AN IMPROVED PAPER BAG FOR PUTTING UP DRUGGISTS' POWDERS AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Melville Clark, of Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
PAPER BAG FOR PUTTING UP DRUGGISTS' POWDERS AND OTHER SIMILAR
PURPOSES." A communication from abroad by Newton Jenkins Alexander,
of Auston, Travis County, State of Texas, United States of America.
Sealed the 26th November 1878, and dated the 31st July 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Melville Clark at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 31st July 1878.
ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent.
"AN IMPROVED PAPER BAG FOR PUTTING UP DRUGGISTS' POWDERS
AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES." [A communication from abroad by Newton Jenkins
Alexander, of Auston, Travis County, State of Texas, United States of America.]
This Invention relates to an improved paper bag which is chiefly designed for
use for putting up druggists' powders.
The bag is formed from an oblong rectangular blank of a size corresponding to
the desired size of the bag. A crosswise slit is cut in each side of the blank at a
distance of about one-third the length of the blank from one end thereof. The
length of each slit is about one-third the width of the blank. The end of the
blank which is farthest from the slits is then notched at each side, thus leaving a
narrow, central, projecting end piece, which subsequently serves as a flap to close
the lower end of the bag. The cutting of the aforesaid slits and notches completes
the operations on the blank as such. The side portions of the blank which are
the portions included between the slits and notched ends are then pasted, folded
inward, lapped, and pressed together. The end projection is next folded and pasted
down on the lower end of the tube thus formed, and the bag is finished.
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The slits determine the location of the mouth of the bag since they divide the
folded or tubular portion of the bag from the unfolded or extended portion thereof.
The latter, which is one-third the size of the original blank, forms a broad flap or
extension of the bag proper.
The manner of using the bag is as follows:-The druggist places before him as
many bags as are wanted, and proceeds to divide the powder, placing each portion
of the powder on the flap or apron of a bag, and after equalizing the different
quantities in the usual way, he takes hold of the flap of each bag, and by gently
compressing its side edges the mouth of the bag opens, and the bag being at the
same time raised to a vertical position, or else held inclined, the powder passes
quickly from the apron into the bag proper. The apron is then torn off, the top of
the bag turned down, and the powder thereby secured.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Alexander Melville Clark in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
30th January 1879.
ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent. "AN IMPROVED PAPER BAG FOR PUTTING UP DRUGGISTS' POWDERS
AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES." A communication from abroad by Newton Jenkins
Alexander, of Auston, Travis County, State of Texas, United States of America.
This Invention relates to an improved paper bag more particularly adapted for
druggists' use, but which may be advantageously employed by grocers and others
in putting up articles, which consist of loose separated parts or particles. This
improved bag has a broad extension in one piece with its body, forming a sort of
apron at the mouth to guide the powder or other substance into the bag.
The bag is constructed or formed from an oblong rectangular blank having slits
at opposite points in its parallel sides as herein-after described.
In the accompanying Drawing forming part of this Specification, Figure 1 is a
plan view of the blank from which the blank is formed, and Figure 2 is a view of
the bag and apron.
A indicates the bag proper and B the extension or apron. For economy of manu-
facture the bag and apron are formed from the same blank C, Figure 1, which is of
oblong rectangular shape, and of a size corresponding to the desired size of the bag.
The blank is cut or slitted crosswise at each side at a point a, a, distant about two-
thirds of the length of the blank from one end, which is formed with a flap 6 to be
subsequently folded to form the bottom of the bag, each slit a extending inwards
from the edge of the blank a distance rather more than one-fourth the width of
the blank C. After the blank has been cut in this manner, the side flaps d, d, are
suitably pasted, folded inward, lapped, and pressed together. The bottom flap 6 is
then pasted and folded, which completes the bag, having the apron or extension B
attached.
In practical use the powder or other substance to be put up is deposited on the
apron or extension B, and the bag is then held in such manner that a slight com-
pression of its sides near its mouth will cause the apron B to assume a concave or
trough-like form, so that it will prevent the powder from being spilled and guide it
safely into the bag proper. The apron B is then torn or cut off, and the mouth
of the bag closed in the usual way.
Having described the nature of the Invention and the manner of performing the
same, I would observe that I am aware letter envelopes have been provided with a
flap extending laterally beyond the ends thereof and formed in one piece with it,
but what I claim as the Invention to be protected by the herein-before in part
recited Letters Patent is,―
1st. The oblong rectangular blank for a paper bag for the use of druggists and
others, the same having slits a, a, at opposite points in its parallel sides and the
end flap b as shown and described.
2nd. A paper bag for the use of druggists and others having the extension or
apron B formed in one piece with the body thereof extending laterally beyond the
side edges of the bag and the narrow oblong body A, substantially as shown and
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of January, in the year of our
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A. M. CLARK. (L.S.)