Improvements in connection with Check or Sales Books,
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Nov., 1899-Accepted, 27th Jan., 1900
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in connection with Check or Sales Books,
I, ROBERT CLARK, Managing Director of Lamson Paragon Supply Company,
Limited, Paragon Works, Canning Town, London, do hereby declare the nature.
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be parti-
cularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
According to this invention the bill and its duplicate have a perforated or
tearing line at the bottom or outer edge, and the duplicate a second perforated
line approximately even with the loose end of the bill, the portion beyond or
outside this line of perforations forming the stub.
A number of stubs being secured together are held within a clip, and pivoted
so as to swing on said clip are projecting arms or a frame carrying a U shaped
bar normally held out by spring action so that the bottom of the trough is in
contact with the outer ends of the arms or bar of the frame around which one
edge of the black or carbon leaf is placed the pressure between the trough and
frame holding it in position.
The space between the clip and trough shaped bar is such that the bills or
duplicates can be readily passed therethrough thus leaving the black or carbon
leaf in proper position for the first unused bill.
A check or sales book constructed according to the invention is illustrated in
the accompanying drawing in which
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a book open with a bill in position to be made
out.
Fig. 2 is a similar view shewing the duplicate of the bill being passed through
the frame.
Fig. 3 is a side sectional elevation on an enlarged scale through the carbon
leaf holding frame, the clip and bills, the leaf holder being shewn as held
open.
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Fig. 4 is a front sectional elevation of a part of the foregoing.
Fig. 5 is a side sectional elevation similar to Fig. 3 but with the leaf holder
shewn as closed on the leaf and Fig. 6 is a plan of Fig. 5.
In the drawings 1 is a suitable cover to which is securely attached as by rivetting
or otherwise a plate 2 forming part of or carrying a spring clip 3 into which are
pushed the stubs of a block of bills or the like a and their duplicates b.
Each lower bill or duplicate b has a row of perforations 4 which separate it
from its stud b and the upper bill or original is connected to it at the bottom
or outer edge by a tearing line of perforations 5 and is folded over onto the top
of the duplicate.
To the clip 3 is pivoted a frame consisting of a bent rod 6 having shoulders 6ª
to form abutments for springs 7 such rods passing through holes in a U shaped
bar 8. A part 6b of the bar is adapted to normally seat in the U shaped bar 8
under pressure of the spring and to hold the carbon leaf 9 therein as shewn
in Fig. 5 the bar 8 being pressed back against the spring to allow it to be
inserted as shewn in Figs. 3 and 4.

page_text: The leaves a bare sufficiently narrow to enable them to pass between the rods 6
comprising the frame as shewn in Fig. 2.
In operation the carbon leaf 9 is inserted between an original bill a and a
duplicate as shewn in Fig. 1. The bill being made out the original is torn
off at the line 5 the frame with the carbon leaf is raised and the duplicate b is
pushed through so as to come on the other side of the leaf 9 as shewn in Fig. 2
the leaf 9 being then turned back again and slipped between the next original
bill a and its duplicate b.
In this way the carbon leaf is securely held in the cover and can be always in
position under a new bill the position of which it marks while the used duplicates
are entirely separated from the rest of the block of bills. It will be obvious
that other arrangements of bills, duplicates, and so forth may be used with the
carbon leaf líolder above described:
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. In a check or sales book a carbon leaf holder consisting of a frame adapted to
hold the leaf and having an opening in same to enable a bill, duplicate or the like
to be pushed through same substantially as and for the purpose described....
2. In a check or sales book a clip for the block of bills and a spring clip frame
pivoted thereto said frame having an opening in same to enable a bill duplicate
or the like to be pushed through same substantially as and for the purpose
described.
3. A check or sales book constructed substantially as described and illustrated.
του.
PHILIP M. JUSTICE, .
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agent,
For the Applicant. .