US1154022A

US1154022A - Wall-paper roll.

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Publication number: US1154022A
Application number: US867415A
Authority: US
Inventors: Herbert C Jarvis
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1915-02-16
Filing date: 1915-02-16
Publication date: 1915-09-21
Anticipated expiration: 1932-09-21

Description

Patented sept. `21, 1915.

.f1/V VEN TUR HERBERT C. JARVIS, OFYTOBONTO, 'QNTRIQ CANADA.

WALL-PAPER ROLL.

` Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 2t, 319115.

Application led February'IG, 1915. Serial No. 8,674.

A To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERBERT C. JARvIs, a subject of the'King of Great Britain, residing in the .city of Toronto, in the county o f York, Province of Ontario, Canada, have in- Vented certain new and useful Improve-- ments in Wall-Paper Rolls, of which the following .is a specification.

Wall paper-is "sold in rolls, the body or patterned portion of the paper being bordered -at each side with a yselvage edge,

which, among other functions, serves the very important purpose of protecting the patterned portion from damage. 'Ihese selvages nust be cut olf before the paper is usedand this trimming is a job requiring timeand skill for its proper performance.,

I aim to make it' possible to rapidly remove the selvages without danger of spoiling the paper and to retain the benefit of the protection given the paper in the roll by these selvages.'

I attain my object by partly severing the selvages from the roll, leaving them attached to the roll by narrow uncut portions at regular intervals. Whenthe paper is in the roll the s'elvages are so securely held in place that they will remain in place and adeguately protect the paper. When the paper 1s unrolled, the selvages are easily pulled olf,

the narrow uncut portions readily breaking.

-When the paper is hung, the broken edges of the uncut connecting portions practically disappear and the joints appear as clean as w1th paper ltrimmed in the ordinary way.-

To prevent the selvages becoming acci#y dentally torn when the paper is in the roll and to hold them-tightly rolled in place, a

strlp of paper is gummed around each end of the roll.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which- Figure 1 is a Yperspective view of a roll `of wall paper constructed in accordance with my inventionand partly unrolled, and Fig. 2 a similar view of the roll completely rolled and *with` the ends secured.

In the drawings like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different igures.

1 is the paper of which the roll is composed and 2 the selvages. The selvages are in the main severed from the roll, being merely connected thereto at intervals. I

have found in practicea very good arrangement is to sever the selvages from the paper `by clean cuts 3 about 2 or 3 long, the

cuts alternating with narrow uncut portions 4 preferably not more than one eighth of an inch in width. The cuts 3 extend from end to end of the web of paper forming the roll, and must of course accurately follow the hne of demarcation between the patterned or .body portion of the paper and the selvages.

When the web of paper is completely rolled, a band 5 of paper is gummed around each end of the roll coveringthe exposed portion of the selvages and securing them to the roll. These bands of paper securely hold the selvages in place so that they will remain in place and adequately protect the paper against damage.

When the roll of paper isused, the sel- Vvages are easily torn off by hand completely avoiding the necessity of employing skilled labor in the trimming of the paper.

It will be understood of course that I do not desire to limit myself to the exact proportions of the cuts and the uncut portions connecting the body of the paper with the selva-ges, as these may be widely varied withe out departing from the spiritbf my invention, the main point being that there is sulficient attachment between the selvages and the body of the paperto hold the selvages in place during all ordinary handling of the roll before use, when reinforced by the bands ofupaper ed around each end of the ro What I claim as my invention is 1. A roll of wall paper in which the selvages are partly severed from the roll.

2. A. roll of wall paper in which the selvages are partly severed from the roll inO combination with a band of paper gummed around each end of the roll.

3. A -roll of wall paper in which the selvagesare partly severed from the roll by a series of clean cuts alternating with narrow uncut portions.

4. A roll of wall paper in which the selvages are partly severed from the roll by a v series of clean cuts alternating with narrow in combination with means covering the eX- f Feb. 1915, in t-he presence of 611e two-.11'11- posed portions of the selvages and securngder-signed witnesses.

them to` the roll. l *A v I 6. A rollvof Wall pafper in which the sel- *HERBERT C' JARV-S 5 vages are cut and held in place for shipping Witnesses: by suitable end. bands. J. EDW. MAYBE,-

Signed at Toronto, Caada, this 6th dey E. P.