US1470051A - Forwarding envelope - Google Patents

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A. B. ASHBY FORWARDING ENVELOPE Filed May 2. 1921 LTHOIMQA Patented Oct. 9, 1923.

ALLE1\T B. ASHBY, OF BGNNERS FERRY,*'IDAHO.

ronwaanme ENVELOPE.

1 .App1ication filed Ma 2, '1921. ;Seria1, No. 466,113.

To all 107mm it may concern Be it known that I, ALLEN B. ASHBY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bonners F erry, in Boundary. County and the State of Idaho, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Forwarding Envelopes, of which the following isa specificatio My present invention relates to improvements in forwarding envelopes designed especially foruse in the mails when it is desired to forward a, communication in a single packet to a succession. of destinations, and finally returned to thQSQQQlGI OI initial source of tra el, or to a predetermined desti nation. The primary object ofv the inventionis the provisionof an envelope of this (-liaracterwhich has asuccession of idispensible address sheets or "leaves, each of 'vhich,

' while innse as a partof theenvelope, is

utilized to seal, the enclosed parts until they 1 are utilized. And after the last auxiliary leaf has been utilized the envelope in its final form aifords 'a properly sealed and protected enclosure for the article inclosed.

lVith the above objects in view the invention consists in certain novelicombinations and arrangements ofparts' and in the formationof the envelope blanks, as will be hereinafter inore fully pointed out and claimed. 1

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated one complete example of the physical embodiment of my invention in which 3 the parts are combine'dfland arrangedfaccording to the best model have thus far devised forthe practical "application of the principles of my invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the blank used in the formation of the envelope. Figure 2 is a perspective view of the em velope complete inits initial form, ready for sealing and looking at the rear of the packet.

Figure 3 is a transverse sectional view of the envelope in its initialform and sealed, the parts being. exaggerated for convenience in illustration.

Figure 4 is a longitudinal sectional view of the envelope of Figure 3.

In the preferred form of the invention as shown in the drawings the envelope is made from a single sheet or blank cut and bent or folded on scored'lines produced by suitable machinery, and the envelopes are prepared in their initial form by use of suitable and proper machinery.

The blank, as indicatedin Figure 1 com prises six'leaves indicated as 1, 2, '3, 4,6, and 6, the two central leavesl 'and2 forming the pocket, which is open while the envelope is being forwarded to four; different destinations, but sealed against access thereto at. all

times by the presence of the four address leaves during its initial use, and also sealedduring subsequent'forwarding by the re-j maining leaves, as will be described. "After all of the leaves 3, 4, 5 and 6, orthe desired number of them have been used, the return envelope may be returned to the original sender, or be retained :by the last receiver asr'equired.

It will be noted that the two central leaves 7 1 and 2 are slcoredforf folding online 'A- to.

form the receptacle or pocket, thel lea f 2 being foldedupback of the lea f1 in Figure 1', and the leaf 1, which ha s 'thel address thereontowhich the return envelope is to, be finally sent has a 'gumntied flap 11? which is pensed with, is returned to the, original sender or to the final receiver. 'At '2 the i used only when the return envelope, after the four leaves have been detached or disleaf 2, which be'comesthe back of the envelope, is cut out to'facilitate accessto'the interior ofthe pocket. By foldin the two central-leaves at line A, the six eaves become paired, andthenthe pairs 56 and. 34: are folded on the respective lines D E andBC, covering the address leaf or front "1 oflthe envelope, the freeends S of each of these leaves being I gummed, as indicated. Thus the leaf 5. which, like the other leaves is perforated and gumm'ed'to form the outer strips S, is also'perforated at 'SalOng the fold D, the other leaves3,4, 6 b'eingl'also perforated along the respective folds The pair of leaves 5 6 are first folded over to the. left in Figure .1 andfgummedf and sealedalong edges S, theri'the pair"3- 4 are folded to the right in Figure 1, the free edge of leaf 3 being sealed to the folded edge; I

of leaf 6, and the free eclgeof leaf 4 is sealed to the free edge of leaf In this'manner the four free edges of ends of these leaves" 3, 4, 5, 6,are sealed, one pair at the left end of the envelope and the other pair at the right end of the envelope.

At their outersides, each of the leaves has a gumnied tab, indicated respectively as 3, P, 5?, and 6?, the'adhesive or gum being applied at the extreme edge of the tab and the tab being of suflicient length to be bent tabs 3 5 and 6 are. folded back: as indior folded over the unsealed {lap 1 and be affixed to the back wall 2 of the envelope. When not in use, or before being used, the

cated in Figure 3, and for initial use, the

tab 4 is folded over the-top edges. of all" the leaves and made to adherent-o the back wall 2 of the envelope as in Figure In this instance, and in the three subsequent uses the flap 1 remains unsealed, but is re 't ained in position by 'the particular tab that is in use. 7. I

In Figures 2, 3, and' l the envelope is shown prepared for its initial use,and after the tab l in Figure 2 has been bent down over theupp'en edges and enclosed tabs of the detachable leaves, said tab P is affixed to the back wall 2 as indicated in Figure 3,

where the forn'iation and spacing. of the parts are e-Xaggerated for clearness of illusnation.

lAs shown in Figure 3 the packet is ready for its first passage through the mails, and when received b-ythe addressee whose name appears on the front of leaf 4,,this leaf is detachedby severing the tab-4 and also.

severing the leaf l at its sealed ends S and ,Q, from the packet. By severing the tab 4 access may be. had to the pocket orfenv e packet is being usedffor I el pe.; a i -tracing a shipment of merchandise onthe railroad for instance, the inissive or coininunication may be withdrawn from the en- ,i velope, the proper data placed thereon and 35 i "The tab 3, is now afliired to the back of the 1 envelope or leaf 2, and it will be remembered thatthe ends. of the leaf 3 are secured, one end by its fold and the other by adherence to the succeeding leaf 6, the packet being thu's sealed at both'ends and over the top (edge. A postage stamp may be affixed at the upper right hand corner of the leaf 3,

and the packet remailed to a second destination, When received at the second destinas a the leaf 3 is detached and its at 3% broken or torn off giving access to the niis sive in the pocket. The packet may be sent to the third and fourth destinations under the same conditions, with additional ad-c dresses, and after the last address leaf'5 has been removed the front sheet or address sheet 1 of the envelope is disclosed and the envelope is sealed by affixing the flap 1 to the back wall 2, and the envelope returned to the first sender as first class mail. In this manner the missive or con'imunication may be transmitted to foursuccessive destinations and returned. to the original sender in first class condition. And by the use of such an envelope a considerable saving n1 material, postageand time is accomplished, to-

gether with accuracy. and facility in dis-' patching the mail matter.

Having thus fully described my :inven tion, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- I l. The ooml'nn'ation an envelope with sealed ends, of pairs of.

separableaddress leaves folded over the front of said envelope froinopposite ends p y with a pair ofmain, folded leaves forming the front and back of thereof, and means on-each'address leaffor 1 securing-its end, and means on eachqsepa rable leaf forsecuring a closure of the envelope.

2. A forwarding envelope comprising a single sheet fashioned with a pair of folded leaves sealed at their ends and forming the front and back of an envelope and a seallng flap on one of said leaves, a separable address leaf folded over the front leaf and.

attached thereto,an'd a securing tab on said separable leaf adapted to bend over thetop' edges of said leaves and be attached to the back. of the envelope. V

3. The combinationwith a pair of folded leaves sealedat their ends and forming the front and back of an envelope and a sealing flap on one of said leaves, of two pairs of oppositely folded andsealed separable -ad dress leaves, and a' sealing tab on each 'sepa rableaddress leaf adapted successively to be afiixed to the back of the envelope.

' In testimo'nywhereofl aflix my signature.

' ALLEN B. ASHBY.

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