US1216770A

US1216770A - Manifold device for addressing envelops.

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Publication number: US1216770A
Application number: US2612415A
Authority: US
Inventors: Francis P Bonham; Frances Georgia Bonham
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1915-05-05
Filing date: 1915-05-05
Publication date: 1917-02-20
Anticipated expiration: 1934-02-20

Description

F. P. BONHAM. 05cm. F. G- BONHAM, ADMINISTRATRIX MANIFOLD DEVICE FOR ADDRESSING ENVELOPS.

Patented Feb. 20, 1917.

APPLICATION HLED MAY 5, 915- lla. P0

' Specification of Letters Patent.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that ,FRANoIs P. BONI-IAM, deceased, late a citizen of the United States, and resident of the city Francisco, State of California, did invent an mprovement in Manifold Devices for Addressing Envelops, of which the following is [a specification.

ofor ordinary carbon manifold sheets by means of which the address may be writin the envelop;

' ment to a sh he principal object of the-invention is to produce an inexpensive device-for attachset of. plain paper, carbon paper or the like forthe above purpose. The device consists of a strip of transfer ribbon or transfer paper which may easily be attached in proper position to a sheet of extend carbon paper and when worn out off, thrown away and other strip.

The principal demand .for'such an attachment arises in-mailing circular letters where the address is inserted at the head of each letter, and by'the provision of an arrangement for addressing the envelop at the same time the work will be very much reduced. The use of the to circular letters.

he above and other objects and the novel the invention will be apparent description taken inconfeatures of from the following nectionwith the drawing in which Figure l is a front view illustratingone embodiment of the invention showin onl Z:

so much of thesheets with which itis used application El-S lS necessary to illustrate its and show ng parts broken away and edges turned to expose portions of the rear faces of the sheets;

F 1g. 2 is a vertical cross-sectional view taken on the line 2 2, Fig. 1,

Fig. 3 is a front view of another embodiment of the invention;

Fig. 4 is a the line 4-4 of F Fig. 5 is a front other embodiment Fig. 6 is a detail sectional the line 6-6 .of Fig. 3. 7

Referring to the drawing and particularly Figs.

land

2, 10 designates an ordinary letview illustrating still an of the invention; and

view taken on and county. of San strip is of course not limited vertical sectional view taken on 7 ENVELOPS.

he construction thus far described is in common use. and is well known. It is deslrable and will save time if when writing the letter and making a duplicate of it, an envelop can simultaneously be addressed to receivethe letter. In order to accomplish this in a simple manner, the ordinary sheet of carbon paper '13 is provided with a flap or strip 15. The flap or strip 15 is secured to thetop edge of the sheet 13 as at 151, and s down over the front side of saidsheet 13 so that its lower edge 16 will be lo= cated-just above the body of the letter- The flap l5'may be about the same width as the envelop 11 and at itsleft hand lower corner it is cut away orin'dented as at 17 to leave a space corresponding to the Salutation on the letter. The under side of the flap 15, e.,'the-'side thereof which faces the unooated sideof the sheet 13,-is coated with transfer maerial as indicated at therefore be obvious that when the envelop. 11 is placed between the flap 15 and the sheet 13, as shown in Figs. 1 M1012, and put into will receive a copy of the address print'ed'as the heading of the letter, but will not receive a copy of or any of the body of the letter. side of the joint 151 where the flap tached to the sheet 13 serves as a the envelop 11 and with the left edge sheets serves to correctly position it with reference to the flap 15. I

ere. circular lettersare addressed it will be understood that the supportingor mounting sheet 13 will be a plain sheet of paper, without the coating 14, and the flap 15 is fastened to theupper edge of the sheet 13 as in Figs. 1 and 2,

he carbon sheet 13 with its strip of transfer material is assembled with the letter head, envelop and a sheet to receive the carbon impression of the letter, and allmay 18. It will the salutation.

of the Patented Feb. so, 1917. J Application filed May 5, 1515.v Serial No. 26,124.

the letter written on the 55 with adhesive material, 2. 6., between the 'on a letter head superposed on said strip, 120

be run into a typewriting machine together The invention is susceptible of use where vwhere the address will be transferred to the carbon copies are made, but it is particu- QIII'GiOP. larlysuited to simultaneously addressing on- In Figs. 3, r and 6 is illustrated anothe velops and circular letters and when so use embodiment of the invention in which the the address transfer strip may beattached 70 sheet 21, which is an ordinary sheet of carto an ordinary sheet of letter paper the size bon paper coated on one side with transfer of the circular letter.

material as at 22, has a strip of transfer Having thus described the invention, what ribbon 23 secured to cover a portion of the 1s Ola-med 1s 10 uncoated side thereof." The strip 23 is nar- 1. In a device of the class described the 75 rowed at its ends and is provided at its ends combination of a supporting sheet coated on with similar securing tabs 24, 24 which are one side with transfer material, and a strip glued to the inner side of the strip 23 and prepared with transfer material said strip have free ends adapted to extend around being attached on the uncoated side of said he edges 25, 25 of the carbon sheet 21 and sheet and having a portion thereof separable 89 are prepared with mucilage on their sides from said sheet so that an envelop may be which face the coated side of the sheet 21. slipped between the strip and sheet into such 'By means of the adhesive tongues 2a, 24: a position as to receive only the address the strip 23 isreadily attachable to both printed on a letter head superposed on said the edges of an ordinary carbon sheet thus strip. i I 7 leaving he intermediate portion separate 2. In a device of the classi described the so that an envelop, shown in dotted lines, combination of a supporting sheet coated on can be slipped between the sheet 21 and the one side with transfer material and a strip strip 23. The thickness of the tabs 24K, 24:, prepared with transfer material, said strip 25 is such that they serve as supports for the being attached at one end on the uncoated 99 feed roller as it passes over t e strip and vside of said sheet near the top edge of said prevents that roller from pressing the strip sheet and having a portion thereof separable against the envelopand disfiguring it and fro-m the sheet sothat an envelop may be causing blurs. The strip 23 has a cut out slipped between the strip and sheet into such part 26 similar to the cut out part 17 of the osition as to re ive only th address flap or strip 15, and is for the same purpose. printed on a letter head superposed on sai The strip 23 is attached at such a pointthat strip. it will be in the position usually occupied 3; In a device of the class-described the V by the address on the letter, the envelop becombination of a supporting sheet coated on 3-5 ing located at the proper position by the one side only with transfer material, and a left hand and the upper edges of the strip prepared with transfer material oversheet 21. r lapping a portion of the uncoated side of The ribbon or fabric strip 23 is more dusaid sheet, said stripbeing of such size and rable than a paper strip and will outlast a so attached to'said sheet that an envelop 40 number of the latter. I/Vhile the impresmay beslipped between the strip and sheet sion produced by the ribbon strip 23 'prointo such a position as to receive from said duces a similar appearance to the carbon, it transfer material of the strip only the adwill not blur so readily, and is as permadress printed on a letter head superposed on nent as the ordinary typewritten address. saidstrip. to The ribbon strip 23 may be made separately 4. In a device of the class described the 10 and used with the ordinary carbon sheet. combination of a supporting sheet coated on In Fig. 5 is illustrated another embodione side with transfer material, a strip prement of the invention in which a paper pared with transfer material overlapping strip 28 is used. The strip 28 consists of a a portion of the uncoated side of said sheet 50 sheet out out as at 29 and is coated on its and having a part of its lower edge out inner side as at 30 facing the uncoated side away, the strip being so attached to said of the carbon sheet 31 towhich it is atsheet that an envelop may 'beslipped betached. The. strip 28 is prepared at the tween the strip and sheet into such a posiright hand end of the coated side thereof tion as to receive only the address printed dotted line 32 and the right end 33. The said cut-away part being provided to preleft end of the strip .28 may extend to the vent the impression of the salutation on the left edge 3 1 of the sheet 31 and may be envelop.

A free so that it can be lifted up when the 5. In a device of the class described the 60 envelop 112 is slipped into lace as indicombination of a supporting sheet and a cated in the dotted lines. The strip 28 is strip prepared with transfer material superpasted to the uncoated side of the sheet 31 posed on a portion of said sheet near the and in a positlon so that the address will be upper end thereof, a part of said strip being transferred to the envelop when written on cut away at the lower left edge thereof, and

65 the letterhead. means whereby said strip is'so attached to i said sheet near the upper edge thereof that an envelop registered along the upper edge and the upper left edge of the sheet may be 7 positioned between the strip and sheet so as to receive only the address printed on a letter head superposed on said strip, the cut-away part of said strip serving to prevent a transfer of the impression of the salutation of the letter head. I

6. A new article of manufacture comprising a strip of transfer material for use in addressing envelope or the like simultaneously as letter heads are addressed, said strip being adapted to be secured to a supporting sheet and having means at its ends to space the strip from the supporting sheet a disof an envelop.

A new article of manufacture eomprising a supporting sheet coated on one side with transfer material, and a strip prepared with transfer material secured on the uncoated side by said sheet adjacent an edge Copies of this patentnzay be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

thereof, said strip being attached on the sheet near its upper edge but terminating at conslderable distance above the'lower edge of said sheet and being separable from op may be slipped beletter-head superposed 8 A new article of ing a supporting sheet with transfer material having at Its ends whereby said tabs will su' port said strip spaced from the supporting sheet. v p v In testimony whereof I, administratrix of the estate of FRANCIS P. ONIIAM, deceased, hereunto aflix my signature.

FBANOES GEORGIA BON HAM,

Bonkam, deceased.

Washington, 1). C3

mzbwstmtrim of the estate of Frames P.