IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF FASTENING BAGS MADE OF PAPER OR OTHER MATERIAL FOR THE CONVEYANCE BY POST OR OTHERWISE OF SAMPLES OF GRAIN, SEED, TEXTILE FABRICS, AND OTHER ARTICLES.
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Davis, of Gainford, in the County of
Durham, Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
METHOD OF FASTENING BAGS MADE OF PAPER OR OTHER MATERIAL FOR
THE CONVEYANCE BY POST OR OTHERWISE OF SAMPLES OF GRAIN, SEED,
TEXTILE FABRICS, AND OTHER ARTICLES.
Scaled the 17th July 1868, and dated the 21st January 1868.
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Davis at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 21st January 1868.
I, WILLIAM DAVIS, of Gainford, in the County of Durham,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE METHOD OF FASTENING BAGS MADE OF PAPER OR OTHER MATERIAL
FOR THE CONVEYANCE BY POST OR OTHERWISE OF SAMPLES OF GRAIN, SEED, TEXTILE
FABRICS, AND OTHER ARTICLES."
My Invention relates to an improved method of fastening bags.
made of paper or other material for the conveyance of various articles
by post under the pattern and sample postal regulations, and for
other uses. For this purpose, I provide the neck of the bag with a
flap having a tuck or tongue with arms projecting laterally. This

page_text: tuck I divide longitudinally in its centre, the dissection extending
beyond the neck of the tuck and to near the top of the flap. A
transverse slot equal in length to the width of the neck of the tuck
and in a line with its projecting arms being cut in the body of the
bag, each division of the tuck may be separately inserted therein or
withdrawn therefrom with the greatest facility, while the projection of
the arms beyond the slot gives to the tuck a firm holding power. For
some purposes I make the flap at the side instead of at the end of the
bag. In this form of bag the side flaps meet at the centre of the
bag, where they hook into the slot cut to receive the tuck. The tuck in
this kind of bag I sometimes make with a single arm elongated and
do not divide it. This form of bag may be used as an envelope for
written communications. When the flap is at the end of the bag and
the single arm adopted the slot is cut across the bag in a slanting
direction from the edge on the side at which the arm is inserted to
about two-thirds of the width of the bag. For greater security where
the single arm is adopted a strip of the material projects from the edge
of the flap near the arm on the opening side, which may be gummed
down.if necessary.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Davis in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 21st July 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
DAVIS, of Gainford, in the County of Durham, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in
the thirty-first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said William Davis, Her special
licence that I, the said William Davis, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Davis, 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

page_text: vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE METHOD OF FASTENING BAGS MADE OF PAPER OR OTHER MATERIAL FOR THE
CONVEYANCE BY POST OR OTHERWISE OF SAMPLES OF GRAIN, SEED, TEXTILE FABRICS,
AND OTHER ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said William Davis, 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 months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Davis, 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, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawings, and to the Figures marked thereon.
My Invention relates to an improved method of fastening bags
made of paper or other material for the conveyance of various articles
by post under the pattern and sample postal regulations, and for other
uses. For this purpose I provide the neck of the bag with a flap
having a tuck or tongue with arms projecting laterally; this tuck I
divide longitudinally in its centre, the dissection extending beyond
the neck of the tuck and to near the top of the flap. A transverse
slot equal in length to the width of the neck of the tuck and in a
line with its projecting arms, being cut in the body of the bag cach
division of the tuck may be separately inserted therein or withdrawn
therefrom with the greatest facility, while the projection of the arms
beyond the slot gives to the tuck a firm holding power: For some
purposes I make the flap at the side instead of at the end of the bag;
in this form of bag the end flaps meet at the centre of the bag
where they hook into the slot cut to receive the tuck. The tuck in
this kind of bag I sometimes make with a single arm elongated and
do not divide it. This form of bag may be used as an envelope for
written communications. When the flap is at the bag and the single
armed tuck adopted the slot is cut in a slanting direction from the
edge on the side at which the arm of the tuck is inserted to about
two-thirds of the width of the bag. For greater security when the
single armed tuck is adopted a strip of the material of which the bag
'

page_text: is made projects from the edge of the flap in the opening side and
which may be gummed down if necessary.
The accompanying Drawings represent my improvements in the bags
shewn in their unfolded and folded form.
Figure 1 represents a bag before folding; Figure 2 is a similar bag
folded and gummed as in use; Figure 3 is a modified form of tuck
having on one side of the flap a projecting piece of the material,
which may be gummed down on the outside of the slot; Figure 4
shows the bag fastening at the side with the end flaps formed to hook
into the slot cut to receive the tuck; Figure 5 represents the same
bag folded; Figure 6 a similar bag with a single armed tuck
elongated.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention and in
what manner the same may be carried into effect, I declare that I
claim,―
First. Applying to the flap of the bag a tuck furnished with arms
projecting laterally and dividing the tuck so that each division may
be separately passed through a slot of the width only of the neck of
the tuck, and when so inserted securely fasten the flap of the bag
without the addition of gum or other extraneous matter.
Second. So shaping the end flaps of some kind of bags that they
hook into the slot cut to receive the tuck.
Third. Commencing the slot at the edge of the bag in which the
tuck has but one projecting arm, and giving it a slanting direction
downwards.
Fourth. Dividing the single armed tuck near to the edge on the
opening side, so that the lesser division may form a fastening on the
outside of the bag.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Davis, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.