Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Nov., 1886.
Complete Left, 15th Aug., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 16th Sept., 1887.
RESERVE
I LEON SIMON of 39 & 40 Mark Lane in the City of London Merchant do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improvement in cheques, bills, notes, drafts and similar
documents, for the purpose of preventing fraud by alteration of the amount for which
the cheque or document is filled in.
It consists in ruling or marking lines upon the spot on the face of the cheque or
document where the figures are filled in, in such a manner as to leave spaces in each
of which one figure only will be placed while the blank spacos on either side of the
amount may be occupied by crosses or lines, or be punched out.
Thus each figure will occupy ono space and any other placed therein will present a
cramped appearance and be easily noticeable.
If desired each space may be allotted for units, tens, hundreds, thousands, and
upwards, in which case a cheque or order for say eighty pounds would be filled in by
placing an 8 in the space appropriated to the "tens" and an 0 under the " units," the
spaces in front being occupied by crosses, lines or otherwise. For the shillings and
pence a blank space may be left as usual or a space may be apportioned for each.
Instead of this arrangement, a series of spaces may be allotted for sums under £10,
under £100 and so on.
The amount would of course be also written in full as usual, and the cheque be
otherwise unaltered. It will be evident that these spaces may be formed by simply
ruling or printing vertical lines between which the figures are placed or by
incorporating them in the paper by watermarking, or by decorative blanks ovals or
circles, or in any other suitable manner, and that the invention may be easily applied
to existing cheques or documents.
PHILIP M. JUSTICE,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Cheques, Bills, Notes, Drafts, and the like for the
Prevention of Fraud.
I, LEON SIMON of 39 & 40 Mark Lane in the City of London, Merchant, 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:-
My invention relates to an improvement in cheques, bills, notes, drafts and similar
documents, for the purpose of preventing fraud by alteration of the amount for which
the cheque or document is filled in.
To clearly explain the nature of same reference is made to the accompanying
drawing in which :-
Figs. 1 and 2 represent modified forms of an improved cheque.
The invention consists in a cheque, bill, note, draft, order, or the like marked with
the lines a upon the spot on the face of the cheque or document where the figures are
filled in, in such a manner as to leave spaces, in each of which, one figure only will be
placed while the blank spaces on one or both sides of the amount may be occupied by
crosses or lines as shown or be punched out.
Thus each figure will occupy one space and any other placed therein will present a
cramped appearance and be easily noticeable.
If desired each space may be allotted for units, tens, hundreds, thousands, and
upwards as in Fig. 1, in which case a cheque or order for, say eight pounds ten shillings
and sixpence would be filled in as shown, while a cheque for, say eighty pounds would
be filled in by placing an 8 in' the space appropriated to the "tens" and an 0 under
the " units," the spaces in front being occupied by crosses, lines or otherwise. For
the shillings and pence a blank space may be left as usual or a space may be apportioned
for each, as shown in Fig. 1.
Instead of this armngement a series of spaces may be allotted and marked for sums
under £10., under £100, and so on.
The amount is of course written in full as usual, and the cheque is otherwise
unaltered. It will be evident that these spaces may be formed by simply ruling or
printing vertical lines between which the figures are placed or by incorporating them
in the paper by watermarking, or by decorative blanks, ovals, or circles, or in any
other suitable manner, and that the invention may be easily applied to existing cheques
or documents by the simple stamping of the lines on the face thereof by a rubber or
other stamp, or otherwise marking them thereon.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
The improvements in cheques, bills, notes, drafts and the like, substantially as
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.