IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKING MATERIAL AND IN THE METHOD OF
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Alfred Turner, of Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKING
MATERIAL AND IN THE METHOD OF M
Scaled the 20th June 1871, and dated the 9th March 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Alfred Turner
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 9th March 1871.
I, JAMES ALFRED TURNER, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
PACKING MATERIAL, AND IN THE METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME," to be
as follows:-
:―
This Invention relates to the manufacture of a compound packing
material consisting of a combination of canvas or cotton cloth or woven
fabric with brown or other paper and an adhesive waterproof or water-
repellent material or mixture, and the peculiar feature of novelty consists
principally in spreading the adhesive water-repellent material or mixture
on one side or surface only of the paper, and then whilst the material or

page_text: mixture is in an adhesive state pressing the cloth or woven fabric into
close contact therewith, the object being to confine the material or
mixture between the paper and the cloth, and to keep both surfaces
of the compound packing material thus produced quite clean and free
from any adhesive or other matter.
In the ordinary process of manufacturing such packing material when
a combination of woven fabric and paper has been used it has been the
invariable practise to pass the woven fabric through a trough containing
the waterproof material or mixture, and then to press the paper into
contact with one or both sides of the same, the consequence being that
if only one side was coated with paper the other side was sticky and
liable to injure the goods, and if both sides were coated then the material
was not sufficiently flexible and was liable to crack in bending.
In my improved process the brown or other paper is first prepared by
coating one side only of the same with oxydized oil or pitch, caoutchouc,
or other adhesive water-repellent material or mixture by passing it over
and in contact with a cylinder or roller, the lower circumference of
which revolves in a trough containing the said material or mixture, and
then smoothing the surface by means of a series of doctors or scrapers,
other suitable manner.
or in any
The prepared paper is then pressed
into contact with canvas or cotton cloth or woven fabric by passing
between rollers or otherwise, and the two are thus caused to adhere
together, whilst both sides of the compound packing material thus
produced are left perfectly clean and quite free from oil or other
ingredient used, at the same time that the material is very flexible and
not liable to crack.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions.of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Alfred Turner in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 9th September 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES 30
ALFRED TURNER, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the-thirty-fourth 3

page_text: year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said James Alfred Turner, Her special license
that I, the said James Alfred Turner, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said James Alfred Turner, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, excrcise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN PACKING MATERIALS, AND IN THE METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME,'
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said James Alfred
Turner, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in wliat
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Scal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
"
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Alfred Turner, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement (that is to say):
This Invention relates to the manufacture of a compound packing
material consisting of a combination of canvas or cotton cloth or woven
fabric with brown or other paper and an adhesive waterproof or water-
repellent material or mixture, and the peculiar feature of novelty
consists principally in spreading the adhesive water-repellent material or
mixture on one side or surface only of the paper, and then whilst the
material or mixture is in an adhesive state pressing the cloth or woven
fabric into close contact therewith, the object being to confine the material
or mixture between the paper and the cloth, and to keep both surfaces
of the compound packing material thus produced quite clear and free
from any adhesive or other matter.
In the ordinary process of manufacturing such packing material when
a combination of woven fabric and paper has been used it has been the
invariable practise to pass the woven fabric through a trough containing
the waterproof material or mixture, and then to press the paper into
contact with one or both sides of the same, the consequence being that

page_text: if only one side was coated with paper the other side was stickey and
liable to injure the goods, and if both sides were coated then the
material was not sufficiently flexible and was liable to crack in bending.
In my improved process the brown or other paper is first prepared by
coating one side only of the same with oxydized oil or pitch, caoutchouc,
or other adhesive water-repellent material or mixture by passing it over
and in contact with the cylinder or roller, the lower circumference of
which revolves in a trough containing the said material or mixture, and
then smoothing the surface by means of a series of doctors or scrapers,
or in any other suitable manner. The prepared paper is then pressed
into contact with canvas or other cotton cloth or woven fabric by
passing between rollers or otherwise, and the two are thus caused to
adhere together, whilst both sides of the compound packing material
thus produced are left perfectly clean and quite free from oil or other
ingredient used, at the same time that the material is very flexible and
not liable to crack.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention
for "Improvements in Packing Material, and in the Method of Manu-
facturing the same," together with the manner in which the same is to
be or may be performed or carried into practical effect, I wish it to be
understood that I claim as my Invention, spreading the adhesive water-
repellent material or mixture on one side or surface only of the paper,
and then whilst the material or mixture is in an adhesive state pressing
the cloth or woven fabric into close contact therewith, substantially in
the manner and for the purposes licrein-before more particularly set
forth and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Alfred Turner, have hercunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
JAMES ALFRED TURNER.
(L.S.)
Witnessed by
GEORGE DAVIES, C.E.,
Office for Patents,
Manchester.