Improvements in or relating to Cheque Books.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 26th Oct., 1895
Improvements in or relating to Cheque Books.
I, LAURENCE ST. JOHN BRODRICK of 67, Bootham, in the City and County of
York, Inspector of The Board of Agriculture, 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 relates to cheque books and has for its object to provide same with
blotting paper so arranged mounted and combined therewith as to always be at
hand ready for use.
According to my present invention I either form the front cover itself of blotting
paper in place of the ordinary front cover of a cheque book or in addition to using
the ordinary or any suitable cover I may arrange and combine therewith one or
more sheets of blotting paper inside the said front cover and between same and the
cheques and either of the same size and shape as the cover itself or of the cheques
or of any other suitable size shape or form-cheque books thus provided with
blotting paper interleaved being bound up in the usual or any suitable manner.
Furthermore in addition to the blotting paper thus provided for blotting the
cheques I also provide a piece of blotting paper of the size approximately the size
of the counterfoil interposed and bound up between each counterfoil and the next
after the manner common in diaries except that these small pieces of blotting paper
only extend over the counterfoil and do not extend over the cheque.
Thus as each cheque is written out I not only provide blotting paper ready at
hand to blot each such cheque successively before tearing same out from the book
but also provide separate means for blotting the counterfoils as well.
Or if desired the separate insertion of blotting paper between each counterfoil
may be dispensed with in which latter case the counterfoil can be blotted with the
same blotting paper as that provided for blotting the cheques.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. The combination with a cheque book of a sheet or sheets of blotting paper
bound up therewith either inside the front cover or forming the front cover itself to
said book to thus provide means ready at hand to blot each cheque successively
substantially in the manner hereinbefore described.
bound up therewith
2. A cheque book having a sheet or sheets of blotting paper
either inside the front cover or forming the front cover of said book to thus provide
means ready at hand to blot each cheque successively in combination and acting in
conjunction with smaller sheets of blotting paper inserted and bound up between
each counterfoil and the next and approximately of the size of the latter
substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described.
3. The improved cheque book constructed arranged and combined substantially
in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described.
Dated this 25th day of September 1895.
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.