Improvements in Counter Check Books, Duplicating Wash Lists, and the like.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Feb., 1887
Complete Left, 3rd Nov., 1887
Complete Accepted, 6th Dec., 1887
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Counter Check Books, Duplicating Wash Lists,
and the like.
I, MURRAY HINCKLEY SPEAR of 1 North Street, Finsbury, in the County of
Middlesex, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to a cheap form of counter check book and the like where
the usual leather cover is dispensed with.
It embraces a back which may be of stout cartridge paper or other stout material
upon the outside of which may be printed the name of the proprietor, directions to
the assistants rules and so forth. Inside this back the tally sheet or index may be
printed. Upon this back are the slips or sheets which can be printed in any desired
manner these are preferably a little shorter than the back. At one end or side the
back is folded over the slips upon which a carbon or transfer sheet is laid and the
whole stitched or wired or otherwise secured together.
The sheets may be paged or numbered and perforated so that each slip as used can
be torn out and the carbon sheet which being fastened in does not get lost then serves
for the next slip.
The back can be carried entirely round so as to cover up the whole of the slips
desired and the slips may be folded or doubled if preferred.
Dated this 4th day of Wahmua 1907
if
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Counter Check Books, Duplicating Wash Lists,
and the like.
I, MURRAY HINCKLEY SPEAR of 1 North Street, Finsbury in the County of
Middlesex, 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 relates to a cheap form of counter check book and the like where
the usual leather cover is dispensed with.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings is an edge view and the book folded from
which it will be seen that it comprises a back A which may be of stout cartridge
paper or other material upon the outside of which may be printed the name of the
proprietor directions to assistants rules and so forth. Inside this back may be printed
the tally sheet or index as shown in figure 2. Upon this back are placed the slips or
sheets forming the bill, duplicate and counterfoil, which can be printed in any desired
manner with such letters, numbers or symbols as will render them easy of identifica-
tion. One of such complete sheets is shown in figure 3 the part lettered B being the
bill proper which is given to the customer, B₁ the duplicate and B2 the counterfoil
hearing the same distinguishing letter and number as the bill and upon which odd
memoranda can be made such for instance as that the bill has been spoilt in the
making out and this memorandum may be countersigned so as to reduce the possibility
of fraud. The bill sheets are shorter than the back of the book and are laid thereon
face downwards; upon the last sheet is laid with the transfer face downwards, a piece
of carbon paper C indicated by the dot and dash line in figure 1 and over this a plain
sheet of paper to protect the bills from contact with the carbon. The end of the
back A is folded over the sheets at a and the whole stitched, wired or otherwise
secured together.
When the book is required for use it is opened out and the uppermost bill sheet
folded back over the carbon paper which will expose the printed and ruled side as
shown in figure 4. When written on the bill can be separated from the duplicate at b
where the sheet may be perforated after which the duplicate may be separated from
the counterfoil at 61 where another row of perforations may be made. The carbon
paper being bound along with the counterfoils does not get disturbed or lost and will
last until the book is finished.
The back A may be carried round still further than shown in the drawing so as to
afford increased protection for the ends of the sheets if carried in the pocket.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention
nd in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is
1. A counter or similar check book consisting of
(a) A back sheet or cover such as A ruled inside so as to serve as an index or
tally sheet:
(b) A series of bill sheets laid on the sheet or cover A with the printed or ruled
face downwards and capable of division into parts such as B, B' and B², and
(c) A sheet of carbon paper C laid with the carbonized surface downwards upon
the uppermost bill sheet: the whole being stitched, wired or otherwise secured
together substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
2. The method of constructing counter or similar check books consisting in securing
ogether a flexible back and the bill and carbon sheets substantially in the manner
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
3. In a counter or similar check book the combination with a flexible back such
s A having upon its inner face the index numbers or letters of a series of bill sheets B
which are placed face downwards upon A and adapted to be folded back upon a
carbon sheet substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying
Irawings.
Dated this 2nd day of November 1887