IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE MODE OF AND APPARATUS FOR NUMBERING COUPONS, BANK NOTES, CHEQUES, RECEIPTS, AND OTHER LIKE DOCUMENTS OR ARTICLES, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE FOR PERFORMING SIMILAR OPERATIONS.
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Thomson Duncan, of Glasgow, in the County
of Lanark, Scotland, Accountant, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MODE OF AND APPARATUS FOR NUMBERING COUPONS, BANK
NOTES, CHEQUES, RECEIPTS, AND OTHER LIKE DOCUMENTS OR ARTICLES, WHICH
IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE FOR PERFORMING SIMILAR OPERATIONS.'
"
-A communication from abroad by Thomas Richards, of Sydney,
New South Wales.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Thomson Duncan
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 2nd June 1875.
I, JOHN THOMSON DUNCAN, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark,
5 Scotland, Accountant, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF AND APPARATUS FOR NUMBERING
COUPONS, BANK 'NOTES, CHEQUES, RECEIPTS, AND OTHER LIKE DOCUMENTS OR
ARTICLES, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE FOR PERFORMING SIMILAR

page_text: OPERATIONS," communicated to me from abroad by Thomas Richards, of
Sydney, New South Wales, to be as follows:-
The Invention consists in constructing, arranging, and applying
apparatus in the manner and for the purpose herein described.
A number of moveable figures or characters on proper types, blocks,
or surfaces are placed in proper order with the requisite intervening
number of spales or quadrates, so as to form logotype bars, the whole
being united in the following manner :-The pieces are placed in position,
a groove is cut across them for the entire length of the bar, a piece of
wire is let or fitted into the groove, a soldering iron is run along to
braze, solder, or weld the whole together. The bar is then reversed or
turned over, and the like operation is procceded with on the other side
or surface, but care must be taken to place one wire higher up than the
other. When this arrangement of logotypes is used recourse may be
had to an ordinary printing press (instead of a special or complicated
numbering machine) to impress the consecutive numbers. This is a
great advantage.
In using the machine for consecutive numbering of coupons and
other documents as many bars should be employed as there are places of
figures to be printed. For instance, to print units one bar is to be used.
After every impression such bar is to be changed for a bar with the next
highest number, and so on with respect to tens, hundreds, thousands,
&c.
र
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Thomson Duncan in the Great Seal Patent 28
Office on the 30th November 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
THOMSON DUNCAN, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, Scotland,
Accountant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her 30
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-

page_text: A number of moveable figures or characters or proper types, blocks, or
surfaces are placed in proper order with the requisite intervening
number of spaces, spales, or quadrats, so as to form logotype bars, the
whole being united in the following manner :-The pieces are placed in
position, a groove is cut across them for the entire length of the bar, a
piece of wire is let or fitted into the groove, a soldering iron is run along
to braze, solder, or weld the whole together. The bar is then reversed
or turned over, and the like operation is proceeded with on the other
than
side or surface, but care must be taken to place one wire higher up
the other. When this arrangement of logotypes is used recourse may

page_text: be had to an ordinary printing press (instead of a special or complicated
numbering machine) to impress the consecutive numbers; this is a great
advantage.
In using the machine for consecutive numbering of coupons and
other documents as many bars should be employed as there are places or
figures to be printed. For instance, to print units one bar is to be
used. After every impression each bar is to be changed for a bar with
the next highest number, and so on with respect to tens, hundreds,
thousands, &c.
The Figure on the accompanying Drawing represents a perspective
view of a logotype bar constructed according to this Invention.
A is a logotype bar, which is formed by placing between the types,
figures, characters or blocks a composing it the requisite number of
spaces, spales, or quadrats b. When the types or other characters, and
the spaces, spales, or quadrats are in the proper position and order a
groove is cut across them for the entire length of the bar, and a
piece of wire c is let or fitted therein, so as to bind them together. A
soldering iron is then run along to braze or weld the whole together.
The bar must now be reversed or turned over, and another groove cut
across it to admit a second wire c¹, which is then brazed or welded
together as was the wire on the other side. Care must be taken to place
one wire. higher up than the other. By means of my arrangement of
logotype bars recourse may be had to an ordinary printing press to
impress the consecutive numbers, instead of a special or complicated
numbering machine, which is a great advantage.
In using the machine for consecutive numbering of coupons and
other documents as many bars should be employed as there are places
or figures to be printed; for instance, to print units one bar is to be
used. After every impression each bar is to be changed for a bar with
the next highest number, and so on with respect to tens, hundreds,
thousands, &c.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same may be performed, I declare that I claim, the improved
mode of and apparatus for numbering coupons, bank notes, cheques,
receipts, and other similar articles, in which moveable figures, type

page_text: characters, or blocks are combined with intervening spaces, spales, or
quadrats, so as to form logotype bars, as and for the purposes described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Thomson Dúncan, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of November,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-five.
Witness,
T. WATSON DUNCAN,
Of Glasgow,
Accountant.
J. THOMSON DUNCAN. (L.S.)