US759382A - Mailing-envelop. - Google Patents

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PATENTED MAY 10, 1904.

W. W. KLUGH. MAILING ENVELOP. APPLIOATION FILED un 1e. 1902.

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PATENT OFFICE.

VVILLISTON WIGHTMAN KLUGH, OF- CLEMSON COLLEGE, SOUTH CAROLINA. l

MAlLlNG-ENVELOP.

SPEGIFIGATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 759,382, dated May 10, 1904. Application filed lay 19, 1902. Serial No. 107,905. (No model.) I

To a/ZZ whom, t may, concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIsToN WIGHTMAN KLUGH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Clemson College, county of Oconee, and State of South Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mailing-Envelope, of which the following is ajspecifcation, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part thereof, in which similar letters of referencev indicate corresponding parts. y

his invention relates to a mailing-envelop, the object thereof being to provide animproved device of this character which is adaptable for being sent through the mails containing one address and then returned. to the sender with another address thereon. For this purpose the device is provided with a double surface for bearing addresses, and it is further provided with a double surface for receiving postage-stamps and cancellationmarks.

By the use of this invention merchants may send out samples of merchandise and have them returned in the same envelop, ing the customer but little trouble in the transaction. It is also susceptible of carrying .vuncanceled stamps fixed in position for return, if desired.

The invention will be hereinafter fully described, and specifically set forth in the annexed claims. l

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this' specification, Figure 1 -is a face view of my improved envelop. ,Fig. 2 is a back view thereof, and Fig. 3 a vertical sectional elevation taken on the line w w of Fig. 2.

In the practice of my invention I employ a box or envelop A, having a iiap A', which is preferably held in closed position by means of a clip B, .whichis fastened to the back a of the envelop and has its prongs extended through an eyeleted opening a in the flap'A. By this means the envelop can be readily opened and closed; but I-do not confine myself to this specific means for4 fastening.

The device is composed of stout paper sufiiciently stl-ong to admit of transportation A without liability of being torn,

receiving an address, and a l for receiving a postage-stamp located on difand it may be of any desirable proportion and contour.

Upon the face of the envelop is placed an address-receiving sheet C, which is'provided around three of its edges with perforations c, c', and c2. This sheet is pasted at three edges outside of the perforations to the face of the envelop, whereby the central part C may be readily torn away.. A similar sheet D is secured in a like manner to the face of the envelop at the upper right-hand corner to receive postage and cancellation-marks. This sheet is provided with three rows of perforations d, al', edge parts outside of the rows of perforations, whereby its central part D may be readily removed, together with the canceled stamps, after the envelop has been once used.'

In the operation and use of the invention the sender addresses the removable part C of the sheet C, as illustrated by Fig. 1 of the draw-y ings, and places a stamp or stamps upon the part D' of the sheet D, whereby the device is ready for mailing. Thenl in order to reuse the envelop it is simply necessary to remove the parts are presented for receiving a new address and new postage-stamps. Y

In the process of manufacturing this device the first user can have his address printed upon the space a2 beneath the part C' of the sheet C before the said sheet is pasted on, and also return 4postage-stamps may be pasted on the surface back of the sheet D before said sheet is placed in position. Thus I provide an. eilicient means for transmitting articles or papers through the mails twice in the same package, and when the sender employs his printed address on the face of the envelop back of the sheet C the device may be `used a number of times by attaching new sheets C and D.

l Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, Patent, is-

1. An envelop having a separate sheet C for separatelsheet D ferent parts of the envelop on the face there- C and D,whereupon clean surfaces' and desire to secure by Letters of, the said sheets being pasted at only three edges and each having removable parts, C and D' respectively, substantially as shown and described.

' 2. The combination, with an envelop, as A of the separate sheets C and .D each pasted at three edges, sheets C having each only three rows of perforations o c' c2 and'sheets D having each three rows of perforations d d' d, whereby the major parts C and D of said sheets may be separately removed, substantially as shown and described. A

3'. The combination, with an envelop as A and means for fastening the same, of the sheets C and D having each three rows of perforations c c 'c2 and d d d2, respectively located on dilerent parts of the envelop, and each being pasted to the envelop at only three edges each outside of the perforations, whereby the inner. and major parts C and D' of the said sheets may be separately removed, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that l claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of two witnesses, this 14th day of March,

1902." WILLISTON WIGIITMAN KLUGH.

v`Witnesses:

E. M. MATTHEWS,

JOHN HILLIARnHooK.

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