Improvements in Sample Bags.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Aug., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 10th June, 1892-Accepted, 16th July, 1892
PROVISIONAL
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sample Bags.
I EDWIN KENT of 93 Albert Road South Norwood in the County of Surrey,
Commercial Traveller do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to an improved form of sample bag, such as may be
conveniently used by flour, corn, seed and spice merchants, and commercial
travellers and others, and which allows of the sample of grain or other produce
being shown without removal from the sample bag, the bag forming a combined
receptacle and show-tray on which to exhibit the sample. It may be used to
forward samples by post.
Hitherto it has been customary for merchants, brokers, commercial travellers
and others to show samples of flour, corn, seeds, spices and other produce in small
parcels made up in loose pieces of paper or in ordinary sample bags. The paper
parcels are bulky and inconvenient and require to be unwrapped when it is desired
to show the samples which they contain; and when the ordinary sample bags are
used the sample to be shown must be transferred to a sheet of paper or shown in
the hand, and replaced in the sample bag when done with, which occasions much
trouble and loss of time.
By my improved sample bag less space is occupied than by the above-mentioned
parcels, and the sample can be quickly shown and instantly replaced, and the
necessity for using any receptacle other than the sample bag itself is obviated.
I effect my purpose by making the body of the bag in the ordinary way, of any
suitable material such as tough paper, or paper made tough by an inside lining or
outside covering of linen. I make a large flap by extending one side of my bag to
a much greater length and width than the other side, and this extended side I call
the show-tray.
When opened out the show-tray may conveniently be one and a half times as
long, and twice as wide as the body of the bag, that is, wider than the bag on
each side by half the width of the bag. This extra width of the show-tray,
which projects beyond each side of the bag, is made to fold in upon the show-tray
itself, so as to reduce the tray to the same width as the bag; and when it is
required to close the bag, the show-tray thus reduced is folded down upon the bag.
However, I do not make the crease exactly at the mouth of the bag, that is, where
the bag ends and the tray begins, but I make the crease about half-an-inch below
the mouth of the bag, and I thus more effectually confine the grain or other
produce or article within the bag than would be done by folding the tray over
exactly at the mouth of the bag.
The show-tray, being longer than the body of the bag, is folded round over
the bottom end of the bag, and may be secured if desired by a loose rubber band,
or by a rubber band attached to the back of the show-tray near its extremity, and
passed round the body of the bag and the show-tray together. Or the bottom of
the bag may be inserted between the two folds of the show-tray, and the bag is
thus made secure for transmission by post.
When the show-tray is unfolded and the mouth of the bag opened and inclined
downward, the grain or other produce falls out upon the open tray and thus the
sample desired to be shown is instantly ready for exhibition. The sides of the
show-tray being slightly raised by means of the crease they have received in
folding, prevent the sample from leaving the show-tray, and when the mouth of the
bag is again raised they serve to guide the sample into the bag, into which it

page_text: naturally falls, and the bag is then closed and made secure by folding the show-
tray as above described.
The bag may be of any colour desired and the show-tray may be lined with a
paper or lining of a different colour from the bag .or of any coloured. paper
necessary for the better exhibition of the sample upon it.
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1001
EDWIN KENT.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sample Bags.
I EDWIN KENT, of 93 Albert Road, South Norwood, in the County of Surrey,
Commercial Traveller, 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 :-
This invention relates to an improved form of sample bag; such as may be
conveniently used by flour, corn, seed, and spice merchants, and commercial
travellers and others, and which allows of the sample of grain or other produce
being shown without removal from the sample bag, the bag forming a combined
receptacle and show-tray, on which to exhibit the sample. It may be used to
forward samples by post.
Hitherto it has been customary for merchants, brokers, commercial travellers
and others to shew samples of flour, corn, seeds, spices, and other produce in small
parcels, made up in loose pieces of paper or in ordinary sample bags. The paper
parcels are bulky and inconvenient and require to be unwrapped when it is desired
to shew the samples which they contain: and when the ordinary sample bags are
used, the sample to be shewn must be transferred to a sheet of paper or shewn in
the hand and replaced in the sample bag when done with, which occasions much
trouble and loss of time.
By my improved sample bag, less space is occupied than by the above mentioned
parcels, and the sample can be quickly shewn and speedily replaced and the
necessity for using any receptacle other than the sample bag itself is obviated.
I effect my purpose by making the body of the bag in the ordinary way of any
suitable material such as tough paper or paper made tough by an inside lining or
outside covering of linen.
I make a large flap by extending one side of my bag to
a much greater length and width than the other side and this extended side I call
the show tray.
When opened out the show tray may conveniently be one and a half times as
long, and twice as wide as the body of the bag, that is, wider than the bag on each
side by half the width of the bag. This extra width of the show tray which
projects beyond each side of the bag, is made to fold in upon the show tray itself,
so as to reduce the tray to the same width as the bag, and when it is required to
close the bag, the show tray thus reduced is folded down upon the bag. However,
I do not make the crease exactly at the mouth of the bag, that is where the bag
ends and the tray begins, but I make the crease about half an inch below the
mouth of the bag, and I thus more effectually confine the grain or other produce or
article within the bag than would be done by folding the tray over exactly at the
mouth of the bag. The show tray being longer than the body of the bag, is
folded round over the bottom end of the bag, and may be secured if desired; by a
loose rubber band, or by a rubber band attached to the back of the show tray near
its extremity and passed round the body of the bag and the show tray together.
Or the bottom of the bag may be inserted between the two folds of the show tray,
and the bag thus made secure for transmission by post.
When the show tray is unfolded and the mouth of the bag opened' and inclined
downward, the grain or other produce falls out upon the open tray and thus the

page_text: sample desired to be shewn is ready for exhibition. The sides of the show tray
being slightly raised by means of the crease they have received in folding, prevent
the sample from leaving the show tray and when the mouth of the bag is again
raised they serve to guide the sample into the bag, into which it naturally falls,
and the bag is then closed and made secure by folding the show tray as above
described.
The bag may be of any colour desired and the show tray may be lined with a
paper or lining of a different colour from the bag, or of any coloured paper
necessary for the better exhibition of the sample upon it.
In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 shews the blank from which a sample
bag embodying these improvements can be made; Figure 2 shews the same made
up into a bag with the show tray and its side wings fully open in Figure 3
the side wings are closed, and in Figure 4 the show tray is folded over the bag and
the whole secured by the loose elastic band F.
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The bag proper is made of the four parts marked A, B, C and D in Figure 1,
the extension E being made to form the show tray and its side wings and top flap
as will be more fully explained hereinafter. The side flap B is folded over along
the line ab on to the top of the back A and the other side flap C is folded down
along the line cd on to the top of B to which it is gummed pasted or otherwise
secured. The bottom flap D is then folded up along the line hd and gummed or
otherwise secured to the bottom ends of the flaps B and C when the bag is made
and presents the appearance shewn in Figure 2. The extension is creased along
the lines ef and gh so as to form the side wings E2 and and these are folded
over towards each other so that their outer edges jk and Im meet together as
shewn in Figure 3. The bag is creased along the liners just below its mouth and
the extension is creased along the line no, the upper part forming the top flap E
When the bag is folded up along the liners, the produce contained therein is
effectually prevented from falling out as the fold serves to close the mouth of the
bag. The top flap E' may then be folded over along the line no when the bag
and the show tray extension thereof assume the position shewn in Figure 4, and
the elastic band F may be passed round as shewn this band may be loose or it
may be secured in some way to the bag or to the top flap E' and it may be other
than an elastic band.
I do not wish to restrict myself to the particular construction of bag shewn and
described nor to the shape or dimensions of the extension E and its side wings and
top flap as obviously these may be varied in detail without departing from the
essential features of my invention which consists in the application or addition of
a show tray or receptacle on which the produce contained in the bag may be
exhibited, to an ordinary sample bag.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A sample bag made or furnished with an extension or addition which can be
utilized as a show tray or receptacle on which the produce contained in the bag
may be exhibited when so desired and which can be folded around or partially
arcund the sample bag when the same is to be packed away or transmitted through
the post or otherwise, substantially as described.
Dated this 9th dex of June 1802
F. W. GOLBY,
36, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agent for the Applicant.