AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU- FACTURE OF LINED OR COLOURED PAPER BAGS
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Hill Stone, of Spark Hill, in the Parish
of Yardley, in the County of Worcester, Commercial Traveller, for
the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF LINED OR COLOURED PAPER BAGS."
Sealed the 11th April 1871, and dated the 21st October 1870..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Hill Stone
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 21st October 1870.
I, HENRY HILL STONE, of Spark Hill, in the Parish of Yardley, in
the County of Worcester, Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS. IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF LINED OR COLOURED PAPER BAGS," to be as follows:-
My Invention has reference to the manufacture of lined or coloured
bags made principally of brown or sugar paper, which bags are used by
grocers, confectioners, oilmen, druggists, and others, but my Invention
may be applied to the manufacture of bags from paper of any colour or
quality.

page_text: My Invention consists in making lined or coloured paper bags by the
combination of processes herein-after described.
In making a paper bag according to my Invention, I take a sheet or
blank of paper from which the bag is to be made, and I coat or cover one
side or surface of the said sheet or blank by means of a brush or other-
wise with a pigment of the desired colour, the said pigment being mixed
with whiting and glue or size, or other adhesive material brought by
means of water to the required state of dilution. A coating of uniform
thickness having been applied to the surface of the paper or blank, the
said paper or blank is dried in a stove or otherwise, and the coated paper
or blank is then passed through a pair of rolls. By this process a smooth
coloured surface is given to the paper or blank, which surface adheres
very firmly to the paper and does not impair the flexibility of the said
paper. The coated paper or blank is now folded up and made into a
bag in the ordinary way, the coated side or surface being so placed as
to constitute the inside of the bag. A coloured lining is thus applied to
the bag which besides improving the appearance of the bag prevents
the articles of confectionery, food, or other articles placed in the bag
from coming in contact with the brown or other paper of which the bag
is made. When the outside as well as the inside of the bag is required
to be coloured the paper or blank is covered on both sides in the manner
before described with respect to one side only.
By my Invention linings or coatings of a variety of colours can be
applied to the bags, and the bags so lined, coated, or coloured are cheaper
than the lined bags of the ordinary kind.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry Hill Stone in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 20th April 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
HILL STONE, of Spark Hill, in the Parish of Yardley, in the County of 3
Worcester, Commercial Traveller, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-

page_text: fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Henry Hill Stone, Her special license
that I, the said Henry Hill Stone, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Hill Stone, my executors,
administrators, 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
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LINED OR COLOURED PAPER BAGS," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry Hill Stone, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Hill Stone, do hereby
declare the nature of my said 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 has reference to the manufacture of lined, coated, or
coloured bags made principally of brown or sugar paper, which bags are
used by grocers, confectioners, oilmen, druggists, and others, my
Invention may however be applied to the manufacture of bags from
paper of any color or quality.
In making a paper bag according to my Invention, I take a sheet or
blank of paper from which the bag is to be made, and I coat or cover
one or both sides or surfaces of the said sheet or blank by means of a
brush or otherwise with a pigment of any desired colour, the said
pigment being mixed with whiting and glue or size or other adhesive
material brought by means of water to the required state of dilution. A
coating of uniform thickness having been applied to one or both sides of
the paper or blank the said paper or blank is dried by suitable means
and is then passed through a pair of rolls if required. By this process
a smooth coloured surface is given to the paper or blank, which surface
adheres very firmly to the paper and does not impair the flexibility of
the said paper.
The coated paper or blank is now folded up and made

page_text: into a bag in the ordinary way. A coloured lining can thus be applied
to the bag which besides improving the appearance of the bag prevents
the articles of confectionery, food, or other contents of the bag coming
in contact with the brown or other paper of which the bag is made.
By my Invention linings or coatings of a variety of colours can be
applied to the bags, and the bags so lined, coated, or coloured, are
impervious to damp and other atmospheric or climatic influences.
Having thus described the nature and object of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be carried into effect, I claim
the improvements in the manufacture of lined or colored paper bags
by coating the inside or outside or both surfaces of such bags with
a suitable pigment, substantially in manner herein more fully set forth
and specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Hill Stone, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of April, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-.
one.
HENRY HILL STONE. (L.S.)