US237374A - Combined envelope and letter-sheet - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

J. F. DODD.

Combined Envelope and LetteraShee't. No. 237,374.

Patented Feb. s, 1881.

WITNESSES 'INVENTOR A TTOHNE Y.

N4 PETERS, PHOTO LITHDGRAPMER. WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES F. DODD, OF MARTIN SBURG', OHIO.

COMBINED ENVELOPE AND LETTER-SHEET.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 237,374, dated February 8, 1881.

Application filed August 5, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAMES F. D0131), of Martinsburg, in the county of Knox and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Combined Envelope and Letter-Sheet, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows the shape of the blank which forms my combined envelope and letter-sheet. Fig. 2 is an edge view, showing method of folding. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view through the line as of Fig. 5, showing position of the letter-sheet when folded. Fig. 4 is a reverse side of the envelope and letter-sheet as distinguished from Fig. 1, with the letter folded in; and Fig. 5 is a back view of the envelope closed and ready for mailing.

The object of this invention is to provide a combined envelope and letter-sheet.

It is desirable to construct the portion which forms the envelope or outer part in such a manner that when it is opened no part of the letter or envelope would be mutilated; and, further, to provide a safe and effectual guard against opening and abstracting the contents of the envelope without destroying the same. To meet this want I have constructed a blank, as shown in Fig. 1, which is simply in the form of a rectangular piece of paper having near the upper end triangular flaps A on the sides, removed far enough from the upper end to permit one fold about the width of the ordinary envelope A. These flaps need not necessarily be triangular in form, since the narrow form shown in dotted lines D will answer the purpose as well 5 butIprefer the flaps A, as shown.

I propose to utilize the face of the envelope for a double purpose: first, to give the return address when the envelope is closed and, second, to use this same address as portion of the letter, or what is termed the letter-head, when the envelope is opened. Thus on the upper left-hand corner I place the words If not called for, &c., or their equivalent, with the address of the sender printed in the lower left-hand corner, as shown by Martinsburg, Ohio. Below the folding-line E, and in the body of the sheet B, the date-line is placed, as represented by June 10 in the drawings.

In folding, the side containing the address, as shown in Fig. 1, is reversed, and the parts B B are folded over on the parts A B, across the line F. The parts B B are then folded over on the parts A B across the line E, as

shown in Fig. 4. The flaps A and the upper part of the envelope 0 then remain extended. The upper part, 0, is then folded down and the end flaps, A, folded in, as shown in Fig. 5. An oblong flap, A, cut out of part B, eX- tending along the line E, is then folded over the whole. Gr represents the gummed surface, and it will be observed that the portion gummed covers the entire edge, excepting that side formed by the lap O.

In opening the sheet the flaps A are out along the lines F and the flap A along the line E. The letter-sheet and envelope will then appear entire, as shown in Fig. 1, minus the flaps A A, which leaves it in excellent form for filing.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a combined envelope and letter-sheet, a

blank provided with triangular flaps A on the sides near the upper end, and having at the fold E an oblong flap, A, cut out from the letter-sheet, which is adapted to embrace the ends of the flap A when folded, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

I JAMES FOSTER DOlDD.

' Witnesses:

R. H. MORGAN, T. B. Moms.

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