US709496A - Folding money holder or envelop. - Google Patents

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No. 709,496. Patented Sept. 23', I902.

E. L. MILLER.

FOLDING MONEY HOLDER 0B ENVELOP.

(Application filed June 6, 1902.) (No Model.)

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FOLDING MONEY HOLDER OFl ENVELOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 709,496, dated September 23, 1902.

Application filed June 6,1902. Serial No. 110,414. (No model.)

To (tZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN LUNN MILLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at \Villiamsport, in the county of Lycoining and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Folding Money Holders or Envelops, of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention has relation to a money-holder or collection-envelop of the type illustrated and described in the Letters Patent No. 590,765, granted to me under date of September 28, 1897, and in such connection it relates more particularly to an improvement upon such a holder or envelop whereby there are provided two separate pockets or receptacles in the holder or envelop.

In my formerpatent there is illustrated and described a collection-envelop provided with folding flaps and an intermediate pocket combined with means for maintaining the flaps in closed position upon the pocket, and the interior of the flaps and the face of the pocket were adapted when the flaps were extended to receive an account-record.

In my present invention the principal ob ject is to extend the intermediate pocket over one of the folding flaps and to provide means for forming this elongated pocket into two pockets folding down upon each other upon a common closure for both pockets and the flap and double pocket thus formed being arranged to carry out the purposes and functions of the old envelop with an added function or purpose-namely, the separation of the amount placed in the envelop into two distinct non-communicating compartments.

The nature and scope of my invention will be more fully understood from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, in which Figure 1 is a top or plan View of a blank adapted when folded and fastened to embody the envelop of my invention. Fig. 2 is aperspective view of the holder or envelop folded together and with a flexible securing means surrounding the envelop. Fig. 3 is a top or plan View of the holder or envelop, showing the same in extended position; and Fig. 4 is a perspective View of the holder or envelop with both its pockets distended to receive the money.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the blank from which the envelop is formed, and it consists of. a main rectangular body a, divided by bisecting creases b and a into four rectangular panels. From one of the rectangular panels 0. projects a rectangular flap d, coequalin area to said panel a of the body a and integral therewith, creased, as at 6, along the junction between it and said panel a. From the side of the body Ct projects the oblong flap (1.

In assembling the blank A the body a is bent upon its vertical crease b to bring the two panels to the left of said crease down upon the other panels of the body. The oblong flap d is bent inward and united to the edge of the bent-down panels of said body by paste or other suitable means. There is thus formed a tube open at both ends and extend ed at its upper end into the rectangular flap (1. The tube is now divided into two pockets g and h by sewing or stapling along the line of the crease c, as illustrated at min Figs. 3 and 4.. The sewing or stapling m thus forms a common closure for the two pockets g and h. The blank is now folded along the crease c and the crease 6, so that the two pockets g and h are inclosed by the flap d. A flexible band at, (see Fig. 2,) passed around the flap d and united, preferably, to the stapling or sewing on, serves to maintain the flap (1 upon the pockets 9 and h and prevents the discharge of the contents of said pockets g and 72. until the flap d has been lifted.

On the inner side of the flap d and over the pockets 9 and h is preferably provided an account-record o, as in my previous envelop, and on the interior of each pocket g or It is adapted to be placed lettering to indicate the use to which the money deposited into said pockets is to be put.

Having thus described the nature and object of my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A money holder or envelop, consisting of a flat sheet of cardboard or paper, creased and folded to form a flat tube, a strip projecting from one of the infolded portions of the tube and united to the other portion of said tube to complete said tube, said tube creased transversely intermediate of its open ends to form two pockets, a closure formed at said transverse crease and common to both pockets, and an end flap projecting from one of the infolded portions of the tube beyond one of the pockets and arranged to fold down over both pockets, when said pockets are folded inward along the common closure.

2. A blank for a money holder or envelopconsisting of a rectangular body portion divided by bisecting creases into four rectangular panels, a rectangular flap projecting from one of said panels and coequal in area therewith, and an oblong strip projecting from one side of the rectangular body portion and adapted to be fastened to two of the rectangular panels when said panels are creased down upon the other panels of the body to form a tubular body portion, substantially as and for the purposes described. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWIN LUNN MILLER. Witnesses: WM. H. KIEss, WM. F. LOSCH.

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