US834474A - Mush-package. - Google Patents

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- No. 834,474. PATENTED OCT. 30.. 1906-.

0. w. JACKSON. MUSH PACKAGE.

APPLICATION TILED 0OT.17.'1904,

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UNITEDSTATES CYRUS w. J oKsoN,v or INDIANAPOLIS, INDIAItIA, ASSIGNQR or ONE- HALF TO JOSEPH A. MINTURN, OF INDIANAPOLIS,"INDIANA.

MUSH-PACKAG E.

nated by order of the Commissioner of Patents.

This invention relates to the-manner in I which the mush product of the process above to the customer.

referred to is I re ared in" suitable wrapped packages or ro ls or commercial handling. Mush has been sold in bulk in open pans like the ordinary bre d-pans and was s iced off and removed by tiie retailer in quantities desired by the purchaser. This was disagreeable to the dealer, because of the wet and sticky nature of the article which he had to handle in taking it out of the pan and wrapping it, and this operation was unpalatable Moreover, the large open area of the pan furnished a oatchall for impurities that would fall therein andrender the food unwholesome and uninviting to a fastidious taste, and .it also exposed a large area of the goods to the atmosphere, causing the formation of a thick leathery skin by the drying and other atmospheric action, which was ruinous to the mush as a food and soon made it unmerchantable.

i This invention is a new article ofmanufacture which has been demonstrated to be suitable for commercial purposes and which has met with an extended sale wherever it has been offered to the public.- The mush molded in molds for which I have made application for patent in c lindrical rolls of ap-' proximately three inc es in diameter and eight inches long and weighing two pounds, the retail value of which is five cents, is of convenient size and shape for handling in a commercial way, and it is kept from drying out and the formation of a skin on the sides is prevented by wrapping the roll first in a waxed or paraflin-coated paper lmpervious Original application filed December 23, 1903, Serial No. 185,

' Serial No. 228,877.

'fold of the latter at the 1 within the wrap e PatentediObtBO, 1906. 283. Divided and this application filed oet'eberiv, 1904.

this I reinforce and keep clean by wrapping the wa -covered roll in wrapper of Manila or other strong paper on'which the label and directions for using may be impressed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 represents the Manila wrapper, the

wax sheet laid thereon, and the mush-roll laid upon the wax sheet. big. 2 represents the mush roll wrapped in thewax sheet with the sheet partially .turned in over the end of the roll; and Fig. 3 shows the roll of mush with both wax and Manila wrappers and the end of the roll only partially completed to illustrate the manner of making sald end fold. the two wrappers broken away in part to show both and also to show the roll of mush pings. Arepresents the cylindrical roll of mush which is preferably made in accordance with the formula set out in my above-mentioned application, of which this is a division, and which is conse elastic nature t an mush as ordinarily made, but is still largely water, being from four to five parts water to one of cereal, and consequently of a moist nature and susceptible to deterioration by exposure to the direct action of the air.

B is the first or inside covering of wax paper. For urposes ofeconomy and also to facilitate the wrapping and removal of this This view shows uently of a firmer and more to moisture and notdissolvable therein, and

covering I prefer to make the sheet only but little wider than the length of the roll of mush, so that the edges 6 will be turned only a little way over the end of the roll to stiifen the package at the corners and protect the outside wrapper .there more effectually onaccount of the fact that those edges will be subject naturally to the greatest wearing strain.

C is the Manila outside wrapper and is wide enough to provide end folds c, that will overlap each other'across the end of the roll from opposite sides of the roll, and because of the extra protection which these numerous layers of the wrapper provide at the ends of the roll the latter is amply protected without the wax-paperinner cover. The stiffness of the wrapper is am le to cause the folds to lie close enough to t e roll without being fastened, to-protectthe roll against mutilation by ordinary handling, but not to exclude the air. 1

Having thus fully described my invention, 5 what I claim asnew, and Wishto secure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture,- a mushroll package, the principal ingredients of the roll being ground cereal and Water cooked to together, a wax paper covering the sides of the rolland folded partly over the ends of the roll to stiffen the package at its corners but not-covering the major area of the ends,

1 andaan outer: wrapper of=str0ng-paper covering the sides of the wax-paper-covered roll I 5 and folded in several layers across the ends of the roll completely covering said ends in a loose manner to admit air.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand'and seal, at Indianapolis, Indiana, this 20 3d day of October, A. D. 1904*.

CYRUS W. JACKSON.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH A. MINTURN, JOHN B. SHERWOOD,

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