Improvements in Means for Addressing Circular-letters and the like.
Year: 1889

page_text: .Date of Application, 8th Oct., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 24th Dec., 1889-Accepted, 25th Jan., 190
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Addressing Circular-letters and
the like.
1, ARNOLD ÁDÁMSZ, of 6 Andrássystrasse 45, Budapest, Hungary, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
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This invention relates to means for rapidly addressing circular letters, prospectuses
and the like to firms of various branches of trade or industry.
The invention has for its object to supply commercial houses and manufacturers
with systematically arranged materials, of which they may compose the necessary
addresses by sticking upon the envelopes or parcels paper slips having printed on them
integral parts of the addresses.
According to the invention each address is composed of two slips. Upon the larger
one is printed or written the name of the firm, to which the letter or consignment is to
be forwarded, and in the language of the country in which the firm carries on business-
the name of the town, street and province, including the number of the house. In the
left hand upper corner of the slip is left a blank space, on which the second, smaller
slip.is to be fastened. This second slip indicates in the language of the country in
which the sender resides-the name of the country to which the letter etc. is to be
sent and the usual title, viz., "Mr.," Monsieur," Herrn," "Signor" or the like.
The two integral parts of the address are executed in two different languages in the
manner described for facilitating expedition and handling of the letters etc: by the
post-officers and post-men and thus securing the desired effect.
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The names of firms of the same branch of business are printed in alphabetical order
on sheets having perforated divisional. lines, and a lateral margin upon which are
printed the names of the firms contained in the corresponding transverse rows of the
sheet. The back of the sheet may be coated with a suitable cement, and when it is
used by successively detaching the address slips, the margin referred to above remains
as a counter register. Sheets having printed on them the names of firms of a given
branch of business may be bound together so as to form books.
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Instead of the smaller slips sheet metal or other stencils may be used, for pro-
ducing the desired words by brushing color over these stencils; engraved stamps may
likewise be used..
...COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Addressing Circular-letters and
the like.
:
I, ARNOLD ÁDÁMSz; of 6 Andrássystrasse 45, Budapest VI, Hungary, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the saine is
to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
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This invention relates to means for rapidly addressing circular letters, prospectuses
and the like to firms of various branches of trade or industry.
The invention has for its object to supply commercial houses, and manufacturers
with systematically arranged materials, of which they may compose the necessary
addresses, in. any language, by sticking. upon the envelopes .or parcels paper slips
having printed, on them,integral parts of the addresses.
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page_text: According to the invention, each address is composed of two slips. Upon the
larger one is printed or written the name of the firm, to which the letter or consign-
ment is to be forwarded, and in the language of the country, in which the firm carries
on business the name of the town, street and province, including the number of
the house. In the left hand upper corner of the slip is left a blank space, on which
the second smaller slip is to be fastened. This second slip indicates-in the language
of the country in which the sender resides-the name of the country to which the
letter etc., is to be sent, and the usual title, viz., "Mr.," "Monsieur," "Herrn,"
"Signor," or the like.
The names of firms of the same branch of business are printed in alphabetical
order on sheets having perforated divisional lines and coated on the backs with a
suitable gum or cement, in order to enable the address slips to be detached like
postage stamps, without the aid of shears. Sheets having printed on them the
Dames of firms of a given branch of business are bound together so as to form
books.
In order to facilitate the understanding of the invention, the annexed sheet of
drawings represents, in Fig. 1, a sheet having printed on it German firms of a given
branch of business, while Figs. 2, 3 and 4 shew the small slips, by which the
addresses are to be completed when the sender is residing in France, England or
Germany.
As clearly visible in Fig. 1, the sheet, which is one of the leaves of a book, is
divided by perforated lines a into a certain number of slips b, on which are printed,
in alphabetical order, the names of the commercial or industrial firms of some given
branch of business, the names of the towns, etc., where the firms are established, the
names of the streets, places, etc., including the indication of the number of the house,
and the names of the kingdoms, provinces, etc. The left hand upper corner of each
slip presents a blank space designed to have cemented or gummed thereto one or
the other of the small slips Figs. 2, 3 and 4. Furthermore there is provided, along
the inner edge of sheet, a strip d, upon which are printed, for convenience in
selection, the names of the firms contained in the corresponding transverse rows
of the sheet. When the sheet is used by successively detaching the address slips,
the strip d, on which the date of sending may be noted, remains as a counter
register.
The small slips, shewn by Figs. 2, 3 and 4 and designed to complete the addresses
printed on the slips by their being applied to the blank spaces c, indicate, in the
language of the original country, the name of the country of destination and the
usual title. Thus, the small slips designed for French forwarders have printed on
them the words "Allemagne" and "Monsieur " or Messieurs," slips designed for
English despatchers the word "Germany" and the letters "Mr." or Messrs.," and
the slips to be sold to German firms the words "Dentschland" and "Herrn." These
small slips too are printed and sold in the shape of sheets having perforated divisional
lines and a gummed back.
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The two integral parts of the address are executed in two different languages in the
manner described for facilitating the expedition of the letters by the post-officials and
their handling by the postinen.
Instead of the smaller slips, sheet metal or other stencils may be used for producing.
the desired words by brushing colour over these stencils; engraved stamps may like-
wise be used.
It will be readily understood that with the aid of the described system persons
unable to write or read are enabled in certain cases to send letters or goods without
error.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
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1. Addresses for use by merchants, manufacturers and the like, these addresses being
composed of several integral parts in the shape of slips having the necessary words

page_text: printed or written thereon, and designed to be stuck to envelopes or parcels, substan-
tially as set forth.
2. In addresses for use by merchants, manufacturers and the like, the combination
of a principal slip, on which is indicated, in the language of the country of destination,
the name of the firm or person and his domicile with a supplementary slip designed
to be applied to the left hand upper corner of the principal slip and having indicated
on it, in the language of the original country, the name of the country of destination
and the usual title such as "Mr.," "Monsieur," "Herrn," etc., substantially as set
forth.
3. Sheets having printed on them, in alphabetical order, the contents of principal
slips referred to in the second claim such contents relating to the same branch of
business and the sheets being divided into slips by perforated divisional lines, substan-
tially as set forth.
4. In the sheets referred to in the third claim, a marginal strip, on which are
printed the names of firms contained in the transverse rows, and which serves as a
counter register.
5. The combination with the principal slips referred to in the second claim, of
stencils, by means of which the required words can be brushed on the said slips, sub-
stantially as set forth.
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1000
A. ÁDÁMSZ,
Per L. W. B.