IM- PROVEMENTS IN PRINTED OR OTHER FORMS APPLICABLE FOR BANKERS' CHEQUES, ORDERS FOR GOODS, WHARFINGERS' AND CARRIERS' RECEIPTS, TAXES AND RATES COLLECTORS RECEIPTS, AND VARIOUS OTHER PAROCHIAL, COMMERCIAL, OR PRIVATE PURPOSES, WHETHER SUCH FORMS BE BOUND UP INTO BOOKS OR NOT."
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas William Atlee and George Jobson Atlee, of
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Factors and Manufacturers
(trading under the firm of Atlee and Sons), for the Invention of "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN PRINTED OR OTHER FORMS APPLICABLE FOR BANKERS' CHEQUES,
ORDERS FOR GOODS, WHARFINGERS' AND CARRIERS' RECEIPTS, TAXES AND RATES
COLLECTORS RECEIPTS, AND VARIOUS OTHER PAROCHIAL, COMMERCIAL, OR PRIVATE
PURPOSES, WHETHER SUCH FORMS BE BOUND UP INTO BOOKS OR NOT."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas William Atlee and
George Jobson Atlee at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 23rd May 1854.
We, THOMAS WILLIAM ATLEE and GEORGE JOBSON ATLEE, of Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, Factors and Manufacturers (trading under the
firm of Atlee and Sons), do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PRINTED OR OTHER FORMS APPLICABLE FOR BANKERS' CHEQUES
ORDERS FOR GOODS, WHARFINGERS' AND CARRIERS' RECEIPTS, TAXES AND RATES
COLLECTORS RECEIPTS, AND VARIOUS OTHER PAROCHIAL, COMMERCIAL, OR PRIVATE
PURPOSES, WHETHER SUCH FORMS BE BOUND UP INTO BOOKS OR NOT," to be as follows
(that is to say) :-
Our improvement in such forms is to perforate them at certain places, that
they may be readily divided from the sheet or. book, as also leaving a counter-
part on which its contents may be entered, such as is commonly used for

page_text: bankers' cheques, orders for goods, wharfingers' and carriers' receipts, shipping
notes, &c., without any regard to the form of such perforations; or whether it
Com that will not intenfore with their
bankers' cheques, orders for goods, wharfingers' and carriers' receipts, shipping
notes, &c., without any regard to the form of such perforations; or whether it
is in a strait, scolloped, or any other form, that will not interfore with their
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas William Atlee and George Jobson Atlee in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 23rd November 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME; we, THOMAS
WILLIAM ATLEE and GEORGE JOBSON ATLEE, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Factors and Manufacturers (trading under the Firm of Atlee and
Sons), send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said Thomas William Atlee and George Jobson Atlee, Her special
license, that we, the said Thomas William Atlee and George Jobson Atlee, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Thomas
William Atlee and George Jobson Atlee, our executors, administrators, or
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRINTED OR OTHER FORMS APPLICABLE FOR
BANKERS CHEQUES, ORDERS FOR GOODS, WHARFINGERS' AND CARRIERS' RECEIPTS,
TAXES AND RATES COLLECTORS' RECEIPTS, AND VARIOUS OTHER PAROCHIAL, COM-
MERCIAL, OR PRIVATE PURPOSES, WHETHER SUCH FORMS BE BOUND UP INTO BOOKS OR
NOT," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Thomas William
Atlee and George Jobson Atlec, by an instrument in writing under our
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Thomas William Atlee and George
Jobson Atlee, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in
what, manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement (that is to say) :-

page_text: Our Invention consists in perforating printed and other forms, such as are
named in the title, when such forms are required to be separated, for the
purpose of leaving or preserving a check or evidence of the business matter to
which such torn-off forms may relate. Such perforations may be in one or
more straight, undulating, or zigzag lines, or in any pattern that will admit
of being easily torn asunder. We do not confine ourselves to the precise form
in which such perforations may be made, as they may be round, diamond,
square, or any other. And should it be further necessary, as a preventive
to imposition, such as in excursion, return, or other railway tickets, such tickets
may be perforated, so as to readily indicate the peculiar character of their
issue.
The manner in which such perforations may be effected may be varied in
many ways, either singly or collectively; but that which we have adopted and
found to answer well consists in fixing a number of steel points of the <lesired
form and size into a suitable metallic stock, which stock we apply by means of
a screw to a suitable fly press, and in the bed of such press we fix a steel plate
with holes drilled in it to correspond with the row or rows of points above, so
that when such points are lowered by the press screw they shall pierce the
paper form or forms and enter such holes, so as to fit into them, but yet to be
easily disengaged.
Having thus described the nature of our Invention, and the manner in
which we carry it into effect, we wish it to be understood that what we claim
as our Invention is,―
The perforating of printed or other forms, when a part or parts of such form
is to be torn off and the other part or parts to remain, as a check or checks
or evidence or evidences of the business or other transaction in which or for
which such form may be used.
In witness whereof, we, the said Thomas William Atlee and George
Jobson Atlee, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-
second day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-four.
THOMAS WILLIAM AILLE. (4.5.)
AND
THOMAS WILLIA
AND
GEORGE JOBSON ATLEE.
(L.S.)
(L.S.)