Improvements in and connected with Postal Wrappers.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Nov., 1894
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Postal Wrappers.
THOMAS HANSON LEWIS 2, Gordon Place Kensington Barrister-at-Law do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to secure the saving of time and trouble by
affording a handy means of wrapping up a book periodical pamphlet or other
similar publication for transmission through the post or by hand after perusal for
instance.
This invention is a wrapper bound up with the book, periodical etc. & practically
of the same sized sheet as the pages of the publication to which it is attached. At
one inch from the binding there is a line of perforation so that the wrapper is easily
detached. At the extreme edge on the right hand side of the wrapper there is an
adhesive surface of one inch in width. The intermediate space can be utilized for
advertisement purposes. On the reverse side of the wrapper the title the usual
frontispiece of the periodical etc. to be transmitted may be printed with two lines to
indicate the position where the name & address of the transmittee should be written.
The wrapper may bear an embossed postal stamp or not at the discretion of the user
of this invention. The wrapper is to be of a red tint in punning allusion to the
suggestion that this invention is especially directed to the handy means it affords of
forwarding a periodical etc. when it has been "read."
Dated this Sixteenth day of November 1894.
Improvements in and connected with Postal Wrappers.
1, THOMAS HANSON LEWIS of 2 Gordon Place, Kensington W. Barrister-
at-Law 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 this invention is to secure the saving of time & trouble by affording
a handy means of wrapping up a book periodical pamphlet or other similar publica-
tion for transmission through the post or by hand after perusal for instance. This
invention is a wrapper bound up with the book periodical pamphlet or like publica-
tion & practically to be of the same sized sheet as the pages of the publication
to which it is attached. At one inch more or less from the binding there is a line
of perforations so that the wrapper may be easily detached. At the extreme edge
on the right hand side of the wrapper there is an adhesive surface of one inch more
or less in width. The intermediate space can be utilized for advertisement purposes.
On the reverse side of the wrapper the title with or without the usual frontispiece
of the book periodical or other similar publication to be transmitted may be printed
with lines to indicate the position where the name & address of the transmittee
should be written. The wrapper may bear an embossed postal stamp or not at the
discretion of the user of this invention. The wrapper may be of any quality of
paper & of white or of any other colour but I the inventor am in favour of employing

page_text: paper of a red colour in punning allusion to the most probable use of the wrapper in
transmitting by post printed matter which has been read.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion & in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is.
1. A sheet of paper forming part of & bound up with a book or periodical :
such sheet having a line of perforations running from the top to the bottom
at a convenient distance from the centre or binding line & also having a
gummed edge.
2. A sheet of paper as described rendered detachable from a book or periodical
by a line of perforations & capable of being used as a postal wrapper & of being
securely fastened by its adhesive edge.
3. A sheet of paper forming part of & bound up with a book or periodical &
capable of being used as a postal wrapper constructed substantially as described.
Dated the 29th day of November 1894.
T. HANSON LEWIS.