Improvements in Cheque, Bill, or Note Books.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd May, 1892-Accepted, 4th June, 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cheque, Bill, or Note Books.
We, DAVID ALEXANDER MCINTYRE and WALTER JOHN KNIGHT, both of
Newark, County of Essex and State of New Jersey, U.S.A., Gentlemen, our Post
Office address being 764 Broad Street, Newark New Jersey, U.S.A., 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:-
The object of this invention is to produce a safety cheque bill of exchange or
note book whereby alterations of the slightest nature can be at once detected, the
labor and expense of copying by press or otherwise, avoided and the use of
"stubs" dispensed with.
The invention consists in the new and improved blank cheque, bill or note
book, and the arrangement and combination of the cheques, bills or notes and
their duplicates therein, substantially as hereinbefore described and finally
embodied in the claim.
Referring to the accompanying drawings in which like letters of reference
indicate corresponding parts in each of the several figures,
Fig. 1 is a top plan view of my improved safety cheque book, the cover being
removed;
Fig. 2 is a sectional view on line x, Fig. 1, and
Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the duplicate cheque blank corresponding with
cheque blank shown in Fig. 1.
In said drawings a, represents an original cheque blank, made of thin paper; b, is
the duplicate cheque blank, engraved in fac-simile to cheque blank a, but made of
heavier paper and c is an ink carbon paper, to be placed between a, and 6 when
in use.
In carrying out my invention the blank cheques are printed or engraved on
ordinary paper used for such purposes and a duplicate of the same,—including
number or any other description or sign, on a sheet of thin or tissue paper.
These sheets are then arranged in piles of the number desired and in such a
manner that the thin duplicate sheet shall always be on the top of and exactly
over the corresponding printing or engraving on the heavier paper. Between
the thin and heavier sheets, a sheet of ink carbon paper is placed when a cheque
is to be written. The blank cheques or bills are bound or fastened together, in
the above order, in any desired manner and the book is then complete and ready
for use.
In operation the ink carbon paper is placed between the thin and thick blank,
and the cheque or bill is written in full on the thin sheet by means of a stylus,
stylographic pen or any smooth pointed object, and the same is at once trans-
ferred, by means of the ink-carbon paper, to the thicker paper beneath in exact
fac-simile. By using an intermediate ink-carbon paper instead of the ordinary
carbon paper, the writing or tracing is also transferred to and through the thin
paper thus reproducing in ink the original writing or tracing of which the
impression on the thicker paper is an exact fac-simile.
Any colored ink carbon sheets can be used as desired or a series of colors may
be used thus aiding in the detection of any forged cheques &c.
The copy or transfer on the thicker paper is then signed and used, the original
on the thin paper being retained in the book.
By constructing cheque or note books in the manner described all trouble and
labor of filling out the ordinary "stubs," is avoided and a great saving of time
is effected.

page_text: With such books also, any alteration, even the slightest can be at once detected
by comparison with the thin original in the book, and moreover and addition or
alteration by an ordinary pen would be at once apparent without the necessity of
comparison.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
1) As a new article of manufacture a safety cheque or bill book composed of a
series of duplicate blank cheques or bills, one of upper thin paper, and one of lower
thicker paper underneath with an intermediate sheet of ink-carbon paper when in
use, substantially as described and set forth.
2) In a blank safety cheque or bill book the combination of a series of duplicate
cheques or bills and ink carbon paper, each of said series consisting of an upper
thin blank cheque or bill and a thicker lower blank underneath with an ink carbon
paper between when in use, substantially as described and set forth.
Dated this 0-71
1000
BONNE & Co.,
57 & 58, Chancery Lane, London,
Authorised Patent and Trade Mark Agents.