US1088389A - Paper-package. - Google Patents

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S. WHEELER.

PAPER PACKAGE.

APPLICATION FILED 10110.18, 1912 I 1,088,389. Patented Feb. 24, 1914,

3 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

S. WHEELER.

PAPER PACKAGE. APPLICATION FILED DEC.18, 1912.

Patented Feb. 24, 191i 3 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

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PAPER PACKAGE.

APPLIOATION FILED DEO.18, 1912.

Patented Feb. 24, 1914.

3 SHEETS-SHEET 3.

SETH WHEELER, or ALBAN-Y, NEW YORK.

PAPER-PACKAGE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 18, 1912.

Patented Feb. 24, 1914.

Serial No. 737,399.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l[, SETH WHEELER, Albany, in the count of Albany, and in the State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Paper- Packages, and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descri tion thereof.

T e object of my invention has been to provide a paper ackage by which paper may be delivered mm a receptacle preventing access to the contents as a whole, and permittin the user to obtain one unit at a time, sue for instance, as for the purpose of delivering paper towels or toilet paper. And the particular object of my invention has been to provide'a package which shall have, among others, the following advantages: That it may alwa s present the units with a doubled or doub e edge for the user to take hold of; that such doubled or double edge may always project in the same direction; that the withdrawal of the lowermost unit shall, with certainty, bring within reach the doubled or double edge of the next lowermost unit and prevent such unit from curling up within the receptacle; that instead of, as heretofore, delivering two or more separated sheets of paper my package shall deliver such sheets secured together so that they cannot become separated and one of them dropped on the floor; and that it shall permit of the use of a receptacle havin relatively slight depth horizontally. A11 to such ends my invention consists in the paper package hereinafter specified.

While my invention iscapable of use for various purposes, I shall describe it as ap-. plied to toilet paper and shall describe it by the best embodiment known tome, but such embodiment is to be taken as typical only of many possible embodiments, and my invention is not to be confined to the form described. V

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a metal reoeptacle or cabinet containing one of my packages of paper, and having a door to prevent-unauthorized access to the package; Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a package embodying my invention, the sheets or units forming the package being sllghtly separated to make the construction more evident- Fig. 3 is a plan view of a single sheet which may form one of the units of my invention, the sheet being unfolded; Fig. 4 is a plan view of such unit folded; and Fig. 5 is an end view of Fig. 4, and Fig. 6 is a perspective view corresponding to Fig. 2, pf a package in which the doubled edge of each unit is underneath bot-h of the terminal leaves of the next unit.

In the drawings, the metal casing 1 has a door 2 which can be locked to prevent unauthorized access. to the packa e. It is desired to have the lower unit or s set of paper of the package always accessible by projecting through a slot 3 in the bottom of the receptacle, so that the user may obtain theunits or sheets one at a time bypulling down the lowermost unit, such action also bringing within reach a portion of the next lowermost unit, and so on.

M units, as shown in Figs. 3, 4 and 5, consist of a sheet 4 having preferably a cen tral transverse fold 5 and parallel folds 6 a and 7, and 8 and 9 on opposite sidesof the fold 5, respectively, and the paper is so folded as to present a doubled edge 10 connecting leaves 11 and 12 (preferably to be taken hold of by the user, as later described) free leaves 13 and 14, respectively, and intermediate leaves 15 and 16, respectively connecting the leaves 11 and 13 and 1 2 and 14. As shown in Fig. 2, the said units or sheets are interlocked together to form a stack or pile, the doubled edge 10 and leaves 11 and 12 of one sheet being preferably received between the terminals 13 and 14 of the next lower sheet, although such doubled edge 10.

and leaves may be underneath both of such terminal leaves or the package in either of these conditions may be reversed. Thus each.

sheet or unit lies with its doubled edge 10 and leaves 11 and 12 lowermost and its terminals above.

In using my package in the pre ferrcd em bodiment shown in the drawings. it is insorted into the case with the double edge 10 of the lowermost unit or sheet projecting through the slot and hanging where the user may reach it. When he wishes a unit or sheet he engages the leaves 11 and 12 of the doubled edge 10 and pulls downward. This not only releases the lowermost unit but carries with it the corresponding parts of the next unit above. The action of my .package is verycertain in drawing down the doubled edge 10 and leaves 11 and 12 of the succeeding unit, so-that it shall project through the slot, because such parts are engaged both above and below by the free terof only six panels, so to speak, it is to be unminals or leaves 13 and 14 of the preceding derstood that a greater number of panels unit, and thus the corresponding parts of may be formed within the scope of my inthe succeeding unit are prevented from curlvention. 6 ing up within the receptacle and failing to I claimcome out through the slot. It will be ob- 1. A package for toilet or towel purposes served that the doubled edges of my units composed of sheets or units doubled on a mevall project in the same direction so that they dian line, said doubled sheet being also toldare much easier to grasp than if, as with ed on a line parallel to the median line, that 2 1. some packages prior to mine, they projected portion of the sheet adjacent the median line alternately in opposite directions. The botbeing interleaved with the next unit. tom edge of my unit being always double 2. A package for toilet or towel purposes afiords a sure hold for the fingers and one consisting of sheets or units doubled on a less liable to break, than if it were single. median line, said doubled sheet being. also 15 lVhile my unit may consist practicall of folded on two separated lines parallel to the two sheets of paper united at the dou led median line, said last mentioned folds being edge, it avoids the disadvantage of previous in opposite directions, a free leaf of each unit packages, which have delivered two sheets being between that portion of the sheet adof paper at a time not fastened together, in jacent to the median line and the leaves at- 20 that one of said sheets cannot get out of contached thereto.

trol and fall to the floor. My units are of In testimony that I claim the foregoing I such small lateral dimensions that, although have hereunto set my hand.

comparatively large sheets can be delivered, SETH WHEELER. the cabinet need project from the wall only Witnesses: 25 a comparatively slight distance. M. A. WHEELER,

While I have shown my unit as consisting SETH WHEELER, Jr.

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