IMPROVEMENTS IN RAILWAY AND OTHER TICKETS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Guiseppe Montefiore, of Florence, in the
Kingdom of Italy, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN RAILWAY
AND OTHER TICKETS."
Sealed the 3rd November 1874, and dated the 16th June 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Guiseppe Montefiore at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 16th June 1874.
I, GUISEPPE MONTEFIORE, of Florence, in the Kingdom of Italy, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
RAILWAY AND OTHER TICKETS," to be as follows:-
.
The Invention comprises the constructing the tickets as or with
envelopes or wrappers open at the ends or otherwise as carriers, for the
· purpose of carrying therein or therewith a removeable or affixed sheet or
sheets on which railway timetables, or notices, or other matter may be
printed or written, the issue of the ticket being thus made the means of
distribution; in some cases the ticket to be part of the envelope, in
others to have the envelope applied; the material of the envelope to be

page_text: paper or any convenient material, and the form a strip gummed or
fastened by the ends or elsewhere to an ordinary ticket, or gummed or
fastened together at the ends or elsewhere to constitute in the folded
and belt-like condition the vehicle or carrier for the removeable sheet,
which may be printed or written upon, and either small, to fit the
envelope without folding, or folded to size to fit the envelope; some-
times scooped or curved thumb or finger openings to be left at the end
or ends of the envelope to admit of the more easy removal of the notices
or other matter, and sometimes perforations to be provided for the more
readily tearing away a part for the same purpose without destroying the
remainder or ticket proper.
The accompanying Drawing illustrates the construction as described.
Figure 1 shews front of ticket.
Figure 2, back, with removeable sheet folded and in place in the
envelope or wrapper.
Figure 3, section omitting the removeable sheet.
Figure 4, developed view of the envelope or wrapper.
Figure 5, developed view of the removeable sheet; this to be gummed
or affixed to the body of the ticket.
In Figures 2 and 4 the dotted lines a, a, shew perforations to assist
removal of a part of the envelope if desired, and the Invention includes
the affixing or securing a sheet or sheets without envelope or wrapper,
the sheet to be folded from its full or normal dimensions to lie in its
folded condition within the marginal dimensions (or thereabouts) of the
body of the ticket; this also is illustrated by two several examples in
the Drawing, see Figures 6 and 7, in each of which the thick lines
denote the marginal dimensions referred to, and the other lines the
developed view of an affixed sheet.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Guiseppe Montefiore in the Great Seal Patent 30
Office on the 12th December 1874.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Guiseppe Montefiore, Her special licence
that I, the said Guiseppe Montefiore, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Guiseppe Montefiore, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thercafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, excrcise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN, RAILWAY AND OTHER TICKETS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Guiseppe Montefiore, my executors or admi-
nistrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or onc
of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Guiseppe Montefiore, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
The Invention consists, firstly, in constructing the tickets as or with
- envelopes or wrappers open at the ends or otherwise as carriers, for the
purpose of carrying therein or therewith a removeable or affixed sheet
or sheets on which railway timetables, or notices, or other matter may
be printed or written, the issue of the ticket being thus made the means
of distribution; in some cases the ticket to be part of the envelope, in
others to have the envelope applied; the material of the envelope to be
paper or any convenient material, and the form a strip or piece gummed
or fastened by the ends or elsewhere to an ordinary ticket, or gummed
or fastened together at the ends or elsewhere to constitute in the folded
and belt-like condition the vehicle or. carrier for the removable sheet,
which may be printed or written upon, and either small, to fit the
envelope without folding, or folded to size to fit the envelope; some-
times scooped or curved thumb or finger openings to be left at the end

page_text: or ends of the envelope to admit of the more easy removal of the notices
or other matter, and sometimes perforations to be provided for the more
readily tearing away a part for the same purpose without destroying the
remainder or ticket proper.
or other matter, and sometimes perforations to be provided for the more
readily tearing away a part for the same purpose without destroying the
remainder or ticket proper.
The accompanying Drawing illustrates the constructions as described.
Figure 1 shews front of improved ticket.
Figure 2, back, with removeable sheet folded and in place in the
envelope or wrapper c.
Figure 3 is a section omitting the removeable sheet.
.
Figure 4, developed view of the envelope or wrapper c.
Figure 5, developed view of the removeable sheet 6, the dotted lines
indicating the intended creasings or foldings; this sheet to be gúmmed
or affixed to the body of the ticket, as indicated in Figure 3.
.
Figure 3 corresponds with Figure 3, but shows the body d of the
ticket separate from the envelope or wrapper.
Figure 3 corresponds with Figure 3, but shows a different sectional
form of the envelope or wrapper.
The developed form is not represented, but will readily be understood.
In Figures 2 and 4 the dotted lines a, a, shew perforations in the
material of the envelope c to assist removal of the sheet by tearing
away the part of the envelope between the two lines of perforations, but
the envelope may be made without the perforations if so preferred.
Figure 6 illustrates the construction when the body of the ticket itself
is formed as an envelope, wrapper, case, or pocket for a removeable
sheet b, shewn as inserted therein.
Figures 7 and 8, cross sections to correspond, but omitting the
sheet b.
And the Invention consists, secondly, in affixing or securing to the
body of the ticket a sheet or sheets without envelope or wrapper, the
sheet to be folded from its full or normal dimensions to lie in its folded
condition within tlie marginal dimensions (or thereabouts) of the body of
the ticket; this also is illustrated in the Drawing by some example..
Thus in Figure 9 the strong thick lines denote, the marginal dimensions.
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referred to, and the other lines an affixed sheet m; this may extend to
the corners
or consist of four flaps, as illustrated by the outline by
the several successive points 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and ter-
minating at the commencing point 1.
Figure 10 shews the body d of the improved ticket folded double or
hinged like the covers of a book, with an affixed sheet in its developed
form.
Figure 11 shews the same, with the sheet m folded within the
marginal dimensions of one-half of the body d, the body being shewn in
its open or unfolded state.
Figure 12 shews an improved ticket with double or folded body, as in
Figures 10 and 11, but with sheets bound in or affixed as leaves like an
ordinary book.
.
The following remarks are to be understood as referring generally (or
wherever applicable) to the several descriptions or variations of my
improved tickets, that is to say, gluc, gum, paste, or cement of any
approved and suitable description may be used as the means of uniting
together the several parts of the improved tickets; or stitching, sewing,
or metallic rivetting or clipping may be employed in addition to or in
substitution therefor.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this
Eleventh day of December One thousand eight hundred and
GUISEPPE MONTEFIORE. (L.S.)