Improvements in Letter Cards and Telegraph Cards.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Feb., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 27th Sept., 1899-Accepted, 4th Nov.,
1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Letter Cards and Telegraph Cards.
I, ERNEST TISSOT, of 21, Rue du Quatre Septembre, Paris, in the Republic
of France, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
The letter cards and telegraph cards at present employed are formed of a
rectangular sheet of paper a.
This rectangle is provided with perforations c which form an
rectangle conforming to the outer rectangle.
internal
There is thus formed round the place reserved for the correspondence a frame
or portion which may be easily and evenly detached.
The upper strips d of the frame or outer margin are gummed and adhere to
the lower strips è when the card is folded along the crease b in order to close
the letter.
The drawback of such letter cards consists in, that they are difficult to copy
in a letter copying book, as the gum causes the strips d to adhere to the damp
sheet.
In order to avoid this drawback I have designed the improved letter card which
forms the object of the present invention and which is shown in the accompanying
drawings.
The gummed half of the card has provided round each strip d, an ungummed
strip did d³, Fig. 1, which may be folded down over the corresponding strip d
as shown in Fig. 2, and thus form a protective flap or cover for the gum whilst
the letter is being press copied.
When the copy has been taken, the strips d¹.d² d³ are folded back into the
position shown in Fig. 1, the letter is then closed and the strips ď ď ď³ torn
off along the perforations c¹.
It is needless to state that there would as a matter of fact be no inconvenience
in leaving the strips on the letter card which can be opened in the usual manner.
Dated this 23rd day of February 1899.
WM. P. THOMPS & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Letter Cards and Telegraph Cards.
I, ERNEST TISSOT, of 21, Rue du Quatre Septembre, Paris, in the Republic
of France, Manufacturer, 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 letter cards and telegraph cards at present employed are formed of a
rectangular sheet of paper a.
This rectangle is provided with perforations c which form
rectangle conforming to the outer rectangle.
an internal

page_text: There is thus formed round the place reserved for the correspondence a frame
or portion which may be easily and evenly detached.
The upper strips d of the frame or outer margin are gummed and adhere to
the lower strips e when the card is folded along the crease 6 in order to close
the letter.
The drawback of such letter cards consists in, that they are difficult to copy
in a letter copying book, as the gum causes the strips d to adhere to the damp
sheet.
In order to avoid this drawback I have designed the improved letter card which
forms the object of the present invention and which is shown in Figures 1 and 2
of the drawings accompanying the Provisional Specification.
The gummed half of the card has provided round each strip d, an ungummed
strip dd, Fig. 1, which may be folded down over the corresponding strip d
as shown in Fig. 2, and thus form a protective flap or cover for the gum whilst
the letter is being press copied.
When the copy has been taken, the strips dd2 d³ are folded back into the
position shown in Fig. 1, the letter is then closed and the strips d¹ & d³ torn
off along the perforations c¹.
It is needless to state that there would as a matter of fact be no inconvenience
in leaving the strips on the letter card which can be opened in the usual manner.
A modified form of construction of this letter card is shown in the drawings,
filed with the Complete Specification-Eig.-3.showing the letter card open, Fig. 4
when ready to be placed in the press copying book and Fig. 5 the same when
-closed.
In this modified arrangement of letter card the external appearance remains
-the-same, but instead_of_arranging the gum on the strips d and perforating the
lines c¹, the gum may be placed on the overlapping or covering-flaps-ddd
and then the perforation of the lines c may be dispensed with, being replaced
by simple folds. It is evident that by folding down the gummed flaps d¹ d² d³
_on_the_corresponding strips d (Fig. 4) the gum which they bear is protected
against the moisture of the leaves of the letter copying-book.--In-order_to_close
the letter after having copied it, the flaps are raised into the position shown in
Fig. 3, the card is then folded and the gumined flaps d' d² d³ as shown in Fig. 5
are folded down on the side where the address is placed. In order to open the
letter, the whole-of-the-bands-d-c-and-the-gummed flaps are detached along the
perforated line c.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. A letter card or the like characterised by the arrangement around the
gummed edges thereof, of detachable flaps or strips for temporarily overlapping
or covering and protecting the gum and thus enabling the cards to be copied in
a letter copying book, substantially as hereinbefore described.
2. The modified arrangement of the letter card or the like shown in Figs. 3
to 5 in which the gum is arranged on the covering strips themselves, substantially
as described.
Dated this 26th day of September 1899