Patent GB-443280-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in counter sale books
IPC: B41L1/24
Filed: 1935-06-17
Abstract: 443,280. Memorandum appliances. HANO, E., 56, Canal Street, Holyoke, Massachusetts, U.S.A. June 17, 1935, No. 17432. Convention date, Aug. 13, 1934. [Class 16] A memorandum appliance comprises a cover member, a box-like receptacle secured to the cover member for receiving a pack of manifolding forms, a writing plate hinged on the receptacle and formed with a slot adjacent the hinged end through which sets of manifolding forms are drawn from the receptacle on to the writing plate to be placed in alternate relation with transfer sheets removably secured to the writing plate, and means secured on the receptacle or cover member for removably attaching thereto a bound book, this means being positioned to permit placing of a sheet of the book on the writing plate beneath a transfer sheet for making copies of an entry made on the original sheet of the manifold set. The cover consists of a back 2, Fig. 3, and a front 3, joined by a flexible portion. A receptacle 5 is secured on the back 2, and a writing plate 6 hinged at its upper end 7 to the receptacle is provided with a slot 9, adjacent the hinges, through which sets 10 of a pack of manifolding forms may be drawn on to the plate. Transfer sheets, each provided at the top end with a reinforcing strip of strong paper &c. which extends beyond the sheet at each side and is formed with slots, are secured in the plate 6 by engagement of the slots on studs secured on the plate 6 adjacent the slot 9. The forms and transfer sheets are held in position on the plate 6 by means of a removable flexible strip 16 formed with end slots which engage the studs on the plate 6. A U-shaped spring clip 18, secured to the bottom of the receptacle 5, is adapted to receive a bound book or pad 20 of translucent or opaque record sheets. The appliance is arranged for use by arranging a set of forms 10 interleaved with transfer sheets on the plate 6, an extra transfer sheet being provided below the bottom form, and then placing a sheet of the book 20 under the bottom transfer sheet. When an entry has been made on the top manifold form 10<1>, the hinged plate 6 is raised, whereby the used sheet of the book 20 is withdrawn and falls into the receptacle 5 on top of the manifold pack therein, and the used manifolding forms are pulled across the plate 6 to bring a fresh set into position for use. The sets of manifolding forms are torn off along lines of perforations. When a book 20 of transparent sheets is used, one of the transfer sheets is omitted. In a modification, the spring clip for the bound book is secured on the cover member adjacent a side edge of the receptacle, and the latter is pivotally secured at its opposite side edge to the cover member. A used sheet of the book is withdrawn from the writing plate by raising the receptacle itself, whereupon the used sheet falls on to the cover member beneath the receptacle, where all the used sheets of the book are stored. The construction shown in Fig. 3 may also be modified to allow the used sheets of the bound book to be stored beneath the receptacle by hinging the latter to the cover member. In a further modification, where a manifolding pack comprising a web folded longitudinally is provided, and where the intermediate transfer sheet can only be held at one end, the top end of the sheet 34, Fig. 17, is wrapped around a bar 35 and held thereon by a clip 36. The bar 35 is formed at one end with slots which engage studs 15, 39 on the writing plate 6.