A New or Improved Envelope or Combined Envelope and Letter Sheet.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Apr., 1888.
Complete Specification Left, 20th Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 23rd Feb., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Envelope or Combined Envelope and Letter
Sheet.
We, JOHN ELPHICK LEYLAND, of Walham Grove, Fulham, in the County of
Middlesex, Actuary, and THE NATIONAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION; Limited, of
Waruford Court, Throgmorton Street, in the City of London do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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The object of this present invention is to provide an envelope or wrapper which
may be employed both for enclosing a letter, circular, prospectus, or other matter
intended to be sent through the post and also as a means of advertizing and which
will obviate certain objections which have prevented or hindered the employment of
envelopes for similar purposes heretofore.
The envelope or wrapper forming the subject of the present invention may be
made of paper or other suitable material, and when opened out is of an oblong or
square form with a gummed flap of an acute angular shape projecting from the top
and preferably somewhat out of the centre of the said oblong. An angular or
wedge shaped recess or notch is cut out from about the centre of each side of the
oblong, the apex of each of such angular recesses or notches being more or less in
line with the ends of the base of the angular gummed flap. Four folds are made in
the paper, namely one at the base of the angular gummed flap, and one at each end
thereof and at right angles therewith across the oblong, and one from apex to apex
of the two beforementioned angular recesses or notches. In using this envelope or
wrapper the right and left hand lower flaps are first folded inwards on the central
lower portion of the oblong which is then folded over on to the upper central portion;
the side flaps of this latter portion are then folded inwards (preferably the right
flap over the left) over the previously folded lower part (but by reason of their
angular shape not completely covering the same) and finally the angular gummed
flap is folded down over these last mentioned side flaps and is secured by its gummed
edge thereto and also to the exposed part of the paper underneath.

page_text: Advertisements or other matter may be printed on the whole of the surfaces of
the envelope except the space reserved for the address, starpp. &c., the letter or other
communication being written on a second sheet of, paper enclosed in the envelope,
or a space may be reserved for a letter on a portion of the interior surface. Further
flaps for a letter or advertisement may be provided, if desired, in addition to those
forming the envelope as above described.
Envelopes or wrappers made in accordance with this invention render their
contents as secure as in envelopes of the ordinary construction; the postage stamp,
if desired, can be easily embossed by reason of the flap at one side being sufficiently
short for introduction into the Government stamping press; and the ends are
completely closed in so as to prevent other letters or cards being accidentally
inserted and thus wrongly delivered or lost.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Envelope or Combined Envelope and Letter
Sheet.
We, JOHN ELPHICK LEYLAND, of Walham Green, Fulham, in the County of
Middlesex, Actuary, and THE NATIONAL FINANOIAL CORPORATION Limited, of
Warnford Court, Throgmorton Street, in the City of London do hereby declare the
nature of the said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference
being had to the accompanying sheet of Drawings, and to the letters and figures
marked thereon, that is to say :-
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The object of this invention is to provide an envelope or wrapper which may be
employed both for enclosing a letter, circular, prospectus, or any printed matter on
parchment, paper or any other material, or in fact any matter intended to be sent
through the post, and also as a means of advertizing, and which will obviate certain
objections raised by Her Majesty's Postal and Stamping Authorities, which objections
have prevented or hindered the employment of such envelopes for similar purposes
heretofore.
The envelope or wrapper formning the subject of this invention may be made of
paper or other suitable material, and when opened out is of the form shown in
Figures 1 and 2 of the Drawings, in which Figure 1 represents the side of the sheet
of paper or other material intended to be folded inwards, while Figure 2 represents
the other side of the said sheet. Figures 3 and 4 represent respectively the back
and front of the envelope when folded. The sheet is formed with a gummed flap A,
of an angular shape, projecting from the top edge of the sheet and preferably
somewhat to one side of the centre thereof. An angular or wedge shaped recess or
notch
is cut out from each vertical side of the sheet, the apex of each of such
angular recesses or notches being more or less in line with the ends A¹ of the base
of the angular gummed flap A. Four folds are made in the' paper, namely one at
the base of the angular gummed flap A on the line A' A', two at right angles to the
irst across the paper namely on the lines A B A³, and one from apex to apex of
he two beforementioned angular recesses or notches B, that is to say on the line B'B'.
n using this envelope or wrapper, the right and left hand lower flaps CD are
irst folded inwards on the lines B' A' on the central lower portion E of the paper, .
which portion E, together with the flaps CD folded on to it, is then folded over on
he line B B on to the upper central portion F; the upper side flaps G, H of this
atter portion are then folded inwards (preferably the longer flap H under the left
nd shorter flap G) on the lines A'B' over the previously folded lower parts E, C, D ;
ut by reason of the angular shape of the lower edges of the flaps G H, they do not
ompletely cover the said lower parts as shown in Figure 3; and finally the angular
ammed flap A is folded down on the line A¹ A over the last mentioned side
ps GH and is secured by its gummed edges I thereto and also to the exposed
rt E' of the reverse side of the part E underneath as also shown in Figure 3.

page_text: Advertisements or other matter may be printed on the whole of the surface of
the envelope except the 'space reserved for the address, stamp, and so forth; the
letter or other communication being written on a second sheet of paper enclosed in
the envelope, or a space may be reserved for a letter on a portion of the interior
surface. Further, one or more other flaps for a letter or additional advertisements
may be provided, if desired, in addition to those forming the envelope above
described. The advertisements on the inside and outside of the sheet may be
arranged in a variety of ways according to their sizes and number and other
circumstances. One arrangement is shown by the quadrilateral figures formed by
the various dotted lines drawn on the two sides of the sheet as shown in Figures 1
and 2; each quadrilateral figure being intended to have an advertisment printed
in it.
The Drawings represent a sheet of paper shaped, proportioned, folded and gummed
for the production of an envelope of ordinary commercial size, but it is obvious that
the sheet of paper may be shaped, proportioned, folded and gummed for the pro-
duction of a foolscap envelope or of an envelope of any other required shape or size
without departing from the nature of our invention.
Envelopes or wrappers made in accordance with this invention successfully obviate
all the objections hitherto made by Her Majesty's Postal and Stamping Authorities,
to envelopes or wrappers of this character; their contents are rendered as secure as
in envelopes or wrappers of the ordinary construction, and the postage stamp can be
easily embossed by reason of the flap G at one side being sufficiently short to admit
of the introduction of the sheet of paper into the Government stamping press to
enable the said postage stamp to be embosed in such a position on the sheet of paper
that it will appear in its proper position at the right hand corner of the front of the
envelope when the latter is folded, as shown in Figure 4. In this envelope also
the ends are completely closed in by the flaps G H so as to prevent other letters or
cards from being accidentally inserted and thus wrongly delivered or lost.
Having now particularly described and ascertained. the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
First The new or improved envelope or wrapper having advertisements printed
thereon and shaped folded and fastened substantially as herein before described, and
illustrated in the Drawings hereto annexed.
Second In the construction of envelopes or wrappers having advertisements
printed thereon the use of a sheet of paper or other suitable material shaped as
hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 of the Drawings hereto
annexed.