US1466420A

US1466420A - Envelope

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Publication number: US1466420A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1923-08-28
Anticipated expiration: 1940-08-28

Description

Aug. 2s, 1923. y 1,466,420 Y J. W. BUNKER ET AL ENVELOPE Filed Feb. 26. 1921 Patented Aug. 2E, 1923.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.L

JOHN W. BUNKIVEE AND ASHTON li. BONEY, OF NEX/V YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNORS "EO SERVICE BAG CO. TNC., OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A. CORFORATION OF NEVI YDRK.

ENVELOPE.

Application filed February 26, 1921.

To aZZ whom t may concern.

Be it known that We, JOHN XV. Bonnin: and AsnToN M. Bonny, residents of the city of New York, county of New York, and State of New York, citizens of the United States, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Envelopes, of which the following is a specication.

Our invention relates to an improvement in envelopes, the purpose of the present invention being to provide a simple means of both fastening and providing a handle for the envelope, the invention being especially adapted to envelopes used for carrying articles of mrchandise such as records and the like.

The present invention consists of an envelope having two registering slots cut through the superimposed layers of the envelope, the tongues cut in forming these slots being bent from opposite sides and opposite edges through the slots in opposite directions whereby one tongue closes the loiver part of the envelope Where the slot is formed and the otherI forms a portion of the handle. The portion through which the slots and tongues 'are formed may be reenforced or not or may be chemically treated, if desired, to stii'fen the paper.

In the accompanying drawings,

Figure l is a'vieW in side elevation in its simplest form.

Figure 2 is a transverse, vertical section therethrough before the tongues or flaps are bent.

Figure 3 is a similar view after 'they are bent in opposite directions from opposite sides and opposite edges of the slots.

Figure et is a. view similar to Figure l with the parts reinforced, and

Figure 5 is a vertical, transverse section through the reinforced portion.

The numeral l, represents a paper bag which may be of any suitable dimensions, and 2 and 3 indicate tvvo slots preferably more or less elliptical in form, of any suitable size, but conveniently of a size to receive the four fingers of the hand to serve with the top of the envelope as a handle.

The

slots

2 and 3, are similar in form and cut in the tivo layers of the bag opposite each other so that they register and the flaps or tongues 4L and 5, extend from the opposite edges of the opposite slots and are bent in opposite directions so that the lower tongue Serial No. 448,178.

or flap 4, is adapted to be bent through the two slots and doivn over the opening into the sack thus closing the same and the upper flap or tongue 5, is bent in the opposite direction through the two slots and folded upwardly thus reenforcing the portion between the slots and the upper edge of the bag to form a three-ply handle portion by which the bag is carried.

iVhile the bags may be made in different sizes and shapes, they are particularly adapted for carrying parcels such as phonograph records and the like, in this way insuring against their being dropped or damaged, or against accidentally slipping out of the bag or envelope, i

In the construction shown in Figures 4L and 5, the bag is either toughened or hardened chemically or has a reenforcing` material 6, glued or otherwise secured toieither one or both outer surfacesof the t\vo layers of the envelope or bag, thus reenforcing and strengthening the bag orenvelope at this point and making the handle portion both stronger and thicker so that it is less liable to pull out or cut the hands of the person carrying the same.

The slots 7, and tongues or flaps 8 and 9, are cut through and adapted to be bent from opposite sides and edges in opposite directions as in the form previously described, the

only difference in this envelope being the reenforcement Where the slots land fiaps or tongues are formed.

It is understood that the reenforcing material when applied thereto is of such a nature that the tongues or flaps take a set when bent in opposite directions.

In this way .ve provide a simple, eonvenient receptacle in the nature of an article of manufacture which can be made sullicientlv cheap and at the same time having the revquired adaptability and utility toibe used for carrying various kinds of merchandise to suit the requirements of the shopper While affording a convenient handle and a. fastening means to hold the articles in the receptacle and against vaccidentally slipping out and becoming lost. i

XVe claim,

An article of the character described including a bag having correspondingly shaped registering slots cut in the front and back and Wholly Within the body of the bag, the entire cut-out portion forming the slots left integral at the opposite edges of the sots a handle for the ngers of the person carryin the front and back of the bag, forming ing the bag. Y

tongues which are adapted to be bent in op- In testimony whereof We hereunto affix 10 posits directions through the opposite slot our signatures. Y f 5 and folded back against the body pol-tion to fasten the bag in closed position at both ol JOHN W. BUNKERQ` the opposite edges of the slots and leaving ASHTN 4M. BONEY.