Combined Day and Bill Book.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 9th July, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 5th Aug., 1892-Accepted, 22nd Oct., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Combined Day and Bill Book.
I JOHN JOSHUA SPRIGGE of 63 Queen Victoria Street in the City of London
Solicitor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A book in which business entries of particulars of charge and the amount charged
in respect of such particulars can be made in such a manner that—while being
duplicated by a common method with black tracing paper-duplicates can be made
conveniently arranged for use as a diary or day book as regards the first, and as
regards the facsimile entry for division as bills preserving the distinctions of matters
charged and keeping their chronological order without rearrangement or further
labour beyond the smallest effort in sorting and filing at the time.
The first of the duplicates which being designed to remain in the book and form
part of the diary or day book is not detachable. The second of the duplicates
which being designed to be detachable and divisible for the purposes of bills is
perforated near the binding for the first purpose and crossways for division into
6 parts for the other purpose. These 6 divisions are designed to be of size and
form convenient for separation into the order of persons charged or matter, for filing
or inserting in paper clips and for preservation of same chronological order after
separation by permitting this to be done face downwards.
Dated this 7th day of July 1892.
JOHN JOSHUA SPRIGGE.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Combined Day and Bill Book.
I, JOHN JOSHUA SPRIGGE of 63 Queen Victoria Street in the City of London
Solicitor 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 :-
A book in which business entries of particulars of charge, and the amount charged
in respect of such particulars, can be made in such a manner that-while being
duplicated by a common method with black tracing paper-duplicates can be made
conveniently arranged for use as a diary or day book as regards the first and as
regards the fac-simile entry for division as bills preserving the distinctions of matters
charged and keeping their chronological order without rearrangement or further
labour beyond the smallest effort in sorting and filing at the time.
The first of the duplicates which being designed to remain in the book and form
part of the diary or day book is not detachable. The second of the duplicates
which being designed to be detachable and divisible for the purposes of bills is
perforated near the binding for the first purpose, and crossways for division into
6 parts for the other purpose.
These 6 divisions are designed to be of size and form convenient for separation
into the order of persons charged or matter, for filing or inserting in paper clips,
and for preservation of same chronological order after separation by permitting this
to be done face downwards.
'Book' means for the purposes of this Specification (except where the context
implies bound sheets) sheets of paper or other thin material like paper linen or silk
capable of being written upon when such sheets of paper or other material are
packed. The one sheet evenly upon another in a packet or pile of a dozen or more
sheets whether bound or fixed together in any way or not.

page_text: It consists of sheets of paper or other like material aforesaid made in pairs of
pages adapted as hereinafter particularized to receive an exactly similar business
entry; the one of each pair to fulfil the functions of the sheets of a diary. The
other to fulfil, after being torn into sections, the different pages of different bills, or
of the same bill: one of which pages will be intended and be capable of being
written directly upon, the other of receiving an exact imprint of what is written
upon the other, in the manner hereafter described; but it is not essential that
either sort of sheet should necessarily be the page written upon or the page receiving
the imprint respectively.
It is made of paper or other material aforesaid sufficiently thin that if a sheet of
black tracing paper be placed between the pair of pages, or, if the back of that
which is uppermost be blacked a correct copy of what is written will be received by
that underneath.
Though as aforesaid in making up order of the pairs of pages it is not necessary
that a particular one of the two sorts of pages aforesaid lie uppermost it is
convenient that the one intended for the purposes of a diary do so as will hereafter
appear, and this page will hereafter be called the 'diary sheet' the other of the said
pairs of pages the 'bill sheet.'
The diary sheet is marked off either really into parts (preferably rectangular) by
lines drawn quite across the paper or by less though sufficient indication where such
marking off would be, and if there be any lines ruled upon it, for dates, for the names
of matters or people the subject of charge, or for money columns or any of them, as
are common in business diaries or day books and in bill books they shall coincide
and lie exactly upon similar lines (if any) in the bill sheet.
The bill sheet is capable of being conveniently torn from the book if it be bound
by having in that case a perforated line of holes near the binding parallel with such
binding which perforation is hereafter called the perpendicular or lengthways
perforation.
The bill sheet is also capable of being split up into several small sheets for the
purposes of parts of several bills or of parts of one bill by several perforated lines
of holes in another direction to the lengthways perforation (if any) and this direction
will preferably be at right angles to the sides of the sheets or to the binding or to
the lengthways perforation (in the case of a bound book) this is hereinafter called
the crosswise perforated line of holes or the crosswise perforation.
The crosswise lines of perforated holes for tearing the bill sheets into parts of
several bills or of one bill, shall exactly coincide or lie under the aforesaid different
places of division of the diary sheet.
It will here appear that it would be more convenient for the perforated sheets
which are in all cases the bill sheets to lie underneath and receive the copy instead
of being written upon directly because of the likelihood of its becoming torn at its
perforations.
The claim is made and the pith and marrow of the invention if, and so far as the
final claim may be too large, is in respect of the benefits flowing from the mechanical
arrangement of the crosswise perforations and the spaces lying between them of the
bill sheet in the connection of coincidence with the divisions of the day sheet and
the space lying between such divisions.
By this arrangement entries can be simultaneously made in the dissimilar order
of entry of a diary or day book (wherein everything is entered or ought to be
entered daily in the order in which it occurs) and the order of the bill book (wherein
the items relating to one particular matter or chargeable against one man or several
men jointly are collected or ought to be so collected chronologically) that is by
preserving chronological order for both purposes.
It is essential that the person who uses the book should only write within each
space of the diary sheet or each section of the bill sheet whichever should lie upper-
most entries only relating to one particular matter or person.
I hereunder specify modifications in form for which I seek similar exclusive
rights as for a book exactly like the

page_text: I. I claim the crosswise perforation in connection with every form of tracing and
duplication of written business entries where one of the duplicates is to be used as a
daily record of work done and charge for it and the other of the duplicates is to be
used as a bill, or part of a bill, or a draft of a bill or part of a draft of a bill.
II. I claim the modifications of either partial or entire detachment crosswise,
wholly in the place, or partly in the place of the crosswise perforation by cutting
the paper the whole or part of the way in substitution for the perforated line of
holes or some of such holes, and of either partial or entire detachment lengthways
of the sheet headed bill sheet in the place of the lengthways perforation by cutting
the whole of the way in substitution for the perforated line of holes or some of
such holes.
III. And I claim to be entitled to increase or to diminish the number of spaces
for different matters or subjects which can be dealt with on each page of day sheet
and the corresponding increase or diminution of each page of bill sheet by adding
to the book at the top or bottom.
IV. I claim to be entitled to increase the columns of the day sheet and have
another or more detachable column or columns of the bill sheet by having another
or more lengthways perforation and another or more set of crosswise perforations
in the bill sheet corresponding with the increased number of divisions of the diary
sheet.
V. I claim the making up of these duplicates in every shape as to binding either
bound on the left hand side as books generally are bound or in a book bound at the
top (being a parallelogram) or bound at the bottom or bound at the right hand
side or made into a block or fastened together anywhere or loose in a tray or loose.
VI. I claim every sort of shape in which two papers, parchments or other
material used for writing upon can coincide with one another where the purpose is
to use the duplicates for the distinct purposes mentioned of diary or day book or for
bills parts of bills, drafts of bills, or parts of drafts of bills.
VII. And I claim the modification of having the back of the sheet itself which is
immediately written upon, covered with every sort of preparation which will give
an impression of what is written upon it upon the next sheet for the said purposes
mentioned in the last foregoing paragraph.
Summarily I claim every form in which a sheet to be used wholly or in parts for
the purposes of a bill or part of a bill a draft of a bill or part of a draft of a bill
can be inade to lie under and receive a copy of an entry made on the one above it,
the one above it being made for the purpose of a diary.
Conversely I claim every form in which a sheet to be used wholly or in part for
the purpose of a diary or day sheet can lie under and receive a copy of an entry
made on the one above it the one above it being made for the purpose of a bill or
part of a bill a draft of a bill or part of a draft of a bill.
I claim every principle which has not previously been the subject of a grant of a
Patent which is in combination with any other distinct principle in the Provisional
Specification of combined day and bill book No. 12682 dated 9th July 1892
accepted 27th July 1892.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The simultaneous duplication by writing of business entries of dates and
particulars of charge and amounts of charge for the distinct purposes of day book
entry and record and bill book entry and record.
Dated this Fifth day of August 1892.
JOHN JOSHUA SPRIGGE.