Improvements in or relating to Packing Lard.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Dec., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 19th Mar., 1897-Accepted, 24th Apr., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECITIVATION.
Improvements in or relating to Packing Lard.
A. communication by JOHN MORRELL AND COMPANY, LIMITED, of Ottumwa,
Iowa, U.S.A.
We, JOHN MORRELL AND COMPANY, LIMITED of 57 Victoria Street,
Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Provision Merchants and Lard Refiners,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object a method of packing lard whereby it can be
inuch more conveniently handled and sealed in pound packages or the like than
heretofore. It consists essentially. in forming cardboard packages capable of
containing the required weight of lard and lined with: parchment paper. or other
wrapping material which is practically grease proof. There are two or three
modes of making it. We take a long block of preferably square section and fold
thereon a package of parchment paper with one end open, the other end closed, and
so as to form four sides square with each other. There are numerous machines now
in the market for blocking paper wrappers out in this way. The paper is now taken
off the block and either soft lard to the exact amount. required is passed' into the
paper and pressed down by the block, the paper being kept in position by being in
a containing, box, or lard is run into the paper while the paper is in the containing
box to the required amount or a solid block of lard. previously cast or pressed' to
the exact shape is inserted in the paper, the corners of the paper being cut down to
the top of this lard the four sides are bent over each one in succession exactly
covering the top of the cake of' lard. It is then placed in a similar cardboard' box
formed of a cardboard tube with the four sides cut down at each corner so. that
when bent they will cover the square end of the box and these are folded over and
sealed. Ornamental' wrappers placed' round the cardboard box.and 'if desirable on
the top and bottom complete the device. The advantages of this invention are that
the grocer can at once hand out pound packages of lard without having to cut the
lard out, weigh it and wrap it up,.and the package can be carried' home by the
purchaser much more conveniently...
Dated the 4th day of December 1896
A communication by JOHN MORRELL AND COMPANY, LIMITED, of Ottumwa,
Iowa, U.S.A.
We, JOHN MORRELL AND COMPANY, LIMITED of 57' Victoria Street,
Liverpool in the County of Lancaster, Provision Merchants and Card Refiners,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what mauner the. same is to

page_text: be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
This invention has for its object a method of packing lard whereby it can be
much more conveniently handled and sealed in packages of one pound or other like
quantity than heretofore.
It consists essentially in forming card-board packages capable of containing the
required weight of lard, the said lar 1 being wrapped in parchment paper which is
practically grease-proof, or other wrapping material. The package can be lined
however with the paper, and the lard pressed into it, but it is preferred to make a
paper package first and then pack in the card-board package.
The invention is best described by aid of the accompanying drawings, in
which,
Figure.1 shows the card-board cut out and creased as it is actually made;
Figure 2 the same package formed in a box;
Figure 3 the paper for wrapping the lard before being folded; and
Figure 4 the paper package packed with lard of one pound weight. The
wrapping may however be made in any ordinary manner for packing plastic or
pulverulent material in square packages. The paper is however only folded, not
gummed or sealed and by preference the longitudinal fold is at one of the
corners.
Referring to Figures 1 and 2, the card-board is scored or partially cut through
at the lines of.chain dots A. It is quite cut through at B B, and when the box has
to be closed, the flaps CC are turned over, then the flaps D D are turned over and
the projections EE are bent and fitted into the cuts F F. The paper packages are
formed of a block, preferably of square section and left one end open and the other
end closed so as to form a four square block back. There are numerous machines
now on the market for blocking paper wrappers out in this way. The paper is now
taken off the block and soft lard to the exact amount required is passed into the
paper and pressed down by a block or plunger, the paper being kept in position by
being in a containing box, or in place of this plan, lard is run into the paper while
the paper is in the containing box to the required amount, or thirdly a solid block
of lard previously cast or pressed into the exact shape is inserted in the paper and
the corners of the square wrapper above the lard having been previously cut to the
level of the lard the four sides are bent over on each other in succession completing
the package, or lastly the paper can be cut out in the form set forth in Figure 3
and simply folded over a square block of lard. The block after the paper is folded
is placed in the card-board box aforesaid. This box is usually made up first by
pasting the projection G against the inside of the part H and one end is sealed up
in the manner described, namely, folding over the flaps D D and then passing the
projections E E through the cuts F F. The package of lard being inserted the
other end is sealed up in like manner and it is ready for market. The card-board
package is printed with name and trade-mark or other matter as required or has an
ornamental wrapper placed round, and where it is desirable that the package should
not be tampered with or used for other lard, the ornamental label or wrapper is
gumined over the ends. Although only one method of sealing the box has been
shown, it is obvious that there are numerous other methods of doing it, thus
one flap, can be made longer than the rest and be bent round and inserted
under the two side flaps or simply flat flaps can be gummed, tied, or otherwise
held down.
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 us by
our foreign correspondents, we declare that what we claim is :-
The improvements in or relating to packing lard which consists in forming the
lard into a block, enclosing the same in a wrapper of parchment paper or other

page_text: practically lard-proof material and enclosing the whole in a card-board wrapper,
substantially as described.
Dated this 18th day of March 1897.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, and London, Patent Agents.