IMPROVEMENTS IN POSTAL SAMPLE BAGS AND ENVELOPES
Year: 1874

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Angelo Cipriano Baronio at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
15th December 1874.
I, ANGELO CIPRIANO BARONIO, of 19, Salisbury Street, Strand,
London, W.C., Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN POSTAL SAMPLE BAGS AND ENVELOPES," to bo
as follows:-
This Invention relates to improvements in the shaping, cutting out,
or forming and combining together the parts or portions of postal samplo
bags and envelopes intended to be used for various purposes, as con-
taining samples to be transmitted through the post under the sample
post regulations, or for containing other objects or articles that would be
injured or entirely destroyed by the act of stamping or by the obliteration
of the postage stamp or stamps in stamping by the use of the hand
stamp where such sample bags or envelopes bear the stamp upon the
body thereof in the ordinary way, and when either the contents are
injured, or the bag, envelope, or receptacle is liable to be burst or injured
by the impression of the hand stamp or the cancelling. The mode in
which I form such sample bags, envelopes, and such like receptacles for

page_text: transmitting objects liable to injury through the post is as follows:-I
take a sheet of thin, strong, or other suitable paper, or cloth, or of paper
lined with cloth (not a flexible or elastic or mouldable material as
vulcanized india-rubber, gutta percha, and such like), and cut it to the
width necessary for doubling over or folding and fastening it longi-
tudinally along one edge or in the middle of the width, and irrespective
of the form of and of the mode of closing the open end or mouth thereof,
for which any of the well-known forms or methods may be employed,
but I leave either a portion of the sheet representing the width of the
one undivided face of the envelope, or two portions, which together are
(when folded over) equal to the extreme width, though it may be
necessary to continue the gumming or seaming (in the case of paper)
along such portion, and this portion is longer than and will project
beyond the end of the envelope or bag when it is folded and completed
for use, and by the folding over of such projecting piece (when paper is
used), or seamed across when cloth is employed, the closed end is
formed. Upon the one side of this flap-like piece or continuation beyond
the closed end I intend that the name and address of the sender should
be printed or written, and that the postage stamp or stamps shall be
affixed, whilst upon the other side thereof may be printed or written the
name and address of the intended recipient of the sample bag, post
parcel, or letter and its contents.
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The postage stamp or stamps and the name and address of the sender
should be upon that face of the flap piece which, when it is folded over
upon the bag or envelope, would expose the name and address of the
person to whom it is sent, and a notification to the postal authorities
that the postage stamp or stamps will be found on the other face of the
flap, and which, when the flap is unfolded and made to project beyond
the closed end of the bag or envelope, exposes the stamps for cancellation
by the hand stamp without injury to the bag or envelope or to the
contents thereof.
For containing letters or matter subject to the letter rate of postage
the other end may be formed in the usual way and of any desired shape,
and be gummed or sealed or otherwise fastened and closed, but when
intended to be employed for containing samples, such as of grain, seeds,
and such like articles, that end or mouth must be capable of being closed
and fastened so as to admit of its being opened for the examination of
the contents, according to the postal regulations, and such mouth may

page_text: be formed in any suitable manner; and it is not intended by me that
any claim be made for any particular manner of forming or of closing
such mouth, or the opened end of such postal sample bag or envelope,
but only for the novel and peculiar form, arrangement of parts, and the
construction and combination of envelopes or bags as described for the
purposes set forth.