Improved Waterproof Paper Bag or Box.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Sept., 1894
Complete Specification Left. 12th June, 1895-Accepted. 27th July, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Waterproof Paper Bag or Box.
WILLIAM CHANCELLOR HAIGH Commission Agent 41 Corporation Street
Manchester do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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The object of my invention, is to make a seamless and waterproof paper bag or
box for carrying greasy or moist materials. To obtain this I take a sheet of water-
proof paper, either oblong, square or any other suitable shape, and by folding or
drawing the four corners together, at each side, I form the shape of the bag or box,
at the same time producing three or more folds of paper through which the string
or other material, forming the handle is passed, thus giving the folded sides of the
bag or box, the strength required to sustain reasonable weights, while being carried
and also forming a seamless waterproof paper bag or box.
Dated this 11th day of September 1894.
WILLIAM CHANCELLOR HAIGH.
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I, WILLIAM CHANCELLOR HAIGH, of 41 Corporation Street, Manchester, in
the County of Lancaster, Manufacturer, 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 :-
The object of my invention is to make a seamless and waterproof paper bag or
box for carrying greasy or moist mixtures.
To obtain this I take a sheet of waterproof paper, either oblong, square, or auy
other suitable shape and by folding or drawing the four corners together at each
side I form the shape of the bag or box at the same time producing three or more
folds of paper through which the string or other material forming the handle is
passed thus giving the folded sides of the bag or box the strength required to
sustain reasonable weights while being carried and also forming a seamless water-
proof paper bag or box.
And in order that my invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect I will describe the accompanying sheet of drawings reference being had to
the figures and letters marked thereon.
Fig. 1 is a plan view of an open bag made according to my invention of paper
waterproofed on both sides in which the folds of the paper are represented by
dotted lines.
Fig. 2 is a side view of Fig. 1 with the sides turned up.
Fig. 3 is an end view of Fig. 2.
Fig. 4 is a vertical section through the middle of Fig. 2 showing the right hand
corner doubled across the end and the left hand corner open ready to be doubled
across the end.
Fig. 5 is an inside view of Fig. 4 with both corners doubled in position and the
string forming one handle passed through holes which are cut through both corners
and the end of the bag.

page_text: Fig. 6 is a plan view of the completely doubled bag.
In Fig. 1, a designates the bottom of the bag,
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one side, c the other side,
d one end, e the other end and f, g h and i the parts of the sheet forming the four
corners.
Figs. 2 and 3 represent the sides b and c turned up.
Fig. 4 represents the corner g turned over on to the end d the corner f remaining
flat or extended.
Fig. 5 shows in full lines both the corners ƒ and g turned over on to the end d
with a piece of string; passed through holes k which are cut through both thicknesses
of the corners and through the ends of the bag the corner f being also indicated by
dotted lines in the position it occupied previous to being turned over.
The
corners and i are turned over on to the end e precisely in the same manner as the
corners fg are turned over on to the end d.
Fig. 6 represents the bag complete.
The holes may be cut in the paper either before or after it has been folded.
By making the bags or boxes of paper waterproofed on both sides they can be
safely used for carrying moist or greasy materials and they will not suffer injury if
they get wet on the exterior as well as the inside.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
A bag or box made of a single sheet of paper waterproofed on both sides and
folded and fastened substantially in the manner shown and described.
Dated this 11th day of June 1895.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
17 St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for Applicant.