US739232A - Mailing-tube. - Google Patents

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PATENTBD SEPT. 15,1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented September 15, 193

HENRY LATHROP STAFFORD, OF MARQUETTE, MICHIGAN.

MAILING-TUBE..`

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 739,232, dated September 15, 1903.

' Application iled January 27, 1903. Serial No. 140,766. (Nomodel.)

the art to which it appertains to makeand use the same.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple and highly-efficient mailing-tube so constucted as to insure the easy removal of an article shipped therein without damaging the same or injuring the tube.

' The invention will be hereinafter fully set forth, and particularly pointed out in the claim'. i

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional View of a mailingtube constructed. in accordance with my invention. inner cup or receptacle.

Referring to the drawings, l designates the main tube or cylinder, of cardboard or other preferred material. At or near one end the cylinder is provided with a stop or seat 2,

shown in the drawings as being in the form ble covering 4, preferably consisting of a strip piece of material in the form shown, or it may be composed of two parts, the disk forming Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the the bottom and the cylindrical body portion being secured together in anypreferred manner. n

In practice the papers, drawings,vor other article to be transmitted are rolled into cy lcontacts with seat 2, after ywhich the covering 4 is turned inward or otherwise manipulated to properly lclose the cylinder.` Thus PATENT. OFFICE. v-

`the tube may be mailed without danger'of Y injury toits contents. To remove the latter, the covering lis opened out and pressure applied by `thenger to the bottom of cup 5 through the adjacent end of the cylinder, whereupon the other end of the'article will be projected from the cylinder sufficiently far to permit of'its being grasped, and thus wholly Withdrawn. Should the cup fail to come with it, the same may be removedlby means of a stick or pencil. Y

The advantages of my invention are apparent. The danger of injuring the inclosed roll in the insertion or removal thereof` from a mailing-tube is entirely avoided, since such roll is held compact by the ferrule-like cup on one end thereof, which cup is always placed ,on the roll before insertion of the. latter in the tube and is usually removed with the roll. The tendency of the latterbeing to expand, the cup avoids the binding thereof against the tube at one end, permitting the removal and insertion of the roll with perfect safety. The mailing-tube is composed of but and removed and which permit of ready inspection of the contents without damaging the latter or the tube. Furthermore, the latter is capable of continued use.

I claim as'my invention- As an article of manufacture, a mailingtube comprising an open-ended cylinder formed at one end with an internal seat, a

flexible covering secured to the other end of ticle being,r inclosed Within the cylinder by the the cylinder and designed to be folded theresaid flexible covering. 1o in, and a removable cup or receptacle of In testimony whereof I affix my signature slightly less diameter than that of the cylinin presence of two Witnesses.

der, such cup being designed to accommodate HENRY LATHROP STAFFORD.

one end of the rolled article to be inclosed -VVitnesses'.:

Within the cylinder, and when inserted in the B. A. MAHER, latter bear against said seat, such rolled ar- WILLIAM S. I-IILL.

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