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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri.

The case is stated by the court.

The following are the specifications and drawings of the Goodale letters patent:

WM. GOODALE, OF CLINTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 24,734. Dated July 12, 1859.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINE FOR MAKING PAPER BAGs. The schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern :

Be it known that I, William Goodale, of Clinton, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful improvements in machinery for making Paper Bags, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which,

Fig. 1, is a central longitudinal section of a machine with my improvement.

Fig. 2, is a plan of the same.

Fig. 3, is a transverse vertical section of the same, in the line x x, of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4, exhibits the shape of the paper blank of which the the bags are formed by the machine, before it is folded. Fig. 5, exhibits the bag folded.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

My invention consists firstly, in making the cutter which cuts the paper from the roll or piece, of the peculiar irregular form hereinafter described, whereby it is caused by the

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operation by which it cuts the paper from the roll or piece, to give it the form hereinafter specified which permits it without further cutting out to be folded into a bag.

It also consists in the attachment of the former round which the paper is folded to form the bags to the cutter which cuts it from the roll or piece.

It also consists in a certain mode of applying and arranging a paster in combination with the former attached to the cutter, for the purpose of pasting the lap which closes the bottom of the bag.

It also consists in a certain construction of two side lappers operating in combination with the former to fold the bag, whereby the bottom lap is partly folded by the act of folding the side laps.

It also consists in a contrivance applied and operating as hereinafter described to start the folded or partly folded bag from the former.

It also consists in a pair of rollers arranged in a vibrating frame and operating as hereinafter described to remove the bag from the former, close the laps, and discharge the bag, from the machine.

And it further consists in the general arrangement and combination of the several parts of the machinery to operate substantially as hereinafter described.

To enable others to make and use my invention I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

A is a square framing which supports all the working parts of the machine. B, is the cutter which cuts the paper from the roll or piece to the required form for the bags, which is exhibited in Fig. 4, said cutter cutting directly across the roller or piece, and producing the edges a, a, of the blank. The edges b, b, are not cut at all as the blank, between those edges is the full width of the paper. Before proceeding further with the description of the machine it will be well to explain how the bag is produced from this blank represented. The cutting of the edges a, a, with two jogs 8, 8, provides a lap 10, 10 to close the bottom, and

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one 11, to cover the mouth of the bag, when the blank has been folded in the dotted line 12, 12. These lines, 12, are so situated that the edges b, b, will lap each other, as shown in Fig. 5, to form a seam down the middle of one side of the bag. The two parts 10, combine to form a lap for the bottom when the blank has been folded in the lines 12, 12, and this lap is to be folded in the opposite direction to the fold in the lines 12, 12, that is to say if the side parts outside the lines 12, 12, are folded over on the top of the central portion the parts 10, are to be folded under the central portion, as illustrated in Fig. 5. The cutter B, is of the form of the edges a, a, shown in Fig. 4, as may be seen by reference to Fig. 2, where its back is represented. This cutter has a serrated edge which works through a narrow slot d, of corresponding form in a table C, upon which the paper is deposited in proper lengths for the blanks, from a roll or direct from a paper-making machine, by suitable intermittently operating feed rollers, which I have not thought it necessary to represent as such rollers are used in most paper bag machines, the front edge of the said table C, being also like the cutter, of the form of the edges a, a. The cutter is attached to a horizontal bar B', which works within vertical guides c, c, erected on opposite sides of the machine, and which derives an upward vertical movement from two cams D, D, on a constantly rotating horizontal main shaft E, and then descends by its own weight which is sufficient to cause the cutting of the paper by the cutter, the descent taking place during the intermissions between the feeding movements of the paper.

F, is the former consisting of a plate of metal of a width and length equal to the desired width and length of the bag, secured to the cutter bar B', so as to rise and fall with the cutter, said plate occupying a horizontal position and coming down close upon the table C, at the back of the cutter as the cutter completes its descent, and cuts off a blank from the piece or roll of paper, the side edges of the said former coming on the lines 12, 12, of the blank. The cutter