Substances into Packets.
Year: 1886

page_text: other like Substances into Packets.
I, RICHARD RIPLEY of Blandford Works, Liverpool in the County of Lancaster,
Blue Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object the moulding and wrapping up the material so that
it can easily be broken into two or more equal pieces, and consists in forming the
cake of material with a nick in each side, or a series of perforations or grooves so as
to easily break in a given line, and in perforating the wrapper or forming it in two
parts so as also to separate at that line. If desirable the material can be formed in
two lumps lightly stuck together, two circles, squares, ovals or rectangles. The effect
is the same. While two wrappers could be used as above and one a little overlapping
the other, I prefer a single wrapper with line of perforations opposite the divide,
perforated prior to wrapping.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool,
Patent Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: improvements in or relating to Forming Black-lead, Blue, and
other like Substances into Packets.
I, RICHARD RIPLEY, of Blandford Works, Blandford Street, Liverpool, in the
County of Lancaster, Blue 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 :-
This invention has for its object the moulding and wrapping up of the material, so
that it can easily be broken into two or more equal pieces, and consists in forming the
cake of material with a nick on one or more sides, or a series of perforations or
grooves so as to easily break in a given line, and in perforating the wrapper or
forming it in two parts, so as also to separate at that line. Or the cake can be in two
parts slightly or not at all cohering, and the perforated paper alone holding them
together.
The particular way in which I prefer to carry out my invention may be best
described by aid of the accompanying drawings in which
Figure 1 shows a block of material with wrapper in position for folding up.
Figure 2 a similar block wrapped up ready for sale.
A is a nick formed or moulded in the top of the block A³, so as to divide it into
two equal pieces, a similar one being formed in the bottom and if preferred in the
sides also. B is the wrapper with row of perforations 6 running across it. When
the block is wrapped up the perforations in the wrapper come opposite or nearly
opposite the nick in the block, so that both block and wrapper may be at once severed
when required in the line of the nick and perforations. This method of nicking and
wrapping obviates the necessity of manufacturing the blocks of a smaller-such as
half or quarter-size, and thus a great saving is accomplished in the time and labour
needed to wrap up a given weight of material, fewer wrappers being also required.
Though the block shown is nicked so as to be divided into two equal pieces only, it is
obvious that it might be so formed as to be broken into any number of equal pieces
that may be desired. If desirable the material can be formed in two lumps lightly
stuck together or merely placed side by side, two circles, squares, ovals or rectangles.
The effect is the same. While two wrappers could be used, as above said, one a little
overlapping the other, I prefer a single wrapper with line of perforations opposite the
divide, perforated prior to wrapping, and the material a single block nearly divided
into the required number of segments and having a wrapper perforated opposite the
dividing lines of the block.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is-
1. The combination with block of material partially or wholly divided into two or
more pieces by a nick, nicks, perforations or their equivalent, of a wrapper enclosing

page_text: the same and having in it a series of perforations or separations, so located with
regard to the aforesaid divisions that both block and wrapper may be easily and
expeditiously severed into a number of pieces of definite amount, substantially as and
for the purpose set forth.
2. The method, substantially as herein described, of forming black lead, blue, or like
substances into packets, so that such packets may be instantly and easily broken as
desired into smaller ones of definite quantity, without removing the wrapper.
Dated this Twentieth day of June 1887