AN IMPROVEMENT IN PAPER WRAPPERS FOR BOTTLES OR PACKAGES
Year: 1884

page_text: I, HERBERT JOHN ALLISON, of the firm of Allison Brothers, of 52 Chancery
Lane, London, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agents, do hereby declare the
nature of my Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN PAPER WRAPPERS FOR BOTTLES
OR PACKAGES," and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being had
to the accompanying Drawings forming part of the same, in which :-
Figure 1, is a face view of a paper wrapper embodying my improvement, having
a label printed thereon.
Figure 2 shows the said wrapper partly wrapped round a package.
Figure 3 is a perspective view of the package and wrapper, showing the wrapper
completely wrapped round the package.
Figure 4, is also a perspective view of the same, with the projecting edges,
except the fastening lap or tongue hereafter described, folded down over the ends
of the package, and
Figure 5, is a plan view of one end of said package, with the said edges of the
wrapper, including the said fastening tongue folded down over the said end and
secured.
My improved wrapper is designed and intended to be applied to a package or
bottle by being wound once around it, and lapping sufficiently to be secured with
paste or gum applied to the lapped edges, and consists in the special form herein
described, and shown in the accompanying Drawings, whereby when the wrapper
is wrapped around a package, the lapped margins being pasted together, and the
side edges, which will project beyond the ends of the package are folded down over
said ends, the ends of the margin to which the paste has been applied will when
folded down present their pasted surfaces to the underlying folds of the margin,
and thus securely seal the ends of the package, the paste with which the surfaces
of the said sealing laps or tongues, are supplied being applied at the same time and
by one and the same operation of applying the paste to the lapped margin.
To accomplish the above result, I cut my wrapper of paper or other suitable
material, into the form substantially shown in Figure 1. The wrapper should be
of sufficient length to wrap once around the package and form a lap for pasting.
In said Figure 1, the checked or shaded part is intended to reach around the
package, and the blank portion a, at one side forms the lap; that is to say the

page_text: border or margin of the opposite side marked b, in Figure 2, laps over upon
the part a. The paste is applied to the rear face of the said margin down to the
broken line c, being covered with paste, including the two tongues or ends f. f.
A deep notch d, is made in each of the side edges of the wrapper, the same
extending across or nearly across the entire of the portion that is intended to be
folded over the ends of the package thus forming the tongues or laps f. The side
edges of the margin a, at the other end are also cut away, as shown at a¹, a², so as
not to extend beyond or much beyond the ends of the package. The side edges
between the notches d, and the margin a, are for a round package, given the form
shown in the Drawings, that is with a swell on either side at e, which when the
wrapper is wrapped round such package, will come diametrically opposite to the
tongue or lapf, and when folded down over the end, will form a lap extending well
under the pasted lap, when the latter is folded down upon it. The end of the
package may then have the edges described folded upon and cover it before the
laps f, are folded over and pasted down. In applying the envelope to a package I
preferably proceed as follows:-Laying the envelope down on its face, I cover the
margin b, with paste or gum and place the package g, down upon it, fold the end a,
around it, as seen in Figure 2, then roll the package over so as to wrap the wrapper
around it and bring the pasted margin b, over and upon the margin a, then paste
them securely together as seen in Figure 3. I then fold in the side border, which!
now extends beyond the end, first folding the sides of the same at h, which because
of the notches d, may be done without disturbing the tongue f, leaving it standing
with its pasted surface uncovered, and then I fold down the part e, and over all
fold down the pasted tongue f. In this way the wrapper is securely, readily and
conveniently applied to, and secured upon the package, and there is given to its
ends a handsome appearance.
The paste may be readily applied to the border b, of a number of the wrappers
at once, by laying them down one upon another, the upper edge of each being laid
so as to leave only the said border of the one underneath it exposed.
It is obvious that this envelope or wrapper may be applied to a square or
angular package as well as to a cylindrical one. It is specially applicable to
bottles, small paper boxes, rolls of coin, etc.
The wrapper may be longer than required to fold once around the package and
lap for pasting. But in that event the edges must still be cut away as at a¹, as
before described.
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
The described package wrapper provided at one end with the notches or cuts d,
thereby forming the tongues f, and the edges of the border a, being cut away at
a¹, a', as described whereby the said wrapper is capable of being applied to a
package, as specified.
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