Improvements in or appertaining to the Form or Get-up of Bag-blue.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Nov., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 24th Dec., 1891-Accepted, 30th Jan.. 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or appertaining to the Form or Get-up of
Bag-blue.
I. RICHARD RIPLEY of Blandford Works, Blandford Street in the City of
Liverpool, Blue and Blacklead Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
In the packing of bag blue as it is generally termed, that is a cake of blue fixed
in a bag, which is tied round with string or otherwise, the tied portion of the bag
forins an awkward excrescence which is very difficult to pack compactly.
Now my invention is designed for the purpose of forming these bag blues in
precisely similar packages to ordinary blues, so that in fact when the package is
made up it cannot be distinguished by the eye whether it be an ordinary blue or a
bag blue.
In accomplishing this I form the blue with a hollow, into which the tied portion
of the bag can be pressed, the hollow being of such shape and size as to contain the
tied portion of the bag.
For my oval blue for instance I prefer to form the hollow in the centre, a
concentric oval depression in the top this containing the tied portion of the bag
when pressed down into it.
For cube blue and other shapes a depression in the centre can be used, or in
some instances to one side of the top; the main point being to have the depression
of the hollow in some convenient portion of the block into which to press the tied
portion of the bag so that it can be wrapped up in paper and labled, to resemble
the ordinary round, cylindrical, oval, spherical, domed, cubical or other shape in
general use or convenient to pack.
Dated the 20th day of November 1891.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or appertaining to the Form or Get-up of
Bag-blue.
I, RICHARD RIPLEY of Blandford Works, Blandford Street in the City of
Liverpool, Blue and Blacklead 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:-
In the packing of bag blue as it is generally termed, that is a cake of blue fixed
in a bag, which is tied round with string or otherwise, the tied portion of the bag
forms an awkward excrescence which is very difficult to pack compactly.
Now my invention is designed for the purpose of forming these bag blues in
precisely similar packages to ordinary blues, so that in fact when the package is
made up, it cannot be distinguished by the eye whether it be an ordinary blue or a
bag blue.
In accomplishing this form the blue with a hollow, into which the tied
portion of the bag can be pressed, the hollow being of such shape and size as to
contain the tied portion of the bag.
In the drawing annexed hereto,
Figure 1 is a plan of an oval blue with an oval hole in the centre.
Figure 2 a side view of same showing the contour of the hole in dotted lines.

page_text: Figure 3 a side view of the same block, the bag tied as set forth in dotted lines
and the tied portion pressed into the hole.
I have only shown the invention in connection with oval blue, but it is obvious
that it will be equally applicable for spherical, cubical, cylindrical, and other
ordinary forms, the hole being made either in the centre of the top, or if desirable
at one side thereof, in fact, in any convenient position for the tied end to-be pressed
down into.
The advantages of this arrangement are obvious, namely that the- blue, whether
it be cylindrical, oval, or other shape, can be wrapped up into a parcel of a similar
forin to that, in which blue of similar contour has customarily been wrapped up,
and exhibited in trade. Thus the whole can be easily packed in boxes without
serious loss of room or vacant space.
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. The improvement in the manufacture of bag blue, which consists in forming
the blue of any ordinary shape in general contour, but having a hollow or depression
or excavation in any convenient point, of such size as may be capable of containing
the tied up end of the bag and allowing the entire parcel to assume the form of an
ordinary block of blue.
2. As a new article of manufacture and commerce a bag blue arranged with the
tied end of the bag pressed into a hole, depression or excavation in the blue, the
said blue being cylindrical, oval, cubical, spherical, parallel, opipedon, or other
ordinary shape and the whole wrapped up in a label in the ordinary manner, thus
resembling when packed rather a larger piece of blue of an ordinary contour.
Dated this 23rd day of December 1891.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, and London, Patent Agents.