Improvements in Bags for Containing Powdered, Granulated, and such like Materials.
Year: 1888

page_text: Improvements in Bags for Containing Powdered, Granulated, and
such like Materials.
I, THEODORE SATCHELL of 268 Upper Richmond Road Putney in the County of
Surrey Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
According to this invention I make the bag of paper or other suitable material
such bag being entirely closed and at one of its corners or other suitable part form an
aperture through which the bag is filled and emptied and this aperture I close when
the bag is full by a piece of paper or other suitable material cemented over same, and
further I fix a band or bands of linen or other suitable material round the bag in
order to strengthen it and one of these bands may be extended and cemented so as to
enable the end thereof to be stuck over the aperture instead of having a separate
piece as aforesaid for closing the bag.
BROWNE & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: A44
I, THEODORE SATCHELL of 268 Upper Richmond Road, Putney in the County of
Surrey, Gentleman 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 :-
Ordinary bags are ineffectual to prevent the escape of finely powdered materials
from the corners or the mouth and they afford no safeguard against the air entering
the mouth and damaging such of the contents as are liable to injury from
the air.
The object of this invention is to provide a bag which shall allow of powdered,
granulated and such like materials being easily and expeditiously packed and securely
held within it and which when packed shall offer a safeguard against the entrance
of air through the mouth.
For these purposes I entirely close the bag on all four of its sides except that at a
portion of one of its sides I form or leave an aperture as small as may be convenient
through which I fill the bag and this aperture I close when the bag is full by a piece
of paper or other suitable material which I cement over such aperture. And further
I sometimes fix a band of linen or other suitable material round the bag to strengthen
it and in such case I sometimes cement a part of such band and fix such cemented
part over the aperture, instead of closing the bag in the manner first mentioned.
In making a bag according to my invention I cut the paper or other material to the
shape shown for example in Figure 1. I cement the parts ACDF and fold the
paper on the lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 so that the part B comes against the part E,
the part H against the part G, the part G against the part E the parts D and F
against the back of the part G and the parts A and C against the back of the part E.
When the bag is thus formed each of the four corners is protected by a double
fold of paper, an aperture is left between A and C through which the bag is filled and
the parts B and H being folded down form two firm edges or lips and thus allow of
the introduction without risk of injury to the aperture of a funnel or other convenient
medium for the introduction of the materials intended to be packed in the bag.
Figures 2 and 3 show front and back views respectively of the bag made up ready for
filling. To close the aperture when the bag is filled I cut a piece K of paper or
other suitable material of a length rather greater than the width of the aperture and
of some convenient shape such as is shewn in Figure 6 and this when cemented on
one side I lay over the aperture. Figure 5 shews the bag filled with the closing
piece K (shewn in detail at Figure 6) cemented over the aperture. In preparing the
bag I sometimes cement one half of the closing piece on to one side of the bag, as
near to the aperture as may be, and leave the other half ready for cementing down on
the other side of the bag when the bag is filled see Figure 4.

page_text: In filling the bag a funnel, either movable or stationary introduced into the mouth
of the bag will expedite the operation of filling.
It is desirable not to fill the bag to its utmost capacity so as to allow of the two
lips of the aperture being brought into close contact before applying the closing
piece.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is