IMPROVEMENTS IN. ENVELOPES OR COVERS FOR BOTTLES OR JARS
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Elizabeth Brimson, of Frome,. in the County of
Somerset, Spinster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN. ENVELOPES
OR COVERS FOR BOTTLES OR JARS."
Sealed the 24th January 1865, and dated the 28th July 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Elizabeth Brimson at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with her Petition, on
the 28th July 1864.
I, ELIZABETH BRIMSON, of Frome, in the County of Somerset, Spinster,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
ENVELOPES OR COVERS FOR BOTTLES AND JARS," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in forming envelopes for protecting or covering
bottles and jars of a combination of paper, or of cotton or other textile fabric
or leather, and straw reed or rush. The paper is coated with paste or other
adhesive material, and the ends of the straw reed or rush are covered and
held by the paper, the paper may extend the whole length of the cover and
may be turned up inside, or there may be paper ferrules applied both at the
top and bottom of the cover.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Elizabeth Brimson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
28th January 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ELIZABETHI
BRIMSON, of Frome, in the County of Somerset, Spinster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Elizabeth Brimson, Her special licence that I, the said Elizabeth
Brimson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Elizabeth Brimson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN ENVELOPES OR COVERS FOR BOTTLES AND JARS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Elizabeth Brimson, my, executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Elizabeth Brimson, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
that is to say-
This Invention consists in forming envelopes for protecting or covering
bottles and jars of a combination of paper, or of cotton or other textile fabric
and straw reed or rush. The paper or textile fabric is coated with paste or
other adhesive material, and the ends of the straw reed or rush are covered
and held by the paper, the paper may extend the whole length of the cover
and may be turned up inside, or there may be paper ferrules applied both at
the top and the bottom of the cover.
The manner in which I prefer to carry my Invention into effect will be
understood by the accompanying Drawings, and the following explanations.

page_text: I take a strip of paper, say about eight or ten inches wide, and of sufficient
length to go round the body of a bottle; I coat one side of the paper with
paste or other adhesive material, lay the ends of the straw reed or rush on the
coated side so as to cover about one half the width of the paper; I then
turn the other half of the paper over and upon the ends of the straw reed or
rush; I next roll the two thicknesses of paper between which the ends of the
straw are held round the body of a bottle, or round a block of the shape of a
bottle; the other ends of the straw are then tied close together by string or
otherwise secured, and the envelope or cover is finished.
Figure 1 in an elevation, partly in section, of a finished envelope.
a, a, is the straw reed or rush; b, the paper outside, and c, the paper inside
the straw. Figure 2 is an elevation of an envelope, in which the paper does
not cover so large a surface of the straw as in Figure 1.
Sometimes, instead of having the paper all in one piece, I use two pieces
of paper, one for the outside of the straw, and the other for the inside. In
this case I roll the paper which is for the inside of the envelope round a bottle
or cylindrical block, and then coat the outside surface of the paper with paste;
I also coat the other paper on a flat surface with paste, and lay the ends of the
straw for forming the envelopes upon it. Then I roll the second paper with
the straw round the bottle or block on which the first paper is held, I tie
or secure the other end of the straw, withdraw the bottle or block, and the
envelope is complete.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim forming envelopes
or covers for bottles and jars of a combination of paper, or of cotton or
other textile fabric, and straw reed or rush, substantially as herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Elizabeth Brimson, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of January, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-five.
ELIZABETH BRIMSON. (L.B.)