Improvements in the Method of and Means for Storing and Delivering Postcards in connection with Coin Operating or Automatic Delivery Machines.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Oct., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 27th Aug., 1895-Accepted, 5th Oct., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of and Means for Storing and
Delivering Postcards in connection with Coin Operating or
Automatic Delivery Machines.
We, THE STAMP DISTRIBUTION (PARENT) COMPANY LIMITED, Manufacturers
and Proprietors of Stamp Distributing Machines of 143* Holborn in the County
of London and JOSEPH FRAZER of 22 Croxted Road, West Dulwich, in the
County of Surrey, Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
The invention relates to improvements in the method of and means for storing
and delivering postcards in connection with coin operating or automatic delivery
machines.
Many attempts have been made to profitably deliver postcards by means of
automatic machines but they have failed from various causes the principal one
being that in order to make a reasonable profit out of the trausaction it was necessary
to charge a prohibitive price for the postcards.
Now the object of the present invention is to issue postcards in such manner that
they may be charged for at the ordinary rate or thereabout, whilst nevertheless a
considerable profit can be made upon the transaction.
In carrying the invention into effect, a note book is employed of a suitable
thickness and of about the area of an ordinary postcard so as to form a flat package
of convenient shape for delivery by an automatic machine and with the leaves
of the note book are bound up two post cards which are perforated at their inner
edges or back so that they may be readily torn out for use, the two cards being
preferably formed in one piece perforated in the centre.
Some of the leaves of the note or memorandum book are utilized for advertise-
ments and if desired the post cards may be also partly covered with advertisements
whilst some of the pages are left plain for the reception of memoranda so that the
book may be retained for that purpose and the user will always have at hand a
couple of postcards ready for use.
Or a person wishing to send a note or message through the post can write
a message on one of the postcards, tear it from the book and post it in the
ordinary way.
The postcards which are formed of cardboard materially assist to stiffen the
package and thus facilitate its safe delivery by the machine whilst at the same
time, the postcards are protected by the cover of the book from injury or
discolouration.
By these means the income from the advertisements within the note book may
be caused to furnish a handsome profit whilst the postcards together with the
memorandum book may he sold at the ordinary price of the postcards.
If desired the postcards may be issued unstamped and the stamps may be enclosed
separately in the book.
Dated the 27th day of October 1894.
WHITE & WOODINGTON,
27 Southampton Buildings, London, Agents.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of and Means for Storing and
Delivering Postcards in connection with Coin Operating or
Automatic Delivery Machines.
We, THE STAMP DISTRIBUTION (PARENT) COMPANY LIMITED, Manufacturers
and Proprietors of Stamp Distributing Machines, of 1434 Holborn in the County
of London and JOSEPH FRAZER of 22 Croxted Road, West Dulwich in the
County of Surrey, Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be perfornied, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The invention relates to improvements in the method of and means for storing
and delivering postcards in connection with coin operating or automatic delivery
machines.
Many attempts have been made to profitably deliver postcards by means of
automatic machines but they have failed from various causes the principal one being
that in order to make a reasonable profit out of the transaction it was necessary to
charge a prohibitive price for the postcards.
Now the object of the present invention is to issue postcards in such manner that
they may be charged for at the ordinary rate or thereabout, whilst nevertheless a
considerable profit can be made upon the transaction.
In carrying the invention into effect, a note book is employed of a suitable
thickness and of about the area of an ordinary postcard so as to form a flat package
of convenient shape for delivery by an automatic machine and with the leaves of the
note book are bound up two postcards which are perforated at their inner edges so
that they may be readily toru out for use the two cards being preferably formed in
one piece perforated in the centre.
Sone of the leaves of the note or memorandum book are utilized for advertise-
ments and if desired the postcards may be also partly covered with advertisements
whilst some of the pages of the book are left plain for the reception of memoranda
so that the book may be retained for that purpose and the user will always have at
band a couple of postcards ready for an emergency. Thus a person wishing to
send a note or message through the post can write a memorandum on one of the
postcards, tear it from the book and post it in the ordinary way.
The postcards which are formed of cardboard materially assist to stiffen the
package and thus facilitate its safe delivery by the machine whilst at the same
time the postcards are protected by the cover of the book from injury or
discolouration.
If desired the postcards may be issued unstamped and the stamps may be enclosed
separately in the book.
And in order that the said invention may be more clearly understood and readily
carried into effect, we will proceed aided by the accompanying drawings more fully
to describe the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a side view of a note book embodying the present invention.
Figure 2 is an edge view thereof.
Figure 3 is a perspective view showing the book open and displaying the side of
the postcards intended for the reception of memoranda.
Figure 4 is a view of the postcards separately but showing the reverse or address
side thereof.
Figure 5 is a similar view to Figure 4, but representing a slight modification.
In the several figures like parts are indicated by similar letters of reference.
.Referring to Figures 1 to 4 a represents the cover of the note or memorandum
book and b represents the postcards.

page_text: The note book a is formed of a suitable thickness and of about the area of an
ordinary postcard so as to form a flat package of convenient shape for delivery by
an automatic machine as shown more particularly at Figure 2.
With the memorandum leaves a' of the note book a are bound up two postcards b
which are perforated at their inner edges so that they may be readily torn out
for use, and in the preferred form as represented at Figures 3 and 4, the two cards b
are formed in one piece perforated in the centre by a row of perforations 6.
Some of the leaves a' of the note or memorandum book are utilized for advertise-
ments as shown by the leaf a* in Figure 3, and if desired the postcards as
represented at Figure 3 are also partly covered with advertisements whilst some
of the pages of the book such as a' are left plain for the reception of memoranda
so that the book may be retained for that purpose, and the user will always have
at hand a couple of postcards ready for an emergency.
Thus a person wishing to send a note or message through the post can write a
memorandum on one of the postcards b, tear it from the book and post it in the
ordinary way.
The postcards which are formed of cardboard materially assist to stiffen the
package and thus facilitate its safe delivery by the machine, whilst at the same
time the postcards are protected by the cover a of the book from injury or
discolouration.
In the example herein before given the postcards have a postage stamp printed
thereon, but in the example given at Figure 5 two plain cards are employed which
are designed to have affixed thereto the ordinary adhesive postage stamps which
may be enclosed in the book or package.
In this example also in lieu of a single central row of perforations 6' separating
the cards b, two rows of such perforations are employed arranged at a short
distance from the centre or dividing line and the postcards bare bound up with
the leaves of the book a by stitching or otherwise fastening through the plain
part 6, but the former is the preferred arrangement.
By the means hereinbefore described the income from the advertisements within
the note book may be caused to furnish a handsome profit, whilst the postcards b
together with the memorandum book a may be sold at the ordinary price of the
postcards.
In placing the books or packages in an automatic delivery machine they are
superposed one upon the other in the form of a column and forced out one at a
time by means of a pusher as is well known in connection with machines of this
class.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
;-
1. The method of storing and delivering postcards in connection with coin operating
or automatic delivery machines consisting in combining the postcards with a note
book upon some of the leaves of which are displayed advertisements substantially
as herein shown and described.
2. The means of storing and delivering postcards in connection with coin operating
or automatic delivery machines consisting in binding the cards together with the
leaves of a note book upon some of the leaves of which are displayed advertise-
ments and perforating the same along one edge substantially as herein shown and
described.
Dated this 26th day of August 1895.
WHITE & WOODINGTON,
27 Southampton Buildings, Loudon, Agents.