AN IMPROVED METHOD FOR PRODUCING FROM ONE PIECE OF WRITING PAPER A SHEET OF NOTE OR LETTER PAPER AND AN ENVELOPE TO ENCLOSE THE SAID SHEET OF PAPER, ALSO FOR OTHER IMPROVEMENTS CONNECTED THEREWITH
Year: 1867

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Nicolas Alfred Thoumelet
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and
Declaration, on the 22nd October 1867, pursuant to the 9th Section of
the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, "NICOLAS
ALFRED THOUMELET," of Margaret Cottage, Blenheim Grove, Peckham Rye,
in the County of Surrey, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "AN IMPROVED METHOD
FOR PRODUCING FROM ONE PIECE OF WRITING PAPER A SHEET OF NOTE OR LETTER
PAPER AND AN ENVELOPE TO ENCLOSE THE SAID SHEET OF PAPER, ALSO FOR OTHER
IMPROVEMENTS CONNECTED THEREWITH," and have petitioned Her Majesty to
grant unto me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters
Patent for the same, and have made solemn Declaration that I am the
true and first Inventor thereof.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said "Nicolas Alfred Thoumelet," do
hereby declare that the following Complete Specification, under my hand and
seal, fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, in and by the following statement: -

page_text: I, Nicolas Alfred Thoumelet, of Margaret Cottage, Blenheim Grove,
Peckham Rye, in the County of Surrey, Gentleman, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for improvements in envelopes, to be as
follows:-
I take a sheet of writing paper of any suitable or convenient size, and by
means of an ordinary apparatus used for cutting envelopes, or by the aid of
one made specially for the purpose, I cut the said sheet of writing paper
in such a manner that that portion of the paper forming the envelope and
that forming the sheet of paper to be written on consist of but one piece,
for example, if the sheet of writing paper be twenty-two inches from left to
right and ten inches from top to bottom I fold this sheet of writing paper
into two unequal parts so that the one (the upper) shall measure eight inches
from left to right and ten inches from top to bottom, the other (the lower) fourteen
inches from left to right and ten inches from top to bottom. That portion of the
lower part which projects beyond the upper part I shape or cut by the use
of the above-named apparatus into the form of an envelope (which I afterwards
gum and stamp in the usual way) of such a shape that when the sheet of
paper is properly folded that portion of the paper forming the envelope shall
as effectually cover or hide all the parts of the paper written or printed on as
if they were enclosed in an ordinary envelope. I cover with advertisements
or other printed matter the fourth or last page, with the exception of a small
space at the upper and right-hand corner, on which space I print the
following words and figures, or other words and figures having a similar
meaning. viz..
The blank spaces I or the receiver of the letter fill in with the writer's
name, address, and date of receipt of letter.
The following Drawings will more particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of my Invention. Fig. 1 shows a sheet of letter paper A, and the
outer surface of the envelope B attached to the fourth page of the said sheet
of writing paper; Figures 1 to 35 respectively show the place for advertise-
iments as also do Figures 36 to 43 in Fig. 2.
a, a, a, a, Fig. 1, show or indicate the folds when the envelope is closed;
b, the place to be occupied by the postage stamp. Fig. 2 represents the
internal surface of another or the same sheet of writing paper with envelope
attached, the former being cut away except at its attachment with the
envelope.

page_text: Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that what I claim is, the
exclusive right to construct envelopes and sheets of writing paper not only
of the shape and dimensions herein-before described, but of any other shape
and dimensions, and also of covering those parts of the paper and envelope
with printed matter, as shown in the Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said "Nicolas Alfred Thoumelet," have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
Witness,
NICOLAS ALFRED THOUMELET. (L.S.)
EDWARD JOHN LOZEY,
Hetton Cottage,
Victoria Road,
Peckham.