Improvements in or relating to Tubes or Artificial Straws applicable for Imbibing Beverages
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Mar., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 13th Nov., 1897-Accepted, 18th Dec.,
1897
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"Improvements in or relating to Tubes or Artificial Straws
applicable for Imbibing Beverages.
(A communication by MARVIN CHESTER STONE of 430 Ninth Street N.W. Washington
in the District of Columbia, United States of America, Manufacturer of Novelties.)
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 6 Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street, Manchester, both
in the County of Lancaster, 118 New Street, Birmingham in the County of Warwick
and 322 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention has reference more particularly to paper tubes or artificial straws
designed in imitation of the usual natural straws employed for imbibing beverages, and
the invention consists of a double straw or duplex tube, that is to say, a straw made
up of two or more tubes constructed from a single strip of paper having its edges bent
to form said tubes.
In its preferred form, the invention is embodied in a double straw consisting of
two tubes which are made of a single strip of paper or other suitable material bent
longitudinally in the form of an S with the edges of the strip curled or turned
inward toward each other and extended along the central portion, by which con-
struction the joint is concealed from view. The edges of the strip may be held in
this position to maintain the form of the tubes by subjecting the same to a coating
of paraffin or other waterproof material, or other means may be employed for
securing the edges of the strip in place. The article thus produced is adapted to
be used for imbibing beverages in the manner now practised by the usual single
straws, its capacity in the present case, however, being double and its form being
such as to adapt it to be held readily and with comfort between the lips.
Dated this 11th day of March 1897
66
"Improvements in or relating to Tubes or Artificial Straws
applicable for Imbibing Beverages."
(A communication by MARVIN CHESTER STONE of 430 Ninth Street N.W. Washington
in the District of Columbia, United States of America, Manufacturer of Novelties.)
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for Foreign Patent
Solicitors 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street, Manchester, both in the
County of Lancaster, 118 New Street, Birmingham in the County of Warwick and
322 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, 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 invention has reference more particularly to paper tubes or artificial straws

page_text: designed in imitation of the usual natural straws employed for imbibing beverages,
and the invention consists of a double straw or duplex tube, that is to say, a straw
made up of two or more tubes constructed from a single strip of paper having its
edges bent to form said tubes.
In the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 is a perspective view and
Figure 2 an end elevation of an artificial straw made in accordance with the
invention.
In its preferred form, the invention is embodied in a double straw consisting of
two tubes a² and as which are made of a single strip of paper or other suitable
material bent longitudinally in the form of an S with the edges of the strip curled
or turned inward toward each other and extended along the central portion, by
which construction the joint is concealed from view. The edges of the strip may
be held in this position to maintain the form of the tubes by subjecting the same to
a coating of paraffin or other waterproof material, or other means may be
employed for securing the edges of the strip in place. The article thus produced is
adapted to be used for imbibing beverages in the manner now practised by the
usual single straws, its capacity in the present case, however, being double and its
form being such as to adapt it to be held readily and with comfort between the
lips.
.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. A twin or duplex tube made of a single strip of paper having the joint arranged
longitudinally and at the junction of the tubes and thereby concealed from
view.
2. As a new article of manufacture an artificial straw consisting of a single strip
of paper or other suitable material bent to form two tubes extending side by
side.
3. As a new article of manufacture an artificial double straw consisting of a
single strip of paper bent longitudinally in the form of an S with its edges turned
inward toward each other and a waterproofing material applied to said straw.
Dated this 12th. day of November 1897.