US1198691A - Structure for use as stencil-card. - Google Patents

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E.D.BELKNAR STRUCTURE FOR USE AS STENCIL GARD.

APPLICATlON FILED MAR,29.1916.

Patented Sept. 19, 1916.

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UNITED STATS ATENT OFFICE,

EDWIN D. BELKNAP, OF EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY.

STRUCTURE FOR USE AS STENCIL-CARD.

To all rrhom it may concern:

lle it known that I, Enwm D.'BELKNAP, a citizen of the lnited States of America, residing at East Orange, county of Essex, State of New .lersey,'have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Structures for Use as Stencil-Cards, of which the fol- 7 In the production of such stencil cards certain conflictingconditions have to be neutralized. That is to say, the stencil card must have a certain stiffness sutlicient to enable it to he handled rapidly by a feeding apparatus in the printing machine without thecards buckling; and at the same time the frames employed to give the card this stiffness must have an ai'ipre'ciahle thickness so that the cards may he fed forward in a series edgcto edge, one propelling, another along a slottedguideway. without danger of the edges overlapping and one card sliding over or partly \vedging under another. while at the same time the blank which is to he stciicilized must have suflicieii't flexibility and consequent thinness to permit it to readily adapt itself to the curvature. of the platen of the t \'pe\vri tiiig machine upon which it is stcncilizcd. Also, it is desirable that the frame of the stencil card shall have a projecting portion aloiigone edge upon which various indexing marks and record data may he placed and such extension in terferes with the convenient manipulation of the ard in a typewriting machine.

My invention overcomes these ditliculties and produces a structure which in its combined and constituent'elements has all of these various qualities to the highest degree during the different steps of the treatment above outlined, without any one interfering with the other.

The best form of apparatus embodying my invention at present known to me is illustrated in the accompanying sheet of drawings in which Figure 1 is a face view of the completed card; Fig. 2 is asimilar View of the same Specification of Letters Patent. P t t d S t 19 191 Application filed March 29, 1916.

Serial No. 87,598.

with the two component elements partly dissociated and Fig. 3 is an exaggerated "cross section taken on line 33 of Fig, 1.

Throughout the drawings like reference characters indicate like parts.

1 and 2, represent sheets of material such as stiff paper or thin cardboard which are duplicates one of another. Each is of substantially rectangular shape and has substantially rectangular openings which, when the two sheets are superposed, register one with another to form an opening 7. The

two cardboard sheets 1 and 2, are preferably fastened together by cement and the narrow strip 3, of paper, cardboard or other spacing material. along all their edges except for a space left open to form a slit opposite one end of the opening 7. This unfilled space is long enough to permit the insertion and withdrawal of a blank or stencilized card composed of the rectangular frame 5 of coin mratively thin and flexible material and the sheet 6 of parchment or treated paper adapted to be stencilized by perforation or by type pressure such as described in Letters latent'Xo. 1,110,869 to F..D. and E. l). Ilelknap. dated September .1? 1914, and similar patents, cemented thereto.- As this unccmentcd space is'sljghtly longer than the frame 5 is wide, and frame 5 is wider than opening 7. it follows. that this unfilled or unccmentcd space is somewhat longer than that dimension of opening 7, which is parallel tothe unfilled or mice nicnted or uiifastened edges. This flexible card is of such length that when the same is pushed home through this opening. it occupies the position shown in Fig. 1, the inner outlines of its frame 5, approximating the outlines of the openings 7, in the sheets 1 and 2. I

Preferably the edges of sheets 1 and 2, opposite one end of the opening 7, and within the space not filled by the spacing strip 3, have registering arc-shaped cut-away portions 1, through which a portion of the end of the tlexibleframe 5, is exposed. Preferably also, the extension 8, of the main frame formed by the two sheets land 2, fastened together as above described, is treated with some one of the well known preparations, such as silicate compositions, which form a surface film on which ink or lead pencil marks can readily be made and from which they can be erased withequal readiness.

by the. flexible frame and treated or parchment sheet (3 may be removed from the containing frame by grasping one end of frame where it is exposed through the cutaway portions 4, and withdrawing it from the frame in the manner indicated in Fig. of the drawings, .and said flexible inner card can then be conveniently manipulated in an ordinary t'ypewriting machine to stencilize same, the flexible frame read i l y assuming the necessary curvature required to enable it-to lie closeto the typewriter platen. After the blank is stencilized and formed into astencil cari'h-it is then rein sertedin the stiff, frame formed by the sheets 1 and 2 and spacing strip 3, and can be readily employedin the ordinary stencil address printing inacliineJ TAt the same time any desired indexing matter or other data' regarding the. customer whose name and address is stencilized upon the inner sheet may be marked upon the treated surface of-the extension 8, of the outer frame and later, if desire(l, -all or a portion of these marks may be readily erased and more .up-todate records and data substituted.

- A further advantage of the invention arises from the fact that different stencil blanks may be employed in the one frame! Thus, for instance, in the case of a bnsines's'fifin openingan account with a new customer or merely sending advertising matter to a prospective Customer apart of the, initial expense" can be saved by using. a cheap parchment stencilmaterial through which the name ,and address perforated .by the old fashipned perforating type and then'later if the lar customer, in 'correspondence withwhom a morefini shed typegof address or billing may estroyed and -."the' -mo're' modern card pr "usingtbe facsimile typewriter stencil maybeemployed.

Having describedmy invention I claim: 7 1. The combination, with a stencil sheetor blank adapted to be stencilized having a comparatively thin surroundi'n frame of a flexibility sufficient to enab eit to be easily shaped to the curvature of a type writer'- platen roll, of a second, rectangular, double -'thickness frame of stiff material having a face opening substantially c0rre-. spontlingto the outline, of the inner margin ithc first mentioned frame, and anedge opening or slit large enough to ermit the insertion and withdrawal of the rst frame and attached s'tcnc'ilized sheet. V 2, The combination, with a stencil sheet or-blank-adapted to be stencilized having a comparatively thin surrounding frametof a flexibility sufiicient to enable it to be prospect becomes, a regu frame and attached stenrilized sheet. said.

outer frame 'harin; an extension alon g one edge adapted to receive ink and lead penril marks and to erasure thereof. y

3. The romhination,- with a rectangular frame composed of two sheets of comparatively stilt" material having registering rec-.

tangular openii'igs therein and fastei ed t"o-' gethe'r along'alledgesexrept for a spaee'oppositg one end of the rectangular openings permit the subsequent and slightlylonger than the dimension thereof parallel to said unfastened edgies, of a. stencil rard having a flexible rectangular frame adapted to be inserted between the first mentioned two sheets tl iroi'lgh theahore mentioned space and having an inner out line approximating the outlines ofv the, registering openings in said two sheets. i

4. The. combination with a rex-tangnlar frame composed of two sheets of con'iparalirely stiff material having registeringrectangul ar openings"therein and fastened to- V gether alom all edgesexcept fora space opposite, one end ot the rectangularopem inns and slightly longer than the dimensionthereot 'pa rallelto said wunfnstene d '1 'dges,1 of j a stencil card-having a flexiblerectiihgular,

frame adapted to finsertcdgjbetween'the first mentioned two sheets throughi'tlie'aboye mentioned spaceand' havin'g a'n inner ontline a pproxiinatingt-he outl nes o fthereg' v istering openings in said-two'sheets, saidf is desired. the cheap perforated stencil card two sheets haying registering cutaway; portions along theiredges adjacent-said unfastenedportions, at which one-endof the flexi-.

hle inner frame is exposed. A y 5."The Combination, with a rectangular frame composed of two 'sheetsfof compara twely stiff material having registering roc EDWIN i). BELKNAP.

Witnesses: RICHARD C. Snow",

G. P. PAYSON;

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