US1346372A - Pay-envelop - Google Patents

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R. E. FISHER AND W. M. YORK.

PAY ENVELOP.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 13, 1920.

Application filed December' 16, 1916. Serial No. 137.459.

To all 107mm, t may cm1/*ern Be it known that we, .Bonner E. Frei-Inn and lViLLrAiu M, Youn, both citizens of the United States, residing at Long Beach, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and useful Pay-Envelop, of which the following is a specification.

Qur invention relates to the art of advertising, and the principal object of the invention is to provide means for building up good-will within a certain group of persons. This means may be embodied in a containe in which merchandise, or other material things are placed. l/Vhile the invention is generally applicable to any sort of a container, its operation can be best understood if a specic form of container is considered, and for this reason we have selected as an illustration a pay envelop shown in Figure 1. lV e have also shown a pay check in llig. 2.

It is common practice for employers to place the employees wages in sealed envelops, these envelops containing the exact Yages due, so that a large number of employees can be quickly paid without the necessity for making change.

Such a pay envelop is shown, for illustive purposes only, in the accompanying drawing. It consists of a paper or cloth envelop 11 provided with a sealing flap 12. Marked on the top of the envelop is the employees name 13, his Shop number 14, and the amount of his wages 15. rlhe name 1G of the employer and his address 17 may also be marked thereon. In all of the above particulars the envelop resembles an ordinary pay envelop, and no claim of novelty is iliade therefor.

Our invention resides in a series of coupons 18 which are formed in the body of the envelop and are preferably divided by perforations 19, so that each can be readily detached. Each of these coupons contains ,the name, or other designa-tion, of a merchant, professional man, amusement owner, or other person or organization which desires the employees patronage,` and also contains the name of the pe-rson using the pay envelop. Each of these coupons is good for a fixed sum, say live cents, on every purchase of over a certain amount, say one dollar, which the employee may make.

The method of operation of the invention is as follows:

ylhe employer or any other person who distributes containers, all such persons being included under1 the term distributers, makes a contract with the merchants or other persons who are to redeem the coupons, all such persons being included in the term redeemers, or such contracts are made through an independent organization known as the contractors who receive a percentage of the business handled, or are otherwise reimbursed by either the distributer or the redeemers. The distributer delivers the(l containers to a group of persons who may be called the receivers These receivers may be employees, in the case of the pay envelop, or they may be purchasers of goods or others.

rl`he distributer benefits by the scheme due to each coupon being marked with his name so that the redeemer knows where the money he receives comes from. This creates goodwill flowing from the redeemer to the distributer, and this good-will is a real asset to the distributer. The receiver benefits in thateach of the coupons represents a bonus which he can avail. himself of or not, as he sees lit. The redeemer benefits in that he induces the receivers to trade with him, and especially where a large concern does business in a small town the advantages of this inducement are large. The contractor may also boneiit largely in that his only expense is the printing and distribution of envelops and the incidental expenses of making and collection under the contractors.

It is also possible to make the scheme a mutual one, some of the redeemers being in turn distributers so that the business of the receivers is kept within a small circle. For example, a bank may agree to make up the payrolls of a large number of concerns, using envelops on which each concern appears in turn as distributer, and all the others as redeemers.-

lVhile our invention is especialy adapted to containers, and even more especially to pay envelops, the same general scheine may be utilized in connection with a check as shown in Fig. 2. Here the check is made out to a receiver 51 by a distributer 52, and has att-ached thereto coupons 53, each of which contains the distributers naine and banks Who can furnish checks to a certain group of depositors in which the check of each depositor carries the Acoupons of all the Yrest of the group, thus conserving the funds of the group largely Within the group.

All such mo'diioations, and all improvements and Variations thereof, are Within the scope and spirit of our invention, which is limited solely by the annexed claim.

IVe claim as our invention :f

A pay envelop adapted to contain an em- 20 ployees Wages; and a plurality of coupons formed inthe body of the envelop, each coupon having plainly marked thereon a symbol identifying? a merchant WhoY has agreed to accept same as part payment in 25 trade, and each coupon bearing a Vsymbol serving to identify the employee originally issuing the envelop; said envelop also bear- -ing symbols indicating that said coupons will be accepted by said merchants.

Intestimony whereof7 We have hereunto Set our hands at Los Angeles, California, this 8th day of December, 1916.

ROBERT E. FISI-IER. WILLIAM M. YORK.

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