Improvements in Packets of Laundry Blue and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Jan., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 29th Apr., 1899-Accepted, 24th June, 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Packets of Laundry Blue and the like.
I, CHARLES ELLISON HORNER, of 34, Aireville Road, Frizinghall, Bradford,
Yorkshire, Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention for improvements in packets of laundry blue and the like relates
to packets of that class known as "Dolly" blues in which the blue is wrapped in
suitable covering material, and provided with a small handle by which the blue
can be moved about in the water.
This invention has for its object an improvement on such handles whereby the
blue can be squeezed out of the bag thus enabling it to be utilized more thoroughly,
especially when the greater portion of it has been used.
According to this invention the end of the handle which is within the covering
material and in contact with the "blue" is enlarged so as to form a flat surface
of such size that it will cover the top surface of the "blue." When required to
squeeze some of the blue out of the bag it is pressed against the side of the washing
tub or other suitable place and the flat surface presses the blue out of the bag.
The flat surface may be formed in one with or independently of the handle in
any suitable way and may be used with any kind of handle, but is specially
intended for use with the handle described in the Specification accompanying
my application for Patent No. 27616 filed Dec. 31st, 1898.
This invention may be also be used in connection with colouring matters which
are wrapped up and used in a similar manner to the blue packets above described.
Dated this 7th day of January 1899
Improvements in Packets of Laundry Blue and the like.
I, CILARLES ELLISON HORNER, Commercial Traveller, of 34, Aireville Road,
Frizinghall. Bradford, Yorkshire, 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 for improvements in packets of laundry blue and the like relates

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to packets of that class known as dolly blues" in which the blue is wrapped in
suitable covering material, and provided with a small handle by which the blue
can be moved about in the water.
This invention has for its object an improvement on such handles whereby the
blue can be squeezed out of the bag thus enabling it to be utilized more thoroughly,
especially when the greater portion of it has been used.
According to this invention the end of the handle which is within the covering
material and in contact with the "blue" is enlarged so as to form a flat surface.
When required to squeeze some of the blue out of the bag after the blue has been
softened in the water it is pressed against the side of the washing tube or other
suitable place and the flat surface presses the blue out of the bag.
The flat surface may be formed in one with or independently of the handle in
any suitable way and may be used with any kind of handle, but is specially
intended for use with the handle described in the Specification accompanying
my application for Patent No. 27616 filed Dec. 31st 1898.
And in order that this invention may be more clearly understood reference is
had to the accompanying sheet of drawings on which several forms of handles
constructed according to this invention are shown.
In Fig. 1 the handle A which is somewhat of the usual type is provided with an
enlargement A so arranged as to form a flat surface.
The handle A is fitted in the bag of blue B as shown, the string used for closing
the mouth of the bag fitting round it at a and the enlargement A¹ being within
the packet. When required to squeeze some of the blue out of the packet it is
pressed against the side of the washing tub or other suitable place and the flat
surface of the enlargement A¹ presses the blue out of the packet.
In Fig. 2 the handle A is of an acorn shape this being convenient for holding.
In this and in the other examples to be described the enlargement A¹ is the same
as in Fig. 1.
In Fig. 3 the handle A is of a flat circular shape attached at its lower edge to
the enlargement A¹ which is in this case another circular disc.
In Fig. 4 the handle A is perforated having a hole A2 through it to allow of
hanging up the blue packet. This arrangement illustrates this invention used
in combination with the handles described in my before mentioned previous patent.
In Fig. 5 the shape is slightly altered from that shown in Fig. 4, the handle
in this case being more handy for attaching the wrapping material.
The handles may also be of other suitable shapes, the essential portion of this
invention being the enlargement providing a surface for pressing the blue out of
the packet.
In practice it is found that with blue packets having handles constructed in
accordance with this invention there is hardly any necessity for taking the packet
in the hand and squeezing it at all as is usually the case and the hands can there-
fore be kept much cleaner.
This invention may also be used in connection with colouring matters which are
wrapped up and used in a similar manner to the blue packets above 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
(1) A handle for use with packets of laundry blue and the like provided with
an enlargement forming a surface by which the blue can be pressed out of the
packet substantially as described.
(2) In a packet of laundry blue and the like, the combination with the wrapping
material and the colouring matter therein of the handle having an enlargement
forming a surface by which the blue can be pressed out of the packet, substan-
tially as described and for the purposes specified.
(3) Improvements in packets of laundry blue and the like, substantially as

page_text: described with reference to any of the figures of the drawings and for the purposes
specified.
Dated this 29th of April 1899.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.