US658344A - Letter-sheet. - Google Patents

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No. 658,344. Patenied Sept. 25, |900. S. GLAWSUN` LETTER SHEET.

(Application led Oct. 19, IBQBJ /ff--M A Tram/E Ys.

SPENCER CLAWSON, OF SALT LAl'". 'Ui'i J, 'IAU.

LETTER-SH EET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 658,344, dated September 25, 1900. Application filed October 19, 1898. Serial No. 693,989. (No model.)

To all wiz-m t nfl/ty con/cern:

Be it known that I, SPENCER CLAWsoN, of Salt Lake City, in the county of SaltLake and State of Utah, have invented a new and Improved Letter-Sheet, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a letter-sheet and envelop combined in such a manner that the letter may be written and the sheet conven- :o iently severed from the envelop, so as to be placed therein, the object being to promote con veuience in the conduct ofextensive business correspondence,and especiallyinconnection with type-writer work. This specification is the disclosure of one form of myinvention, while the claims define the actual scope of the'invention.

AReference is to be had to the accompanying drawings1 forming a part of this specification, vin which similar characters of reference indiate corresponding parts in all the figures.

`I1`igure 1 is a face view of the invention. Fig. 2is a back view thereof, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged or exaggerated section on the line 3 '3 of Fig. 2. In producing the invention a `continuous web of paper is formed',` and when this paperis undergoing the process of formationa number of separate sheets of paper, of which envelops are subsequentlyto be made, are i dropped i oi placed upon the web, so as to x adhere thereto tnd to become an integral part of the fabric thv-reef. If desired, the envelop ay-l be first completely formed and then dropped upon he web of paper-stock.

Inthe drawings, a, represents the continuous fggpaper, and b represents the envelop. "finished product, therefore, is a continuou webof paper a, having a number of envelps spaced thereon at equidistant points, the ront faces of the envelops being, as shown in Fig .3,a part ofthe fabric ofthe web. "he front ace of the web therefore forms the front face of the envelop a` d bears the address thereof. The web is pro\ ded at the upper edge of the envelopwith .sco'e-lines c and at the lower 'edge of the enve'op with score-lines d, such score-lines rnnr ing parallel directly alongthe edges of the f velops. The web is furtherI provides with score-lines e, located at the Lighthand end of each envelop. The score-lines c, (Z, and e tht" fore provide means by which the en velops may readily be severed from the we b of paper a, and such score-lines also form a rectangular section of paper f, which may be 'severed from the web and destroyed, it being waste material. It will thus be seen that there is provided on the web a number of envelops, between which in tervenes asheetof the web a, such sheet forming the letter-sheet or paper on which the letter should be Written. In practice the article may be supplied in the contin nous form shown in Figs. land 2,which may be wound in a roll and the paper drawn therefrom as'the letters are written, or, if desired, before the letters are written the `feb may be severed on the score-lines d and-divided up into a number of sheets, each of which will contain a section of the web a. for the letter-sheet, with an envelop b at the bettom thereof. The score-lines c, d, and e are provided to make it possible to riffiily separate the several parts of the letter-sheet. lt is clear, however, that other means may be provided for this purpose, if desired. One of the principal features of my invention consists of the formation of the web a and envelop b integral with each other, which is effected during the formation of the paper and which results in the front face of the envelop being a part of the fabric of the web. This is a very economical manner of constructing the parts and avoids the use'of cement for joining the envelops with the web. It also strengthens the front face of the envelop and produces a very much more de .:able article.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A lette1sheet,consisting of a sheet of paper adapted to have a letter written thereon, and an envelop dropped on the sheet paper in the process of forming the paper, s0 that the front face of the envelop Will become an integral part of the fabric of the lettersheet, the envelop .ng adapted to be separated from the letter-sheet so as to permit placing the letter within the envelop.

2. Letter-sheen formed of' a continuous web of paper navi c er.; o i Jp., attached thereto at various points along the length of the the web havin0r score-lines at, lche hppf gmajllglHAV web, so nhatrthe letters may be written o n Bhe lower edges*- Jfilial-:r1ve ops, Eely-to perro spaces betweenl the evelops, and the envolm1 separating thefeuvelg fromhe wg ops separated from the web topermib placing 'MWT Y g the letters within taheenvelops. l bpmk CER CLA-WSON'.

Letter-sheets, consisting of a somnnoa Wi messes:

web of papel' having en velops attached hhereu- ISAAC B. OWENS',l

to at various points along the length thereof, JNO. M. RI'.L"T.ER.

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