Patent GB-488615-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to manifold recording appliances
IPC: B41L3/14
Filed: 1937-01-07
Abstract: 488,615. Book - keeping appliances. GILBERT, A. Jan. 7, 1937, No. 495. [Class 16] A manifolding appliance comprises a rigid supporting plate, means carried by the plate at one edge thereof for securing a record sheet or sheets on the plate against lateral and longitudinal movement, and a container adapted to receive further sheets, such as receipt slips, carried by the plate and having its rear wall always in a plane substantially parallel to the plate, the container having a withdrawal opening to enable the receipt slips to be withdrawn, and the container being so arranged or mounted that the slips can be withdrawn therefrom without disturbing the parallelism existing between the plate and the rear wall of the container. In one form, the container is pivotally mounted, and in another form it is rigidly mounted on the plate. The appliance comprises a metal supporting or back plate 1 provided with pins 6 for the reception of record sheets 7, and a clamp 2 mounted on arms 3 pivoted at 4 and adapted to engage over the pins to retain the sheets thereon. The clamp 2 is held in position on the pins by pivoted clasps 8. Further pins 9 on the back 1 project through slots in the sheets 7 for the reception of a receipt slip 17 which is superposed on the upper sheet 7. A further record sheet or a card 19 is placed under the upper sheet 7 and registered laterally by abutting the pins 9. All the sheets 7 and the slip 17 are carbonized at the back, whereby an entry made on the slip is recorded on the upper sheet 7 and on the sheet or card 19. A backing-sheet comprising a strip 10 of flexible material such as artificial leather is provided with perforations to fit over both sets of pins 6, 9 and underlies the record sheets 7, and has secured thereto by means of doubled metal strip 12 or the like a " stop " sheet 13 of celluloid or other substantially rigid material which is adapted to be placed under the sheet or card 19 during the writing of entries. A cover member 14 of leather &c. is secured by one edge to the rear side of the back plate 1 by a metal bar or strip and rivets. A supply of receipt slips 17 is kept in a container 22 pivotally mounted at the lower end to the underside of the back 1. As shown the container has been swung about its pivot for the removal of a slip 17 through an opening in the upper end of the container which is only reyealed when the container is swung away from the back 1. A flange 31 co-operates with a lip on the back 1 to guide the pivotal movement of the container, and a stop means is provided to limit the pivotal movement of the container. In a modification, the container is situated at the upper end of the back 1, and comprises an extension of the back 1 to lie in a plane below but parallel to the back, and a dish-shaped shallow member is riveted to the extension for the reception of the slips 17. A transverse strap is riveted across the lower end of the dish-shaped member to prevent the slips from falling out. The back 1 has a stiff cardboard &c. sheet secured thereto to compensate for the depressed upper portion of the back. If desired, the registration pins 9 may be provided on the clamping-bar 2 or on the opposite edge of the plate. Specifications 309,248, [Class 16], and 410,215 are referred to.