Improvements in Return Tickets for Railways and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Nov., 1894-Accepted, 29th Dec., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Return Tickets for Railways and the like.
I MAXIMILIEN VEZZOSI of 15 Place du Statut, Turin, in the Kingdom of Italy,
Manufacturer of Railway Tickets, 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 :-
This invention relates more particularly to return tickets for passengers by
railways or ships but is applicable in all cases where one part of the ticket is
required to be retained by the owner of the ticket to entitle the said owner to the
fulfilment of the contract for which the ticket was issued and the invention has for
its object to increase the utility of such tickets by constructing them as hereinafter
described so as to enable the said tickets to be used for advertising or like purposes.
I will describe my invention as applied to a railway return ticket from which its
application to analogous tickets will also be readily understood. According to my
invention I form the ticket in such a manner as to provide in the return half of the
ticket a pocket for the reception of a sheet or sheets of preferably thin, paper (which
may or may not be folded) printed or otherwise marked with advertisements or
notices or the like.
In order that my invention may be fully understood I will describe the same with
reference to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a railway return ticket constructed according to
my invention the sheet of paper or the like containing advertisements or notices
being shewn partly withdrawn from the pocket in the ticket.
Fig. 2 is a plan of a blank which forms the main body of the ticket.
Fig. 3 is a plan of a piece interposed between the two opposite sides of that
portion of the ticket which does not contain a pocket and
Fig. 4 is a plan of the outer covering of the ticket by which the ends of the ticket
are closed.
To make the ticket the blank a Fig. 2 which may be cut from thin card, or paper
of the required thickness is folded along the centre shewn by the dotted line b so as
to form the two sides c c of the ticket and the piece d of card or the like Fig. 3
having been coated with paste or other adhesive material is interposed between the
two sides at one end thereof as shewn in Fig. 1. the other parts of the blank
remaining unattached. The ticket thus partly formed is covered by an outer
adhesive covering e Figure 4 the projecting parts f of which are wrapped round the
ends of the folded blank a and connected to the side after which the part 9 of the
covering is folded onto and caused to adhere to the side and parts to complete
the construction of the ticket which may then in the ordinary manner be printed on
and perforated at the part where the ticket is to be divided. By this mode of
constructing the ticket a pocket i is formed in one end of the ticket for the reception
of a sheet or sheets of paper or the like having thereon advertisements, notices or
the like, the said pocket being preferably in the return half of the ticket so that the
holder may have the opportunity of perusing the sheets of advertisements after
having delivered up the other half of the ticket. k. k are notches formed in the sides
of the ticket where the pocket is situated to facilitate the withdrawal of the sheet
or sheets of advertisements from the said pocket.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :
Return tickets for railways and the like the said tickets being constructed
substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described with reference to the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 28th day of November 1894.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.