AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ENVELOPES FOR NEEDLES
Year: 1853

page_text: tion of "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF ENVELOPES FOR NEEDLES."
Scaled the 29th July 1853, and dated the 1st June 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Morris at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 1st June 1853.
I, JOSEPH MORRIS, of Astwood Bank, near Redditch, in the County
of Worcester, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF ENVELOPES FOR NEEDLES" to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in cutting out the papers which, when folded
or folded and joined by cementing, constitute the said envelopes, by
the use of machinery, instead of by scissors, as is usually practised.
The said machinery consists of a pair of dies or tools, one of the said
dies or tools being fixed on the base of the machine, and the other
moving vertically by a screw or otherwise; the lower die is sunk or

page_text: pierced in the form of the paper to be cut, and the upper die consists
of a plunger, which enters and fits accurately the lower dic. The paper
to be cut is laid on the lower die, and on the descent ofthe upper die
the said paper is cut out, and falls through the lower die.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Morris in the Great Seal Patent Office,
on the 29th November 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JOSEPH MORRIS, of Astwood Bank, near Redditch, in the County of
Worcester, Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the sixteenth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Joseph Morris, Her special licence that
I, the said Joseph Morris, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Joseph Morris, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ENVELOPES FOR NEEDLES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Joseph Morris, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Morris, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof (that is to say):

page_text: My Invention consists in a new or improved method of cutting out
the pieces of paper which, when folded or folded and joined by cement-
ing, constitute the envelopes or cases in which needles are kept. The
said pieces of paper are ordinarily cut by means of scissors, and the
new or improved method which constitutes my Invention consists in
cutting the said pieces of paper for needle envelopes by means of dies
actuated by machinery instead of by scissors. Figure 1, of the accom-
panying Drawing, represents in side elevation a pair of dies which I
use for carrying my Invention into effect, the said dies consisting of a
lower or fixed die a, and an upper or moveable die b. Figure 2, repre-
sents the fixed die a, Figure 1, in plan, and Figure 3, represents the
said fixed die in vertical and longitudinal section. The opening or
piercing c, in the lower die a, has the figure of the paper to be cut
(Figure 4), and the upper die b, fits accurately the opening or
piercing c, in the said lower die. The lower die a, is fixed on the bed
of an ordinary screw or other press, and the upper die b, is fixed in
the bolt or plunger of the said press. In using the said dies I place
twenty or thirty sheets of paper on the lower die a, and bringing down
the upper die b, thereon, cut out the said paper of the form represented
in Figure 4. After the papers have been cut of the form Figure 4,
they are next subjected to the action of the cutting tool shewn in front
view in Figure 5, and in edge view in Figure 6; the said tool is
fixed in the bolt or plunger of a screw or other press, and the cut
papers (Figure 4,) laid on the bed of the said press; on bringing down
the edge of the tool, Figures 5, and 6, on the said papers, the said tool
cuts the slit d, Figure 7, in the said papers. The said slit is made for
the reception of the tuck e, Figures 8, and 9. I sometimes paste or
otherwise attach a piece of paper of the form represented in Figure 10,
to that part of the paper Figures 4, and 7, of which the tuck is formed
for the purpose of strengthening the said tuck. I cut the said pieces
of paper, Figure 10, by means of dies similar in construction and
working to those represented in Figures 1, 2, and 3, excepting that the
upper die, and the piercing in the lower die, have the form of Figure 10.
When the pieces of paper Figure 7, strengthened by the pieces
Figure 10, are folded, and the edges secured by pasting or otherwise,

page_text: they constitute the needle envelope Figure 8. One of the said en-
velopes, filled with needles, is represented in Figure 9. The advantages
of
my Invention are, that it enables me to cut papers to be made into
envelopes for needles much more expeditiously than by the ordinary
method, and also to economise paper; for by my Invention the said
papers can be cut more closely from the sheet than by the use of
scissors, thereby avoiding waste of paper. I also effect great economy
in the cost of the paper of which envelopes for needles are made by
the use of my Invention, as I can cut thinner paper by my said Inven-
tion than can be conveniently cut by scissors, and the said thin paper
answers well for making needle envelopes when that part of the said
paper of which the tuck is formed is strengthened in the manner
herein described.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be under-
stood that I do not confine myself to the precise method of carrying my
Invention into effect herein described and illustrated by the accompany-
ing Drawing, as the same may be varied without departing from the
nature of my said Invention; for example, envelopes cut according to
my Invention may differ in shape from that of the envelope represented
in the accompanying Drawing; but I claim as my Invention, cutting
out pieces of paper of a suitable form, to be folded and made into
envelopes for needles, and piercing holes in the same, for the reception
of the tucks of the said envelopes, by means of dies worked by a screw
or other press.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Morris, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
JOSEPH MORRIS. (L.S.)
Witness, GEORGE SHAW.