US1047351A - Merchandise-wrapper. - Google Patents

Description

L. A. WATERS.

MERCHANDISE WRAPPER.

APPLICATION FILED n13.23, 1912.

1,047,851, Patented Dec. 17,1912.

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LOUIS A. WATERS, OF NEWPORT, KENTUCKY.

MERCHANDISE-WRAPPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 1'2, 1912.

Application filed FebruaryBF, 1912. Serial No. 679,504.

sheet that can be taken-up, so that, whether the merchandise, shirt or other article to be wrapped is thick or thin, a uniform amount of the wrapping sheet canonly be taken up, so that if there is a proper amount arranged forlaithiok or bulky article, the material will i be entirely too loose for merchandise of substantially less bulk.

Itvis the object, therefore of my invention any event, limit the amount of the flexible board back, with a flexible sheet, usually ofto furnish a wrapper in which provision is made for taking up the flexible sheet, so that it may be drawn tightly across the shirt or other article, and in which the locking means is entirely attached to the cardboard, obviating the necessity of gluing, or otherwisesecuring a portion of thenlocking means to the thin transparent wrapper.

In the drawing, Figure, 1 is aperspective view of my improved wrapper with the flexible wrapping sheet opened out, and showing the laundried shirtmin position to be wrapped. Fig. 2 is a rear viewpf thewrapper. F ig, 3 is a transverse section." Fig.4 is a plan view of the locking clip. Fig. 5 is a'plan view of aportion of the. cardboard, back viewed from inside, and showing the clip in dotted lines. g The wrapper comprises a sheet of cardboard or other suitable stiff material-1, of a' size and shape to conform to the size of the merchandise to be wrapped, and as illustrated of the size of a laundried shirt 2. Se-

cured along one side edge 3 of the cardboard back by adhesive material, or in anyother suitable way, is a sheet of-flexible Wrapping paper 4, preferably paraiiined, or of thin transparent, or semi transparent material,

so that the front of the shirt or other article will be visible through thewrapper. This wrapping sheet'4 is of a width to inclose the package and to partially overlap the cardboard .baok, where it is suitably held and locked in position by .the clip 5. This clip is formed of suitable sheet metal, with a .T-head 6 and a flexible body portion 7. The clip is attached to the cardboard at the end 8 by the tangs 9, 9, and the body portion of the clip'is preferably'grooved at 10, 10, to render the outer portion more flexible. Loose tongues or flaps 1-1 are formed in the cardboard on each side of the body of the clip to allow thefingers of the user to readily grasp and raise the body of the clip, and tangs 12, 12, are formed at each end of the head 6 of the clip, which take through corresponding holes 13, 1 3, in the cardboard.

To use the wrapper, the shirtor other article is placed on the cardboard and the flexible sheet 4' folded over the article and the free edge 14 of the sheet is passed in under the clip 5 which is raised slightly by inserting the fingers in the openings presented by depressing the flaps 11 and liftmg the clip.

- Thetangs 12, "12, are then pushed down through the material into the openings 13, 13,- and the package is securely wrapped.

As there'is an inch or more of space between the head of the clip and the point where it issecured to the cardboard, it will be evident that within these limits the flexible covering 4 may be drawnupon to form a tightwrapper.- It will also be noticed that it is not necessary to attach a locking strip to the, flexible sheet 4, and that the locking clip' is entirely secured to the cardboard back. The 'T-shapeof the clip is also of advantage inthat ,but very little waste is incurred in cutting theclips from the sheet,

and a series of clips can be cut with the T- heads of each clip arranged in opposite directions, and the body vof one clip can be formed from the material between the adjoining'clips on each side.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A wrapper for merchandise, comprising a of comparatively thin, flexible material, permanently secured along one side edge to the back section, .With its free port-ion adapted to be folded over the merchandise to be i Wrapped, and a flat clip of thin sheet metal permanently secured to and flat With the back section for locking the free edge of the flexible section to the back, said clip comprising a T-shaped body, With the T-head free and extending toward'the free edge of {the back with the ends of the T head provided with teeth projecting inwardly to engage and hold the flexible section in place, with openings in'the cardboard back to register with and receive the teeth of the T- head, and finger openings on either side of the T-body of the clip to'facilitate raising' the clip for the reception of the flexible section. a

" 4 LOUIS A. WATERS.

At test:

' MARsroN ALLEN,

ANNA F. DIENST.

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