Iμ- PROVEMENTS IN CASINGS, COVERS, OR WRAPPERS FOR BOTTLES, JARS, AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Anton Bruno Seithen, of 5, Mansfield Place, Kentish
Town, London, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "Iμ-
PROVEMENTS IN CASINGS, COVERS, OR WRAPPERS FOR BOTTLES, JARS, AND OTHER
ARTICLES."
Sealed the 25th September 1863, and dated the 2nd April 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Anton Bruno Scitben at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
2nd April 1863.
I, ANTON BRUNO SEITHEN, of 5, Mansfield Place, Kentish Town, London,
in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CASINGS, COVERS, OR WRAPPERS FOR BOTTLES, JARS,
AND OTHER ARTICLES," to be as follows:―.
My Invention relates to certain improvements upon part of my former
Invention for "Improvements in Cases or Boxes, and in Casings, Hampers,
Baskets, and Wrappers for Holding Bottles, Jars, and other Articles," for
which Letters Patent were granted to me dated the 30 day of July 1859,
No. 1768, and consists in a new and improved form of wrappers, covers, or
casings for packing and holding bottles, jars, and other similar articles.

page_text: Instead of making the wrappers so as to cover the top or neck of the bottle or
other article, as hitherto practised, I propose to leave the wrapper open at the
top, so as to allow the whole or part of the neck of the bottle or other article
to project beyond the wrapper, whereby material and space are economised
and other advantages obtained in the packing, storing, and handling of the
bottles or other articles. I make these wrappers or covers of rushes, or of
straw, or of any other suitable vegetable substance or material, and if made of
machine straw, or of hay, or other broken or short fibred substance, I convert
the same into strands, lines, or ropes, tied spirally or otherwise with twine or
string. I arrange the rushes or other substance, or the strands, lines, or ropes
made of the same, round a form corresponding with the shape and size of
bottle or other article for which the cover may be intended; or I wind the
strand, rope, or line spirally round the form, and I then sew by hand or by
machinery, or otherwise, bind or secure the strands, layers, or ropes together;
or I first form the material into mats, sewn by hand or by machinery or other-
wise tied or secured, and subsequently convert the said mats into covers or
wrappers.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed.
by the said Anton Bruno Scithen in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 2nd October 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ANTON
BRUNO SEITHEN, of 5, Mansfield Place, Kentish Town, London, in County of
Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Anton Bruno Seithen, Her special licence that I, the said Anton
Bruno Seithen, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said Anton Bruno Seithen, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for

page_text: "IMPROVEMENTS IN CASINGS, COVERS, OR WRAPPERS FOR BOTTLES, JARS, AND OTHER
ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Anton Bruno
Seithen, of 5 h my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Anton Bruno Seithen, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
My Invention relates to certain improvements upon part of my former
Invention for "Improvements in Cases or Boxes, and in Casings, Hampers,
Baskets, and Wrappers for Holding Bottles, Jars, and other Articles," for
which Letters Patent were granted to me bearing date the 30th July 1859,
No. 1768, and my present Invention cousists in a new and improved form of
wrappers, covers, or casings for packing and holding bottles, jars, and other
similar articles. Instead of making the wrapper so as to cover the top or neck
of the bottle or other article, as hitherto practised, I now leave the wrapper
open at the top so as to allow the whole or part of the neck of the bottle or
other article to project beyond the wrapper, whereby considerable economy is
effected in the quantity of the material of which the wrappers are made, and
other advantages are obtained in the packing, storing, and handling of the
bottles or other articles. I make theso wrappers or covers of rushes, or of
straw, or of any other suitable vegetable substance or material, and if formed
of machine straw, or of hay, or other broken or short-fibred substance, I
convert the same into strands, lines, or ropes, tied spirally or otherwise with
twine or string. 1 arrange the rushes or other substance, or the strands, or
lines, or ropes made of the same, round a form corresponding with the shape
and size of the bottle or other article for which the cover may be intended;
or I wind the strand, rope, or lino spirally round the former, and I then sew
by hand or by machinery, or tie, or otherwise bind or secure the strands, layers,
or ropes together; or I first form the material into mats, sewn by hand or by
machinery or otherwise tied or secured, and subsequently convert the said
mats into covers or wrappers.
When the material of which the wrappers are to be made is to be sewn or
stitched by machinery, the said material is spread or ranged upon strips or

page_text: pieces of paper or calico, or other woven fabric, to facilitate the forming of
the stitches.
In witness whereof, I, the said Anton Bruno Seithen, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Second day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
A. B. SEITHEN. (L.S.)