IMPROVEMENTS IN FA
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Greene Arnold, of Worcester, Massachusetts,
in the United States of America; for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
FAD L
Sealed the 27th May 1859, and dated the 6th December 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Greene Arnold' at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
6th December 1858.
I, JAMES GREENE ARNOLD, of Worcester, Massachusetts, in the United
States of America, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN ENVELOPES FOR LETTERS, AND SIMILAR PURPOSES," to be as
follows:-
It consists in forming the piece composing the envelope from a continuous
sheet or roll so as to leave the end of the sheet, which is made a little wider
than the proposed length of the envelope, in such a shape that the next piece
shall be in turn cut off without any or but little waste of material. The piece
is then folded double, leaving a lappet or tongue projecting like those of other
envelopes, and the side edges having been previously folded down inside,
thereby reducing the envelope to the desired width, are pasted together,

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Greene Arnold in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
31st May 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
GREENE ARNOLD, of Worcester, Massachusetts, in the United States of
America, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty. Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said James Greene Arnold, Her special licence that I, the said James Greene
Arnold, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
James Greene Arnold, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the. Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
ENVELOPES FOR LETTERS AND SIMILAR PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said James Greene Arnold, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be
filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent..
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Greene Arnold, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :----
The object and nature of the improvements is to economize the use of paper
in the construction of letter and other envelopes, to make the back of the same
free from folds, rendering it suitable for printing, and at the same time to
make a neat and marketable article, and consists, first, in forming the piece
composing the envelope from the sheet, or continuous sheet or roll, so as to
leave the end of the sheet, which is made wider than the proposed length of
the envelope, in a shape such that the next piece shall be in turn cut off
without any or but little waste of material. And, second, in making the
adhering parts closing the sides or ends to consist of narrow folds that shall

page_text: come inside between the face and back when the envelope is folded, leaving
the back whole and smooth.
The construction is as follows:-A strip or sheet of paper a little wider
than the length of the envelope, as at Fig. 2, is separated as by the line
A, B, C, the end O having been left in the proper form by the previous cut.
The sides A, E, and C, F, are then folded, making the length of the envelope
as M, N, Fig. 1. The back P at the line G, H, is then folded or doubled, so
as to bring the narrow folds inside between the face and back, which are there
caused to adhere together. It only remains to fold the lap R at E, F, and
the envelope is made, as shewn in Fig. 1. The sheet left is in the right form
for another to be cut therefrom. Fig. 3 & 5 are variations of the form of
cut. Fig. 4 shews another modification made from the pattern represented by
Fig. 6, the points j & i being cut off, and then the folds made as before; or a
part of each side may be cut off, leaving from F to H' and E' to G¹, to which
the paste is applied, and the back P¹ folded on to them. This last plan makes
a small per cent. of waste. In all, the back, whole and smooth, comes up
higher or nearer the lappet than in the usual forms in which the back shewing
several parts, does not present a smooth surface for printing.
It is not necessary to describe variations in parts and proportions, as I do
not limit myself to any particular form, as many suggest themselves under the
above-mentioned principles of construction. What, therefore, I do claim, is
making a uniform envelope by cutting, folding, and pasting the paper or
other material as above set forth, or any other substantially the same.
Also, cutting the envelope as described from a continuous sheet or roll, of
the form & pattern substantially as described, so as to make little or no
waste.
Also, making narrow folds at the ends or sides of the envelope for the
purposes mentioned above.
In witness whercof, I, the said James Greene Arnold, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, on this Twenty-second day of the Fourth Month,
in the year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
JAMES GREENE ARNOLD. (L.S.)