An Improved Packing Material.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 18th June, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 18th Mar., 1893-Accepted, 6th May, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Packing Material.
I, WILLIAM BESTWICK MAXFIELD of No. 19 Bowling Green Street,
Leicester, in the County of Leicester, Patent Agent having received a com-
munication from abroad by Max Von Gross Manufacturer of Goerlitz in the
Empire of Germany, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to an improved packing material and the object of such
improvement is to procure a packing cloth or fabric which is more particularly
adapted for packing up or emballing brittle goods such as glass and china ware
and the like than the packing materials in use for these purposes.
These objects are attained by means of a new packing cloth consisting of a
fleece-plate, which is manufactured from wastes of the textile industry, especially
of spinning and weaving mills, combing and napping machines and the like.
In order to provide a more reliable joining or conjunction of the fibres or grains,
the said fleece plate still may be felted by any suitable well known process.
Then paste upon the fleece, forming one single piece or plate, on each side a
suitable stuff, or may be paper cover; or the said fleece-plate may be cut in pieces
or strips, and paste these strips intermittently into and between the covers (for
this purpose the fleece may be manufactured at the very beginning in such strips).
These fleece-plates or fleece-strips covered or pasted on each side with suitable
covers are preferably qualified for packing up or emballing brittle goods such as
before stated, and also for lining or stuffing out dresses or other articles of wearing
apparel as a substitute for wadding.
The usefulness of the said packing material depends on the joining and conjunc-
tion of two materials, one of which is giving to the said packing cloth the strength
and durability, the other the requisite softness and mellowness.
Moreover the packing material in question will answer perfectly to the claims,
or demands on lightness and cheapness.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Packing Material.
I, WILLIAM BESTWICK MAXFIELD of No. 19 Bowling Green Street,
Leicester, in the County of Leicester Registered Patent Agent, being a com-
munication to me from abroad by Max Von Gross of Goerlitz, in the Empire
of Germany, 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 :-
My invention relates to an improved packing material, and has for its object to
produce a packing cloth or fabric, which is better adapted for packing or emballing
brittle goods such as glass and china ware and the like, than the packing materials
hitherto in use for these purposes.
I attain this object, in the manner hereinafter to be described and produce the
packing cloth illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which:
Figure 1 is a cross section. Figure 2 a surface view of the new packing
material; Figure 3 is a cross section and Figure 4 a surface view of a packing
cloth showing a somewhat modified structure.
Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

page_text: The new packing material consists of a fleece a which is manufactured in the
ordinary manner of the waste of spinning and weaving mills and combing and
napping machines. In order to ensure a more reliable joining or uniting of its
fibres, the said fleece may in addition be felted by any suitable well known
process.
Upon each side of the fleece thus produced in form of flat pieces or sheets I
paste a covering, which may consist of gauze, paper, cloth or any other suitable
fabric or material; or, I cut the fleece a into pieces or strips a "Figure 3," and
paste these strips a', by preference in certain intervals and parallel to each other
into and between the coverings in the manner shown in Figures 3 and 4. For
this purpose the fleece may be manufactured in form of such strips a' instead of
:sheets.
The said sheets a or strips a' of fleece covered or pasted over on each side with
suitable coverings bare specially suited for packing or emballing brittle goods such
as glass ware, china ware and the like, and also for the lining or wadding of
dresses as a substitute for the ordinary wadding.
The new packing cloth or fabric receives its useful qualities by the unity of two
different materials, the one of which gives to it the requisite strength and durability,
and the other the necessary softness and pliability. The new packing cloth or
fabric is also very light and in consequence of the waste material employed for the
production of the fleece it is also very cheap.
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. A packing cloth or fabric consisting of a sheet of fleece made of waste of
spinning and weaving mills and combing and napping machines, in combination
with textile fabric or paper coverings, pasted upon both sides of the said sheet;
substantially as described.
2. An improved packing material consisting of strips of fleece made of waste of
spinning and weaving mills and combing and napping machines, in combination
with textile fabric or paper-coverings and between which the said strips are pasted
intermittingly substantially as described and shown.
Dated this 13th day of March 1893.
WILLIAM BESTWICK MAXFIELD,
No. 19, Bowling Green Street, Leicester, Registered Patent Agent.

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