Improvements in the Manufacture of Envelopes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 29th Sept., 1893-Accepted, 4th Nov., 1893
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Envelopes.
I, FREDERIC MADELEY MOLE, of 36 Cannon Street, in the City of Birmingham,
Printer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention has reference to the manner in which I construct and arrange
an envelope for use in sending invoices and printed matter at the cheapest rate
through the post with the enclosure securely retained therein while providing
convenient means for its closing and its examination without tearing or damaging
the envelope.
In carrying my invention into effect I construct my improved envelope of paper
or other suitable material and I provide it with one flap to gum down or close over
on to the others in the usual well known manner.
The lower or bottom portion or flap of the envelope I make with a long lip or
ear which projects within and preferably above the joining or meeting surfaces of
the side or end flaps for the purpose of enabling the person making the enclosure
to pass it securely behind this ear into the envelope. This long edge or bottom
surface flap I leave ungummed and I pass it under and within the two secured or
fixed side or end flaps. The upper flap or ordinary folding flap of the envelope I
gum in the usual manner and I fasten it down on to the meeting surface of
the side flaps so that the enclosure placed within the envelope is held by the
closed down top and ends and by the loose or free tucked in bottom flap. To
remove the enclosure I withdraw the bottom loose or free flap from the folded over
ends and top.
I make the end flaps with their meeting surfaces broad enough preferably to
prevent the upper gummed flap from being attached or fastened to the lower or
bottom flap.
I make my improved envelope of linen backed paper or ordinary paper, and. I
modify the shape to suit any particular requirement. The loose or tucked in
opening flap may be arranged either as the top or bottom flap and I print any
directions that may be necessary or desirable upon the back of the envelope or upon
the opening flap.
Dated this 2nd day of December 1892.
MARKS & CLERK,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Envelopes.
I, FREDERIC MADELEY MOLE, of 36 Cannon Street, in the City of Birmingham,
Printer, 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 :-
This invention has reference to the manner in which I construct and arrange
an envelope for use in sending invoices and printed matter at the cheapest rate
through the post with the enclosure securely retained therein while providing
convenient means for its closing and its examination without tearing or damaging
the envelope.
In the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings-
Figure 1 is a plan of my improved envelone with the two loose flaps open.

page_text: Figure 2 is a plan with one flap in position ready for receiving the enclosure,
and
Figure 3 is a plan of the same envelope with its gummed flap fastened after the
enclosure has been placed within it.
In carrying my invention into effect I construct my improved envelope of paper
or other suitable material as shown in Figure 1, and I provide it with one flap A to
gum down or close over on to the others B and C in the usual well known manner.
The lower or bottom portion or flap D of the envelope I make with a long lip or
ear which projects within and preferably above the joining or meeting surfaces of
the side or end flaps as shown at d (Figure 2), for the purpose of enabling the
person making the enclosure to pass it securely behind this ear into the envelope.
This long edge or bottom surface flap D I leave ungummed, and I pass it under
and within the two secured or fixed side or end flaps B C. The upper flap or
ordinary folding flap of the envelope I gum at a in the usual manner, and I fasten
it down on to the meeting surface of the side flaps B C so that the enclosure placed
within the envelope is held by the closed down top A and ends B C and by the
loose or free tucked in bottom flap D as shown at Figure 3.
To remove the enclosure I withdraw the bottom loose or free flap D from the
folded over ends and top.
I make the side or end flaps B and C with their meeting surfaces bc broad
enough to prevent the upper gummed flap A from being attached or fastened to the
lower or bottom flap, as shown at Figure 3.
T
ordinary paper, and I
T'he loose or tucked in
I make my improved envelope of linen back
modify the shape to suit any particular reuo
opening flap may be arranged either as the form flap, and I print any
directions that may be necessary or desirable
of the envelope or upon
the opening flap.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The construction of envelopes in which the side or end flaps are secured together,
and having a loose bottom and a loose top flap, one gummed for the purpose of
adhering to the two side flaps after the introduction of the enclosure and the other
ungummed, substantially as and for the purposes herein before described and as
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 28th day of September 1893.
MARKS & CLERK,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.