IMPROVEMENTS IN CHRISTMAS AND OTHER GREETING CARDS be
Year: 1885

page_text: I, JOHN FREDERICK BENNET, of 82 Queen Street, Cheapside, in the City of
London, Manufacturer and Stationer do hereby declare the nature of my said
invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CHRISTMAS AND OTHER GREETING CARDS
be as follows: —
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Christmas and other greeting cards have usually been printed without any
provision for the insertion of the senders name which has had therefore either to
be omitted or to be written on the back or margin, or otherwise where it is not
convenient for inspection, and if in manuscript, looks rough and out of keeping
with the other parts of the card. Greeting cards have also been specially printed
with the name of the sender but this is obviously inconvenient and the object of
my invention is to combine the advantages of an elegantly got up greeting card
with the facility of attaching the senders name properly printed.
Now according to my invention I accomplish this by preparing the Christmas
or other greeting card printed in the usual manner but with a sufficient blank
space for the insertion of the senders name card which I so arrange that it or part
of it passes under the face of the greeting card the corners and perhaps more or
less of its margin being thus covered and the name card thereby held, and that
part of the greeting card corresponding with the central part of the name card
being either cut away so as to form an opening through which the name appears,
or being retained and made to lie under and behind the name card.
I sometimes leave a slight edge, or a fold on the greeting card where the name
card is inserted so that it may prevent the latter slipping out accidentally.
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page_text: Improvements in Christmas and other Greeting Carus.
I, JOHN FREDERICK BENNET, of 82 Queen Street, Cheapside, in the City of
London, Manufacturer and Stationer, do hereby declare the nature of my said
invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CHRISTMAS AND OTHER GREETING CARDS."
Christmas and other greeting cards have usually been printed without any
provision for the insertion of the sender's name which has had therefore either to
be omitted or to be written on the back or margin, or otherwise where it is not
convenient for inspection, and, if in manuscript, looks rough and out of keeping
with the other parts of the card.--Greeting cards have also been specially printed
with the name of the sender, but this is obviously inconvenient, and the object of
my invention is to combine the advantages of an elegantly got up greeting card
with the facility of attaching the senders name properly printed.
Now according to my invention I accomplish this by preparing the Christmas or
other greeting card printed in the usual manner but with a sufficient blank space
for the insertion of the sender's name card, which I so arrange that it, or part of it,
passes under the face of the greeting card, the corners and perhaps more or less of
its margin being thus covered and the name card thereby held, and that part of
the greeting card corresponding with the central part of the name card being either
cut away so as to form an opening through which the name appears, or being
retained and made to lie under and behind the name card.
I sometimes leave a slight edge, or a fold on the greeting card where the name
card is inserted so that it may prevent the latter slipping out accidentally.
In the sheet of drawings hereunto annexed and forming part of this my Specifi-
cation I have represented various greeting cards with the sender's same card
attached or to which it may be attached according to my invention in various
designs.
In making Christmas and other greeting cards according to my invention
I form the back preferably of stout cardboard to give the necessary firmness to the
whole and cover it with paper or thin card, the two being pasted together at the
edges only, or in such parts as may be convenient for any particular design.
Fig. 1, represents a Christmas card to which the name card is attached by
passing its corners into cuts made through the facing paper of the greeting card
which cuts are indicated by the letters a, a.
The cuts a, a through which the corners of the name card are intended to be
inserted may be either quite plain as shown in Fig. 1; or may be of any curvi-
linear or ornamental shape, one design for which is shown in fig. 2, or only two
cuts may be made for the obliquely opposite corners, and cuts may also be provided
through the facing from the ends, or near the ends of the cuts a, a, parallel or
nearly parallel to the edges of the name card as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 at g, g;
These cuts enable the facing of the greeting card to yield to the name card so that
the latter may be more easily inserted and without being so much bent as it
otherwise might be.
Fig. 3, represents another design in which the name card is slipped under two
bands c, c, made by transverse cuts in the facing, and it may be further secured by
tongues d, d, or by a set of such tongues only.

page_text: Fig. 4, represents a similar greeting card in which the elongated opening is cot
through the facing of the greeting card and the name card is slipped under the
facing through a cut or opening at the side of the principal opening or at the end
or back.
Fig. 5, represents the same design but with a fold d, on which any design may
be printed so as to form a double card, the name card is inserted under the edge f
of the facing and the fold d may be turned over the name card so as to close like
a book.
Although I have represented only very simple designs and inscriptions in the
drawings it will be obvious that much more elaborate designs and inscriptions may
be adapted to the cards described.
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
1. The manufacture of Christmas and other greeting cards in which provision
is made for attaching a name card substantially in the manner described and which
are so arranged that the inscription on the greeting card is completed by the
insertion of the name card which together reads with it as if it were all part of
the original inscription.
2. Manufacturing Christmas and other greeting cards with provision for the
attachment of a name card by inserting it or its corners, or its ends, or margins, or
some of them, or part of the card, under a comparatively thin facing paper or card
attached to a thicker card forming the back; that part of the facing corresponding
with the printed portion of the name card being either cut away, or placed under,
i.e. at the back of the name card.
3. In greeting cards to which name cards are to be attached, the cuts shown in
Figs. 1, and 2, indicated by the letters g, g. parallel or nearly so with the sides of
the name cards-for the purpose described and set forth.
Dated the 20th day of November 1885
NEWNHAM BROWNE,
Agent for the Petitioner.