A COMBINED CHEQUE, FACSIMILE, AND RECEIPT BOOK
Year: 1873

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Albert Whitford Hosking at the,
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the,
28th June 1873.
I, ALBERT WHITFORD HOSKING, of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Public Accountant; do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "A COMBINED CHEQUE, FACSIMILE, AND RECEIPT BOOK," to be as;
follows:-
This Invention is designed to afford a ready means of writing a cheque,
a facsimile thercof, and also for filling up an ordinary blank receipt form'
and a remittance note by one and the same operation, and thus not only
to save time but also to obviate the possibility of mistake, and to secure:
unquestionable accuracy in the filling up of the voucher obtained for the.
payment made by such cheque, and thereby providing an undoubted.
safeguard against fraud.
The Invention consists in the adaptation of the principle of the well
known “manifold writer," for the purpose of filling up four forms
simultaneously, two of which resemble each other, and the third and
fourth being entirely different in their printed contents, and designed to
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serve a distinct purpose, which is at present only accomplished by
separate operations. The first or top form on what is commonly known
as manifold" or transparent paper, is printed in the same manner as
an ordinary bankers' cheque, and is a facsimile of the second form which
is the cheque to be paid away, and printed on heavier and non- &
transparent paper; the third sheet also of transparent paper is a
memorandum of remittance, and the bottom sheet is of the same
description of paper as the second sheet above referred to, but the
printed matter thereon is the printed matter usually employed in a well
arranged and comprehensive blank form of receipt, having spaces allowed 1
for date, name, amount, and signature, and arranged so as to correspond
exactly with the spaces for date, name, amount, and signature in the
first and second forms above referred to.
The combined cheque and receipt book is composed of a series of these
forms placed in the order above described, so that upon placing a sheet 1
of carbonized or other prepared paper between the first and second
forms, and another sheet between the third and fourth forms, and then
writing on the upper transparent form with an ordinary agate or other
style, a facsimile of the cheque which is to be paid away is thereby
obtained, and the date, name, and amount, so written are by the same 2
operation and in the same handwriting repeated on the third or remittance
form, and also on the bottom or receipt form, and thus the separate
filling up of a receipt form and writing of remittance letter are avoided,
and the necessity for filling up the ordinary counterfoil of a cheque, is
also obviated, and all mistakes entirely prevented by means of the first 2
form or facsimile cheque, which is retained in the book, so that three
different forms and facsimile of one of them are produced by one
operation.
The carbonized or other paper employed between the cheque and the
receipt form has a part cut away corresponding with the place where a
the signature is affixed, so that whilst the filling in of the body of the
cheque and facsimile is reproduced on the receipt form, the signature on
the cheque is not transferred, but a blank space is left for the signature
of the person to whom the cheque is paid.
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