An Improvement in or pertaining to Envelopes.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Oct., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 14th Mar., 1891-Accepted, 18th Apr., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in or pertaining to Envelopes.
1. WILLIAM SIMMONDS, of 12, Tamworth Road, Croydon, in the County of
Surrey, Grocer's Assistant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of my invention is so to fit and with such an appliance or appliances
envelopes of all descriptions that the contents thereof shall be very securely held
and retained therein and cannot easily be surreptitiously or otherwise removed.
To carry out this object I form a strip of paper or other suitable material of the
desired length and breadth and one end of this strip I secure by gum or otherwise
to the back of the envelope on the inner side thereof in the proper position it may
be at or about the middle of the same. When the letter or other article has been
placed in the envelope this strip can turned over the outer edge of the article and its
free end can be inserted between the same and the Rap or front of the envelope
whereto this end can be secured by gum or otherwise having preferably been
properly treated therefor previously and thus the contents of this envelope are very
securely held and retained therein."
In the same manner I can if and when desired fit to each envelope two or more
strips.
Dated this 16th day of October 1890.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in or pertaining to Envelopes.
I, WILLIAM SIMMONDS, of 12, Tamworth Road, Croydon, in the County of
Surrey, Grocer's Assistant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
The object of this my invention is so to fit and with such an appliance or
appliances envelopes of all descriptions that the contents thereof shall be very
securely held and retained therein and cannot easily and without discovery be
surreptitiously or otherwise removed.
In order the more clearly to explain this my invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed I refer to the accompanying drawing wherein I have shewn
an ordinary square envelope as fitted with and according to my invention and
Figure shews the envelope and my appliance open and ready to receive the
letter or other article and Figure 2 shews the same when a letter has been placed
therein and secured by my appliance and the envelope is ready to be closed in the
usual way.
I create a strip A of paper or other suitable material and I form the same of the
desired length and breadth and one end B of this strip A is secured by gum or
otherwise to the back of the envelope on the inner side thereof in the proper position
preferably as is shewn in the drawing at or about the middle of the same in such
wise that this strip A lies flat against the back of the envelope and its free end C
can terminate it may be as is shewn in Figure 1 just inside the flap of the envelope
or elsewhere as may be convenient in each particular case. When the letter D or
other article has been placed in the envelope the strip A is turned down over the
outer edge of the article and its free end is inserted between the article and the
front of the envelope as is shewn in Figure 2 and this end C can be secured by gum
or otherwise when in this position to the front of the envelope having preferably

page_text: been properly treated therefor previously it may be as are the flaps of envelopes or
otherwise. The envelope can then be closed in the usual way by turning the flap
down over the front of the envelope and there securing it and it is sufficiently
obvious that by this arrangement and method of fitment the contents of the envelope
are very securely held and retained therein as is desired.
In the same manner I can if and when I may desire so to do fit to each envelope
two or more strips.
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 an envelope of the strip or strips A of paper or other
material substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described and declared.
Dated this 31st day of December 1890.
HAKT & CO.