Improvements connected with Tea Packets or Packages, and other Articles of Commerce.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 27th June, 1894-Accepted, 4th Aug., 1894
Improvements connected with Tea Packets or Packages, and
other Articles of Commerce.
I, SAMUEL TOPLEY, a Managing Director of Wm. Topley and Sons, Limited,
of 148 Upper Thames Street, in the City of London, and of New Road, Woolwich,.
in the County of Kent, Provision Merchants, 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, reference being.
had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters and figures marked thereon,
that is to say:-
This invention relates to improvements connected with packets or packages of
tea, and other articles of commerce, and it has for its object to provide novel means.
for instituting or establishing, in conjunction with such articles, a system for
providing old age pensions, or other pensions, life or other insurance, annuities,.
deferred bonds, or the like.
To this end, I combine, or otherwise provide, or associate with the article of
commerce, say a packet or package of tea (or other alimentary substance) which is
to be sold to the purchaser, consumer, or user, coupons, or the like, and these
coupons may either form an integral portion of the wrapper for the articles, or may
constitute the wrapper itself, or may be simply inserted in the articles, or may be
concealed in the goods which are to be wrapped in packets or packages.
When said coupons, or the like, form an integral portion of the wrapper of the
packets or packages, they may be perforated or indented around their edges, so as
to be easily detached, and they may likewise be applied in some conspicuous
position as to be readily perceived by the persous purchasing the goods to which
they are applied. Or they may be so arranged as to be concealed by the wrapper,
and only be disclosed to the purchaser, or to the consumer, on the opening of the
packets or packages.
Or they may be otherwise arranged on, or applied to, the wrapper, or be
delivered in conjunction with the packets or packages.
These coupons, or the like, have printed on them any suitable indications,
numbers, signs, or equivalent devices, advertisements, or other matter, and they
may furthermore be provided with blank spaces in which the purchasers of the
packets or packages, or the consumers, or users of the goods, can inscribe their.
names and addresses.
When a certain predetermined number of these coupons is in the possession of
of the purchaser, consumer, or user, it is intended that they shall be forwarded by
the holders to the address printed thercon for the purpose, and which address is
that of a life or other insurance or pension company, society, association, or
corporation, or a bank, or commercial or professional firm, or a person, or limited
liability company.
To insure for due payment of the insurance or benefit, I purpose arranging with
any one or more of such offices, or persons, as above indicated, to guarantee the
payment of the benefits as they may become due. I may, moreover, arrange
that the office, person, or firm, to which the coupons are to be forwarded,
shall not be actually that which guarantees the payment of the insurance or
benefit.
In this manner, I establish a novel system of old age or other pensions, life.
or other insurance, annuities, deferred bonds, or the like, by simple means, and one
by which no definite and predetermined payments have to be made annually, or at.
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page_text: other stated intervals, to an office, society, corporation or company, by the
beneficiary himself, or herself.
Although I have described my invention more particularly with reference to
packets or packages containing alimentary substances, it is obvious that the same
may be carried out in conjunction with the sale of any other articles of commerce, so
long as the vendor transfers, in connection with the transaction, to the purchaser,
user, or consumer, a coupon or the like to be used for obtaining an insurance or
benefit as above 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 combination, with tea packets or packages, or with packets or packages
of other alimentary substances, or with other articles of commerce, of coupons, or
the like, for the purpose of establishing or instituting a novel system of old age or
other pensions, life or other insurance, annuities, deferred bonds, or the like,
substantially as set forth.
2. My improved system of providing old age and other pensions, life or other
insurance, or annuities, or deferred bonds, or the like, consisting in combining with
packets or packages of tea, or other alimentary substances, or with other articles of
commerce, coupons, or their equivalent, forming either an integral portion of the
wrapper of such packets or packages, or constituting the wrapper itself, or placed
loosely in the packets or packages, or concealed or otherwise associated with the
goods, said coupons, or their equivalent, after being allowed to accumulate to a
certain predetermined number, being lodged with a life or other insurance, or
pension company, society, association or corporation, or with a bank, or commercial
or professional firm, or with a person, or with a limited liability company, for the
purposes aforesaid."
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ERNEST DE PASS,
Chartered Patent Agent,
78, Fleet Street, London, and 6, Victoria Street, Nottingham,
Agent for the Applicant.