A New or Improved Combined Note Paper and Envelope.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Oct., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 1st July, 1890-Accepted, 16th Aug.,
1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Combined Note Paper and Envelope.
IHENRY JOHNSON of Trindle Road Dudley in the County of Worcester Mining
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object to provide in sheet note paper the means of
effectually sealing the folded sheet so as to prevent access to its contents thus
dispensing with the ordinary envelope and securing the advantages of a sheet of note
paper and envelope in one piece of paper.
In carrying my invention into effect I cut paper into sheets nearly of the size and
shape of note paper and differing from ordinary note paper in having at the top edge
of the right hand half of the sheet a flap or projecting piece extending all along the
said top edge and on the right hand edge of the sheet a flap extending from the top
edge to one third the depth of the side. The said flaps may either be of equal
breadth throughout their whole length or they may tapor from the right hand top
corner of the sheet to their ends.
Each flap has near the right hand corner of the sheet a perforation of less size
than a postage stamp the said perforations coinciding when the flaps are folded down.
The inner side of each flap is gummed near its edge.
The sheet is used as follows. The writing is executed on one or both of the inner
faces of the sheet the sheet is folded exactly as a sheet of ordinary note paper is
folded when it has the figure of a note with the flaps described at one of its longer
and one of its shorter sides. By wetting the gummed flaps and turning down first
the top flap and afterwards the end flap and pressing them on the front of the note
they are attached thereto and by finally affixing a postage stamp over the coincident
holes in the flaps the note paper is effectually sealed and its contents as inaccessible as
if it were enclosed in an ordinary envelope. The note cannot be opened without both
cutting or destroying the flaps and removing or mutilating the postage stamp.
The gummed flaps may be employed without the perforations described the postage
stamp and the address in that case may be on either side of the note.
Besides the economy of paper which attends the use of my invention it has the
following advantages it combines in one piece of paper the sheet of ordinary note
paper together with the means of sealing up the note without a separate envelope
while the address the stamp and post office date stamp are retained permanently
connected to the note.
Dated this 4th day of October 1889
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Combined Note Paper and Envelope.
I HENRY JOHNSON of Trindle Road Dudley in the County of Worcester Mining
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
My invention has for its object to provide in sheet note paper the means of
effectually sealing the folded sheet so as to prevent access to its contents thus
dispensing with the ordinary envelope and securing the advantages of a sheet, of
note paper and envelope in one piece of paper.
In carrying my invention into effect I cut paper into sheets nearly of the size
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page_text: and shape of note paper and differing from ordinary note paper in having at the top
edge of the right hand half of the sheet a flap or projecting piece extending all along
the said top edge and on the right hand edge of the sheet a flap extending from the
top edge to one third the depth of the side. The said flaps may either be of equal
breadth throughout their whole length or they may-taper from the right hand top
corner of the sheet to their ends.
Each flap has near the right hand corner of the sheet a perforation of less size than
a postage stamp the said perforations coinciding when the flaps are folded down.
The inner side of each flap is gummed near its edge.
The sheet is used as follows. The writing is executed on one or both of the inner
faces of the sheet the sheet is folded exactly as a sheet of ordinary note paper is
"folded when it has the figure of a note with the flaps described at one of its longer
and one of its shorter sides. By wetting the gummed flaps and turning down first
the top flap and afterwards the end flap and pressing them on the front of the note
they are attached thereto and by finally affixing a postage stamp over the coincident
holes in the flaps the note paper is effectually sealed and its contents as inaccessible
as if it were enclosed in an ordinary envelope. The noto cannot be opened without
both cutting or destroying the flaps and removing or mutilating the postage stamp.
The gummed flaps may be employed without the perforations described; the postage
stamp and the address in that case may be on either side of the note.
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Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents a combined note paper and
envelope made according to my invention and Figure 2 represents the same after
it has been folded into a note and sealed. The same letters of reference indicate the
same parts in both Figures.
a b is the rectangular sheet of note paper creased or divided into two parts by the
vertical crease at c as in ordinary note paper. At the top edge of the right hand
half of the sheet is a flap or projecting piece d extending all along the said top
edge as represented and on the right hand vertical edge of the sheet and near the top
thereof a second flap or projecting piece e is made. The flap e extends from the
top edge to one third the depth of the side as represented. I prefer to make the said
flaps or projecting pieces de taper from the right hand top corner but the said flaps
may be made of the same breadth throughout. In the wide end of the flap d is a
hole or perforation d² and in the wide end of the other flap e is a similar hole or
perforation e. These perforations are of less size than a postage stamp and are so
arranged in their respective flaps that when the said flaps are folded down upon the
note as represented in Figure 2 they coincide. The inner edges of the two flaps are
gummed.
The sheet Figure 1 is used in the following way. The writing having been executed
on the inner face of one or both of the parts ab the sheet is folded like an ordinary
sheet of note paper; that is to say it is first folded at the vertical crease c and after-
wards at the horizontal creases fg. The note paper thus folded has at the top edge or
shorter side the perforated flap d and at the edge of its longer side and adjacent to
the flap d the perforated flap e. In order to seal the note the gummed edges of the
flaps de are wetted and the top flap d first folded down on the outside of the folded
note and afterwards the other flap e is folded upon the folded flap d the two
perforations de² in the folded flaps coinciding as represented in Figure 2. By then
pressing the two. gummed and folded flaps de on the front h of the note the said
Haps are attached thereto and by finally affixing a postage stamp i indicated in dotted
lines in Figure 3 over the coincident holes de in the flaps de the note is effectually
sealed the said postage stamp attaching itself to the front of the note through the.
said perforations d' e².
The note thus sealed cannot be opened without cutting. or destroying the flaps de
and removing or mutilating the postage stamp i.
The perforations described and represented in the flaps may be omitted as represented
in the folded note shown in Figure 3 where the flaps are also represented as having,
the same breadth throughout instead of tapering. When the gummed flaps are
without perforations additional security in the sealing may be obtained by the

page_text: attachment of the postage stamp to the note a portion of the stamp i attaching itself
to the two flaps and a portion to the back h of the note as indicated in the said
Figure 3. When the perforations in the flaps are omitted as represented in Figure 3
the postage stamp and address may be on either side of the note.
For the purpose of facilitating the opening of the sealed note by the tearing or
removal of the flaps d e lines of perforations at the junction of the said flaps d e with
the edges of the note may be made.
Besides the economy of paper which attends the use of my invention it has the
following advantages; it combines in one piece of paper the sheet of ordinary note
paper together with the means of sealing up the note without a separate envelope
while the address the postage stamp and post office date stamp are retained permanently
connected to the note.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim
as my invention :-
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A new or improved combined note paper and envelope made and used substantially
as herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing the said
combined note paper and envelope consisting of a sheet preferably of the size and
shape of ordinary note paper provided at its right hand top corner with two gummed
flaps or projecting pieces by the folding down and affixing of which upon the note
the sealing of the note is effected whether the sealing be effected by the gummed
flaps alone or by the gummed flaps and a postage stamp or by coincident perforations
in the flaps over which perforations a postage stamp is affixed substantially as described
and illustrated.
Dated the 1st day of July 1890
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.