US1364918A - Mailing-container - Google Patents

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L. D. CONRAD.

MAILING CONTAINER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 14, 1920 1,364,918. I Patented Jan. 11,1921.

I IN VENTOR.

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LESLIE D. CONRAD, OF OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON.

MAILING-CONTAINER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 11, 1921.

Application filed May 14, 1920. Serial No. 381.364.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LESLIE D. CONRAD, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Olympia, in the county of Thurston and State of Washington, have invented new and useful Im rovements in Mailing-Containers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is a mailing container and embodies a compartment for containing an article of shipment that requires a given postage, to which is permanently attached, a second compartment for retaining an article re uirin a different postage.

econ ly, it is my intention to combine a large container or envelop and a smaller one which is disposed upon one face of the former, the large container or envelop serving to mclose an auto license tag or the like while the smaller one receives the usual license certificate issued coincident with the tag-thus both the tag and certificate may be mailed as a single unit of mail matter.

Further, my invention comprehends a mailing container including a large compartment or envelop completely assembled which will contain an article such as an auto license tag for mailing, and a disassembled envelop or pocket carried thereby adapted to be assembled by the sender to inclose the addressed license certificate.

It is also within the provisions of my invention to provide a mailing container having a number of compartments, each requiring different postage rates, and which is formed from a single blank, the invention being inexpensive to manufacture.

With the preceding objects and others as may be hereinafter outlined, the invention consists in the novel formation, arrangement of parts and combinations as will be defined in the subjoined claims, and illustrated in the attached drawing wherein- Figure 1 is a perspective of the mailing container preparatory to mailing;

Fig. 2 is a like view illustrating the container assembled for mailing;

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 2; and

Fig. 4 is a diagrammatic view on a reduced scale of the blank from which the container is constructed.

Referring in detail to the drawing wherein like characters of reference designate like parts in all the views, the numeral 5 designates a blank in its entirety, from which the container is constructed. The blank 5 is folded longitudinally to afford an intermediate section 6 and end sections 7 and 8 respectively, the intermediate section being provided with flaps 9 and 10 at its transverse ends.

The section 8 is cut or incised diagonally an equal distance from its opposite trans verse ends at a point adjacent the point of juncture of this section with the intermediate section and is folded at the inner ends of these incisions to afford end flaps 11 which when the container is completely assembled are arranged in overlapping relation between the section v7 and the intermediate part of the section 8, this latter part with the end flaps 11 constitute a relatively small envelo or pocket. In order to secure the intermediate part of the section 8 to the section 7 the outer longitudinal edge of this part projects beyond the longitudinal edges of the flaps and is coated with a suitable adhesive upon its under face.

As illustrated the intermediate part of the section 8 is provided with a longitudinal sight opening 13. However, this sight opening may be eliminated if desired and the mailing address written at any convenient point on the container.

The container is assembled in the following manner: The section 7 is first folded upon the intermediate section 6 and the end flap glued or otherwise secured thereto.

The section 8 is then folded over the section 7 and has its inner longitudinal edge fixed to the inner longitudinal edge of the latter. The container or envelop thus formed receives the license ta as illustrated in the drawing. When it is esired tomail the tag, the license certificate addressed upon its reverse face is inserted in the small envelop or pocket and the free or 'gummed ed e 12 affixed to the section 7.

t is to be understood that the form of my invention herein shown and described is to be taken as a preferred example of the same, and that various changes in the shape, size and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the subjoined claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure and protect by Letters Patent of the United States, is:

1. In a mailing container, a main compartment, a Wall arranged centrally of the ends of the main compartment and having one longitudinal edge secured thereto, said Wall having a sight opening therein, end flaps carried by the Wall to be arranged in overlapping relation between the Wall and the adjacent wall of the main compartment and With the first mentioned Wall constitutes a compartment for the reception of an article to be visible through the sight opening, and means to secure the free end of the wall to the adjacent Wall of the latter to retain the flaps in such position.

2. An envelop including a blank folded to afford an intermediate and end sections, one of the latter sections being folded over the intermediate section and secured together at one transverse end, the other section being folded to overlie the first mentioned end section and having its inner longitudinal edge secured to the adjacent longitudinal edges of the intermediate section, said section being incised longitudinally from its opposite ends adjacent its attached edge and folded at right angles to the incisions to afford flaps to be arranged in overlapping relation between the free part of the latter section and the first mentioned end section, and means for sealing the free end of said section to the opposite end section.

' LESLIE n. CONRAD.

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