SPECIALTY ENVELOPE

• US 3,692,233 A
• Filed: 05/13/1971
• Issued: 09/19/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: William J. Carter Jr
• Original Assignee: William J. Carter Jr
• Inventors: Carter, William J. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Leclair, Joseph R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Garbe, Stephen P.
• Application Number:
  US05/143,039
• Time in Patent Office: 495 Days
• Field of Search: 229/68,71,75,80,79,92.1,92.3
• US Class Current: 229/71
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 27/04 with apertures or windows for viewing contents

Abstract

A tamper proof specialty envelope includes a quadrilateral base panel to each edge of which a sealing flap is foldably joined. A main one of the sealing flaps is configured in the same general shape as the base panel and is folded into flat face-to-face relation therewith. The three remaining sealing flaps are foldably joined to the other three edges of the base panel respectively and are configured to form a composite panel formed of the three remaining coplanar flaps which are arranged in overlying relation to said one main sealing flap and secured thereto and constitute a tamper proof closure for an item such as a coin or a commemorative stamp disposed therein and observable through viewing windows formed in said base panel and in said main flap and in a certain one of said coplanar flaps. A sealing stamp is then affixed to portions of the three coplanar flaps and cancelling indicia is imprinted over the sealing stamp and over adjacent portions of each of the three coplanar sealing flaps.

Claims

1. An envelope comprising a base panel of quadrilateral configuration, a sealing flap foldably joined to each edge of said base panel, a main one of said sealing flaps being folded into flat face-to-face relation with said base panel and the remaining sealing flaps being folded into flat face-to-face relation with said main sealing flap, said remaining sealing flaps being coplanar with each other and being smaller in area than said main sealing flap and being configured to form a composite flap wherein an edge potion of each coplanar flap abuts an edge portion of each of the other two coplanar flaps, and means for securing said coplanar flaps to said main flap.

2. An envelope according to claim 1 wherein a sealing stamp is secured to all of said coplanar flaps in overlying relation with said abutting edge portions thereof.

3. An envelope according to claim 2 wherein stamp cancelling indicia is marked on said sealing stamp and on said coplanar flaps.

4. An envelope according to claim 1 wherein said main sealing flap is configured to coincide substantially with said base panel.

5. An envelope according to claim 1 wherein a viewing window is formed in said base panel and disposed in coincidental relation to viewing windows formed in said main flap and in one of said coplanar flaps whereby an object within the envelope and between said base panel and said main flap is observable with the envelope sealed closed.

6. An envelope according to claim 5 wherein positioning means is disposed within the envelope and arranged to hold an object within the envelope in a position to be viewed through said viewing windows.

7. An envelope according to claim 5 wherein translucent closures for two of said viewing windows are secured to the associated base panel and to said one of said coplanar panels respectively and affixed in overlying and sealing relation to the associated window.

8. An envelope according to claim 1 wherein all panels and flaps are constructed at least in part of translucent material.

9. An envelope according to claim 1 wherein one of said remaining coplanar sealing flaps in secured to said main sealing flap with contact adhesive.