US745283A - Package wrap and receptacle. - Google Patents

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PATENTED NOV. 24, 1903.

R. R. LAWSON. PACKAGE WRAP AND REGBPTAGLE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR, 18. 1903,

no MODEL.

UNITED STATES Iatented November 24, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT R. LAWSON, OF NEWYORK, N. Y., ASSIGN OR TO MARY C. GORMAN,

OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PACKAGE WRAP AND RECEPTACLE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 745,283, dated November 24, 1903.

Application filed March 18, 1903- Serial No. 148,342. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, ROBERT E. LAWSON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Package Wraps and Receptacles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in package wraps or receptacles for the purpose of providing a cheap, simple, and at the same time durable wrap for materials such as silks, crape, ribbons, gloves, and the like when the same are to be sold in commerce at retail for delivery or otherwise. There is at present no convenient or speedy wrap for such purposes, and goods sold are placed in ordinary paper bags of uncertain size and rolled together in an unsightly bundle, to the damage of such goods and the discomfort of the purchaser, or time is taken to carefully fold and wrap the goods in paper and tie them up with a cord. No provision is made for sealing them, and when goods are delivered at the houses of the purchasers such packages may be readily opened by any unauthorized persons and portions of the contents be abstracted and the package rewrapped, to the loss or embarrassment of both seller and purchaser.

My device is designed to provide a neat,

sealed, and edective package by which dis-- comfort, loss, and loss of time areavoided.

I construct a package wrapor receptacle of any desired shape or size of Manila or other paper reinforced by cardboard or such suitable material. The cardboard forms the interior of the package wrap or receptacle and the paper the outside, the whole being firm and stiff enough to retain its shape.

The device is open at one or both ends, and into the open end or ends the goods are slipped when folded. At the opening or openings a flap is attached to one side of the-device, which flap is folded over the opening after the manner usual with envelops; but to the end of this flap I have attached a cord of proper length which when the flap is folded over the mouth of the wrap the endsof the cord can be looped about the body of the package and securely tied.

I have notched the sides of the device at the point where the loop of the cord embraces it, and the cord fits into these notches and makes the fastening of said wrap more secure.

For its permanent sealing I have provided a strip of paper which is detached from the wrap and constructed so that it may operate as a flap when folded over the opening in the end of the device. This strip or flap consists of three leaves of sufficient length to cover the mouth of the wrap; but one of the leaves of the strip is preferably shorter than the other two, this leaf being pasted midway along the strip. One of these leaves carries a cord pasted through it, and the remaining two are gummed on the edge. To close the package, the shorter leaf is moistened and thrust into the opening of the envelop, where it adheres to the side thereof. The flap containingthe cord is folded over the end, the cord looped about the body of the package and made fast, and the third sheet is then moistened and folded over the end of the package, where it covers the knot in the cord and adheres to the side of the package, thus sealing it. This makes a substantiallysealed package, the contents of which cannot be disturbed without the breaking of the fastening. I attain these objects as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 represents the package wrap or receptacle with an opening at one end. Fig. 2 represents a perspective view of the detachable flap with its cord. Fig. 3 shows an end section of the wrap with the flap attached, the third leaf disclosed in the outline pushed into the opening of the device, the second leaf carrying the cord pulled down into position and the cord looped about the end of the package,while the first leaf, constituting now the flap, is ready to be pulled over the opening in the envelop and gummed over the knot in the cord. Fig. 4 shows a section of the package with the mouth of the package cover or wrap closed with the cord in position shown in outline. Fig. 5 discloses the end section of the package cover or wrap sealed. Fig. 6

is a side View of the closed package cover or wrap with the end flap in place and sealed. Fig. 7 is a view of the complete package cover or wrap with both ends provided with openings, one of which is closed and the other showing the detachable flap connected with it, the two leaves in position in outline and the leaf of the flap to cover the cord in position for folding over and sealing.

When the package is open at both ends, I provide, of course, the detachable flap, as in Fig. 2, attached, as is shown in Fig. 7.

For convenience in carrying the package I have provided a cord handle, as shown at a in Fig. 1, which consists of two perforations for eyelets in the edge of the device, through which is passed a cord, the ends being made secure in said perforations.

Having described my invention, I claim 1. A package wrap or receptacle, with a cord handle and open at one end,and provided with a detachable flap or cover, said flap consisting of three leaves, one of said leaves provided with a cord and the remaining leaves containing upon their edges adhesive gum, for the purposes mentioned and substantially as described.

2. A package wrap or receptacle provided with a cord handle and a detachable flap or cover consisting of three leaves, to one of which is attached a cord, and the remaining leaves containing upon their edges adhesive gum, for the purposes mentioned and substantially as described.

3. A package wrap or receptacle provided with a cord handle, open at both ends, with a detachable flap containing three leaves one of which leaves is provided with a cord and the two remaining leaves containing upon their edges adhesive gum, for the purposes mentioned and as described.

Signed at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 14th day of March, A. D. 1903.

ROBERT R. LAWSON.

Witnesses:

T. J. GORMAN, I-I. KELLER.

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