An Improvement in Check or Sales Books.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 29th July, 1890
Complete Specification Left. 11th Apr.. 1891-Accepted. 16th May, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Check or Sales Books.
We THE LAMSON PARAGON SUPPLY COMPANY LIMITED and ROBERT
CLARK Manager both of 16 Charterhouse Buildings in the City of London do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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Our invention relates to check or sales books such as employed for counter
use in shops. In many cases it is desirable to have a triplicate slip or bill made
out on the purchase of each article the original one being for the customer and the
two extra copies produced by manifolding by means of "carbon" leaves being
retained for the proprietor's purposes.
In triplicate books as at present employed it frequently happens that the salesman
misses a page or pages in placing one or both of the carbon leaves in position
and thus one or more of the carbon records are lost. To obviate this our invention
consists of a book having first a double page the lower one being perforated on the
"stub" line and the two pages separated by a line of perforations at their outer or
right hand edge. Between these pages the first "carbon" leaf is slipped after
which the said "carbon" and the double leaf may be readily lifted up by say
the left hand bottom corner so as to expose a single page in front of which the
second "carbon" leaf is slipped. The book is made up of a series of pages in
this way.
Dated the 29th day of July 1890.
PHILIP M. JUSTICE,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Check or Sales Books.
We THE LAMSON PARAGON SUPPLY COMPANY LIMITED and ROBERT
CLARK, Manager both of 16 Charterhouse Buildings in the City of London 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:-
Our invention relates to check or sales books such as employed for counter use in
shops. In many cases it is desirable to have a triplicate slip or bill made out on
the purchase of each article the original one being for the customer and the two
extra copies produced by manifolding by means of "carbon" leaves being retained
for the proprietor's purposes.
In triplicate books as at present employed it frequently happens that the salesman
misses a page or pages in placing one or both of the carbon leaves in position
and thus one or more of the carbon records appear upon the wrong pages.
To obviate this our invention consists of a book having first a double page the
lower one being perforated on the "stub" line and the two pages separated by a
line of perforations at their outer or right hand edge. Between these pages the
first "carbon" leaf is slipped after which the said "carbon" and the double
leaf may be readily lifted up so as to expose a single page in front of which
the second "carbon" leaf is slipped. The book is made up of a series of pages in
this way.
To clearly explain the nature of our invention we will illustrate it by reference
to the accompanying drawing which illustrates an open counter sales-book and in
which the line a. a. represents the line of perforations between the double page and

page_text: the stub portion b. b. the line of perforations between the right hand edge of the
lower of the double pages and the right hand edge of the upper of same c. being the
"carbon" leaf slipped between the same while d. is the carbon leaf slipped behind
the lower of the double pages and in front of the third page e.
It will be evident that if the original bill is made out to the customer on the first
page, a duplicate and triplicate thereof, will be produced on the second and third
pages which are by preference numbered with a corresponding number to the
original, the stub being also similarly numbered if desired. It will be seen that
there will be little danger of the sales person inserting the carbon leaves between
the wrong pages as it is a simple matter to place the first between the double page
and then to lift same by say the left hand corner for the opposite corner so as to
expose the third page beneath in front of which the carbon leaf is placed. Or this
third page may be placed in front of the double page instead of beneath it as
illustrated, in which case it would preferably be printed so as to form the bill to be
handed to the customer. The book in this case would be then composed of first a
single page then a double then a single and so on. We are aware that it is
customary to employ counter books and the like having double pages between
which a carbon leaf is placed and also that books in which three copies are
produced have been employed and we do not broadly claim either of said construc-
tions but
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner it is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
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A check or sales or like book composed of alternate double and single leaves
substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 11th day of April 1891.
PHILIP M. JUSTICE,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicants.