Fasteners for Envelopes and Wrappers, also Ungummed Envelopes and Wrappers.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 5th June, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Feb., 1898--Accepted, 30th Apr., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Fasteners for Envelopes and Wrappers, also Ungummed Envelopes
and Wrappers.
We, ROBERT JOHN PEAT SPENCE, Civil Engineer, residing at Letham, Collessio,
Fife, N.B., and ROBERT STORRAR, Saddler, residing at Letham, aforesaid, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
These fasteners consist of suitably shaped nieces of pliable and naturally or
artificially adhesive material of any description adapted to the purpose in question.
One of these is simply made to adhere to both the flap and the envelope after the
Hap has been put down. The envelope is thus held fast closed, whether it has
been made with an adhesive surface or not.
The same method applies to the fastening of wrappers both of papers and parcels.
More than one of the fasteners may be used for one envelope or wrapper.
The fasteners may be made of any size or shape and inscribed with monogram,
trade mark, address, or any other ornamental or useful design.
Ungummed envelopes and wrappers are rendered capable of use by the intro-
duction of these fasteners.
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ROBERT J. P. SPENCE,
ROBERT STORRAR.
Fasteners for Envelopes and Wrappers, also Ungummed Envelopes
and Wrappers.
We, ROBERT JOHN PEAT SPENCE, Civil Engineer, residing at Letham, Collessie,
Fife, N.B., and ROBERT STORBAR, Saddler, residing at Letham, aforesaid, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
The fasteners, as already stated in provisional specification, consist of suitably
shaped pieces of pliable and naturally or artificially adhesive material, (such as
gummed paper) of any description adapted to the purpose in question, and may
be used either to increase the security of envelopes and wrappers already gummed,
or to fasten or close ungummed envelopes and wrappers, as well as for advertise-
ment of address monogram or other matter.
The ungunimed envelopes may be made with any or all of their surfaces

page_text: ungummed. If an envelope, for example, be made with the surface of the flap
only ungummed, it would be closed by affixing a fastener on the outside of it,
with part of the adhesive surface of the fastener adhering to the flap and the other
part adhering to the body of the envelope.
If an ordinary envelope be made with all the surfaces ungummed, the fastener
must be large enough to cover with its adhesive surface a portion of all the four
folded corners of the envelope, which would in this manner be effectually closed.
It is quite clear from what has been said above, that many forms of ungummed
envelopes, to contain small packets, could be very simply made, if the foldings
were merely indicated by printed lines or otherwise. Thus:-a sheet of paper is
folded into three portions with the top overlapping the bottom, enclosing the
packet; the top and bottom are then joined with a fastener or fasteners; next,
the two ends are overlapped and secured with a fastener or fasteners, and there rosults
quite a convenient envelope for patterns of cloth &c. To have paper folded into
such envelopes of different designs and for different purposes, to be in correspon-
dence with their proper fasteners comes therefore within the scope of this invention.
Ungummed wrappers also come within its scope.
The fasteners are also rendered useful by being inscribed or embossed with
crest, monogram, trade mark, address, or any other ornamental or useful design
or advertisement, so as to obviate the necessity of having it printed or stamped
on the envelope or wrapper.
Instead of fasteners being made adhesive, the outside surfaces of the envelopes
or wrappers may be made adhesive, and the fasteners thus affixed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:
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(1) The sole manufacture and use of adhesive fasteners above described: -
(a) To give greater security to gummed envelopes.
(b) To fasten and close ungummed envelopes.
(c) To fasten ungummed wrappers for papers and parcels.
(2) The sole manufacture and use of wholly or partially ungummed envelopes,
to be closed, if necessary, by fasteners described above.
(3) The sole manufacture and use of ungummed wrappers.
The sole manufacture and use of unadhesive fasteners, and envelopes and
wrappers rendered adhesive on outside surfaces, to be closed, if necessary, by such
fasteners.
(5) The printing or embossing any matter on fasteners.