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_ I may remark, in passing, that I think this statement in the specifi-
cations of the method of putting, up blankets, before this patentee taught
the world howto do it in his way, must have been a very incomplete
use of the then’known`appliances, as if it had then been deemed desir-
able to close theends. of the roll with the paper wrapping, it could have
beenidone by V-folding the-paper over the ends aswell asthe sides of the
,roll,_as, is done by allprnercliants and manufacturers who, wish to make
an approximately close package of any dry goods they put up for trans-
_ 'portation, handling, or protection., There was certainly no reason why a
manufacturer of, or dealer in, blankets should not, before this alleged in-
vention, haveclosed orienveloped the ends of his package with his sheet
of wrapping-paper if he desired to so close them, when articles like cal-
ico, ribbons, tea, sugar, codec, etc., have been put up in approximately
close paper packages at the counters of retail merchants probably for cen-
turies, and ever since the use of paper as a wrapping for commodities
sold or manufacturedcame into user ' » ‘ s - `
P r Theipatentee proceeds in his specifications to direct howthe blanket
is to be folded, in which there is certainly no novelty, as he describes
only the well-known method of folding the blanket in a· series of longi-
tudinal and transverse folds until it is brought to thedesired size for
packing. It is then inserted in a paper bag of the size required to re-
ceivelthe blanket asfolded, and the open end of the bag through which
the folded blanket is inserted is thenrclosed by pasting; ·Brie1‘ly stated,
lthen,‘the device covered by the claim of this patent consists in wrapping
· up at blanket or any similararticle instrong paper, andthen closing the
ends and sides of the paper wrapper by pasting; for I take it that itis
immaterial whether you·"make` your bag first, leavingthe end or side
open, and then insert your blanket into it, or whether you make your
bag bywrapping the paper around the folded blanket, and then fasten
the endsfand sides by pastingl Itjmay save time to makeup the bags
Iirst,`soifar_as,closing' one end and, the sides; but it can make no differ-
, encewin principle whether; the bags· are made over a "former," and the
-blankets~pushed or crowded in to them, or whether each bag is made over
the particuliarifolded blanket it is to holdi The result in both casesis
r the same, so faras this patent is concerned. _ T I ` l*‘ r
  Paper  asa wrapping or envelope for dry goods, flour, groceries,
etci, are in, such common use that tlieicourt can say from its common
knowledgethat they were well known throughout the United States when
this patent was applied for and granted; but usuallyrthe open end. or ·
nnouth th-ronghywhich they were tiiledfwas closed by tying with a string,
and the alleged inventionfcovered bythis patent, when read   thelight
 thatpicommonl knowledge,_consists at putting a folded blanket intoa
_paper,bag`,,and closing the mouth ofthe bag with paste instead of na
string. The bottom or lower end of these bags has Mways been closed
with paste, or by gumming, and it certainly did not require the exercise
of iinpgentive genius to close the, mouth or uppeigciid of the bag with paste,
?if,it»;W==»S '¤C¤i1¤d~fc>¤ ¤¤r'féas0,¤:s!é$i¤¤b1¤ w do so- ·. Imfacr,. I can say as
the result of my own ¤bsewa¢.10¤;a¤t1r knowledge, that :I-have seen paper