Patent GB-359006-A (GB)
Title: Book keeping means
IPC: B42D12/00
Filed: 1930-07-09
Abstract: 359,006. Book-keeping. SCHÍNFELD, S., 5, Tulpengasse, Vienna. July 9, 1930, No. 20831. Convention date, July 11, 1929. [Class 16.] A book-keeping means comprises book-keeping sheets in which the horizontal entry rectangles are subdivided into a plurality of account rectangles in the amounts column for credit and debit and in all other columns designated for records not common to counter-accounts, and carbon copying sheets having apertures or uninked parts arranged so that in each entry rectangle only one of the account rectangles can be copied. Each of the entry rectangles 12, Fig. 1, of a journal sheet is subdivided in the amounts and the accounts columns 8, 9 into two sub-rectangles 13, 14, the sub-rectangle 13 serving for the debit and 14 for the credit amount, both rectangles being suitably marked by account symbols 15, 16 in one of the appropriate columns 8. Two carbon sheets are used with the journal, the first being cut away or uncoloured at parts corresponding to the sub-rectangle 13 and the second similarly treated for sub-rectangles 14. The sheets on which the copies appear consist of loose strips corresponding to entry rectangles 12 which are held together by two lateral strips corresponding to columns 1, 11 on the journal sheet. The rectangles 12 on the copy sheets can be separated and sorted out in the order of the accounts and according to the account symbols 15, 16, and then pasted, copied, transferred &c. to account sheets as shown in Fig. 2. To facilitate connecting several strips together before pasting-up on the account sheet the columns 2, 10 may be provided with dry adhesive. When original handwriting is to be registered cut-out parts 18, Fig. 8, are arranged on a covering strip provided with the same lines as the sheets, the transverse strips 38 of which cover the sub-rectangles 13 or 14 to be left blank on the original sheet and receive only the records to be transferred to the lower sheets. The covering- strip or sheet permits reprints or copies to be made from a copy containing both sub-rectangles 13, 14. If original handwriting has to appear on both subrectangles 13, 14 of the copy sheets the cut-out parts are provided in the copy sheets themselves. The carbon &c. sheets may be connected together, or there may be provided an integral sheet which is inked on one half on one side and the other half inked on the other side such that after folding the sheet, their cut-out or uninked parts are staggered relatively to each other. Similarly the copy sheets, the covering sheets, the covering and carbon sheets, or the covering and copy sheets may be connected or made integral. The folds may form stops for other sheets, and the folded edges of the copying-sheets may be reinforced by impregnation or by a pasted strip. The folds of one group, such as the journal sheets and copy sheets, may be arranged at the sides and those of the other group on the top or on the top and bottom. A handstamp for the book-keeping means comprises a baseplate on which type-bars can be secured, each bar carrying reference signs which are spaced apart to stamp in the rectangles 12. The typebars may be permanently secured to or integral with the baseplate, or the ends may be rotatably mounted in bearings which are pressed to the baseplate by springs. A sorting-device for the bookkeeping means comprises a main frame 19, 20, Fig. 4, to which is hinged a frame portion 23 having an aperture 22. The hinge-arms may comprise parts 24, 25 movable relatively to each other and journalled on a spindle 26 on the main frame, or each hinge-arm may be replaced by one arm which engages by means of a pin in a longitudinal slot in the portion 20 of the main frame. In use the main frame 19, 20 is placed on the amounts column and the aperture 22 is placed over the column 8 under consideration. Teeth 21 on the main frame 19, 20 can be lifted individually to uncover the amounts.