IMPROVEMENTS WHEREBY IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS, LETTERS, INVOICES, AND PAID BILLS MAY BE PRESERVED AND BE READILY REFERRED TO
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Blandy, of the Town and County of
the Town of Nottingham, Dental Surgeon to the Free Dental
Dispensary, Nottingham, and also Dental Surgeon to the Nottingham
Midland Eye Infirmary, of the same Place, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS WHEREBY IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS, LETTERS, INVOICES, AND
PAID BILLS MAY BE PRESERVED AND BE READILY REFERRED TO."
Sealed the 31st December 1870, and dated the 4th July 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Blandy at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
4th July 1870.
I, HENRY BLANDY, of the Town and County of the Town of
3 Nottingham, Dental Surgeon to the Free Dental Dispensary, Notting-
ham, and also Dental Surgeon to the Nottingham Midland Eye
Infirmary, of the same Place, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS WHEREBY IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS, LETTERS,
INVOICES, AND PAID BILLS MAY BE PRESERVED AND BE READILY REFERRED TO," to
follows:-
be as

page_text: My Invention has for its object to afford professional men, merchants,
manufacturers, and others, facility, readiness, and accuracy of instant
reference to important documents, letters, invoices, and paid bills. A
plain or ornamental cover is composed of two boards or flaps, connected
together by a convenient backing, and between these boards or flaps,
and bound up with them, are a number of narrow leaves or slips, one
side of each of which is gummed, or coated with gum or other like
adhesive material, and between such leaves are placed narrower leaves
or slips also bound up with the whole of them. These latter and
narrower leaves prevent the first-named leaves from adhering to each
other. Each of the gummed or similar leaves or narrow slips first
named may, if damped, be attached to a letter, invoice, or other
document, or the document may be damped, and attached to the leaf or
slip. Next to each of the boards or flaps, inside thereof, are a number
of fly leaves which may be ruled and lettered for forming an index of
the contents inserted within the covers; such ruled and lettered fly
leaves have a leaf of blotting or absorbent paper interposed between
them, the whole being bound up with the boards or flaps and the
slips before referred to.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry Blandy in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 4th January 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
BLANDY, of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, Dental 2
Surgeon to the Free Dental Dispensary, Nottingham, and also Dental
Surgeon to the Nottingham Midland Eye Infirmary, of the same Place,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of July, in the year of a
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Henry Blandy, Her special licence
that I, the said Henry Blandy, my executors, administrators, and

page_text: assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Blandy, my 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 Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
WHEREBY IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS, LETTERS, INVOICES, AND PAID BILLS MAY BE PRE-
SERVED AND BE READILY REFERRED TO," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Henry Blandy, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Blandy, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof, reference being had to the accom-
panying Drawings and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that
is to say :-
My Invention has for its object that of affording professional gentle-
men, merchants, manufacturers, and others, the facility, ease, readiness,
and accuracy of referring instantly to important documents, letters,
invoices, and paid bills, and consists of a plain or ornamental cover com-
posed of two boards or flaps which are connected together. by a suitable
and convenient backing. Between these boards or flaps, and bound up
with them, are a number of narrow leaves, say of 2 inches or other
width, one side of each of which is gummed, and between such narrow
gummed leaves are placed one or more narrower gummed leaves, also
bound up with the whole of them. These latter narrower leaves prevent
the gummed leaves from adhering or sticking to cach other. Each of
the gummed leaves or narrow slips if damped may be attached to the
document, letter, or paid bill; or either of these documents may itself
be damped, and then attached to one of the gummed slips. Next to
cach of the boards or flaps before mentioned, inside thereof, are a number
of fly leaves, each of which may be ruled and lettered for forming an.
index or indices of the contents as inserted within the covers; such

page_text: ruled and lettered fly leaves have a leaf of absorbent paper (commonly
called blotting paper) interposed between them, the whole being bound
up with the boards or flaps and the gummed slips and ungummed slips
before referred to.
I also propose to use a further and general index in carrying out this
my Invention.
Having thus set forth the nature of the said Invention I now
proceed more fully to describe the manner of performing the same,
with reference to the accompanying Drawings.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
The plain or ornamental cover is composed of two boards or flaps
A, A, which are connected together by a suitable and convenient
backing. Between these boards or flaps and bound up with them are
a number of narrow leaves B, say of two inches or other width, one side
of each of which is gummed; and between such narrow gummed leaves
are placed one or more narrower leaves C, also bound up with the
whole of them. These latter narrower leaves prevent the gummed leaves
from adhering or sticking to each other. Each of the gummed leaves
or narrow slips, if damped, may be attached to a document, letter, or
paid bill, or either of these documents may itself be damped and then
attached to one of the gummed slips; a few of such documents being
shown thus attached at the left side of Figure 1, and marked F. Next
to each of the boards or flaps before mentioned, inside thereof, are a
number of fly leaves D, each of which may be ruled and lettered for
forming an index or indices of the contents, as inserted within the
covers; such ruled and lettered fly leaves have a leaf of absorbent
paper E (commonly called blotting paper) interposed between them,
the whole being bound up with the boards or flaps and the gummed
slips and the ungummed slips before referred to. One or more of the
fly leaves D may be lettered in alphabetical rotation or numbered
successively to form a general index.
In carrying out this my Invention Figure 1 represents an end view
of an arrangement, as above described, of covers, fly leaves, absorbent
paper, both gummed and ungummed slips, and a few attached docu-
ments. In this view the narrower slips are shown as bound up with
the narrow gummed slips alternately, but they may be arranged as
shewn at Figure 2 in sets of six or other number of fly leaves and

page_text: absorbent leaves, or six or other number of gummed slips and six or
other number of narrower slips in a set, as shown at Figure 2, and a
number of such sets may be bound in case or cover as before described.
It will be understood that the size, number, and substance of the
strips and leaves so bound up together, and the strength, ornamentation,
and quality of the case or cover employed will depend upon the size
and value of the documents to be preserved. If these documents are
likely to be in great number and of value the boards may be hinged
to the backing and be provided with a clasp or clasps, or with a lock
and key.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same may be performed, I declare that I claim, arranging
and combining a cover and leaves substantially in the manner and for
the purpose described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Blandy, have hereunto set
my hand and scal, this Third day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
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Witness,
GEO. JON. ROBINSON,
Patent Office,
Nottingham.
HENRY BLANDY. (L.S.)