An Improvement in Envelopes and other Covers for Postal Purposes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Jan., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 18th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 23rd Mar., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Envelopes and other Covers for Postal
Purposes.
1, JOSEPH SEYMOUR ARTHURS of 14 Bridge Street, Northampton in the County
of Northamptonshire Jeweller, and Optician, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
In manufacturing the Envelope or Covering, I form one end solid sufficiently large
to receive the Postage Stamp or Stamps and also the Official Stamp thus preventing
any damage being done to the contents of the said Envelope or Covering during
the process of obliterating the postage stamp or stamps by the Post Office Officials.
The end being solid, and Hat receives the Official Stamp, exact as an ordinary letter,
thus dispensing with a label which is generally tied on when the contents of the
Envelope or Covering are fragile; at the same time facilitating the operation of
obliterating the stamp or stamps especially in the case of Envelopes or Coverings that
do not show a flat surface.
Dated this 30th day of January 1889.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Envelopes and other Covers for Postal
Purposes.
I JOSEPH SEYMOUR ARTHURS 14 Bridge Street, Northampton in the County of
Northamptonshire Jeweller & Optician 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 :-
In manufacturing the Envelope or covering I form one end solid sufficiently large
to receive the postage stamp or stamps and also the Official Stamp, thus preventing
any damage being done to the contents of the said Envelopes or Coverings
during the process of obliterating the postage stamp or stamps by the Post Office
Officials.
The end being solid and flat receives the Official Stamp exact as an ordinary letter
thus dispensing with a label which is generally tied on when the contents of the
envelope or covering are fragile at the same time facilitating the operation of
obliterating the stamp or stamps especially in the case of Envelopes or Coverings that
do not give a flat surface.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
Protection to the contents of the Envelope or Covering during the process of
stamping by the Post Office Authorities.
Daind this 16th 1080

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Jan., 1889
Specification Accepted, 23rd Mar.,
1889
I, REGINALD HADDAN of the firm of Herbert & Co., Patent Agents of
18 Buckingham Street Strand W.C. London in the County of Middlesex Civil
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention a communication to me from
abroad by Lorenzo Garrigosa y Borrell of Sitjes Barcelona in the Kingdom of Spain
and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Heretofore hunting knives have heen made with a cross or handle on which is
provided a socket by means of which they may be fastened to guns or rifles and when
such have been made, as for military purposes, with a socket to be passed over a
single barrelled gun, the latter may be fired without removal of the bayonet or
knife Where however such sockets have been made for double barrelled guns it
has been necessary to remove the knife before firing.
The object of the present invention is to construct a form of socket for double
barrelled guns so that the knife may be readily fixed thereon or detached when
desired, but need not be detached for firing.
The accompanying drawing illustrates the new or improved socket as made in one
piece with the cross or hand guard of the knife-Fig. 1'illustrates a portion of a knife
blade a and handle c and of a guard b which may be of any desired form-Fig. 2 is a
side elevation and Figs. 3 and 4 opposite end views of the socket, m. The socket is
made of sufficient length and of exact internal shape to fit onto the muzzles of the
two barrels and hold securely thereon-The projections and g at the upper end of
the socket prevent the latter from sliding back along the barrels away from the
muzzles To secure the socket in position it is provided with a spring h carrying
a pinj to engage in a hole drilled in the metal between the barrels of the gun or rifle
on which it is to be fixed.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The combination with the handle or cross of a bayonet or with a hunting knife or
the like; of a socket m shaped to fit upon the muzzle of a doubled barrelled gun, and
having projections ƒ and g and spring h with pin j substantially as illustrated and
described.