Patent Model - Paper-Bag Machine
Maker and role
Ernest Dangoise (Belgium), Patentee
Production date
Apr 06 1880
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Object detail
Media/Materials
brass
Measurements
6 x 12 x 6" (15.2 x 30.5 x 15.2cm)
Description
Dangoise's patent constructs "a machine for automatically making paper bags from two strips of paper, the overlapping edges of one strip being first pasted and folded over the other strip, and a transverse line of paste applied to one strip at the point where the bottom of the bag is to be formed, the pasted tube thus formed being afterward cut to the required length by severing the tube close to the said transverse line of paste, the closed end being also pasted and folded over to strengthen the bottom of the bag." (Patent Number 226,287)
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Object number
2015.14.3158a-c
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