Improvements in Sales Books for the Use of Drapers and others, and in Memorandum Books in which Copies of the Writing are Required.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 30th July, 1887
Complete Left, 30th Apr., 1888
Complete Accepted, 1st June, 1888
Improvements in Sales Books for the Use of Drapers and others,
and in Memorandum Books in which Copies of the Writing are
Required.
I, WILLIAM PENMAN of No. 4 Bridewell Place New Bridge Street in the City of
London Director of Messrs. William Collins Sons & Co. Limited Publishers do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object improvements in sales books for the use of drapers
and others and in memorandum books in which copies of the writing are required.
The improved sales book or memorandum book is so constructed that the carbon
or transfer paper does not require to be touched in using the book and thus the
fingers are not soiled as is usually the case. It consists of a pair of covers; a bound
writing pad, and a sheet of carbon or transfer paper secured as hereinafter described
to the covers or to the pad. The right hand cover is made with a pocket opening
from top to bottom alongside the hinge or joint which connects the two covers.
The bound writing pad consists of sheets (say fifty or other number) bound
together on the left side and perforated from top to bottom in two parallel lines.
One line of perforations is a short distance from the edge of the sheet which is held
by the binding; the other line of perforations divides the remainder of the sheet
into two equal parts. The part on the left side is usually plain paper whilst
that on the right is usually printed in form of an invoice or bill on the under side
of the sheet.
The pad is bound with a stiff flap as if an end or under cover of the book or pad
had been cut off at a distance of about two inches from the bound edges of the
sheets. This stiff flap enters the pocket of the covers and so the writing pad is held
in its place.
When the pad is out of use it is folded along the centre line of perforations and
the covers close together upon it.
The writing pad may but less conveniently be attached by studs on the covers
projecting through holes punched through the pad close to the edge where the sheets
are bound or held together.

page_text: The sheet of carbon paper may be fixed to the underside of the last sheet of the
writing pad along the lower edge of that part of it which is between the two lines
of perforations. The carbon paper folds upwards on to the face of the book.
When the book is in use the covers are open and the pad is unfolded except the
uppermost sheet which remains folded along the centre line of perforations. The
printed invoice or bill form will then be exposed to receive the writing and under-
neath will be the carbon paper lying upon the plain part of the same sheet of
the pad.
Thus any writing done upon the invoice or bill form is duplicated or triplicated.
upon the plain part of the same sheet. The sheet when written is torn out of the
pad along the line of perforations next the binding.
The sheet of carbon paper may be used in precisely the same manner if fastened
to the side or top or if attached to the lower part of the right hand cover in place of
to the writing pad. A clip may be provided upon this part of the cover to hold the
lower edge of the carbon paper.
Or the carbon sheet may be attached along one of its sides to the uppermost sheet
of the writing pad between the bound edge and the line of perforations adjacent
thereto; or in like manner the carbon sheet may be attached to the undermost sheet ;
in this case the pad is separated for some distance up from its lower edge along the
line of perforations adjacent to the binding and the carbon paper is brought to the
surface of the pad through the opening so made. When so applied the carbon
paper will lie flatter on the pad when partly used than it will do when attached to the
uppermost sheet.
Sometimes it may be necessary to obtain two repeats of the writing; in this case
the writing pad is made longer so as to leave a plain part of each sheet beyond that
on which the invoice or bill form is printed; it is separated therefrom by another
parallel line of perforations. The carbon sheet is now made of double the former
width so as to extend nearly to the new line of perforations. In use the writing
sheet is twice folded and the carbon paper is once folded within it.
Although I believe it to be most convenient to bind the writing pad on the right
hand side, it may be bound at the top or at the bottom. The line of perforations
along which the sheet is torn off will then be at right angles to the line along which
the sheet is folded for writing. Or a small writing pad or book may be made with
the invoice or bill forms occupying one half of it and plain leaves the other half; the
carbon sheet is then in the centre of the book. The writing and the copy are produced
on the two middle pages which are torn out together.
Sometimes I make the writing pad in the form of an ordinary memorandum book
with alternate leaves one for the direct writing and the next for the transfer copy.
The covers are made with a pocket open on the outer side and the end flap of the
memorandum book is inserted into this pocket.
In the covers a sheet of carbon paper is secured, it may be to a strip of wood
serving as a handle. The carbon paper folds in between the pages of the memo-
randum book.
When the writing is done the copy can be torn out whilst the original remains in
the book.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sales Books for the Use of Drapers and others,
and in Memorandum Books in which Copies of the Writing are
Required.
I, WILLIAM PENMAN of No. 4 Bridewell Place, New Bridge Street in the City of
London, Director of Messrs. William Collins Sons & Co. Limited, Publishers, 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 has for its object improvements in sales books for the use of drapers
and others and in memorandum books in which copies of the writing are required.
The improved sales book or memorandum book is so constructed that the carbon or
transfer paper does not require to be touched in using the book and thus the fingers
are not soiled as is usually the case. It consists of a pair of covers; a bound writing
pad, and a sheet of carbon or transfer paper secured as hereinafter described to the
covers or to the pad. The right hand cover is made with a pocket opening from top
to bottom alongside the hinge or joint which connects the two covers.
The bound writing pad consists of sheets (say fifty or other number) bound together
on the left side and perforated from top to bottom in two parallel lines. One line of
perforations is a short distance from the edge of the sheet which is held by the
binding the other line of perforations divides the remainder of the sheet into
two equal parts. The part on the left side is usually plain paper whilst that on
the right is usually printed in form of an invoice or bill on the underside of the
sheet.
The pad is bound with a stiff flap as if an end or under cover of the book or pad
had been cut off at a distance of about two inches from the bound edges of the
sheets. This stiff flap enters the pocket of the covers and so the writing pad is held
in its place.
When the pad is out of use it is folded along the centre line of perforations and
the covers close together upon it.
The writing pad may but less conveniently be attached by studs on the covers
projecting through holes punched through the pad close to the edge where the sheets
are bound or held together.
The sheet of carbon paper may be fixed to the underside of the last sheet of the
writing pad along the lower edge of that part of it which is between the two lines
of perforations. The carbon paper folds upwards on to the face of the book.
When the book is in use the covers are open and the pad is unfolded except the
uppermost sheet which remains folded along the centre line of porforations. The
printed invoice or bili form will then be exposed to receive the writing and
underneath will be the carbon paper lying upon the plain part of the same sheet
of the pad.

page_text: Thus any writing done upon the invoice or bill form is duplicated upon the plain
part of the same sheet. The sheet when written is torn out of the pad along the line
of perforations next the binding.
The sheet of carbon paper may be used in precisely the same manner if fastened
to the side or top or if attached to the lower part of the right hand cover in place of
to the writing pad. A clip may be provided upon this part of the cover to hold the
lower edge of the carbon paper.
Or the carbon sheet may be attached along one of its sides to the uppermost sheet
of the writing pad between the bound edge and the line of perforations adjacent
thereto; or in like manner the carbon sheet may be attached to the undermost sheet ;
in this case the pad is separated for some distance up from its lower edge along the
line of perforations adjacent to the binding and the carbon paper is brought to the
surface of the pad through the opening so made. When so applied the carbon
paper will lie flatter on the pad when partly used than it will do when attached to
the uppermost sheet.
Sometimes it may be necessary to obtain two repeats of the writing; in this case
the writing pad is made longer so as to leave a plain part of each sheet beyond that
on which the invoice or bill form is printed; it is separated therefrom by another
parallel line of perforations.. The carbon sheet is now made of double the former
width so as to extend nearly to the new line of perforations. In use the writing
sheet is twice folded and the carbon paper is once folded within it.
Although I believe it to be most convenient to bind the writing pad on the left
hand side, it may be bound at the top or at the bottom. The line of perforations
along which the sheet is torn off will then be at right angles to the line along which
the sheet is folded for writing.
In order that my said invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect I will proceed to describe the drawings hereunto annexed.
Figure 1 shows a draper's sale book, or like memorandum book, made in accordance
with my invention; the book in this figure is represented as it appears when closed.
Figure 2 shows the book as it appears when the top cover is turned over so as to
expose the folded writing pad beneath.
Figure 3 shows the book as it appears when the writing pad is unfolded or
opened out.
Figure 4 shows the book made ready for writing by folding the upper sheet of
the pad.
Figure 5 shows the covers opened out and without the writing pad.
Figure 6 shows the writing pad detached from the covers; the underside of the
pad is here represented.
In these figures a is the left hand cover the right hand cover and c is the hinge
or joint piece or back by which the covers are connected; this latter is flexible
whilst the covers themselves are stiff. The line represents the mouth or opening
of the pocket in the right hand cover it extends from top to bottom thereof along-
side the hinge or joint. The left hand cover of the Draper's sale book may be made
to receive a sheet on which the totals of the sales can be noted; in Figure 2 such a
sheet is represented in its place; it is retained by its upper and lower edges which
enter shallow pockets provided to receive them.
The writing pad is composed of fifty or other number of sheets d d bound together
on the left side at e and so connected with a stiff flap f. The flap fis adapted to
enter the pocket at 1 and so serves to connect the pad with the covers. Each sheet d
is perforated along the line d¹ near the binding and also along the line a² so placed
as to divide the remainder of the sheet into two equal or nearly equal parts and in
the case of a Draper's sale book the part on the further side of the line is printed
on its under side with the bill or invoice form which has to be filled in. This
writing pad is doubled or folded when enclosed between the covers and when it is in

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use the uppermost sheet is similarly doubled or folded whilst the remaining sheets of
the pad remain opened out. is a sheet of carbon paper, it is attached to the pad in
any convenient way by its edge g adjacent to the binding of the pad at e
carbon paper g can be turned over at pleasure and it is represented in a second
position by dotted lines in figure 3; the prepared surface of the sheet is on the under-
side when the sheet occupies the position shown by the full lines in the same Figure.
From these arrangements it follows that when the pad is written on, the book having
been previously arranged as is shown by Figure 4, the writing made directly upon
the bill form or exposed part of the uppermost sheet, is repeated by the carbon
paper upon the portion of the same sheet adjacent upon the binding at e.
The bill
and the copy are intended to be torn out together, the one to be given to the customer
and the other retained.
The flap and the pocket & serve most conveniently to form a temporary connec-
tion between the covers and the folding pad but the connection may be otherwise
made; for example, holes of key hole form may be punched in writing pad close to
the bound edge at e and studs with corresponding stems and heads are then fixed to
the right hand cover; the studs can readily be made to engage with the holes in the
pad and when required the parts can also be separated with facility. The sheet of
carbon paper in place of being attached to the pad on its upper face and adjacent to
the binding may be attached to the pad underneath and by what when it is in use is
its lower edge. The carbon paper when in use still occupies the position in which it
is represented by the full lines in Figure 3.
Also as previously stated the carbon paper may be otherwise attached to the
pad or to the covers so as to be free to occupy the required position as shown by
Figure 3.
Where it is desired to obtain the writing in triplicate this may be done as
already stated by extending the sheets and the carbon paper and by twice folding
the pad.
As previously stated the pad may be bound along the upper or lower edge; this
involves no alteration except in the position of the pocket in the cover to receive the
flap of the pad and in the position of the line of perforations in the sheet for
tearing it from the pad; the arrangement shewn by the drawings is however very
preferable.
From the above it will be seen that it is unnecessary to handle the carbon paper
and soiling the fingers is obviated.
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. A sale or memorandum book consisting of a pair of covers; a folding writing
pad easily detachable from the covers and formed of sheets perforated so that they
may be readily torn from the pad and separated; and a sheet of transfer or carbon
paper that can be interposed between the sides of the folded writing pad substantially
as described.
2. In a sale or memorandum book the combination substantially as described con-
sisting of the covers; the writing pad; the flapf on the pad and the pocket at bin
such flap and pocket serving to connect the writing pad to the covers but
so that the parts can be readily separated at pleasure.
the covers;
3. A sale or memorandum book substantially as described and represented by the
annexed drawings.
Dated this 20th dow of Anil 1888