Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd July, 1887
Complete Left, 19th Nov., 1887
Complete Accepted, 20th Dec., 1887
I FREDERICK CHARLES LYNDE of 48 King Street Manchester in the County of
Lancaster Civil Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is to facilitate the writing and reading of letters of more
than four pages long, a single sheet of letter paper of a sufficient size to make the
number of pages required being so folded that the writing of the pages in a consecutive
order is greatly facilitated, and when written the reading of the said pages in the
proper or correct succession is ensured, thus obviating all difficulty in selecting the
proper page or sheet to be read next.
1 2 3 4
1 2 3 4 5 6
The improvement consists in a peculiar system of cutting and folding the paper.
According to my invention I take a long strip or sheet of letter paper or cardboard
of the height (from top to bottom) of the required page and of a sufficient length
(from left to right) for half the number of pages desired, and I fold this piece to-and-
fro thus
for eight pages, or thus
for twelve pages and so on.
The letter (say of eight pages) is begun upon the first or left hand single fold and
continued on the same side of the paper on page 2 by turning over a double fold.
The opposite page 3 is then written, and another double fold turned over and page 4
is then written on the last single fold, page 4 is then turned over and the operation
repeated on the other side of the paper.
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12 11 10 9 8 7
1
2 3
4
8
7 8
the first four pages
. Or if preferred the paper may be laid out flat thus
on one side written in succession and then the whole paper turned over and similarly
treated on the other side.
In either case the letter when thus written on paper so folded can be read each page
with certainty in consecutive order without the pages being numbered, and thus both
the writing and reading of long letters will be greatly facilitated.
Dated this 22nd day of July 1887.
GEORGE DAVIES,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: I FREDERICK CHARLES LYNDE of 48 King Street, Manchester, in County, of
Lancaster, Civil Engineer 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 facilitate the writing, and particularly the reading,
of the several pages of a letter of more than four pages in length, in their proper
consecutive order or succession without the necessity of numbering the pages to
indicate the order in which they are to be read.
The invention consists in a sheet or strip of paper or cardboard cut of a width equal
to the intended height of a page and of sufficient horizontal length for half the
intended number of pages, and in folding or doubling the strip backwards and forwards
a number of times according to the number of pages desired so that when so folded
or doubled on itself, the first fold will be at the right and the next at the left of the
folded packet, and so on, in order that the pages may be written on, and read in
consecutive order from the left to the right of the extended strip.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this speci-
fication, which represents in figure 1 a perspective view of the paper as folded for a
six page letter. Figure 2 is an edge, and figure 3 a face, view of the strip of paper
as partially developed. Figure 4 is an edge view showing the position of the paper
in writing on the second and third pages.
The letter, say of six pages, being folded in the form shown in figure.1 with. a
succession of folds a, b, etc. in alternately backward and forward directions, is begun
on the first page at the left hand end of the sheet marked No. 1 and continued on the
same side of the paper on the adjacent page No. 2 by turning over the first fold a as
shown in figure 4. The opposite page No. 3 is then written on, after which pages 4, 5,
and 6 may be written on in the order indicated, by turning the folds as described for
pages 1, 2, and 3. Or, if preferred, the paper may be laid out flat as shown in
figures 2 and 3 and the first three pages on one side written on in succession and the
whole paper then turned over for the purpose of writing on the other side in like order.
I have described the invention as applied to a six-page letter, but it will be evident
that it may be applied to a letter of eight, ten, twelve, or more pages by repeating the
folds in the same order.
The several pages of a letter when thus written on paper folded as described and
shown in figure I will owing to their relative positions naturally be read in consecutive
order without the pages being numbered, and thus both the writing and reading of
many page letters will be facilitated.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is-
A sheet or strip of letter paper or card cut of the proportions described, and folded
alternately backwards and forwards substantially as shown and described for the
purpose specified.
Dated this 18th day of November 1887.