US758091A - Coin-mailing card. - Google Patents

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No. 758,091. PATENTED APR. 26, 1904.

0. MUSSINAN. 00m MAILING (mm).

' APPLICATION FILED AUG. 31, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

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UNITED STATES Patented April 26, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

OSCAR MUs'siNAN, OF'NEw YORK, N. Y., Assieuon TO Dennison MANU- FAGTURING COMPANY, A CORPORATION or MASSACHUSETTS.

COIN-MAILING CARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 758,091, dated April 26, 1904.

Application filed August 31, 1903.

To all whom it may concern:

- Be it known that I, OSCAR MUSSINAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city, county, and State of New'York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coin-Mailing Cards, of which the following isa specification.

My invention relates to coin-mailing cards,

and has for its object the production of a card of but a single piece and Without an additional backing or gummed section and which is at the same time adapted to secure and retain the coin in a plane with its front and back. To attain this end I puncture and perforate the card in such a manner so as to cause the formation of enveloping-flaps which are alternately depressed from the opposite sides of the card, the depressions being equal to the thickness of the coin and the flaps tending to retain the coin within the pocket thus formed in the card. These'and other details of construction are described in the following specification and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings accompanying this specification and forming a part thereof like reference characters are adapted to distinguish like parts.

Figure l is a view of one side of a coinmailing card of my improved construction. Fig. 2 is a card of modified construction. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the modified form shown in Fig. 2 andon the line 3 8. Fig. 4 is a modified form of card, in which the arcshaped slits 4 are widened so as to form openings 14, as hereinafter described.

The coin-mailing card in general use is constructed of two or more pieces, a card and a paper flap adapted to be pasted down upon the card after the coin is placed in anopening for its reception. This opening has a permanent paper backing, and the coin is then held between the two papers. Other methods are used to inclose coins in cards, but all using additional papers or cards to effect the retention of the coin. In the constructions shown in the drawings it has been my object to provide a card for retaining the coin at some point on its face while being transmitted by Serial No. 171,315.. (No model.)

in arc-shaped slits 4 slightly larger than the coin intendedto be placed in the pocket, (the size of said coin being indicated in the drawings by dotted lines,) and the upper and lowerends of these arc-shaped slits are joined by approximately diametrical slits 5 and 6.- Between the slits 5 and 6 is left the strip 7 which unites the main body of the card on each side of the slits 4. The slit 6 is preferably arcshaped for the purpose of guiding the coin into the pocket for its reception, and all the slits make the two almost semicircular flaps 8, which are united with the body of the card-- board by the comparatively narrow necks or joints 9. From the side of the card as viewed in Fig. 2 the flaps 8 are depressed; but the strip 7 is in relief, leaving between the two a space equal the thickness of the coin, which when in place is restrained from diametrical shifting by the circular walls formed by the slits 4L and the joint 9, while it'is held from dropping out by the flaps 8 and strip/7.

The modification shown in Figs. 2 and 3,

while similar to that shown in Fig. 1, diifers from it inhaving two arc-shaped slits 20, which make the cross-strip 21. This construction strengthens the strip 21 at the points where the greatest strain upon them occurs, and at. the same time the curved lines of the sides of the strips help to guide the coin toward the center of the pocket formed for its reception. The cross-sectional view, Fig. 3, shows the proximity of the strip 21 with the flaps 22 and the relation of the same to the pocket formed thereby to contain the coin.

In Fig. i practically oval-shaped openings 14 are formed, and slits are out nearly parallel with the diameter of the pocket thus formed for the coin. .Flaps 15 are thus formed for depression, and a cross-strip 16 is formed in relief.

The inner faces of the various flaps and strips here shown and described-that is, the faces which come in contact with the coiumay be provided with gum to be moistened to glue the coin thereto and more effectually secure its retention to the card, although the rigidity of the material composing the card is of a character sufiicient to remain in the shape given it while the coin is in its place and the whole inclosed in an envelop.

In the various figures I have designated the depressed flap by means of shaded surfaces that they may readily be distinguished from the plane of the card or the elevated surfaces, and throughout this specification I have used the term, depressed to designate that flap which receives the farther side of the coin or is the bottom of the receptacle. The terms elevation or relief refer to those flaps or portions of the card which come in contact with the exposed face of the coin.

Various modifications may at times suggest themselves in the production of these cards without departing from the broad idea of a coin-mailing card made of a single piece.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A coin-maillng card having a clrcular pocket for the reception of a coin, the circular portion of the card forming the pocket being provided with two approximately diametrical slits and also with slits around portions of the circumference of the circle, whereby segmental portions of the said circular portion of the card are nearly separated from the portions of the cardoutside the circle, said segmental portions being deflected below the plane of the card but parallel thereto so as to form the bottom of the coinpocket, and the portion between the two approximately diametrical slits being deflected above the plane of the card but parallel thereto so as to form a retaining-strip for holding the coin in the pocket.

2. A coin-mailing card having a circular pocket for the reception of a coin, the circular portion of the card forming the pocket be ing provided with two approximately diametrical slits, as 5 and 6, and also with slits, as 4, around portions of the circumference of the circle, whereby segmental portions, as 8, of the said circular portion of the card are nearly separated from the portions of the card outside the circle, said segmental portions being deflected below the plane of the card but parallel thereto so as to form the bottom of the coin-pocket, and the portion, as

7, between the two approximately 'diametrical slits being deflected above the plane of the card but parallel thereto, so as to form a retaining-strip for holding the coin in the pocket.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name, this 24th day of August, 1903, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

OSCAR MUSSIN AN.

Witnesses:

EDWARD G. DELANEY, WM. N. MACLEAN.

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