Improvements in Baggage Checks and Insurance and other Tickets or Certificates.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Apr., 1890-Accepted, 31st May, 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Baggage Checks and Insurance and other Tickets
or Certificates.
I, HIPPOLITE ANTOINE DERAISMES, residing in the City of Elizabeth, in the County
of Union and State of New Jersey, United States of America, Manufacturer 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:
The present invention relates to a combination of checks and insurance and other
tickets, adapted for use in checking baggage to insure its protection and safe delivery
to its owner or his agent.
The invention consists of two baggage checks, connected or identified with each
other by corresponding numbers or marks, (one of which is in practice to be secured
to an article of baggage and the other to be in the possession of the passenger having
charge of such baggage as means of its identification and recovery) in combination
with an insurance ticket or certificate attached to or identified with the check or
ticket given to the passenger.
Also of the combination with two checks, one attached to the baggage and the
other given to the passenger and an insurance ticket or certificate, of a notice or
report ticket identified with said check tickets.
Also of the combination with said checks, one for use on the baggage and the
other for the passenger and an insurance ticket or certificate, of a record or stub ticket
identified with said check tickets.
Also of the combination with said baggage checks, an insurance ticket or certificate,
a notice ticket and a record or stub ticket, all substantially as hereinafter described.
My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing which shows a plan view
of a series of checks and tickets.
A represents the check to be given to the passenger upon the surrender of his
baggage to the carrier. This check is preferably marked with name or initials of
the Company, as are all the other checks and tickets of the series. It may also
contain directions or instructions for the disposition of the baggage, as the place from
which and to which it is to be carried, or any other directions or instructions relating
to its disposition. B is a check to be secured to the baggage, and preferably is sub-
stantially a duplicate of A. It is to carry directions for the disposition of the baggage
in order to make it applicable to checking baggage for transportation. These two
checks are preferably printed with the names of the months of the year and the days
of the months, these corresponding names and dates being so disposed upon the
several checks that when the checks are folded together along a determined line the
corresponding names and dates will be superimposed upon each other, so that at one
motion any desired month or day can be cut out with a proper punch. This marking
for the dates may be upon the rear face of the checks. It is by no means essential
that the checks A and B should be duplicates of each other, and in fact they may
differ in many particulars with advantage, as for instance, the passenger's check A
may omit the directions which are essential to the baggage-check B, which omission
may in case of loss of this check afford greater security, as in such case the finder
would not have the means of so easily tracing the baggage and obtaining wrongful
possession of it. It will be sufficient in most cases that the checks A and B are
correspondingly numbered as shown in the drawing, or that they bear corresponding
characters or marks of some kind which serve to clearly identify them with each
other.
C represents a baggage insurance ticket or certificate, shown in the drawing as
attached to and forming a part of the passenger check A. This ticket is to bear a policy

page_text: or certificate, executed by the insurer. to the effect that the baggage to which
it relates and with which it is identified is insured for such sum and upon
such terms and conditions as may be named in said policy or certificate.
This
insurance ticket should be identified with the passenger and baggage checks A
and B by means of corresponding numbers or other marks so that in case it
should be detached from the check A it would nevertheless, by reason of its identifi-
cation with the check A and the baggage to which the check B is in practice attached,
be as fully available to accomplish its purpose as if it had never been detached from
the check A. It is evident from the above statement that, if the insurance ticket is
fully identified with the passenger and baggage checks A and B, there will be no
necessity of having the ticket attached to the check A, since as each is identified
with the other two, the check A and ticket C will accomplish their respective objects
when separated from each other as perfectly as when united. Their union is a mere
inatter of convenience.
D represents a ticket or check properly identified with the checks A and B and
bears the name of the general baggage master of the carrying company and words
denoting that a local or station agent has issued a baggage check which corresponds
to or is identified with the check or ticket D. This ticket should state the destination
of the baggage upon which the issued check was used. If a lock check or other
chargeable device is used, the ticket D may state the rate collected, as well as any
charge collected for extra baggage, and should be signed by the station agent. This
ticket D is appropriately styled "Baggage Master's notice check" and may be so marked,
and bears a notice to the baggage master, or a report from the station agent to the
baggage master, of the disposition of the checks A and B. E is a stub or record ticket
or check properly identified with the checks A and B, and insurance ticket C and the
check or ticket D, and it bears a brief record of the disposition of the checks A and B
and the baggage to which they relate. This record check is to be filed for
reference.
The checks D and E may carry the names of the months and the days thereof so
arranged that like the checks A and B when folded properly upon each other the
corresponding names of the months and days can be cut out with a single, motion of a
punch.
For convenience in use the checks and tickets A, B, D and E are made of card-
board, thick paper or similar material and are joined to each other in a strip preferably
in the order shown in the drawing. They are however, preferably so joined that they
are easily separated along the lines a formed in the common way of weakening the
union by cutting or punching out a portion of the material. The lines a should be so
related to the disposition of the dates upon any contiguous checks that when folded
along these lines the dates will be superimposed, if it is desired to indicate a date upon
two tickets at the same time. The arrangement shown in the drawing is such that the
five tickets can be folded upon each other along the lines a and each simultaneously
dated by punching out superimposed parts.
The check strip may be continued beyond the check E to afford room for printed
directions or instructions for the issuing and use of the checks. A number of these
strips may be bound or secured together, as with a rivet or other fastening passed
through a hole b, near the ends of the strips, and the number of strips fastened
together, say from 50 to 100, constitute a book. For convenience in comparing any
of the D tickets with, the E tickets, these tickets or checks may, in addition to the
number or other marks by which they are identified with each other and with the
checks A and B, carry-other-marks or numbers by which they are identified with the
book or the stub of the book from which they were taken. This number is designated
in the drawing as "Book No. 50," while the number which identifies all the checks
with each other is designated as "No. 1018."
The strips of tickets composing the books may not all of them be completed checks
or tickets when printed and bound together, and for convenience it is preferred that
certain parts shall be left blank, as for instance, the direction for transportation on
the baggage check B, and certain matters on the tickets D and E. This matter can

page_text: easily and quickly be written in, to conform to existing circumstances, at or about
the time the checks A and B are issued. I have indicated in the drawing the matter
which may conveniently be written in, by writing the same in script while the
standing preexisting matter is indicated in print.
My improved locking baggage check for which I have obtained Letters Patent for
Great Britain No. 13074, dated the 27th September 1887, provides a convenient and
secure device for attaching the check B to the baggage. By its use the check is
secured to the lock and to the baggage in such manner that it cannot be removed
therefrom without the use of the key, which being in the temporary custody of the
passenger must be presented with the check A for the redemption or recovery of the
baggage to which is locked the check B. In such case the key may bear correspond-
ing numbers or marks with the checks A and B, or the key and the lock may bear
corresponding numbers or marks, in which case there will be a two-fold or double
check, the key and the lock, and the checks A and B.
I do not, however, limit my invention to any special way or means of attaching the
checks to the baggage, or to checks or tickets of any special form or material, or
carrying any special inscriptions or information, it being sufficient for the purposes of
my invention that the several checks and tickets forming the several combinations
hereinafter written shall be so marked or numbered as to be identified with each other
and shall contain or carry such directions or inscriptions as shall adapt them to
accomplish the objects herein before set forth.
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 :-
First. In combination with baggage checks A and B, identified with each other by
corresponding numbers or marks, a baggage insurance policy ticket or certificate C,
identified with the checks A and B, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Second. In combination with baggage checks A and B, and a baggage insurance
policy ticket or certificate C, a notice check or ticket D, identified with the
checks A and B and policy ticket C, by corresponding numbers or marks, substantially
as and for the purpose set forth.
Third. In combination with baggage checks A and B, and a baggage insurance
policy ticket or certificate C, a stub check or ticket E, identified with the
checks A and B and with the policy ticket C, by corresponding numbers or marks,
substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Fourth. The combination of baggage checks, A and B, a baggage insurance policy
ticket or certificate C, a notice check D, and a stub or record check or ticket E, each
identified with the others by corresponding numbers or marks, substantially as and
for the purpose set forth.
Dated the 8th day of Ancil 1900
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.