Improvements in Postal Wrappers for Newspapers, Pamphlets, and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Improvements in Postal Wrappers for Newspapers, Pamphlets, and
the like.
I, WILLIAM HUMphrey Wheatley, of the Firm of Wheatley and Mackenzie,
Engineers and Patent Agents, of 40 Chancery Lane, London in the County of
London, 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:-.
The object of my invention is to provide for the wrapping of newspapers, pamphlets
and other articles in packages of substantially cylindric form capable of being readily
and instantly broken by means of the hands alone, and to this end my invention
contemplates the use of a paper wrapper enveloping the rolled pamphlet or package
cylindrically when applied, and having a weakened line extending longitudinally of
the package so that by grasping the package and wrapper near opposite ends with the
two hands and giving a twisting movement the wrapper may be ruptured or broken
along said weakened line and its contents released.
In the accompanying drawings':
Figure 1, shows a wrapper blank constructed in accordance with my improvement. .
Figure 2, shows the complete package with the wrapper applied thereto.
Figure 3, is a fragmentary detail showing the manner in which the wrapper
breaks along its weakened lines.
Figure 4, is a perspective view showing the manner in which the package is
manipulated to break the wrapper.
In said drawings, A designates the wrapper blank which is made of manilla or
other paper of a quality suitable for the purpose. In use the blank is wrapped
closely about the rolled pamphlet or cylindric package C and secured by gumming
down its free edge D. The gum for this purpose may be freshly applied at the
time the wrapper is used or may be provided as a permanent adhesive strip when
the blank is made. D designates a weakened line extending longitudinally from
edge to edge of the wrapper. The perforations which constitute the line B lie
within or coincident in direction with the line as a whole, and are so closely
adjacent that the slight necks of papers separating them, while of ample strength
to resist the peripheral tension necessary to securely confine the package, are
readily severed by the strain which I have discovered will result when the opposite
ends of the wrapper are given a rotary movement in opposite directions, as indicated
by the transverse arrows in Figure 2. The cylindric roll seems then to serve as a
mandrel upon which the wrapper twists and the margins of the paper along the
weakened line are thereby drawn in opposite directions, as indicated by the longitudinal
arrows in Figure 2, until the paper is severed along said line. It is therefore only
necessary to grasp the opposite ends of the cylindric package and wrapper with the
hands and apply a twisting movement, in order to break the wrapper and release its
contents.
The simplicity and usefulness of my invention thus described will be apparent. The
cost of the wrapper blanks will be little above the cost of the paper required for their
manufacture. The mode of application of the blank differs in no way from that

page_text: employed with the plain wrapper ordinarily used, and when applied its holding power
is ample to safely retain its contents. The great advantage of affording a wrapper
which, while secure enough to insure safe transportation, can readily and instantly be
opened by the use of the hands alone and in the simplest possible manner is thus
obtained without complication or material additional expense.
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 use for wrapping rolled pamphlets and the like, of a wrapper embracing the
package cylindrically when applied and provided with a weakened line extending
longitudinally of the package, and so constructed that when subjected to torsional
strain the wrapper will be ruptured along the weakened line.
2. The combination with a rolled pamphlet or like package, of a wrapper
embracing the package and provided with a longitudinal weakened line so constructed
that when twisted between the hands the wrapper will be ruptured along the
weakened line.
3. The combination with a rolled pamphlet or like package, of a wrapper
embracing the package cylindrically and provided with a weakened line formed
by perforations lying within or coincident in direction with the line as a whole,
whereby when subjected to torsional strain the wrapper will be ruptured along the
weakened line.
Dated this 16th day of March 1807
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.