A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OR MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR ISSUING BANKERS' DRAFTS, CHEQUES, RECEIPTS, MONEY ORDERS, BILLS, AND OTHER MONETARY DOCUMENTS, WHEREBY FRAUD AND FORGERY ARE PREVENTED OR DETECTED."
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur Henry Robinson, of Dublin, Ireland, Gentleman,
for an Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OR MEANS AND APPARATUS
FOR ISSUING BANKERS' DRAFTS, CHEQUES, RECEIPTS, MONEY ORDERS, BILLS,
AND OTHER MONETARY DOCUMENTS, WHEREBY FRAUD AND FORGERY ARE
PREVENTED OR DETECTED."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arthur Henry Robinson at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th March 1880.
ARTHUR HENRY ROBINSON, of Dublin, Ireland, Gentleman. "A NEW OR IMPROVED
METHOD OR MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR ISSUING BANKERS' DRAFTS, CHEQUES,
RECEIPTS, MONEY ORDERS, BILLS, AND OTHER MONETARY DOCUMENTS, WHEREBY
FRAUD AND FORGERY ARE PREVENTED OR DETECTED."
My Invention relates to a new or improved method or means for issuing bankers'
drafts, cheques, receipts, money orders, bill, and other monetary documents, whereby
perfect security is given to the banker or other person adopting the saine against
fraud by alteration of any amount, or against forgeries of any draft, cheque, receipt,
money order, bill, or other nonetary document.
In carrying out my Invention I mount in a practically enclosed box or caso a coil
or roll of monetary documents consecutively numbered; I also mount within the
box or case a press or stamping apparatus, such as is described in the Provisional
Specification lodged with my former application for Letters Patent, dated the 23rd
March 1880, No. 1242, the operating part of the press, vict, for impressing the
amount to be inserted, being under the control of the authorized person.
The web or band of paper or other material from the coil or roll is so arranged
as to be brought under the press or stamping apparatus in a position to receive the
impress of the sun being dealt with in the manner described in my said former
Provisional Specification, the end of the web protruding through a slit in the box
or case, into which anything once withdrawn cannot be reintroduced or any similar
document be introduced without detection.
In issuing a document the person in charge of the apparatus stamps upon it the
required sum and then draws the document from the coil or roll through the slit in the
box or case, and then detaches it at the required line of severance from the web, the
next succeeding document being by the same operation brought into 'proper position

page_text: to be deal with in a similar manner, and so on in succession until the coil or roll is
exhausted, when the box or case is opened by the duly authorized officer, and a new
coil or roll is introduced. Each detached document is subsequently inscribed with
the date and names of the persons interested, and the operation is complete.
In the case of receipts for money taken, money orders, and other documents
where a counterpart is required or desirable, the web is in duplicate, and both webs
are drawn through the apparatus together and operated upon simultaneously, so that
each must be a facsimile of the other.
With the press or stamping apparatus there may be combined any ordinary or
suitable registering or counting apparatus for the purpose of ascertaining tho
number of complete operations of the press or stamping apparatus, so that in the
event of a document being withdrawn blank the discrepancy between the index
number and the number of the next succeeding document will be apparent.
In order more effectually to guard against a counterfeit being attempted by
drawing a blank document-from the box or case and operating upon it by apparatus
other than that in the charge of the authorized person, I so arrange the stamp or
apparatus as to admit of the position of the stamping devices being changed when
required in such a manner that the position of the impress upon the document may
be altered from that in which it stood when the blank document was withdrawn,
and thus the dissimilarity of the counterfeit document from a test document to be
drawn by the authorized person will be sufficient.
In carrying my present Invention into effect the inscription of the sum in question
is not essential, the impress being in itself sufficient.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Arthur Henry Robinson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
23rd September 1880.
ARTHUR HENRY ROBINSON, of Dublin, Ireland, Gentleman. "A NEW OR IMPROVED
METHOD OR MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR ISSUING BANKERS' DRAFTS, CHEQUES,
RECEIPTS, MONEY ORDERS, BILLS, AND OTHER MONETARY DOCUMENTS, WHEREBY
FRAUD AND FORGERY ARE PREVENTED OR DETECTED."
My said Invention relates to improvements in the Invention in respect of which
former Letters Patent were granted to me, dated the Twenty third day of March,
in the year One thousand eight hundred and eighty, Number 1242.
This former Invention comprises means and apparatus for the prevention or
detection of the alterations of the monetary value of drafts, cheques, bills, receipts,
tickets, or other papers, vouchers, or documents. My present Invention has for its
object the combination with the apparatus, substantially as and for the purposes
set forth and described in the Specification to my said former Letters Patent, of a
locked box or case for the issue of bankers' drafts, cheques, bills, money orders,
receipts, or other monetary documents, receipts, and delivery vouchers, and such
like and for the prevention or detection of fraud or forgery in their use, and to
supply a desideratuin long felt for commercial purposes.
For the purpose of carrying out my present Invention I employ a practically
enclosed box or case, consisting of a compartiment to contain a roll or rolls of
cheques, drafts, bills, money orders, receipts, or other monetary documents, con-
secutively numbered, and another compartment to contain perforating apparatus,
such as is described in my said former Specification.
This latter compartment it will be observed is a simple modification of the table
of the apparatus described in the said former Specification, and is covered by a
glass plato which surrounds the said apparatus, the upper portion of which is under
the control of the operator for the purpose of using the instrument.
The web or band or bands from the roll or rolls of cheques or other monetary
documents, as the case may be, is or are brought under the perforating apparatus
in a position to receive the impress of the sum being dealt with, in the manner
described in my said former Specification, the end of the web or band or
bands projecting from under the glass. Anything once withdrawn cannot be
reintroduced.
Before issuing a document the person in charge of the apparatus perforates in it
the required sum, and then draws the document from the box or case, and detaches
it at the required line of severance from the web, the next succeeding document
being by the same operation brought into proper position to be dealt with in a
similar manner, and so on in succession until the coil or roll is exhausted, when the
box or case is opened by the duly authorised officer and a new coil or roll is
introduced. Each detached document is subsequently inscribed with the date and
names of the persons interested, and the operation is complete; or if desired
inscribed documents may be put into the case.
In the case of receipts, money orders, and other monetary documents where a
counterpart is required or desirable, the roll or rolls are in duplicate, and both webs
are drawn through the apparatus together and operated upon simultaneously, so
that each must be a fuc simile of tho other.
In carrying my present Invention into effect the inscription of the sum in
question is not essential, the perforations being in themselves sufficient; the time
occupied in writing amounts may thus be saved.
And in order that my said Invention may be fully understood, I shall now
proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that purpose shall refer to

page_text: the several Figures on the annexed Sheet of Drawings, the same letters of reference
indicating corresponding parts in all the Figures.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings represents a longitudinal section of an
apparatus constructed according to my said Invention; Figure 2 is a sectional plan
of the same corresponding to Figure 1; Figure 3 is an end elevation; Figuro 4 is
a transverse section through the roll box or case hereinafter referred to.
A represents a perforating apparatus constructed substantially in the manner
described in my said former Specification, a being its rotatory frame, 6 the
perforating needles with their carriers, and c the lever punch; B is that portion
of the locked case in which is mounted a spindle & carrying the rolls C of
documents to be operated upon. The end of the web or webs passes from the
box through a slit c, and is thence conducted under the glass plato f which
surrounds the perforating apparatus A, and on through the said apparatus, where
-it-is operated upon to the point f¹, when the required part is detached.
The glass rests on the paper or docuinent, and serves to hold it down during the
perforation.
The circular opening in the glass is bevelled on the underside corresponding to
the bevel on the cap or cover g of the perforating apparatus; this prevents the
latter from being removed (except in the regular way), the glass being secured at
one end by the portion B' of the box or case, and at the opposite end by a pin h,
which passes through the case at i.
This pin has an eye through which passes a strap bolt beneath the case; the said
strap bolt partly covers the nut which confines the instrument in the case, and
thus prevents an improper removal of the instrument. The other end of the strap
has an eye corresponding with a hole in the case; through the said cyc, and also
through the case, a bolt 2. passes which secures the whole contents by a padlock, as
shewn at m in Figuro 1.
The operation of moving and spacing the paper is carried out by means of the
slides, in the manner described in my said former Specification. The handles or
pulls of the slides are roughened in order to prevent the paper from slipping when
taken hold of for the purpose of being drawn out, and the travel of the slides may
be fixed at pleasure to suit the word used in the instrument.
When an instrument with words of irregular length is required for use with the
locked case two outside perforators are necessary on each needle block for operation
at both sides of the instrument, and the opening in the glass should be sufficiently
large to clear the outside needles. The matrix, that is to say, the lower perforated
plate, also should be extended to receive the outside perforators. The cap of the
instrument in the case is secured by the vertical spindle by having the knuckle
which takes the operating lever made fast to the said spindle.
The receipt of money is checked by my improved apparatus in the following
manner:
I place in the locked box or casc attached to the perforating apparatus herein-
before described a roll of duplicate receipt forms, say, having the signature of the
principal, if it be desirable, or other person affixed to one of the forms, the
uppermost; throughout these documents are numbered consecutively, the counterparts
being numbered alike. The amount received is perforated in the receipt in the
manner herein before described in my said former Specification; the recipt is then
withdrawn dated, and the name of the payer entered therein, and passed for
the money received, the duplicate being retained as a cheque on the amount
received.
Money paid out is checked in the following manner:-The receipt form to be
filled up and given in discharge of the payment to be made is within in the locked
case before referred to, and on the payment being made the amount paid is
perforated in the document; the document then withdrawn, and handed to the
collector, who then dates and signs the said document, and returns it to the clerk
or other person in discharge of the amount paid.
For the prevention or detection of forgery of signatures to cheques, bills, or other

page_text: monetary documents, I prepare the documents, as the case may be, in any suitable
printed and consecutively numbered form. I carry out all my transactions of this
class by the use of the said forms. These forins I place signed or unsigned,
according to pleasure, and as required, in the locked case or box (herein before
described), say, for example, a roll of cheques at ono side, and a roll of bills or
receipts at the other side; the apparatus is then given in chargo to the proper
officer, thereby proventing any documents so placed from being abstracted and
forged or otherwise improperly treated.
Ordinary cheques, money orders, bills, or receipts may be similarly treated.
In the case of unsigned cheques should a choque be drawn and fraudulently signed
the fact is at once revealed by tho absence of the missing number.
In my combined apparatus figures may be substituted for words.
The lever belonging to the apparatus is reversible for the purpose of operating
the machine at either side. The perforations are indicated when the roll or coil of
documents is on the right hand side, from the highest denomination to the lowest,
and vice versa, when it is on the left hand side.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried into
effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider to be novel and original,
and therefore claim as the Invention secured to inc by the hereinbefore in part
recited Letters Patont is,-
The new or improved method or means of issuing drafts, cheques, receipts,
money orders, bills, and other monetary documents, perforated with words or
figures and marks, so as to prevent or detect fraud and forgery by the combination
in a locked case of a perforating apparatus and a box containing a coil, roll, or
rolls of monetary documents to be operated upon and issued, substantially in the
manner herein beforo described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Arthur Henry Robinson, have to this my
Specification set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of September, One
thousand eight hundred and eighty,
ADID IT DODINSON
ARTHUR HI ROBINSON. (LS.)
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