US429575A

US429575A - Letter-sheet

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Publication number: US429575A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1890-06-03
Anticipated expiration: 1907-06-03

Description

(No Model.) 1

' H. N. H. LUG'RIN.

' LETTER SHEET.

Patented June 3, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

I-IORATIO N. H. LUGRIN, OF WORCESTER, ASSIGNOR TO THE CUTTER TOYVER COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

LETTER-SH EET.-

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 429,575, dated June 3, 1890. Application filed August 10,1888. Serial No. 282,476. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: above the edges of the sheet along the slits Be it known thatLHoRATIo N. H. LUGRIN, or openings B, so that a postagestamp or a citizen of the United States, residing at other similar article can readily and conven- 55 WVorcester, in the county of Worcester and iently be inserted beneath the band, as indi- State of Massachusetts, have invented cercated at F, Fig. 2, the band serving as a cartain new and useful Improvements in Letterrier for retaining the stamp or other article, Sheets, of which the following, together with and preventing it from escaping or dropping the accompanying drawings, is a specificafrom the sheet and becoming lost when the 60 tion sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enletter is opened.

0 able persons skilled in the art to which this The letter-sheet may have its carrier-band invention appertains to make and use the formed in connection with the embossed same. I Vignette or trade-stamp, as Fig. 1, or at other The object of my present invention is to portion. The sheet can be provided with 65 provide a letter-sheet adapted for personal one, two, or more carrier-bands formed correspondence, having facilities for safely therein at such positions as desired, prefand conveniently retaining, supporting, or erably at positions near the top or side, as carrying postage-stamps, currency, bills, and shown, or where the embossed bands will other small articles, such as are frequently not interfere with writing on the surface of 70 sent by post. the sheet.

To this end my invent-ion consists in the For carrying bills or currency, the sheet letter-sheethaving the embossed carrier-band can be madewith a long upright band, as formed therein, as hereinafter described. shown in Fig. 2, convenient for the bill to be In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view showtucked under and folded back into the cen- 75 ing my improved letter-sheet with single carter of the sheet. The slits B can be simply rier arranged in conjunction with the emout through the paper, or may be slots of bossed vignette or trade-mark stamp. Fig. greater or less width, as required.

2 illustrates the manner of using the carrier, By constructing the letter-sheet with bands and showsasheet having a plurality thereof, or carriers embossed or thrown up as de- 8 with modifications in the arrangement of the scribed a very useful, ornamental, and de- 0 carriers or bands, as for currency, (to, and sirable article of writing-paper is produced.

variations in the style Ofembossi'ng. Fig. 3 It will be understood that I do not claim is a section of the letter-sheet transversely the forming of slits in a fabric to serve as a through the carrier-strip, and Fig. 4 is a sec-- means for retaining articles mounted there- 5 tion of the letter-sheet longitudinally through on, as I am aware that such practice is old.

3 5 the carrier-strip. What- I claim as my invention, and desire Referring to parts, A denotes the letterto secure by Letters Patent, is sheet, which is of any ordinary kind of writ- A letter or writing-paper sheet adapted ing-paper such as used for correspondence, for postal correspondence, provided with a 9 and which may be of any ,usual size and carrier band or bands, the edges of which shape, as commercial note, letter-cap, legalare separated from the main sheet by slits cap, or other style. I or openings cut through the paper, while the B B indicate slits or openings cut or formed ends are left attached, and with the portion through the paper sheet, preferably parallel which forms the band raised or thrown up 95 to each other and at a short distance apart, from the letter-surface by embossing or or so as to produce a narrow strip or band C, namental impressions, substantially as dethe edges 0 c of which are severed from the scribed. main body of the sheet, while the ends at d Witness my hand this 7th day of August, d are left attached thereto. The strip or A. D. 1888.

band C is impressed or embossed with any HORATIO N. H. LUGRIN. 0 suitable design or ornamentation in a man- Witnesses: V

ner to throw up the strip or band C from the CHAS. H. BURLEIGH,

letter-surface or to raise the edges thereof ELLA P. BLENUS.