US661747A - Mailing-tube. - Google Patents

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No. 66!,747. Patented Nnv. l3, I900.

J. SPINK.

.MAILING TUBE.

(Application filed Aug. 9. 1900.:

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD J. SPINK, OF DAVENPORT, IOWA, ASSIGNOR OF THIRTEEN TWENTY-FIFTI-IS TO GEORGE W. NOTH, OF SAME PLACE.

MAILING-TUBE.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 661,747, dated November 13, 1900.

Application filed August 9, 1900. Serial No. 26,430. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD J. SPINK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Davenport, in the county of Scott and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Mailing-Tube, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to a mailing tube or wrapper, the object being to produce an inexpensive article of this character embracing a cardboard container, a light flexible wrapper therefor, and a retaining-strip secured to the inner face of the body and having terminal flaps or tabs designed to be turned into the opposite ends of the rolled contents of the tube for the purpose of preventing the accidental displacement of the former.

The objects of the invention are to produce atube adjustable to various sizes and formed in a manner to reduce the liability of breakage to the minimum, as well as to furnish a smooth exterior surface for the reception of the address, and to provide means for preventing the accidental displacement of the contents of the tube.

To the accomplishment of the several end's stated the invention consists in forming a mailing-packet composed of a cardboard container transversely scored to render it sufficiently flexible without liability of breakage, a light flexible wrapper secured at a point intermediate of its length to the outer face of the container at one end thereof, and a retaining-strip secured upon the interior surface of the container at its opposite end and provided with terminal flaps or tabs designed to be folded into the ends of the rolled contents of the mailing-tube when formed.

The invention further consists in the details of construction and arrangement hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and defined in the claims.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of my mailing-tube as organized for use. Figs. 2 and 3 are perspective views of the device before being rolled into tubular form, and Fig. 4 is a sectional view through the subjectmatter of Fig. 1.

Referring to the numerals of reference employed to designate corresponding parts and structural peculiarities in the several views,

1 indicates a cardboard or other suitable sheet which I shall designate as the container, inasmuch as this sheet when rolled constitutes a tubular mailing-packet designed to contain and to effect the safe transportation of inclosed mail-matter. The sheet 1 is provided upon its outer face with a longitudinal series of transverse parallel scores 2, extending continuously and completely across the sheet 1 to render the latter sufficiently flexible to be rolled into small compass without danger of breaking.

3 indicates a light flexible wrapper,of paper or other suitable material, preferably, although not necessarily, coextensive in width with the sheet 1 and secured at a point intermediate of its ends to one end of the outer face of the sheet 1. The manner of securing the wrapper to the cardboard sheet or container is not essential; but it preferablyconsists in gumming the latter adjacent to one end and in. causing the wrapper to adhere thereto along a transverse line located some What nearer one end of the wrapper to form a sealing-flap 4 and a somewhat longer addressflap 5, the flap 4 being disposed beyond the end of the cardboard sheet and the flap-5 being imposed upon said sheet, but unattached thereto except at its end, and of somewhat less length than the container. At the end of the sheet 1 opposite the sealing-flap 4 a transverse retaining-strip 6 is secured to its inner facethat is to say, to the unscored surface of the sheet 1. The strip 6, which is designed to efiect the secure retention of the mail-matter or other contents of the tube, is secured at its middle to the sheet 1 and is provided with terminal retaining flaps or tabs 7, which extend beyond the opposite edges of the cardboard sheet and are unattached to the latter at its ends. Suitable adhesive material 8 having been placed upon the outer edge of the inner surface of the sealing-flap 4, the device is complete and ready for the reception of its contents.

The mail-matter is laid upon. what will become the inside face of the retainer or sheet 1, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, and the latter is rolled, beginning with the end opposite the sealing-flap. The scores 2 permit the container to be rolled into tubular 'thesealing'and addressing of the tube and form,an(l the wrapper will constitute a smooth external covering for the scored surface to facilitate the affixing of an address. As the .roll is completed the sealingfiap 4 will be caused to adhere to the address-flap and a complete closely-wound and securely-sealed tube will thus be formed. The retention of the contents is additionally assured by turning in the tabs or terminal flaps 7 of the retaining-strips6, and the device is ready for transportation.

It will appear from the foregoing that I have produced an inexpensive and efficient mailing-tube designed before use to have a fiat sheet-like form and capable of being rolled up to produce a tubular receptacle of such diameter as is necessary for the retention of the mail to be transported and provided with sealing and address flaps and a retaining stripgallfarranged in a manner to facilitate thesecu re retention of the contents; but while the-present embodiment of the invention is believed to be preferable I reserve the right to effect such structural variations as may be fairly embraced within the spirit of the in vention.

What I claim isa 1. A mailing-packet com prisingacontainersheet designed to be rolled into tubular form and provided upon its outer surface with equidistant transverse sc-ores extending entirely across the sheet, and a comparatively thin wrapper affixed at a point intermediate of its ends to one extremity of the scored surface of the sheet the loose portions of the wrapper at opposite sides of the point of the attachment defining a sealing-flap located beyond the sheet and an address-flap of lesslength than the sheet and designed. to constitute a smooth cover surrounding the tube when formed, and attached to the sealing-flap.

2. A mailing-packet comprisingacontainersheet provided upon one extremity of its inside face with a retaining-strip having loose ends and having attached to the opposite extremity of its outside face an intermediate portion of a comparatively thin wrapper, the opposite ends of said wrapper being unattached and defining an address-fiap and a sealing-flap at opposite sides of the attachment ofthe wrapper to the containersheet.

3. A mailing-packet comprisingacontainersheet provided at one end with a retainingstrip affixed to its inner surface and a comparatively thin wrapper afifixed at a point intermediate of its length to the outer face of the sheet and at the end thereof opposite the retaining-strip, the portions of said wrapper disposed at opposite sides of its point of'ati tachment defining a sealing-flap located beyond the sheet and a loose address-flap extending over the sheet, and said retainingstrip being attached to the sheet at a point intermediate of the ends of the strip to define loose retaining-tabs disposed at opposite ends of the packet when the latter is organized for use.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD J. SPINK.

Witnesses:

W. R. MAINEs, H. P. 8110111.

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