Improvements in or relating to Railway and Insurance Tickets and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 1st June, 1896-Accepted, 4th July, 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Railway and Insurance Tickets and
the like.
I, GEORGE HENRY BENNETT DALMAN of Folkvang, Cheshunt, in the County
of Herts, Merchant, 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 telates to tickets and the like, its object being the production of
a railway, steamboat, omnibus, tramway, theatre or other ticket or the like,
hereinafter termed a "voucher," comprising, containing or having attached thereto
a policy of insurance so that the two are issued in a single operation from an
ordinary ticket-rack or other holder. The policy of insurance may be printed or
otherwise placed on a railway ticket of pasteboard or the like, or may be arranged
as illustrated in the accompanying drawing, which illustrates in perspective one
form of improved voucher and insurance ticket according to this invention. In
this drawing, A is a wallet or envelope, preferably of paper and externally
resembling say an ordinary railway-ticket, but differing therefrom in having space
between its walls to receive as in an envelope an insurance policy B.
The wallet or envelope A may be made of any suitable material, such for
instance as fine paper strengthened with a textile fabric; it may have a closing-
flap A such as is indicated by dotted lines in the drawing, and this flap may be
gummed or may be adapted to tuck within the envelope or engage in a slit in one
of the walls thereof, to keep the policy B in place; the latter may be a card or
ticket or may be as in the example illustrated, a folded sheet fitting the space in
the wallet with sufficient tightness to prevent it from accidentally coming out, or it
may be held in place by gum or otherwise. It is advantageous to have, as a part
of the device, a map of the district in or for which the ticket is issued. For
instance, if a ticket is taken for a journey from London to Dover, the route is
shown on the map together with other useful information such as the principal
stations having telegraph offices and refreshment rooms. The map may con-
veniently be painted on the back of the insurance policy, and the remaining spaces
may be filled up with advertisements. This invention is not limited to the
particular classes of ticket or voucher hereinbefore mentioned by way of example,
for it is applicable with equal advantage to a ticket or voucher issued for any
place or purpose.
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;-
1. The combination with a railway ticket of an insurance policy.
2. The combination with a voucher in the form of a wallet or envelope such as A
of an insurance policy substantially as described.
3. The combination with a voucher in the form of a wallet or envelope such as A
of an insurance policy and a map substantially as described.
Dated this 1st day of June 1896.
GEORGE H. B. DALMAN.
Boult & Wade,
Agents for the Applicant.