Improvements in the Manufacture or Get Up of Bag Blue or other Colours for Laundry or other Purposes.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Aug., 1898 -Accepted, 19th Nov., 1898
Improvements in the Manufacture or Get Up of Bag Blue or other
Colours for Laundry or other Purposes.
I, PERCY FORREST JOHNSON, of 77 and 79, St. Anne Street, Liverpool, in the
County of Lancaster, Managing Director of John Johnson & Co. Ltd., do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
Laundry blues or the like are of various shades of colour from a green-blue to a
purple-blue, from a pale to a dark ultramarine, or often an indigo or Prussian
blue, and when sold in bags are generally so tied up that the consumer cannot
tell the particular shade of colour or quality, until in actual use.
The same
remark applies also to colours other than blue whether fast or fugitive, as these
are generally sold in white bags, which do not give the consumer any idea of the
colour of the contents.
My invention has for its object to avoid the above defects. It will be under-
stood from the following description reference being had to the accompanying
drawing which shows a block of blue or other colour wrapped or parcelled up ready
for use.
Referring to this drawing, the blue or other colour is wrapped or parcelled up
in a bag or cloth A, the latter being of any suitable kind of fibrous material which
is sewn or tied round the block of blue or other colour at B, leaving the loose ends
of the bag or cloth free, and constituting a useful and convenient handle by which
the colour can be held and stirred in the water. The loose ends of this bag or
cloth are coloured at C (by dipping or otherwise) with colours showing the shade
of the blue or other colour enclosed within the bag or cloth, and thus the exact
colour of the article can be seen at a glance. The effect especially when a variety
of tints of bag blues and other colours are placed together in a box is very striking,
the upper part of each bag being coloured, while the lower part is left uncoloured
(white), thus providing an effective contrast. This effect is lost by colouring
the whole bag or wrapper, the feature of the invention being colouring the loose
ends only so as to form a contrast with the remainder of the bag and wrapper.
In case of blues which are provided with a handle of wood metal or other sub-
stance, the top of the handle or the loose ends of the bag or cloth round the handle,
may be dipped or coloured to show the shade or colour within the bag.
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. In a bag of blue or other colour, colouring that part of the article which
constitutes the handle with a colour showing the particular shade of the blue or
other colour enclosed within the bag or cloth.
2. A bag of blue or other colour having the loose ends of the bag or cloth

page_text: dipped in, or coloured with, a colour showing the particular shade of colour within
the bag, whereby a very effective contrast between the colour of the loose ends
and the remainder of the bag is secured, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 30th day of August 1898.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of C, Lord Streçț, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant.