Improvements in Postal Orders, Bank Drafts, Cheques, and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Nov., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 30th Dec., 1897-Accepted, 19th Mar., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Postal Orders, Bank Drafts, Cheques, and the like.
We, JAMES FREDERICK HOYNE, of Royal Marine Road, Kingstown, County
Dublin, Gentleman, and JAMES TEEVAN, of 13, Northumberland Road, also in the
City of Dublin, Surgeon, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in postal orders, bank drafts, cheques
and the like, and in accordance therewith we form such articles in such a manner
that each one can be separated into three portions, for transmission by post or
otherwise, independently of one another.
In the case of a postal order for instance, we perforate same in two places so that
the said postal order can be separated into three parts, the first or principal portion
representing the postal order proper; the second the coupon, and the third, the
counter-foil of the block or book. Each portion has printed or otherwise displayed
upon it, any suitable words, figures or the like.
In use, the purchaser of the postal order would have possession of the two
portions representing the order proper and the coupon. When transmitting the
order through the post, for instance, the portion representing the postal order
proper would preferably be forwarded first, the second or coupon portion being
subsequently forwarded.
By this means the recipient of the postal order could only cash same upon pre-
sentation of the two portions, the numbers or other means of identification of
which must agree one with the other, thereby obviating risk of fraud and loss by
theft, as one portion would be useless for presentation to the paying office, without
its fellow portion.
The counterfoil would be retained by the issuing office, for subsequent checking
and recording purposes.
Gum or other mucilage is provided upon one of the sides of the coupon portion
of the order, for the purpose of allowing the postal order proper to be readily
affixed thereto.
Improvements in Postal Orders, Bank Drafts, Cheques, and the like.
We, JAMES FREDERICK HOYNE, of Royal Marine Road, Kingstown, County
Dublin, Gentleman, and JAMES TEEVAN, of 13, Northumberland Road, also in the

page_text: City of Dublin, Surgeon, 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:
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This invention relates to improvements in postal orders, bank drafts, cheques,
and the like, and has for object to provide means whereby a postal order or the
like can be separated into three portions for transmission by post or otherwise,
independently of each other, and thereby render such transmission a matter of
perfect safety.
In order that this our said invention may be the more readily understood and
carried into practical effect, reference is hereby made to the accompanying sheet
of illustrative drawings, wherein is shewn a postal order in accordance with our
invention.
In carrying our invention into practice we provide a number of blanks, each of
which is perforated as at b, b₁, so that the postal order, for instance, can be
separated into three parts. The principal portion a represents the postal order
proper, the second portion a¹ the coupon, and the third portion a³, represents the
counterfoil of the block or book into which the blanks are bound.
Each portion has printed or otherwise displayed upon it any suitable words,
figures, or the like c.
In use, the purchaser or user of the postal order would have possession of the two
portions a a representing the order proper and the coupon. When transmitting
the order through the post, for instance, the portion a representing the postal order
proper, would preferably be forwarded first, the second or coupon portion a¹ being
subsequently forwarded.
By this means the recipient of the postal order could only cash same upon pre-
sentation of the two portions a a', the numbers or other means of identification c
of which must coincide, one with the other, thereby obviating risk of fraud and
loss, as one portion of the postal order would be useless for presentation at the
paying office without its fellow portion.
The counterfoil would be retained by the issuing office, for subsequent check-
ing and recording purposes..
Gum or other mucilage dis provided upon one of the sides of the coupon portion a¹,
for the purpose of allowing the postal order proper a to be readily affixed thereto
before the two portions are presented for payment.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
The improvements in postal orders, bank drafts, cheques, and the like, consisting
in perforating same in two places so as to render each postal order or the like,
capable of being separated into three portions, each portion having a coinciding
number or its equivalent, and one portion having a strip of mucilage, substantially
as and for the purpose herein before described and shewn.
Dated this 30th day of December 1897.
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicants.