US1104414A - Toilet-paper package. - Google Patents

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GULTELMO GOTTINI & GIROLAMO GOTTINI.

TOILET PAPER PACKAGE.

APPLICATION FILED mmzz, 1914.

mm q m WITNESSES:

Patented July 21, 1914:,

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GULIELMO COTTINI, OF SPRINGFIELD, AND GIROLAMO CQT'IQINI,

MASSfiGHUSETTS.

TOILET-PAPER PACKAGE.

Application filed January 22, .1914. Serial No. 813,697.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 21, acre,

To all whom it may concern: Be 1t known that we, GULInLMo Co'r'rINI;

and GIRoLAMo COTTINI, both citizens of the; 'United States of America, said -GUIJ.ELMO:

and useful Toilet-Paper Package, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements toilet paper or in toilet paper bundles or; packages, wherein detachable sheets are associated together, and from which bundles or packages said sheets are to be removed individually and sequentially from the front thereof, and said invention consists of a plurality of sheets, each of which is folded to form a long lap and a short lap or flap, attached to a suitable holder which engages the long laps only, and having each short lap attached to the long lap in front, with the exception of theinitial front short lap, to the end that the withdrawal of the outer sheet will, through the medium of its connection with the short lap immediately behind, turn down such last-mentioned lap in readiness to be grasped for the detaching of what was the second sheet, but .which has now itself become the, outer or front sheet.

The invention also includes means to prevent the long laps from-tearin in such a manner, when severed or forcib y detached from the holder, as to leave irregular and unsightly fragments in the grasp of said holder.

l The objects of our invention are, first, to

economize in the manufacture and use of toilet paper, while at the same time pro-- viding a package from which the paper can be easily and convenientl detached, sheet by sheet, as required, an second, to pro-' duce such a package from which the sheets can be removed without leaving attached to the holder for such package large and irregular fragments to collect dust and dirt, impair the appearance of the package, or reduce unduly the size of the detached This second object pr advantage is especially important when the paper is cut so that the grain or fiber thereof extends laterally instead of lengthwise of the sheet, which. is usually the case with the toilet .tween the outer or paper of the present invention.

Other objects and advantages will appear in .the course of the following description.

We attain the objects and secure the advantages of our invention by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-- 1 .Figure .1 is a front elevation of a toilet aper package which embodies a preferred orm of our invention, the outer, front or foremost sheet having been torn from the holder and being ready to be detached from thesecond sheet; Fi 2, a rear-elevation of such package, and, ig. 3, aned e or side elevation thereof, conventionalize by spacing the sheets and laps, for the purpose of showing clearly the construction.

Similar figures refer to signilar parts throughout the several views.

As shown inthe drawings, our package consists of a plurality of sheets of toilet paper, each sheet being folded up from the ottom so that it consists of a long lap 1 behind and a short lap 2 in front. "With the exception of the short la 2 of the front sheet, each lap 2 is ,attac ed near the top to the contiguous portion of the long lap 1 in front of it, by somesuitable means, as oneor more particles or drops 3 of paste or gum, such drops of. aste or gum being beront face of the short ,lap and the inner or back side of the long lap. The attachment between the long and short laps mustbe weaker in each case than is the. paper at the lace of suspension-or attachment to a hol or or combined binder and holder, as 4, in order .to ,enable any given long lap, after beingtorn from such holder, to be detached from the short lap behind, without tearing from ,said holder the sheet of which said short lap forms a part, as will be more clearly explained .hereinafter. A binder for the long lap l, which bihder may also serve as a holder for the package, must be provided and may be of any suitable and approved type, that shown all 4: consisting of a pair of prongs 5 which are passed through the long laps 1, of the package, from behind and a short distance below the upper edges of said laps, and then carried or bent up and over such upper edges, and down behind said package, as clearly illustrated in the drawings. There is an opening6, in the holder 4:, by means of which said holder with the package is suslap 1, to which the aforesaid short lap 2 is has been turned or drawn down, so that the drops 3 are on what is now the back side thereof. The part that was the upper portion of the long lap 1 of the first sheet drops downward in front of lower portions of such lap, from the attaching drops 3 and from behind and beneath the bottom edge portion of the short lap-2 of the second sheet, such drooping portion being indicated at 12.

As already noted, the drops 3 are not tenacious enough to permit the second sheet, or any sheet, to be torn 0d at the top by reason of failure on the part of the sheets to separate at such drops under the re ular downward pull, and this in spite of the weakness produced by the cuts 9. The sheets pull apart at the drops 3 without tearing.

From the foregoing it is plainly seen that, with the minimum amount pended from a hook or other support. The prongs 5 enter the package at 7, Fig. 2, and emerge from such package at 8, Fig. 1.

The paper strip, out of which our packages are made, is folded longitudinally, or with the fibers extending lengthwise of such strip, and then cut across into package widths, which locates the fibers crosswise of the sheets. This is the only practical way of producing the packages, including the application of the gum. Owing to the lateral direction of the fibers or grain in the sheets, the latter when torn off would ordinarily leave behind, either attached to the holder or free to come fluttering to the floor, jagged pieces of some length, and sometimes even the entire top portion of a sheet would be left, thus materially shortening such sheet. To overcome this disadvantage, we prefer to weaken the laps 1 adjacent to or on both sides of the portions that are direetly attached to the holder, or through which the prongs 5 pass. This may be done by cutting through the laps 1, from their upper edges, on both sides of the vertical central plane thereof, down to points which are a short distance below the horizontal plane of the openings or slits represented by the numerals 7 and 8. The aforesaid vertical cuts are parallel, of equal lengths, and represented at 9- in Figs. 1 d 2. With sheets conveniently arranged for ready detachment and of suitable or adequate size.

I We are aware that folded sheets have been incorporated in packages before, and that attachments have been employed for the purpose of pulling down a part of each subsequent sheet, but in every such case all of the laps have been of the same or practically the same size, and both laps of a sheet have been attached directly to the holder, thus requiring that two laps be detached from such holder whenever a sheet is withdrawn and before it'is separated from the following sheet. Such a construction or arrangement required that the adhesive or other form of attachment between sheets be so strong that there was grave danger of pulling down from the holder an endless amount of paper or number of sheets, without any separation between sheets taking place.

We make no claim for toilet paper or a toilet paper package made in the manner just explained.

As already intimated, some style or type of binder, holder, or combined binder and holder, other than that herein shown and described, may be substituted therefor; moreover, some variation in the shape, size, arrangement, and construction of our package and paper may be made, without departing from the nature of our invention.

\Vhat we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As an improved article of manufacture, a toilet paper package comprising a pluralit of sheets, each folded upon itself to orm a long lap and a short lap, attaching means between the short lap of one sheet and the long lap of the next adjacent sheet, and attaching means for the long laps only of said sheets, such first-mentioned attaching means being weaker than the sheet an these cuts 9 present, when a sheet is pulled from the holder 4, it tears only between the lower ends of the cuts 9, and the tear is fairly straight and even.- A' rectangular piece 10 is left attached to the holder i, and a corresponding recess 11 is made in the top of the sheet removed-see Fig. 1.

In practice, assuming that the holder 4 with its package is suspended in the usual manner, the short lap 2 of the sheet on the front of such package is turned down, if it be not already in that position, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, grasped and pulled. The first result of the pull is to tear the long integrally attached, away from the tab portion 10 of such long lap, and the second resultgof such pull is to carry down with such longdapthe short lap 2 behind, that is, the short lap of the second sheet, and to separate such long lap from said second sheet short lap, to which latter the former is attached by the drops 3 of adhesive material. The first sheet is now free for use, and the short lap 2, of what was the second sheetin the package, but is now the first, is left hanging in readiness to be grasped for the detachment of the new first or front sheet. This operation is repeated until the package is exhausted.

In the first view, the first sheet is represented as having been detached from the holder and about to be detached from the short lap of the second sheet, which lap of paper, we are able to produce packages containing 11,104,414 p t m to form along lap and a short lap, and out inwardly a short'distance from its upper edge to form a partially detached member, attaching means between the short lap of 20 one sheet and the long lap of the next adjacent sheet, and attaching means for the partially detached members of the long laps, such first-mentioned attaching means being Weaker than the paper at the junction be 25 tween the long lap and its partially detached member, in any iven case.

ULIELMO COTTINI. GIROLAMO COTTIN I.

at its place of attachment to said secondmentioned attaching means.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a toilet paper package comprising a 5 plurality of sheets, each folded upon itself to form a long lap and a short lap, and cu inwardly a short distance from its upper edge to form a partially detached member,

attaching means between the short lap of 10 one sheet and the long lap of the next adjacent sheet, and attaching means for the partially detached members of the long laps.

p 3. As an improved article of manufac- 15 ture, a toilet paper package, comprising a plurality of sheets, each folded upon itself Witnesses:

OLIVE A. VAN WORMER, A. C. FAIRBAN'Y

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