US121718A

US121718A - Improvement in bottle-wrappers

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Publication number: US121718A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1871-12-12
Anticipated expiration: 1888-12-12

Description

WILLIAM A. HINMAN.

Improvement in Bottle Wrappers.

N0. 121,718, Patente Dec.12.,'1871.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM A. HINMAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOTTLE-WRAPPERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 121,718, dated December 12, 1871.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. HINMAN, of New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Wrappers for Perfume-Bottles, of which the following is a description:

In the drawing, Figure 1 represents a bottle wrapped. Fig. 2 represents the wrapper.

This invention has rel'. tion to an improvement in the mode of wrapping perfume-bottles; and the novelty consists in the employment of a material known as Cuba bast,77 applied in the manner hereinafter described.

I cut the Cuba bast into sheets A of the proper size, and on each sheet in which a bottle is to be inclosed I lay a smaller sheet, B, sufficient in size to cover the extent ot' the label C, pasted on the outside ofthe wrapper after in closing the bottle therein. I then roll the bottle, already filled with perfume and properly capped, in the two sheets of Cuba bast. The ends ofthe outer sheet A extend above the neck and cap and below the bottom of the bottle, and I twist or compress these ends together and tie them by means ot' a strip, d, ofthe same material. I then paste the label on the outside, surrounding that portion undern ath which lies the smaller sheet, before mentioned. The bottles are then ready for packing' and transportation, or-for sale. The material employed is a light, fibrous, and highly porous bark, and very pliable. lt is, therefore, peculiarly adapted for the purpose of wrappin g small bottles, such as are used to contain perfumery. It makes the most convenient and attractive wrapper for small bottles that can be used with the same advantages. Its pliability allows i'th to be easily twisted or compressed at the ends, as well as wrapped around bottles, without being broken 5 but in order that the outer sheet may embrace the neck of the bottle evenly, I split it in several places from the top edge down about one-third its full length. This allows the different parts to overlap each other, without diiiculty, in nice order. It constitutes an excellent packing to prevent the bottles from breakage in transportation 5 and lastly, one of its most important advantages results from its eX- treme porosity, which allows perfume to exhale through it so that its odor may be freely detected without opening it.

The object of the small sheet, which is inclosed between the outer wrapper and the bottle, is to allow the label to be attached to the outside in such a manner as to keep the paste from entering the pores, and by sticking to the bottle prevent its withdrawal without fracturing or destroying the wrapper. The bottle may either be kept in this wrapper, or taken out by untying the top.

The inner sheet cannot well be used any longer than speciiied, as the necessity of tying the top and bottom ot' the Wrapper would render it inconvenient.

Having described my invention, l claim- In a wrapper for bottles, made of Cuba bast, the outer sheet A, split in the manner described, and applied to the bottle by being tied at both ends, in combination with the inner sheet B, arranged as described, and for the purpose specilied.

WILLIAM A. HINMAN.

Witnesses:

GEO. P. GOEE,

Taos. A. GONNALLY. (169)