An Improved Envelope to be used for Containing Boot Protectors, Silver Change, and other Metallic or like Articles.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Dec., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 30th Aug., 1892-Accepted, 29th Oct., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Envelope to be used for Containing Boot Protectors,
Silver Change, and other Metallic or like Articles.
I, JOHN BLAKEY, of Lady Lane, Leeds, in the County of York, Boot
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In
My invention consists in making a new or improved envelope specially adapted
for containing boot protectors, silver change, and other coins or heavy articles.
manufacturing envelopes according to my invention, I use stout or strong paper cut
to the proper size and shape, the edges of which are sewn, and to expedite the
manufacture thereof, two needles parallel to one another are employed in one
sewing machine. The overlapping flap is glued for closing the envelope. If
required, the paper of which the envelope is to be composed has the advertizing
matter printed upon it previous to being cut into the required size and shape.
Envelopes made in the manner above described will be found very serviceable for
containing metallic articles.
Dated this 30th day of November 1891.
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Envelope to be used for Containing Boot Protectors,
Silver Change, and other Metallic or like Articles.
I, JOHN BLAKEY, of Lady Lane, Leeds, in the County of York, Boot
Manufacturer, 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:-
My invention consists in making a new or improved envelope specially adapted
for containing boot protectors, silver change, and other coins or heavy articles.
In manufacturing envelopes according to my invention, I use stout or strong
paper or paper and woven fabric, cut to the proper size and shape, the edges of
which are sewn together, and to expedite the manufacture thereof, two needles
parallel to one another are employed in one sewing machine; or two sewing
machines are employed with their needles opposite each other so as to sew parallel
lines, and these sewing machines so arranged, may be placed in beds or dovetail
grooves to permit of their being brought nearer together or further apart to suit
envelopes of various sizes.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings illustrates one of my improved envelopes A.
stitched together as shewn at a. A sewing machine having two needles B may be
employed, the mechanism for driving same being of ordinary and well known
construction. C represents the sewing machine table the envelope A upon it. If
the envelope is made with an overlapping flap it may be glued for closing the
envelope. If required, the paper or other material of which the envelope is to be
composed has the advertizing matter pointed upon it previous to being cut into the
required size and shape. Envelopes made in the manner above described will be
found very serviceable for containing metallic articles.

page_text: 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 manufacture of paper envelopes having their edges sewn together by one or
two rows of stitching as herein described.
Dated this 29th day of August 1892. ·
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Agents.