Improvements in Wrappers for Newspapers and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by JOHN JAY COCHRAN, ALFRED THOMAS
GERRANS, and HENRY ALFRED BRIDGES, all of St. Louis, Missouri,
United States of America, Merchants.]
Improvements in Wrappers for Newspapers and the like.
1, WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co., Patent
Agents, 45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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 relates to wrappers for newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, and
other articles which is not only adapted to be readily opened, but is also
materially strengthened.
It consists, substantially, in a thread, cord, band, ribbon, tie, ligature, fibre, or
analogous article secured to the inner side of the wrapper, with an end projecting
beyond the edge of the wrapper. The person opening a bundle enclosed with the
improved wrapper grasps the projecting end referred to and draws it away from
the bundle, thereby ripping the wrapper and readily removing it from the
bundle.
The improvement is more fully carried out when the cord is applied to the
wrapper in such a manner as to cause it, when the wrapper is attached to the
bundle, to extend more or less around the bundle, so as to serve as a tie or to
strengthen the wrapper in the direction of its length, all substantially as is herein-
after described.
In the accompanying drawing
:-
Figure 1 is a view of the inner side of the improved wrapper, and
Figure 2 is a view in perspective of the wrapper applied to a bundle.
The same letters of reference denote similar parts. The wrapper A is usually a
piece of paper and of suitable size and shape. B represents the cord, tie or the
fike. It is preferably secured to the inner side a of the wrapper, and preferably
by gluing or cementing it thereto that is, the improvement in a measure may be
carried out by embodying the fibre, in the wrapper, either at the time of the
manufacture of the paper from which the wrapper is ultimately formed or by
making the wrapper for two or more folds and inclosing the fibre, between them,
in either of which cases the fibre should be so attached to the wrapper as to enable
it when drawn as described to carry the underlying portion of the wrapper with it,
so as to practically accomplish the opening of the wrapper; or the cord or the like
may be and in practice preferably is attached as shown, to the inner side of the
wrapper. The cord should be secured throughout its length substantially to the
wrapper, as thereby the object of the improvement is more fully attained. The
cord is preferably arranged so that its projecting end b shall not come upon
the customary gummed portion a' of the wrapper.
While the cord or the like
may be otherwise extended upon the wrapper and some of the purposes of the
improvement accomplished.
A
prefer to arrange it substantially diagonally upon the wrapper, as shown, as
thereby, when the wrapper is applied to the bundle Ċ the part B is caused to wind
around the bundle, and thus to serve also, as an auxiliary to the wrapper, as a
means for enclosing the bundle, and as a means for strengthening the wrapper.
lighter paper with the part B thus arranged may suffice for the wrapper.
some of the purposes herein named it is not essential that an end of the cord or
the like shall project from the wrapper.
For

page_text: 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 correspondents I declare that what I claim is :-
1. A wrapper provided with a flexible tearing device secured diagonally thereto,
whereby the said tearing device will more or less encompass the article, substan-
itially as set forth.
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2. Arwrapper provided with a cord secured diagonally to one side thereof, the
said cord being upon the inside of the wrapper and more or less encompassing the
article when.in place upon it, substantially as set forth.
3. A wrapper provided with an adhesive substance across one end and provided
with a cord secured more or less diagonally across the inner surface of the wrapper,
one end of the cord projecting beyond the edge of the said wrapper adjacent to
'the adhesive substance, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 14th day of September 1892
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HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
,45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.; Agents for the Applicant.