An Improved Combined Postal Wrapper and Letter Sheet.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Sept., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 27th Oct. 1896-Accepted, 19th Dec., 1895
An Improved Combined Postal Wrapper and Letter Sheet.
We, GEORGE BARNES of Kerferd House Kerferd Road Albert Park near
Melbourne in the Colony of Victoria Journalist and FREDERICK PERCY STEVENS
of No. 127 William Street Melbourne aforesaid Auctioneer, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of an improved combined postal wrapper and letter sheet
which is produced in the following manner.
We take a sheet of ordinary letter paper and so cut it as to permit of its larger
portion being used for the purpose of being written upon, and then folded so as to
permit of its being enclosed in the wrapper portion of the sheet in such a manner
as to prevent any possibility of the writing being examined from the exterior.
For this purpose we take a sheet of paper and cut it in the form shown in
Figure 1 on the accompanying drawings, that part which is marked A being the
letter sheet, and that which is marked B being the postal wrapper. When the
part marked A has been written upon, its upper end is folded over on line A¹ so
as to cover its middle portion as shown in Figure 2, and this is then folded over its
lower portion as shown in Figure 3. This is doubled over upon itself as shown in
Figure 4, and is then folded over the lower end of the postal wrapper as shown in
Figure 5 and is finally folded again and the gummed flap B¹ either stuck on what
is then the back of the postal wrapper, as shown in Figure 6, or if preferred it may
be passed into a slit previously made in the back of said postal wrapper as shown
in Figure 7. It is absolutely essential that in this form of the invention the paper
should be cut between the letter sheet and postal wrapper from C to D and that it
should not be cut between D and E.
If so preferred the paper might be perforated instead of being cut between C
and D so as to prevent its being torn while it is being written upon but the parts
must be separated between C and D before it can be properly enfolded in the
wrapper.
For the purpose of preventing the removal of the postage stamp a hole is made
in the front of the wrapper as shown in Figures 1 to 5, so as to permit of the
stamp being affixed to that part of the back of the letter sheet which comes
opposite to it.
A modification of this invention consists in providing a sheet of paper as before
and cutting it in the form shewn in Figure 8 in which it will be noticed that the
cut is not made between C and D as before, but between C, F, and D, E, instead,
in which case the upper and lower sections of the letter sheet A must be folded
over the middle section as shown in Figure 9, and these then folded endwise on to
the middle section of the wrapper as shewn in Figure 10 after which the lower
section of the wrapper is folded over the letter sheet as shewn in Figure 11.
It is obvious that the letter sheet may be folded in other ways than those herein
described and the size of the sheet may vary if so preferred, but we have shown
and described the best method known to us of carrying this invention into effect.
It is contemplated to make use of portions of this invention for advertising

page_text: purposes by which means it is anticipated that the article can be sold at the same
or a less price than the value of the stamp which is attached to it:
Dated this Fourteenth day of August One thousand eight hundred au
ninety-six.
An improved Combined Postal wrapper
We, GEORGE BARNES of Kerferd House, Kerferd Road Albert Park near
Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, Journalist and FREDERICK PERCY
STEVENS of No. 127 William Street Melbourne aforesaid Auctioneer, 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 consists of an improved combined postal wrapper and letter sheet
which is produced in the following manner.
We take a sheet of ordinary letter paper and so cut it as to permit of its larger
portion being used for the purpose of being written upon, and then folded so as to
permit of its being enclosed in the wrapper portion of the sheet in such a manner
as to prevent any possibility of the writing being examined from the exterior.
For this purpose we take a sheet of paper and cut it in the form shown in
Figure 1 on the accompanying drawings, that part which is marked A being the
letter sheet, and that which is marked B being the postal wrapper. When the
part marked A has been written upon, its upper end is folded over on line A¹ so as
to cover its middle portion as shown in Figure 2, and this is then folded over
its lower portion as shown in Figure 3. This is doubled over upon itself as
shown in Figure 4, and is then folded over the lower end of the postal wrapper
as shown in Figure 5 and is finally folded again and the gummed flap B' either
stuck on what is then the back of the postal wrapper, as shown in Figure 6, or
if preferred it may be passed into a slit previously made in the back of said
postal wrapper as shown in Figure 7. It is absolutely essential that in this form
of the invention the paper should be cut between the letter sheet and postal wrapper
from C to D and that it should not be cut between D and E.
If so preferred the paper might be perforated instead of being eut between C
and D so as to prevent its being torn while it is being written upon but the parts
must be separated between C and D before it can be properly enfolded in the
wrapper.
For the purpose of preventing the removal of the postage stamp a hole is made
in the front of the wrapper as shown in Figures 1 to 5, so as to permit of the
stamp being affixed to that part of the back of the letter sheet which comes
opposite to it.
A modification of this invention consists in providing a sheet of paper as before
and cutting it in the form shewn in Figure 8 in which it will be noticed that the
cut is not made between C and D as before, but between C, F, and D, E, instead,
in which case the upper and lower sections of the letter sheet A must be folded
over the middle section as shown in Figure 9, and these then folded end wise on to
the middle section of the wrapper as shewn in Figure 10 after which the lower
section of the wrapper is folded over the letter sheet as shewn in Figure 11:,

page_text: It is obvious that the letter sheet may be folded in other ways than those
herein described and the size of the sheet may vary if so preferred, but we have
shown and described the best method known to us of carrying this invention into
effect.
It is contemplated to make use of portions of this invention for advertising
purposes by which means it is anticipated that the article can be sold at the same
or a less price than the value of the stamp which is attached to it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is,-
A combined postal wrapper and letter sheet cut out of a sheet of paper as
herein described and as illustrated in our drawings so as to permit of the writing
on the letter sheet being protected from inspection after it has been written upon
and folded up in the wrapper substautially as herein described and explained.
Dated this Twenty-sixth day of October One thousand eight hundred and
ninety-six
GEORGE BARKER,
77 Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants.