IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER BAGS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Thomas Hughes, of the Firm of Hughes
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and Son, Patent Agents, 123, Chancery Lane, London, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER BAGS."-
A communication from abroad by Félicien Daugoise, of Brussels,
in the Kingdom of Belgium.
Sealed the 16th October 1874, and dated the 17th April 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Thomas Hughes
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 17th April 1874.
I, EDWARD THOMAS HUGHES, of the Firm of Hughes and Son, Patent
Agents, 123, Chancery Lane, London, do hereby declare the naturo
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER
BAGS," a communication to me from abroad by Félicien Daugoise, of
Brussels, in the Kingdom of Belgium, to be as follows:-

page_text: Method of Closing Envelopes," in the sense that partly similar means
are employed for manufacturing paper bags.
This Invention has for its object the manufacture of paper bags of
one or more pieces gummed on two or more sides and fastened one upon
the other, the pieces being of equal or unequal dimensions according to 5
whether the fastening shall be made face to face or by turning one part
over another.
In one arrangement the bag is formed of two pieces of equal
dimensions, and the two edges, when the bags are angular, gummed and
fastened together.
For rectangular bags it is preferable to make the bag of two pieces of
unequal dimensions, a smaller being placed within the larger, and after
gumming the edges turning them one over the other.
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In other cases the two pieces may be of equal dimensions, and after
gumming the edges, one or all of the junctions may be turned over and 1
be again gummed and fastened.
As regards the forms and dimensions of the bags they are varied as
required, for this system of manufacture enables bags of all descriptions
to be made to suit the demands of commerce.
To give more facility of entrance into the bags when desired one or 2
more longitudinal folds are made, whether near the junction of the piece
or pieces forming the bags, or at any other part, and as these folds open
out when the bag is being filled, the entrance of the articles or matters is
facilitated.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, 2
filed by the said Edward Thomas Hughes in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 17th October 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
THOMAS HUGHES, of the Firm of Hughes and Son, Patent Agents, 123,
Chancery Lane, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of April, in the year
g

page_text: of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Edward Thomas Hughes,
Her special licence that I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Edward Thomas Hughes, my exccutors, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER BAGS," a
communication to me from abroad by Felician Daugoise, of Brussels, in
the Kingdom of Belgium, upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Edward Thomas Hughes, 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 Edward Thomas Hughes, 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, reference being had to the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon (that
is to say) :-
This Invention is a sequel or further developement of a Patent
dated 3 September, 1873, No. 2900, for "Improvements in and in the
Method of Closing Envelopes," in the sense that partly similar means
are employed for manufacturing paper bags.
This Invention has for its object the manufacture of paper bags of
one or more pieces, gummed on two or more sides, and fastened once upon
the other, the pieces being of equal or unequal dimensions, according to
whether the fastening shall be made face to face, or by turning one part
over another.
In one arrangement the bag is formed of two pieces of equal
dimensions, and the two edges, whent he bags are angular, gummed &
fastened together.

page_text: Fig. 8 represents a bag made of two pieces gummed at the folds of
its long sides and at the bottom, first in the flat & then in a fold or
plait at the outside.
Figs. 9, 10, & 11 represent bags made of two pieces folded and
gummed both inside & out, and it must be understood that in all
cases the bottoms of the bags are to be square, round, or of any other
shape.
Fig. 12 represents a bag in the form of a horn, and this description of
bag can be made with flat gummed borders or with folded gummed
borders, as before described for rectangular bags.
In the Drawings the folds or junctions of the paper are in several
cases non-adherent or slightly separated, so that the forms of the bags
can be better distinguished.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, I desire it to
be understood that I claim the manufacture of paper bags as shown &
described, or any mere modifications thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, have here-
unto set my hand & seal, this Seventeenth day of October
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
TITTATTO