An Improved Postal Wrapper or Letter Card.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Nov., 1899-Accepted, 6th Jan., 1900
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Postal Wrapper or Letter Card.
I, HUGO MOSER, of 19, Johannesstrasse, Stuttgart, in the Empire of Germany,
Printer and Book Seller, 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:
This invention has for its object a postal wrapper or letter card provided with
a tongue-and-slit fastening and described on the outside as book post or letter
card, one outer side of which wrapper is intended for the address, whilst the
back or fastening side contains a view or advertisement of any desired business,
Within the
such for instance as an inn, bathing resort, town or the like.
wrapper there are fastened a suitable number of sheets which are provided for
advertisement purposes with illustrations, inscriptions, recommendations and the
like, the reverse sides of those on which respectively the address and fastening
are placed, may also be employed for like purposes.
For instance such a wrapper with a tongue-and-slit fastener is shown in the
accompanying drawings, Figure 1 being an elevation of the address side and
Figure 2, of the back or fastener side. Figures 3 and 4 show the wrapper
opened, the attached leaves being shown on the right hand side of the wrapper
in Figure 3, and on the left hand side in Figure 4. The shaded portions in
Figure 3 are gummed, by means of which the wrapper or envelope when employed
as a letter card may be closed. The wrapper consists of four or even more
coherent parts folded on the lines of connection; namely, a closing flap c with a
tongue or insertion piece c³, two centre pieces a and b and an end piece d, which
latter before the envelope or wrapper is closed, is bent down over the part b and
serves, after being folded together, in conjunction with the part 6 lying over it,
to form a larger connected surface, for instance for the illustrations, recommenda-
tions or advertisements of inns or the like.
In the part b, a slit e is formed, in which the tongue or insertion flap is
inserted and in order that the e may be easily opened when inserting the flap c
a small excrescence is impressed in the part at the side of the slit and lying
parallel thereto, so that the part of the fastener side under which the flap after
the fastening comes to lie, always stands somewhat higher. The insertion
fastened in any suitable manner along the fold of a and b in the wrapper.
is
The gummed parts a¹, b¹ and c¹ of the wrapper, which project at the top and
bottom of the same are separated from the parts a, b and c by perforation and
are gummed together when the article is used as a letter card in the ordinary
manner, so that the letter card may be opened by tearing off the gummed part
along the perforations.
The wrapper or letter card hereinbefore described is particularly suitable for
advertising or recommending hotels, baths, health resorts, towns and the like,
as the postage, more particularly by book post, is extremely cheap and therefore
a large distribution can be effected very cheaply. They may also be employed
by collectors wholly or partially for forming collections of views.

page_text: 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-
A postal wrapper or letter card with a tongue-and-slit fastening and an inser-
tion of circulars or advertisements of baths, health resorts, towns, hotels and the
like, consisting of an end flap provided with a tongue which is connected with
two centre parts and an end part one of the centre parts having a
slit and at the sides of the same an impressed excrescence to allow
of the envelope being more easily closed, and the centre parts of the
wrapper projecting somewhat at each end, so that these parts which are provided
with gum may be stuck down on the wrapper in such a way as to be capable
of being torn off by means of perforations, so that the envelope or wrapper may
be sent by book post when the ends are not stuck down, or as a closed letter
card when the ends are stuck down, substantially as herein before described.
Dated this 15th day of November 1899.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.