US325410A

US325410A - Package of toilet-paper

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Publication number: US325410A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-09-01
Anticipated expiration: 1902-09-01

Description

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0. H. HICKS.

PACKAGE 0F TOILET PAPER.

No. 3254110. Patented Sept. I 1885 W iinesse s. In l efliefi.

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PACKAGE 0 F TOILET-PAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,410, dated September 1, 15.85.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, OLIVER HEWLETT HICKS, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and $t-ate of Illinois, have invented a certain new and Improved Package of Toilet-Paper; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and to the figures and letters of reference marked thereon.

'Heretofore toilet-paper has usually been furnished to the public either in the form of sheets cut to the proper size for use or in cylindrical rolls of continuous lengths. In some cases the paper furnished in the form of rolls has been perforated transversely at regular intervals, with the view of enabling the user to separate it into sheets of uniform size, and thus obtain the advantages of the package composed of independent sheets. The chief objection to each of these modes of furnishing toilet-paper is the great amount of wastage which occurs. \Vhere the separate-sheet plan is employed the user is apt to detach a great many more sheets than he actually uses, while where the roll plan is practiced the rolls are usually hung so as to freely revolve, and the user, by a pull upon the depending end, oftentimes reckless] y reels oft yards where feet would answer.

The object I have had in view has been to furnish toilet-paper in a form which would prevent in a large measure this vast amount of wastage. 1n carrying out this object I have put up one or more lengths of paper in the form of a continuous band (as contradistinguished from a roll) of oblong or oval shape, the short rounded ends of the bundle thus produced serving as guides for determining the proper points at which the paper is to be separated in order to produce sheets of a size desirable for use, and affording also the most advantageous surfaces upon which to tear the paper. The band I make of a thickness calculated to produce sheets severed at the points stated of practical and economical lengths from the time the bundle is opened until it is consumed.

In the accompanying drawings, I have illustrated my improved form of bundle. Figure 1 shows the mode of tearing off the sheets, and Fig. 2 is a side view of one of the bundies.

In the manufacture of these bundles I preferabl y form the'band by winding continuous lengths of paper upon a mandrel of suitable size, with or without the interposition of athick paper core, a, (shown in Fig. 2,) and when the band has attained a sufficient thickness it is removed from the mandrel and collapsed or flattened into the oblong or oval shape shown in both figures.

I make the internal diameter of the band when in cylindrical form of not less than twice the thickness of the band at any one point, and the proportions which I prefer to employ are as follows: Vidth of paper, from four and one-half to five inches; internal diameter of band, when in cylindrical form, about two and three-quarters inches; external diameter, from four to five inches.

This form of bundle may be mounted in a fixture such as shown and described and claimed in my application for patent Serial No. 155,464, filed February 7, 18.85, or it may be used detached from a fixture, as shown in Fig. 1, one hand of the user being slipped into the interior, and the other hand being employed to grasp the pendent end of the paper. and by drawing the paper tightly over one of the short rounded ends of the bundle causing it to separate at that point and produce a sheet of convenient length.

The oblong flattened form of the bundle enables it to be packed in cases to greater advantage than if itwere in cylindrical form, the small interstices between the rounded ends being the only spaces left unoccupied.

In the use of my improved package it is obvious that when one sheet is torn off the end of the portion which is to form the next succeeding one will automatically descend into convenient position to be grasped. This is a feature of importance, and it is obvious that the employment of any substance which would cause the adherence of the layers or convolutions one to the other, or of any form of contrivance that would prevent the free separation of the end from the body of the paper, would entirely defeat it.

1 claim as my invention- A bundle of paper consisting of one or more lengths formed into a continuous band whose internal diameter is greater than the thickness of paper, substantially as described.

OLIVER HEWLETT HICKS.

Vvitnesscs:

FRED F. Cannon, A. S. STEUART.