An Improved Post Card Block.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 12th May, 1899-Accepted, 24th June, 1899
An Improved Post Card Block.
I, RICHARD FRANK, of 10, Kürassierstrasse, Berlin, in the Empire of Germany,
Merchant, 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;-
This invention relates to a further improvement on the invention described in
Patent No. 3873 of the 21st February 1899.
In the previous arrangement, the postcard tear-off block was intended to be
employed for postcards provided with a postage stamp, and to combine these to
form a block, which was interleaved with sheets on which notices, advertisements,
business indications and the like were printed.
The present invention has for its object to retain the arrangement of the block
as a whole, but instead of the stamped postcards, to utilise postcard blanks, that is
to say unstamped cards. More particularly it is intended to employ for this object
so-called view postcards, that is to say, postcards bearing various views of places
or devices. These are to be combined in a similar manner to form a block, and
sheets of suitable material are interleaved between the separate cards, which sheets
are printed with notices, advertisements or the like.
Owing to the profit which the vendor obtains from the printing and circulation
of the advertisements, he is enabled to supply the blocks of blank postcards at a
low price or even gratis.
A form of construction of the arrangement herein before described is shown in
the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1, is a top view of the block, Figure 2
a view of the block after the removal of the uppermost postcard, Figure 3 a view
of the block from beneath, showing a view of the under face of the post card (a
landscape card) Figure 4 is a side view of the block and Figure 5 a view in per-
spective.
The postcards and interleaved sheets are held together in the manner customary
in making such blocks, by means of paper slips a.
an interleaved sheet c provided with a printed advertisement, so that there is
After each card b there follows
lways one interleaved sheet between each two postcards, and vice versa a post-
ard always lies between two sheets.
Of course, the number of interleaves and the number of postcards may be varied
s desired, so that for instance, two or more interleaves may be placed between two
ostcards, or two or more postcards between two interleaves. The interleaves may
e made of any suitable material, but preferably blotting-paper is employed there-
or, as it thus can be immediately used when the postcard is written on.
ay be made in any suitable manner but it is essential when making the block
The block
hat the postcards be capable of being easily torn off without damaging them in the
ightest.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is;-
A postcard block, characterised by a number of postcards with views, or post-
card blanks, being combined to form a block, with one or more sheets of suitable
material interleaved between the separate postcards which interleaved sheets may
be imprinted with notices, advertisements, business indications or the like, 'substan-
tially as hereinbefore set forth.