US1212128A - Double-compartment package for mailing purposes. - Google Patents

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C. P. CHAMBERLIN & C. T. FEZZEY.

DOUBLE COMPARTMENT PACKAGE FOR MAILING PURPOSES. APPLICATION FILED APR. I8, I914.

1,21% 128, Patented Jan. 9, 1917.

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f/TTORNEY ED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLARENCE P. CHAMBERLIN AND CHESTER T. FEZZEY, DETROIT, MICHIGAN; SAID CHAMBERLIN ASSIGNOR T SAID FEZZEY.

DOUBLE-COMPARTMENT PACKAGE FOR MAILING PURPOSES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 9, 1917.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CLARENCE P. GHAM- BERLIN and CHESTER T. FEzzEY, citizens of the United States, residing at Detroit, county offiVayne, State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Double-Compartment Packages for Mailing Purposes, and declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and usethe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of-this specification.

This invention relates to combination container for mail matter and'its object is a reinforced double compartment package for parcel-post and first class mail matter. Heretofore it has usually been the practice to send small articles by parcel-post, while a letter referring to the mailing of such matter is sent in a separate envelop. Under a late rulin by the Postmaster General of the United tates, parcel-post packages may be sent attached to first class mail matter thus obviating the diflicultiesheretoforeen countered by loss of one or the other of the packages. The particular novel features of the invention are hereinafter more fully 80 described and claimed and shown in the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a view of the address s1de of the combined parcel-post and first class mail package. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the package ready for maillng. Fig. '3 1s a view of the back of the combined package showing the reinforcement.

Similar characters refer to similar parts throughout the drawings and specification. 40 That part of the package designed for use in the transporting of parcel-post matter is preferably of the nature of a" cloth tube 1,

the outer open end 2 of which is provided with a cord 3 threaded through the material by means of which the mouth of the tube may be drawn up and the ends of the cord wrapped thereabout and tied as shown in Fig. 2.

The envelop 4 for containing the first class mail matter is preferably of a Manila or other comparatively stifi' paper and the end 5 thereof is inserted in the end 6 of the cloth tube and secured in place thereon by a series of stitches passing through both sides of the bag 1 and the envelop therebetween which are preferably in the form of a rectangle as shown by dotted lines 7. The envelop is preferably reinforced with a' cloth strip 10 that may be conveniently pasted to the back of the front or address side of the envelop prior to, its being folded in final form. This strip is preferably practically of the full width and length of the envelop within the interior thereof as indicated by dotted lines 11, and prevents the separating of the envelop from the parcel-post package secured thereto.

By inserting the envelop some little distance in the cloth tube 1, as is shown in the drawing, the fabric is held comparatively fiat providing a convenient place for aflixing the parcel-post stamps, and the bag has printed thereon a data indicating the osition for the parcel-post postage, as wel as the weight of the bag, while the envelop may have indicated thereon the position for the first class postage. Both the envelop and the parcel-post package may have printed thereon the name and address of the sender as is usual with ordinary mail matter.

In addition to the function of holding the fabric flat to enable the parcel-post postage to be readily affixed thereto, the inserted end of the envelop and sewing thereof to the tubular fabric forms a closure for the par- ,cel-post package, the opposite end of which may be closed with a cord 3 as heretofore stated. Both the envelops and cloth container may be made in various sizes for various purposes.

The envelop 4 may also be of various forms having an opening on the side thereof sealed by the flap 8, as shown in Fig. 3, or

by an end flap as shown by dotted line 9 in said figure, in which case the envelop; would open at the end opposite the end attached to the fabric. If a side flap is used as shown at 8, the envelop should be of greater length than the flap 8 providing a part to be in:

' serted in the end of the tubular fabric.

Having thus briefly described our invention, what we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United .States is 1. A mailing package comprising a sealable envelop-of itself formingxa'closed receptacle for first class mail matter, an open ended tubular cloth member sewed to the envelop at one end, ,the stitching serving to close an end of the tube and forming thereof a separate compartment for parcel post matter, and means for releasably closing the opposite end thereof.

2. A mailing package comprising an envelop having a gummed flap for the sealing thereof, a cloth container of tubular form,

the envelop being partly inserted within an end of the cloth container and secured thereto, and a cord secured to the free end of the cloth container for closing the opening thereof.

3. A package for mailing parcel-post and first class mail matter comprising a paper envelop having a cloth reinforcement secure d thereto, and a cloth container forming a separate compartment for parcel-post matter sewed to the envelop, the stitching passing through both the envelop and reinforcement.

4. A package for mailing purposes comprising a paper envelop for first class mail matter, a cloth reinforcement secured Within the envelop, and a cloth container for parcelpost mail matter sewed to the envelop, the

stitching passing through both the envelop and the reinforcement.

5. A double compartment package for mailing purposes comprising a sealable envelop a cloth container of tubular form, the enve op being partly inserted Within an end of the cloth container and secured thereto the envelop being of a Width to hold the cloth container at the point of securing comparatively flat, and means for closing the open end of the cloth container.

6. A package for mailing purposes comprising a scalable envelop, a cloth reinforcement secured therewithin, a cloth container open at each end, an end of the envelop bet'alner and stitched thereto, the opening in the container being practically of the Width of the envelop whereby the cloth of the container is held fiat at the point of stitching, and means for closing the opposite end. of the cloth container.

In testimony whereof,- we sign this specifiinserted in an open endof the cloth con-

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