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Application filed October 29,1889. Serial No. 328)571. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Alfred George Beale, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Tunbridge Wells, in the 5 county of Kent, England, have invented a Bottle-Envelope, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of this invention is to superio sede the use of wrapping-paper for bottles containing medicine, scent, or other liquids or objects, and to substitute therefor a cheaper, neater, and more expeditiously-applied means for wrapping up bottles. I make it in the 15 form of an envelope, which is closed at the bottle-mouth or stopper end, where it is tapered down to smaller dimensions, and which can be closed at the other end by means of a covering-flap.

I make the envelope, by preference, of paper joined together by gum or other suitable adhesive material, as is usual with envelopes; or in some cases it may be made of gelatine or other suitable sheet material, and I pro25 vide the tongue part of the closing-flap with gum or other suitable adhesive material for closing it with; or I may use any other suitable means for fixing the flap upon the envelope when closing it; or I make the envelope of 30 paper-pulp pressed up in a mold, the flap being of the same material, or of paper gummed or otherwise fixed thereto.

The envelope is made in various sizes and forms to suit the size and general contour of 35 the bottles. It is made by hand or by any suitably-adapted envelope machinery.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of an envelope in the folded-up form for transmission or storage. Fig. 2 shows 40 it applied to a bottle, and Fig. 3 is a top plan view.

The envelope-blank, having been cut out to the required shape for the finished article, is folded over and gummed together—for in45 stance, along the seams a,b b, and c, Fig. 1.

The flap d, which I preferably form integral with the envelope, though it may be formed separately and gummed or otherwise attached thereto, as before stated, has a portion d', 50 which has such shape as will nearly correspond to that which the opening at the bottom of the envelope will assume when the bottle has been inserted, so that when the flap is folded over said opening said portion d' will serve to entirely close the same, and 55 thus form a bottom for the envelope. The flap d is also provided with a tongue d², which, after being gummed, renders the en- . velope ready for use. The bottle can then be put into it, as shown in Fig. 2, and the flap 60 folded over and the gummed tongue part cl²caused to adhere to the envelope; or the tongue part may be without gum and be made to adhere by means of sealing-wax or by other suitable means. ' 65