preference cylindrical, of wood, cane or other
suitable material with a central hole bored longitudinally throughout its length
and with a longitudinal slit or groove cut from the periphery down to the central
hole and likewise extending the entire length; the width of this slit or groove
should be sufficient to allow the string to pass in freely but somewhat less than the
width of the hole. At the middle of the piece of wood or other material is a
transverse slit or groove which is cut down to the level of the bottom of the
central hole. To the outside of the piece of wood at each side of the transverse
slit or groove we paste or gum a strip of paper or other material possessing some
degree of elasticity. A free or unpasted part of the paper passes down the.
longitudinal slit into the central hole.
When it is wished to use the device in carrying a parcel the device is slipped
under the string where it crosses in the middle of the parcel so that the cross pieces
of string slip respectively into the longitudinal and transverse slits down to the
central hole. The parcel is then carried by passing the fingers under the device
and lifting the parcel thereby. A heavy parcel can thus be carried without the
fingers getting cut. The strips of paper prevent the string slipping out when the
parcel is put down and the weight thereby taken off the strings. These strips may
however be dispensed with although we think it better to use them.
In the annexed Drawings Figure 1 is a plan, Figure 2 a longitudinal section and
Figure 3 an end view of a device made according to our Invention. a is a
cylindrical piece of wood or other material; b a hole bored longitudinally from
end to end of the same; c a longitudinal slit or groove cut from the periphery
down to the hole b; d a transverse slit or groove at the middle of the piece a also
extending down to the hole b. Where the 2 slits c and d cross each other they
should be a little enlarged by cutting away the corners of the piece a as seen at e.
ff are strips of paper gummed to the wood a on each side of the slit c their free
or unpasted parts passing down into this slit. These strips may however be
dispensed with.
Figure 4 shews a parcel tied with string in the ordinary way and with one of
our devices slipped under the string where it crosses in the middle of the parcel.
Sometimes in addition to the slits c and d we make another slit at each end of
the piece a diametrically opposite the slit c. This is seen in Figures 5, 6 and 7 in
which gg are the other slits. When a device having these slits gg is applied to a
parcel the string passes down the ends of the piece a as far as the inner ends of
theso slits which. are preferably enlarged as seen at h to prevent any tendency of
the string to slip out.
Sometimes also we make grooves i around the piece a so that when the parcel
has a loop of string by which to carry it as seen at %, Figure 8, the loop may be
passed into the end slits g g so as to lie along the longitudinal slit c and be then
passed round the grooves i i as seen in the Figure.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
A device formed substantially as hereinbefore described and represented in the
Drawings to be used in carrying parcels, and specially the slits or grooves c and d
in combination with the longitudinal hole b as shown.
MAIL
J. C. MEWBURN,
169, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the Applicants.