Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Aug., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 26th Apr., 1897--Accepted, 10th July, 1897
We CAROLINE NEWMAN BINTCLIFFE, of 42 Hilldrop Crescent, Camden Road,
Stationer, and JOHN WALKER of Farringdon House, Warwick Lane, E.C.,
Manufacturing Stationer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The present invention has reference to envelopes which are closed or fastened by
means of gum or other adhesive material.
It is usual, when closing an envelope, to moisten the gummed surface and press it
down upon the part to which it is intended to adhere; the tongue being employed
as the moistening agent most convenient for the purpose..
This being so, and having regard to the unpalatable nature of the adhesive
material commonly employed, it is desirable, if possible, to apply the tongue to a
clean part of the paper, and to press the gummed portion against the part so
moistened.
To facilitate this proceeding, and at the same time to ensure a perfect fastening of
the envelope, it is now proposed to print, or otherwise apply upon the flaps which
are folded together to form the body of the envelope, adhesive material of any
suitable kind, in such a position that the loose flap, which is unprovided with gum,
when folded down, will fit exactly over the gummed part, and adhere closely thereto
at the edges, after being moistened in the usual way.
As there is some difficulty in affixing the adhesive material in exactly the right
position when dealing with the manufacture of envelopes on a considerable scale, it
is proposed to employ for the purpose a gumming machine. Such machine may
comprise a table with guides for holding the work and a pendent gumming device,
by the aid of which the adhesive material can be applied at any determined point on
the body of the envelope.
Dated this 7th day of August 1896.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicants.
We CAROLINE NEWMAN BINTCLIFFE, of 42 Hilldrop Crescent, Camden Road,
Stationer, & JOHN WALKER, of Farringdon House, Warwick Lane, E.C.,
Manufacturing Stationer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-

page_text: The present invention has reference to envelopes which are closed or fastened by
means of gum or other adhesive material.
It is usual, when closing an envelope, to moisten the gummed surface, and press it
down upon the part to which it is intended to adhere; the tongue being employed
as the moistening agent most convenient for the purpose.
This being so, and having regard to the unpalatable nature of the adhesive
material commonly employed, it is desirable to apply the tongue to a clean part of
the paper, and to press the gummed portion against the part so moistened.
To facilitate this proceeding, and, at the same time, to ensure a perfect fastening
of the envelope, according to this invention, we print, or otherwise apply upon the
flaps which are folded together to form the body of the envelope, adhesive material
of any suitable kind, in such a position that the loose or closing flap, which is
unprovided with gum, will, when folded down, fit exactly over the gummed part, and
adhere closely thereto at the edges, after being moistened in the usual way.
In the accompanying drawing, we have shewn two envelopes of different shapes
(see Figs. 1 and 2) gummed in accordance with this invention.
It will be observed that the shading, which indicates the gummed portion, extends
over a part of each of the three flaps b, c, and d, which together form the body of
the envelope.
If, therefore, the loose ungummed flap a be moistened in the ordinary way, and
pressed down on the envelope body, an attachment is effected to each and all of
the flaps b, c, and d, and in this way a perfect and secure closing of the envelope
is ensured, without the usual disagreeable application of the tongue to any gummed
part.
In order to avoid any difficulty there may be in applying the adhesive material
in exactly the right position, when dealing with the manufacture of envelopes on a
considerable scale, it is preferred to employ for the purpose a gumming machine.
Such machine may comprise a table with guides for holding the work, and a pendent
gumming device, by the aid of which the adhesive material can be applied at any
determined point on the body of the envelope.
Such a machine is described in the specification (filed at the Patent Office
simultaneously with this specification) relating to an application No. 16606 dated 27th
July 1896, by the same applicants.
Having now particularly described and
invention and in what manner the same is
we claim is
ascertained the nature of our said
to be performed, we declare that what
An envelope having adhesive material on the body thereof, in such a position as
to ensure the adhesion of the loose flap which carries no gum to all of the flaps
which form the envelope body, in the manner set forth.
Dated this 23rd day of April 1897.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicants.