US1658981A - Wrapper for piece goods - Google Patents

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Feb. 14, 1928. 1,658,981

F. GALBRAITH ET AL WRAPPER FOR PIECE GOODS Filed Oct. 22, 1926 2 Sheets$heet 1 k INVENTORSI I 6 BY W. Z 1. Va

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Feb 14, 1928. 1,658,981

F. GALBRAITH ET AL WRAPPER FOR PIECE GOODS Filed Oct. 22, 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 444 .1 H r-20 1 E i I i i i -i 4/54 1NVENT 0RJ'- M T ATTORNEY.

Patented Feb. 14, 1928.

UNITED STATES 1,658,981 PATENT OFFICE...

FREDERICK GALBRAITH, or BELLAIRE PARK, AND WILLIAM VALET, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

WRAPPER FOR PIECE GOODS.

Application filed October 22, 1926. Serial No. 143,480.

This invention is a wrapper for textile piece goods.

The wrapper is preferably made of paper, although other materials could be used. The principal object of the invention is to provide a wrapper which can be quickly and securely fastened in closed position around the piece goods, protecting them against soiling while on the shelves or in shipment, l and which can also be rapidly and easily undone for displaying the goods to customers.

Another object of the invention is to provide a wrapper having interlocked devices 15 made out of the material of the wrapper, thereby dispensing with tying tapes, strings and buttons, and similar fastening arrangements.

In the preferred embodiment of the invention one edge of the wrapper is provided with tongue and slot means, and the opposite edge is provided with a securing strap.

The tongue member is passed under and around this securing strap and is then bent 25 back on itself and engaged in the slots, and

thus the two edges .are securely locked together. An important feature of the invention is the securing strap and cooperating parts. The securing strap is preferably 30 made from the materlal of the wrapper by a pair of substantially parallel cuts, the cuts being made through. a piece of cloth or the like pasted onto the body portion of the wrapper. Thus the strap is thoroughly re- 11.3 enforced. Passing through these two cuts, and therefore passing underneath the strap is a substantially fiat guide member, which greatly facilitates the threading of the tongue underneath the strap.

Suitable reenforcement is also provided for the tongue and slot means, as will ap pear.

In order to describe the invention more specifically reference is made to the accom- 4:. panying drawings illustrating a preferred embodiment of the invention. It should be understood, however, that the invention is not to be limited to the precise details described.

Referring now to these drawings,

Fig. 1 is a plan view showing the wrapper spread out flat;

Fig. 2 is a plan view showing the first step in applying the wrapper around a bolt 0:. of piece goods;

3 is a similar view showing the wrapper in closed or locking position; and

Fig. 4 is a detail view of the securing strap, as seen from the opposite side from the showing in Fig. 1.

In these figures, 5 indicates the body portion of the wrapper, of general rectangular shape, made of paper or other suitable material. Protecting flaps 6 may be secured at either end of the body portion 5, which are to be folded in over the end of the bolt of piece goods for keeping out dust.

Near one edge 5" of the body portion 5 is a tongue member 8, which may be integral with the body portion 5. The tongue 8 comprises a connecting portion 9 and body portion 10.

Adjacent the body portion 10 of the tongue is a pair of slots 12, located as shown. A piece of recnforcing material 13, such as cloth, may be pasted over all the tongue members 8, 9 and 10 and onto the body portion of the wrapper around the slots 12, thereby reenforcing the tongue and slots against tearing.

The securing strap will now be described. A piece of cloth or the like is pasted near the opposite edge 5 of the wrapper. Then two substantially parallel cuts 16 and 17 are made, through the piece 15 and through the body portion 5 of the wrapper thus defining the securing strap 18, which it will be seen is reenforced by the piece of cloth 15.

A substantially flat guide member is then passed through the cuts or slots 16 and 17 and pasted in this position, as shown more clearly in Fig. 4:. The portions of the guide member 20 to the right and left of cuts 16 and 17 are pasted onto the wrapper 5, as shown in Fig. 4. The portion of member 20 under the strap 18 is not pasted. This member 20 may be of paper. As will be apparent from Fig. 4 a tongue may be threaded into cut 17, under strap 18 and out of cut 16.

Any desired number of the described fastening means can be used.

The wrapper is secured in position by bending the right-hand side 5 of the wrapper around the piece goods, and then bringing the edge 5 over it. The lines of fold are indicated by the longitudinally extending, parallel, full length dotted lines, Fig. 1. The tongue 8 is then threaded int o the cut 17 (see Fig. 4) under the strap 18 and out of the cut 16, as shown in Fig. 2. The tongue is then bent back on itself over the strap 18 and the two end tabs 8 of the tongue are slipped into the two slots 12, thus locking the wrapper in place around the bolt of goods. The tongues 8 are sutlieiently flexible to permit them to be bent tor insertion into the slots 12, and yet are suilicientlystifi' so that after they are in place in the slots, they will flatten out and form a locking engagement.

\Ve claim as our invention 1. A wrapper for piece goods and the like, comprising a body portion having tongue and slot ineaps near one edge, and a securing strap near the opposite edge, the securing strap being formed from the body portion by a pair of substantially parallel cuts, a substantially flat guide member passing through said cuts and secured in such position, the tongue passing around the strap member, between it and the flat guide memher, and thereafter engaging in the said slot means.

2. A wrapper for piece goods and the like, comprising abody portion having tongue and slot means near one edge and a cooper ating securing strap near the opposite edge, the strap being defined by two cuts, means for reeni'orcing the securing strap, a substantially fiat guide member passing through said cuts and secured in such position, the tongue passing into one cut and out of the other, between the guide member and the strap, and then around the strap and thereafter being engaged in said slot means.

3. A wrapper for piece goods and the like, comprising a body portion having a pair of slots near one edge defining between them a securing strap, a substantially flat guide member pass ng under said strap and secured in that position, a tongue carried by the other edge of the body portion, the tongue being threaded through said slots, under the securing strap, and means for securing the end of the tongue.

*1. A wrapper for piece goods and the like. ('(mlln'lslllg a body portion having a. pair of longtudinal slots near one edge defining between them a securing strap, a substantially llai guide member passing under said strap and secured in that position, a tongue carried by the other edge of the-diody portion, the tongue being threaded through said slots, under the securing strap, and bent back over the securing strap, and transverse slot means for securing the end of the bent back tongue.

A wrapper for piece goods and the like, comprising a body portion the sides of which are foldable toward each other into overlapping relationship, the lines of fold being substantially parallel, one side of the body portion having a pair of longitudinally extending slots defining between them a seem"- ing strap, a tongue carried by the op osite side of the. body portion, the tongue eing threaded through the slots, under the securing strap and bent back over the securing strap, and means comprising a transversely extending slot, for securing the end of the tongue.

(i. A wrapper for piece goods and the like, comprising a. body portion the sides of which are foldablc toward each other into overlapping relationship, the lines of fold being substantially parallel, one side of the body portion having a pair of longitudinally extending slots defining between them a securing strap, a tongue carried by the opposite side of the body portion, the tongue being threaded through the slots, under the securing strap and bent back over the securing strap. means comprising a transversely extending slot, for securing the end of the tongue, and means for reenforcing the tongue and transverse slot against tearing.

7. A wrapper for piece goods and the like, comprising a body portion the sides of which are foldable toward each other into overlapping relationship, the lines of fold being sub stant ally parallel, one side of the body portion having a pair of longitudinally extending slots defining between them a securing strap, a tongue carried by the opposite side of the body and having end tabs, said opposite side of the body having a pa r of tl'tlnsversely extending slots near the base of the tongue, the tongue bein threaded through the longitudinal slots, under the securing strap and then bent back over the securing strap, the tongue being held in such bent back position by engagement of said end tabs in said transverse slots.

8. A wrapper for piece goods and the like. comprising a body portion having a pair of longitudinal slots near one edge defining between them a securing strap, a substantially flat guide member passing under said strap and secured in that. position, a tongue carried by the opposite side of the body and having end tabs, said opposite side of the body having a pair of transversely extending slots near the base of the tongue, the tongue being threaded through the longitudinal slots, under the securing strap and then bent back over the securing strap, the tongue being held in such bent back position by engagement of said end tabs in said transverse slots.

In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures.

FREDERICK GALBRAITH. WILLIAM VALET,

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