IMPROVEMENTS IN ENVELOPES OR BAGS TO HOLD GRAIN OR SIMILAR SUBSTANCES FOR TRANSMISSION BY POST OR AS PARCELS
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Godfrey Joachim Aman, of Liverpool, in the County
of Lancaster, Merchant,for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN ENVELOPES
OR BAGS TO HOLD GRAIN OR SIMILAR SUBSTANCES FOR TRANSMISSION BY POST
OR AS PARCELS."
Sealed the 7th August 1862, and dated the 12th February 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Godfrey Joachim Aman,
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
12th February 1862.
I, GODFREY JOACHIM AMAN, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN ENVELOPES OR BAGS TO HOLD GRAIN OR SIMILAR SUBSTANCES FOR TRANS-
MISSION BY POST OR AS PARCELS," to be as follows:-
The envelopes or bags are intended to hold grain or similar substances,s'>
as to allow the same to be seen at the post office or parcel office without
opening the envelopes or bags, and to allow the envelopes or bags, or
appendages thereto to be stamped without injuring the contents.
For this
purpose part of each envelope or bag to contain the grain or similar substance
is made of transparent paper, calico, or similar substance, and another part is
flattened, so as to provide a suitable surface on which the address is written
and the stamp placed. Or, instead of the last-mentioned part, the address and
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page_text: stamp may be carried on a label to be attached by string and eyelets, or by
insertion into the mouth of the bag, which is then tied with string or by any
other convenient plan which allows the bag to be separated from the label.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Godfrey Joachim Aman in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 11th August 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GODFREY
JOACHIM AMAN, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of Her reign,did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Godfrey
Joachim Aman, Her special licence, that I, the said Godfrey Joachim Aman,
my executors, administrators, and assigns,, or such others as I,the said Godfrey
Joachim Aman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
ENVELOPES OR BAGS TO HOLD GRAIN OR SIMILAR SUBSTANCES FOR TRANSMISSION BY
POST OR AS PARCELS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Godfrey Joachim Aman, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under 'my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be
filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Godfrey Joachim Aman, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement (that is to say) :--
This, my said Invention, has for its object the means of transmitting through
the post office or parcel offices small parcels of, say grain or other dry sub-
stances, such as mercantile samples and so forth, by enclosing the same in
transparent envelopes, bags, or wrappers madefrom tracing paper, tracingcloth,

page_text: book muslin, gauze, bobbin-net, or any other suitable and sufficientlyt rans-
parent substance thatwill admit of the contents of the parcels beingascertained
by seeing them through their enclosure.
These, my improved envelopes or bags intended to hold grain or similar
substances, so as to allow the same to be seen at the post office or parcel
offices without opening the envelopes or bags, and to allow the envelopes or
bags, or appendages thereto to be stamped without injuring the contents. For
that purpose I make part of each envelope or bag to contain the grain, or
similar substance of transparent calico, or similar substance, and another part
I flatten, so as to provide a suitable surface on which the address is written
and the stamp placed, so as to allow the obliteration of the postage stamps
and the impressing of the post mark thereon by the post office officials, without
fear of injury to the sample or other contents of the packet. Or, instead of
the last-mentioned part, the address and stamp maybe carried on a label to be
attached by string and eyelets, or by insertion into the mouth of the bag, which
is then tied with string, or by any other convenient plan which allows the bag
to be separated from the label.
That this, my said Invention, may be the more readily seen and understood, I
have hereunto annexed Drawing of several plans of my improved envelope or
bag,all of which (except Figure 3) are shown open and empty. Like letters
marked thereon are used to denote similar parts.
Figure 1 is a transparent envelope, having an address label attached thereto
by two metal fastenings.
Figure 2 is a transparent envelope, with label for address and postage
stamps tied thereto by a small cord passing through a metal eyelet-hole in the
label, and an eyelet in the upper right-hand corner of the envelope.
Figure 3 is a transparent sample bag, with a label for the direction and
postage stamps attached to the bottom thereof.
Figure 4 is a transparent envelope divided into three pockets, and which
may be used to contain three distinct samples. This modification has also a
label for carrying the address and postage stamps.
Figure 5 is another modification of one of my improved envelopes, the left-
hand half of which consists of the transparent pocket, and the other half of
which is pasted together to form a surface to receive the address, postage
stamps, and so forth.
Figure 6 is another modification, the lower half of which forms the trans-
parent pocket, and the upper half is used to write the address upon, to carry
the postage stamps, and to receive the impress of the post mark.
Figure 7 is another modification, formed with four distinct pockets,

page_text: Figure 8 is also another modification of one of my improved transparent
postal envelopes formed with a circular pocket.
And Figure 9 is another modification of one of my improved transparent
postal envelopes, with a triangular pocket. A is the transparent bag of the
envelope; B is the lap or tuck of the envelope, which can be gummed or
otherwise fastened down for enclosing the sample or other contents of the bag
or envelope.
Having now fully described and ascertained the nature of mysaid Invention,
and how I believe the same may be best carried into practical effect, I wish
it to be understood that I do not confine myself to the precise details herein-
before described, as it will be readily seen that the same may be considerably
varied without departing from the Invention; but what I do claim is the con-
struction and use of transparent pocketed envelopes or bags for holding grain,
or other articles, that the contents can be seen without opening, in combination
with labels or flat surfaces to receive the address and postage stamps, so that
the stamps can be obliterated and the post mark impressed thereon without
injury to the contents of the transparent pockets, substantially and in the
manner herein before described and set forth, or any mere modification of
the same.
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In witness whereof, I, the said Godfrey Joachim Aman, have hereunto
set my hand and affixed my seal, this Ninth day of August, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
GODFREY JOACHIM (L.S.) AMAN.
Witness,
WILLIAM WALKER,
41, Castle Street,
Liverpool.