A New or Improved Envelope to be employed in connection with the Storage and Delivery of Postage Stamps in Coin Operating or Automatic Delivery Machines.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Apr., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 27th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 2nd Apr., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Envelope to be employed in connection with
the Storage and Delivery of Postage Stamps in Coin Operating
or Automatic Delivery Machines.
We,
ARTHUR HOLLINSHED of 12 Montague Place Russell Square Gentleman
and WALTER LANGDON of 11 Lordship Terrace Stoke Newington Accountant
both in the County of Middlesex do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
Our invention relates to a new or improved envelope to be employed in connection
with the storage and delivery of postage stamps in coin operating or automatic
delivery machines and has for its objects to seal the stamp within the envelope and
thus prevent its abstraction without breaking the envelope, to partially expose the
stamp in order that a purchaser may see at a glance that a stamp is contained
within the envelope and to enable the envelope to be employed for postal purposes
after it has been broken and the stamp removed.
For this purpose we attach the postage stamp to the cover of a note book as
heretofore proposed or to a card or other article to be placed within an envelope,
and we so arrange the stamp as regards its position that it will lie beneath the upper
flap of the envelope.
Now according to our invention we form one or more openings or perforations in
the flap of the envelope so as to partially expose the stamp and we are thus enabled
to seal the stamp within the envelope and yet enable a purchaser to ascertain before
breaking the envelope that the stamp is contained therein.
In order to enable the envelope to be employed for. postal purposes after it is
broken and the stamp removed we provide the lower part or tongue of the flap with
a gummed surface and we form a row of perforations across the flap above such
gummed surface to enable the envelope to be readily broken at that point whilst
above the row of perforations and in a suitable position or in suitable positions we
provide a second gummed surface or surfaces so that after the abstraction of the
stamp the note book or other article may have a message written therein and be
enclosed in the envelope and sealed and dispatched in the ordinary manner of a
letter.
Dated this 27th day of April 1801
WHITE & WOODINGTON,
27, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Envelope to be employed in connection with
the Storage and Delivery of Postage Stamps in Coin Operating
or Automatic Delivery Machines.
We, ARTHUR HOLLINSHED of 7, but formerly of 12 Montague Place, Russell
Square Gentleman, and WALTER LANGDON of 11 Lordship Terrace, Stoke
Newington Accountant, both in the County of Middlesex, 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 :—
Our invention relates to a new or improved envelope to be employed in connection
with the storage and delivery of postage stamps in coin operating or automatic
delivery machines and has for its objects to seal the stamp within the envelope and
thus prevent its abstraction without breaking the envelope, to partially expose the

page_text: provided other gummed surfaces 6* or only one gummed surface 6* might be
employed located immediately above the row of perforations 61** by means of
which the broken envelope may be again sealed.
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By these means after the envelope has been broken at the row of perforations 6*
and the note book card or the like c together with the postage stamp d removed
therefrom, the note book, card or the like e may have a message written therein or
thereon and be again inserted in the envelope a the flap of which may again be
sealed by means of the gummed surfaces 6* when the package may be addressed,
stamped, and despatched in the ordinary manner of a letter.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
:―
1. In an envelope one or more openings or perforations adapted to partially
expose a postage stamp placed within the envelope substantially as herein shown
and described and for the purpose stated.
2. In an envelope the combination of a flap divided by a row of perforations at its
lower part or tongue and gummed surfaces located both above and below such row
of perforations substantially as herein shown and described and for the purpose
stated.
3. In an envelope the combination of one or more openings or perforations
adapted to partially expose a postage stamp placed within the envelope, a flap
divided by a row of perforations at its lower part or tongue and gummed surfaces
located both above and below such row of perforations substantially as herein
shown and described and for the purpose stated.
Dated this 27th day of February 1892.
WHITE & WOODINGTON,
27, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents.