An Improvement in or relating to Letter Sheets, Wrappers, and the like, Applicable also to Newspapers and the like.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Oct., 1889
Complete. Specification Left, 26th July, 1890-Accepted. 27th Sept., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in or relating to Letter Sheets, Wrappers, and the
like, Applicable also to Newspapers and the like.
1 HELEN FLORA CAMPBELL Ivy Cottage Kenley S.O. Surrey Spinster do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The single slip of paper or cardboard has a perforated margin, gummed outside the
perforation.
When closed, the slip forms an envelope, with the writing inside, closed from view,
and is opened by tearing off the gummed margin.
To be made in various sizes, and of varying stoutness, embossed for posting, or
plain.
Also for all other purposes, with or without gum or other fastening, to which a
tearable perforated margin can be applied e.g. newspapers, magazines, etc.
The fold of the paper dividing each page being perforated in the margin so as to
enable the reader to tear off the edge when in a railway carriage or other conveyance
without being obliged as at present to open the same under considerable difficulty and
inconvenience.
Dated this 28th day of October 1889.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in or relating to Letter Sheets, Wrappers, and the
like, Applicable also to Newspapers and the like.
I, HELEN FLORA CAMPBELL, of Ivy Cottage, Kenley, in the County of Surrey,
Spinster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and the manner in which
it is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:―
My invention relates to letter sheets, wrappers and the like and is applicable in
part to newspapers and the like, and consists in the application of perforations to the
edges of letter sheets, wrappers newspapers and the like where it may be desirable to
mutually attach the said edges for closing the said sheets or where such edges may
have been folded without cutting as in newspapers-such perforations permitting the
easy tearing away of the said attached and perforated margins, to open the said closed
letter sheets, wrappers, or newspapers.
In order that my invention may be the better understood I now proceed to describe
the same in reference to the drawings hereto annexed and to the figures and letters
marked thereon.
Figure 1 represents a single sheet with both ends A and B perforated, one strip A
being gummed for fastening down the sides being open to go by post for d. stamp as
a circular.
Figure 2 represents a double sheet with part top edges A & B perforated. This
will post as a circular for d. and one edge A is gummed for closing down.
Figure 3 represents a single sheet perforated all round A and B for attachment
when folded both at the top and sides of the sheet, for private correspondence, half of
the perforated margin A A being gummed for attachment to the other part of the
margin.
Figure 4 represents a double sheet of private or business note paper perforated
hout the margin A B of one half the part A being gummed for closing when
olded.

page_text: Figure 5 represents private or business note with gummed flap C perforated for
easy tearing of the fold of the flap when closed.
Figure 6 represents private or business letter sheet with perforated reply sheet D
the latter being gummed on margins A and perforated on margins A & B to form
independent closed note as per Figure 3.
Figure 7 represents top of folded newspaper sheet E perforated for ready tearing
away.
In the above examples it may be observed that in Figures 1 to 4 there is no folding
over of any flap. The perforated edge is gummed internally over one half its
surface and when the paper is folded onto itself, the gummed edge is wetted and
attaches itself to the remaining portion of the perforated edge, which portions are
afterwards torn off together to open the letter.
In Figure 5 where a flap C is used, the perforations are carried along both sides of
the bend of the flap to allow this perforated margin to be readily torn away to open
the letter when closed.
It will be also noted that, except in the cases of Figures 1 & 2, which are left open
at the sides to come under the d. rate of postage, all the other examples have their
contents entirely closed from public view.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declaro that what I
claim is
1st. The application of perforations to the margins of letter sheets, wraps, or folded
edges of newspapers to enable the said margins when attached to one another to be
readily torn off, to open the said sheet or paper, substantially as described.
2nd. The form and arrangement of single and double sheets of paper with perforated
margins, gummed in part, substantially as described in relation in relation to
Figures 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5.
3rd. A sheet of letter paper perforated as to the margin in combination with an
attached reply sheet of smaller Lize than the former sheet so as to be enclosed therein
and perforated at the folded joint and also as to its entire margin and suitably gummed
to form a closed reply sheet when detached as per Figure 3 substantially as described
in relation to Figure 6.
4th. A newspaper perforated as to its folded and uncut edges with a line of
perforations through each side so as to admit of the ready tearing away of the said
margin substantially as described in relation to Figure 7.
Dated this 26th day of July 1890.
FELL & WILDING,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.