Improvements in Envelopes applicable to Postal and similar purposes.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 6.h Jan., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 6th Oct., 1890-Accepted, 15th Nov., 1890'
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Envelopes applicable to Postal and similar
purposes.
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I, JOHN JARVIS, of Iping Midhurst Sussex Schoolmaster do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to facilitate the opening of envelopes and similar
wrappers. For this purpose I form the article of any suitable material, size and shape.
In the interior I use a tab which may be either affixed after the envelope is made or
may be cut or folded as part of the original article. Through this tab I pass a fine
thread, the end of which protrudes from the envelope when fastened. The method of
opening is to pull this thread along the border of the envelope thus neatly opening the
same without damaging the contents.
GRAHAM & GRAHAM,
Agents for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Envelopes applicable to Postal and similar
purposes.
I, JOHN JARVIS, of Iping Midhurst Sussex, Schoolmaster, 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 :-
The object of my invention is to facilitate the opening of envelopes and similar
wrappers. With this object, I construct my envelopes of paper, or other suitable
material in any color, size and shape. In any part of the interior but preferably in
one of the corners, I form a small tab which may be made of a portion of one of the flaps
forming the envelope itself, or if preferable may be made separately and affixed in its
proper position by any ordinary adhesive substance as gum or glue. Through this tab I
pass a fine thread, which may be metallic, or of other material of such a length that when
laid along the side or top of the envelope in the interior, the end of such thread or
wire may be extended along either the top or side of the envelope, or on both the side
and top of same, as found most convenient. These threads or wires can be fitted to
envelopes and wrappers of all descriptions. By the use of my invention the envelope
can be neatly opened by simply pulling the protruding wire or thread, by which the
envelope is cut open without in any way injuring the contents. In the accompany-
ing drawings, Fig. 1 represents a back view of an envelope of the usual form in
which the tab A, is shewn at the upper right hand corner by the dotted line, the
wires or threads B, and B¹ being also shewn in dotted lines in the interior of the
envelope and protruding at the top and bottom corners, at C and C¹. Fig. 2, is a
front view of an envelope shewing the thread or wire B, which has been with-
drawn from the envelope, the edge of which has been cut open along the edge D,
as shewn by the rough edge. The flap E is opened out to show how the tab A may
be cut from it as at F and affixed with gum or other adhesive substance enabling
the entire envelope to be made in one piece.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, what I claim is :-
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page_text: envelopes generally, for the purpose of opening the same with greater ease and
neatness than by the method at present adopted, as herein substantially set forth,
described and illustrated.
Dated this 6th day of Ontaban 1000
GRAHAM & GRAHAM,
Agents for Applicant.