An Improved Package for Pulverulent Substances.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 31st Dec., 1894-Accepted, 2nd Feb., 1895
An Improved Package for Pulverulent Substances.
I, DAVID HEY GREENE of Meeting Street, Charleston, South Carolina,
United States of America, Soap Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
The package or casing of this invention is made preferably of pyramidal
form having flaps at its base or enlarged end adapted to close over the material
after the package has been filled from this end. The apex or discharge end of
the package is provided with a strengthening plate having four depending lips
two of which are fixed to the outside of the package and two to the inside of
the same.
The strengthening plate is formed with an orifice closeable by a
stopper. The body of the package is made of paper or cardboard or the like.
Dated this 3rd day of April 1894
THOMAS R. SHILLITO,
89, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
I, DAVID HEY GREENE of Meeting Street, Charleston, South Carolina,
United States of America, Soap 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 package or casing of this invention is made preferably of pyramidal
form having flaps at its base or enlarged end adapted to close over the packed
material after the package has been filled from this end. The apex or
discharge end of the package is provided with a strengthening plate having four
depending lips two of which are fixed to the outside of the package and two
to the inside of the same. The strengthening plate is formed with an orifice
closeable by a stopper. The body of the package is made of paper or cardboard
or the like.
In the drawing
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the package shewing in dotted lines the flaps
of the filling end opened.
Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the upper part of the package.
Fig. 3 a perspective view of the strengthening plate.
1 is the package the blank of which is so shaped and creased that when
folded at the creases it will assume the shape shewn with flaps 2 at its base,
so that when the flaps are opened the package can be filled from the bottom, after
which the flaps are folded so as to secure the contents.
The meeting edges of the package are secured in any of the well known ways
for securing the edges of packages made of cardboard or paper.
The apex or discharge end of the package is formed by the strengthening
plate 3 preferably of tin plate or other suitable metal so as to form a rigid mouth
or discharge end. This plate is formed with a discharge orifice 4 provided with

page_text: a stopper or cap which may be a screw cap 5 adapted to engage with a threaded
collar 6 formed around the discharge orifice. The plate is provided with
depending lips or flanges 8, 9, the former of which may fit inside whilst the latter
may lie outside as shewn. The lips stiffen and brace the sides of the package
below the apex. 10 are tongues cut out of the metal lips 8 for passing through
the two corresponding walls of the package and secured by turning them up against
the same. If desired, the vertical edges of the lips next to the corners of the
package may be bent to fit into the corners thus giving greater strength and
guarding against the edges of the lips cutting the corners. This feature is shewn
in dotted lines in Fig. 3.
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 :-
1. A package for pulverulent substances, pyramidal in shape and formed with
folding flaps at the base arranged to close the filling opening in the base of the
package and provided at its opposite discharge end with a rigid stay and protecting
plate of a material different from the body of the package and covering the small
end of the package and having a discharge orifice and a closure for the same,
substantially as described and shewn.
2. A package for pulverulent substances formed of paper, cardboard or the like,
provided at its discharge end with an orificed rigid end plate covering the end of
the package and formed with depending lips bearing against the side walls of the
package to stiffen the same, tongues to the lips entering the walls of the package
to secure the plate permanently in position, and a closure for the orifice in the
plate, substantially as described and shewn.
3. A package for pulverulent substances having a body formed of paper or
similar material and provided at one end with flaps to close the filling opening and
a metallic plate applied to permanently cover the other end and formed with a
discharge orifice and having depending lips bearing against opposite side walls of
the package to brace the same, substantially as described and shewn.
Dated this 31st day of December 1894.
THOMAS R. SHILLITO,
89, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.