IMPROVEMENTS IN ENVELOPES."
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Georges Joseph Ganier and Emile Eugène Collet,
of No. 12, Place de la Bourse, in the City of Paris, and Empire of
France, Advertisement Agents, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
ENVELOPES."
of No. 12, Place de la Bourse, in the City of Paris, and Empire of
France, Advertisement Agents, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
ENVELOPES."
Sealed the 25th March 1862, and dated the 27th September 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Georges Joseph Ganier
and Emile Eugène Collet at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 27th September 1861.
We, GEORGES JOSEPH GANIER and EMILE EUGÈNE COLLET, of No. 12,
Place de la Bourse, in the City of Paris, and Empire of France, Advertise-
ment Agents, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN ENVELOPES," to be as follows:-
Our Invention of improvements in envelopes consists in manufacturing
these articles from blanks of peculiar form, and which when laid out flat
before being folded into envelopes, will present a plain surface of considerable
extent, which may be used for the purpose of giving publicity by means of
printing, to any advertisements or announcements that may be desired, and
when these blanks are folded up into the form of a letter envelope, all access
to the interior will be prevented unless the envelope be forcibly torn, or so far
damaged as to render detection inevitable. This object is effected by forming
the blank with a back piece of nearly the same dimensions as the face of the
envelope, and with side flaps, which will fold over the back, and being
provided with overlapping ends may be secured in the middle to prevent the

page_text: back piece from being moved. The envelope is closed at top by an upper flap,
which when secured to the back will hold down the side pieces. If desired,
the pointed or rounded ends of the side flaps may be passed through slits in
the back piece, and secured by gumming. The particular configuration of
the blank may vary in some of its details, so long as the form of the back
piece, and the mode of securing it by means of the side pieces be retained.
We propose to make our improved envelopes of paper of superior quality,
and to divide the interior surface into compartments in which may be printed
any trade or other advertisements that may be desired, and in printing these
advertisements we intend to arrange them artistically, and print them either
in gold or colours, and with the addition of an ornamental border if required,
so that the envelope when open may attract the eye, and be not offensive to
good taste; as a considerable profit will be made by the charges for the adver-
tisements, we also propose that the envelopes shall be stamped by Govern-
ment, so that they may go free by post, and we shall then be enabled to sell
stamped envelopes at less than the cost of the Government stamp, and by that
means obtain a very extended publicity for the advertizers.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Georges Joseph Ganier and Emile Eugène Collet in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 27th March 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GEORGES
JOSEPH GANIER, and EMILE EUGÈNE COLLET, of No, 12, Place de la Bourse,
in the City of Paris, and Empire of France, Advertisement Agents, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of September, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Georges Joseph Ganier and Emile Eugène Collet, Her special license
that we, the said Georges Joseph Ganier and Emile Eugène Collet, our exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Georges
Joseph Ganier and Emile Eugène Collet, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of

page_text: Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ENVELOPES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Georges Joseph Ganier and Emile Eugène
Collet, by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in
the Great Scal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Emile Eugène Collet on behalf of myself
and of the said Georges Joseph Ganier, do hereby declare the nature of our
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be.
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement,
reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the letters and
figures marked thereon (that is to say) :-
Our Invention of improvements in envelopes consists in manufacturing
these articles from blanks of peculiar form, and which, when laid out flat
before being folded into envelopes, will present a plain surface of considerable
extent, which may be used for the purpose of giving publicity, by means of
printing, to any advertisements or announcements that may be desired, and
when these blanks are folded up into the form of a letter envelope, all access
to the interior will be prevented unless the envelope be forcibly torn, or so far
damaged as to render detection inevitable. This object is effected by forming
the blank with a back piece of nearly the same dimensions as the face of the
envelope, and with side flaps, which will fold over the back, and being provided
with overlapping ends, may be secured in the middle to prevent the back piece
from being moved.
In the accompanying Drawing, Figs. 1 and 2 are views of envelopes of the
improved kind unfolded or extended out flat; Figs. 1° and 2ª represent the
envelope partially folded, or with the bottom flap up; Figs. 1b and 2b represent
the same envelopes folded ready to receive a letter. The envelope consists of
a central piece a, on the outside of which the direction is to be written, and to
which central piece are attached the back piece b, and the two side flaps c, c.
The envelope is closed at the top by an upper flap d, which when secured to
the back d by means of wax or adhesive composition, will hold down the side
pieces c, c, which are provided with overlapping tongues, as shewn in the
Drawing. If desired, the pointed or rounded ends of the side flaps c, c, may
be passed through slits in the back piece b, and secured by gumming. The
particular configuration of the blank may vary in some of its details, so long
as the form of the back piece b and the mode of securing it by means of the
side pieces c, c, be substantially retained.

page_text: These improved envelopes are intended to be made of paper of superior
quality, and the interior surface is to be divided into compartments, as
indicated by the red lines in Figs. 1 and 2, and in these compartments any
trade or other advertisements that may be desired are to be printed. In
printing these advertisements they must be arranged artistically, and printed
either in gold or colours, and with the addition of an ornamental border, if
required, so that the envelope when open may attract the eye and not be
offensive to good taste. As a considerable profit will be made by the charges
for the advertisements, the envelopes are to be stamped by Government, so
that they may go free by post, and we shall then be enabled to sell stamped
envelopes at less than the cost of the Government stamp, and by that means
obtain a very extended publicity for the advertiser.
Having now described our Invention of improvements in envelopes, and
having explained the manner of carrying the same into effect, we claim as the
Invention secured to us by Letters Patent the mode herein set forth of con-
structing envelopes, and rendering them an efficient means for giving an
extensive publicity to advertisements printed thereon.
In witness whereof, I, tho said Emile Eugène Collet, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
EMILE EUGÈNE COLLET. (L.S.)