Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Nov., 1886..
Complete Left, 10th Aug., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 20th Sept., 1887
RPPPAL
I, PATRICK SULLIVAN, of 179 Caledonian Road, in the County of Middlesex,
Cheesemonger, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to effect improvements in the method of checking
the cash received in shops and other establishments, by securing a record of the
amounts inscribed upon the pay tickets, previously to their being handed to the
cashier.
In carrying out my invention I make use of a book, having one stiff cover at
the end, and suitably bound. The first page may be printed (if desired) so as to
indicate the name and address of the firm and other necessary and useful particulars.
The remainder of the book consists of alternate leaves of unperforated paper and
perforated paper. The perforations are so disposed that a number of rectangular or
other tickets may be readily torn off, in a manner analogous to sheets of postage
stamps.
When using this book, a sheet of carbonised paper is placed under each perforated
sheet, and therefore between that and the plain sheet under the same.
The amount
to be paid is marked with pencil upon one of the blank tickets, which is then torn off
and handed to the purchaser, who thereby receives intimation of the amount he has
to pay to the cashier.

page_text: It is obvious that the act of inscribing the amount upon the ticket, will cause an
exact copy thereof to be inscribed upon the plain paper, under the carbonised paper;
and when the ticket has been torn off the record remains on the sheet of plain
paper. When the tickets, forming one leaf, have all been removed, the plain leaf may
be also removed, for casting, recording the totals, and filing, or otherwise; or it may
be retained in the book until the end of the day, or other period.
Any number of such alternate leaves of perforated and plain paper may be bound
up in one book, the pages of which are all consecutively numbered, so as to prevent
fraudulent removal of leaves therefrom.

page_text: and Analogous Purposes.
I PATRICK SULLIVAN of 179 Caledonian Road, in the County of Middlesex,
Cheesemonger, do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 my invention is to effect improvements in the method of checking the
cash received in shops and other establishments by securing a record of the amounts
inscribed upon the pay-tickets, previously to their being handed to the Cashier.
In carrying out my invention, I make use of a book, having one stiff cover at the
end, and suitably bound. The first page may be printed (if desired) so as to indicate
the name and address of the firm and other necessary and useful particulars. The
remainder of the book consists of alternate leaves of unperforated paper and perforated
paper. The perforations are so disposed that a number of rectangular or other
tickets may be readily torn off, in a manner analogous to sheets of postage stamps.
When using this book, a sheet of carbonised paper, or its equivalent, is placed
under each perforated sheet, and therefore between that and the plain sheet under the
same. The amount to be paid is marked with pencil upon one of the blank tickets,
which is then torn off and handed to the purchaser, who thereby receives intimation
of the amount he has to pay to the Cashier.
It is obvious that the act of inscribing the amount upon the ticket, will cause an
exact copy thereof to be inscribed upon the plain paper, under the carbonised paper;
and when the ticket has been torn off the record remains on the sheet of plain paper.
When the tickets forming one leaf, have all been removed, the plain leaf, may be also
removed, for casting, recording the totals, and filing, or otherwise; or it may be
retained in the book until the end of the day, or other period.
The term "carbonised paper" is herein intended to include transfer paper of any
colour.
Any number of such alternate leaves of perforated and plain paper may be bound
up in one book, the pages of which are all consecutively numbered, so as to prevent
fraudulent removal of leaves therefrom.
It is obvious that my improvements in checking and recording may be used for
checking and recording goods taken out of stores, and analogous transactions.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my Baid
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is --
1. The method of checking and recording amounts taken paid or received by means
of perforated leaves forming sheets of tickets, bound up with unperforated leaves, and
used with carbonised paper, substantially as hereinbefore described.
2. The manufacture and use of books made up with alternate sheets of perforated
and unperforated paper, suitably paged and labelled to prevent fraud, and used with
carbonised paper, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described.
3. The improvements in means and appliances for checking and recording the
amounts of pay-tickets and analogous articles, substantially as herein before described.
Dated 10th August 1887.
GEO. DOWNING,
Agent for Applicant.