An Improved Check or Check-ticket.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Mar., 1895-Accepted, 13th Apr., 1895
An Improved Check or Check-ticket.
A communication by HEINRICH BROECKER, of 8, Holstenstrasse, Lübeck, in the
Empire of Germany.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON F.C.S., M.1.M.E., of The Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6 Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street,
Manchester both in the County of Lancaster, 118 New Street, Birmingham in
the County of Warwick and 31 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
This invention has for its object a check or check-ticket which shall enable
managers to obtain a sure check over people attending dancing saloons, race
courses and similar places, or travelling on railways or the like and which shall
deprive such persons of the chance of using a check more than once.
This improved check is shown on the accompanying drawings, in which,
Figures 1 and 2 show two views of a check in the form of an acute angle with
the flap closed down and opened out respectively;
Figures 3 and 4 two similar views of a polygonal check, and
Figures 5 and 6 two similar views of a round check.
In place of the checking devices at present employed, which mainly consist in
the use of check-ribbons or bands, slips or tickets, the checking device which
forms the object of this application consists of a small piece of cardboard or paper
which is slotted radially to its centre and there extended into a circular opening.
This circular opening merely serves to receive a button shank or fastening, whilst
the slot extending to the outside edge of the check-ticket allows the latter to be
slipped over an ordinary coat button. These improved checks are fastened to the
coat-button or the like of the person to be checked by passing the slot cg or 1 of
the check or ticket a e or i over the shank of the button until the latter comes into
the circular opening bf or k in the centre of the check. The strip d h or m which
is gummed on one side is then raised up, moistened on the gummed surface and
then stuck down over the slotted part of the check so that it is impossible to
remove the latter without tearing it. In order to more clearly show the gummed
inner surface of the strips d h and m they are shaded in the drawing. As the
checks themselves may be made of paper and of any suitable form and colour, their
cost is extremely small and if it be desired to obtain a very rigorous control or
check, the colours and shapes may be frequently changed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
An improved check or check-ticket for use at race-courses, railways, dancing
saloons and the like, consisting of a check or ticket of any desired colour or form
slotted radially to its centre and there extended to a circular opening and having a
suitable gummed strip, whereby the ticket or check may be slipped over a garment-
button and be secured there by sticking down the gummed strip over the slot in

page_text: such a way that any removal of the check or ticket is impossible without damaging
the same substantially as described and shown.
Dated this 7th day of March 1805
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents.