US1176160A

US1176160A - Process of wrapping articles.

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Publication number: US1176160A
Application number: US196215A
Authority: US
Inventors: Charles C Miller
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1915-01-13
Filing date: 1915-01-13
Publication date: 1916-03-21
Anticipated expiration: 1933-03-21

Description

C. C. MILLER.

PROCESS OF WRAPPING ARTICLES.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. I3, 1915.

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PROCESS OF WRAPPING ARTICLES. APPLICATION FILED IAN. I3. I9I5.

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CHARLES C. MILLER, 0F FORT WAYNE, INDIANA.

PROCESS OF WRAPPING ARTICLES.

Application filed 3anuary 13, 1915. Serial No. 1,962.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES C. MILLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fort Wayne, in the county of Allen and State of Indiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Processes of Wrapping Articles, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to the packaging of laundried and other articles for delivery purposes. An item of large expense in every laundry is that necessitated by the wrapping up of the laundried articles for the delivery thereof. It is essential that the contents of the package shall be protected from crushing or distortion or injury while being delivered. The method universallyin vogue heretofore is that of first inserting each shirt into a stiff wrapper or inserting a piece of card-board into the shirt to protect the same. The shirts and other articles are then wrapped in a sheet of paper and tied up with twine or they are inserted in a paper box. A considerable amount of time is thereby consumed in preparing each customers laundry for delivery.

The object of my invention is to provide a novel method of packing articles in a bag or similar receptacle having but one end open together with a reinforcement for the bag by which the collapse of the same is prevented and the contents are protected. I have found that a reinforcement formed from a strip of card-board or other suitable material into a continuous band which, when in the bag, will abut its sides and bottom and extend across the top of the bag, provides a very satisfactory means of protection for the laundry. It is an easy matter to insert the reinforcement into the bag, but since one of its ends extends across the top of the bag the laundry cannot be inserted without tearing the bag or providing a bag which is so large that the reinforcement is of little or no benefit. I overcome this difiiculty by inserting the laundry and reinforcement into the bag at one operation, by placing the reinforcement on a tray which is fixed, as to a table, then placing the laundry on the scoop and within the reinforcement. then drawing the bag over the scoop and reinforcement and laundry, then removing the bag with the reinforce ment and laundry within it from the tray,

then folding the mouth of the bag over the Specification of Letters Patent.

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top end of the reinforcement and sealing it, as with an adhesive tape.

In the drawings I illustrate one manner n which my invention may be carried out in practice, in which Figure l is a plan view of. the tray and reinforcement with a bag partly drawn over them, Fig. 2 a side elevation of the same; F g. 3 a view in perspective of the tray and Fig. 4 a view, in perspective of the completed package removed from the tray and ready for delivery.

Referring to the drawings, 10 is the tray having a rib 11 on its lower side which extends across the same and which serves to elevate the tray above the surface of the table 12. A" flange 13 depends from the closed end 14 of the tray which is adapted to be attached to table 12 or other suitable support by screws or by thumb screws 15.

able shape to correspond to the shape of the bag intendedto be used. At suitable points near the forward ends of the sides of the tray those sides are preferably increased in height to insure the passage of the mouth of the bag over the reinforcement and laundry placed within the reinforcement. The bag may be provided at its mouth with an adhesive tape 18 which, when the mouth is closed by folding the same over the top end of reinforcement 16, moistening the gummed tape and pressing it onto the adjacent parts of the bag.

' When the customer receives the package he merely has to break the tape and withdraw the reinforcement and laundry from the bag. He may then hang up the bag by engaging a'hook or nail in aperture 19 in the bag, and he may then place his soiled linen in the bag from day to day and deliver it to the laundry representative who then has aconvenient means for returning thelinen to the laundry. The bag being of cheap. material it. is thrown away on its return to the laundry, consequently it provides a sanitary receptaclefor the custom ers linen as well as a means of protection for the laundried linen.

The time consumed in carrying on my method is very much less than that required in wrapping the laundry in paper or in paper boxes. Paper boxes are supplied in knock-down form and must be assembled before the laundry can be inserted." All this requires time as well as storage space; The boxes are very apt to become dusty in storage and the operator is apt to soil her hands in assembling them so that the linen is thereupon soiled and requires relaundrying. My invention obviates all these difficulties. 1 I

What I claim is: I

The method of wrapping articles in bags which consists in depositing a rim for reinforcing the bag upona charging tray; then