Improved Method of and Means for Checking Receipts and Payments for Goods and similar Articles by Waiters and other Employees.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 16th Nov., 1894-Accepted, 16th Feb., 1805
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Method of and Means for Checking Receipts and
Payments for Goods and similar Articles by Waiters and
other Employees.
STANISLAW SOLCBERG, of the Salutation Restaurant, 17 Newgate Street in
the City of London Restaurant Manager do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improved method of checking receipts and payments
for goods and similar articles by waiters and other employees and has for its
object the prevention of fraud and the simplification of keeping the accounts and
dissecting the same in their various departments. In carrying this invention into
effect I use a series of books each book being suitably numbered to correspond
with the number of the waiter or other employee. Each such book contains a
number of payment checks of various denominations those of each denomination
being of a different colour for the purpose of easy identification. In addition to
the foregoing each book of checks bears on every such check a similar distinctive
number throughout. The books may contain any series of checks from the smallest
coin of the realm to any desired sum or they may be specially arranged to suit the
requirements of any particular class of business. Each waiter or employee is
required at the commencement of his days duties to obtain or purchase from the
cashier or other authorized person a book of checks and to use them in payment
for goods or articles obtained from the various departments. At the conclusion of
the waiter or other employees days duties the checks are collected from the various
departments and compared with the charges made on the bills which sums have to
be accounted for by the waiter or other employee, or in the event of their having
purchased a book of checks previous to commencing their duties the face value of
the checks remaining in the book, if any, is repaid to the waiter or employee, and
they are used in a similar manner to the foregoing during the subsequent days
transactions. In order to prevent imitation checks being introduced for the
purpose of fraud I do not confine myself to the use of checks having any particular
colour for any stated sum or denomination but may alter and change the colours
at discretion.
In connection with this system a special method of book-keeping may be
advantageously adopted to suit the requirements of any particular class of business
but that does not form any part of this invention.
Dated this 16th day of February 1894.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Method of and Means for Checking Receipts and
Payments for Goods and similar Articles by Waiters and
other Employees.
STANISLAW SOLCBERG formerly of the Salutation Tavern 17 Newgate Street
in the City of London now of the " Woolpack" 3 to 5 Gracechurch Street in the
City of London Restaurant Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this
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page_text: invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to an improved method of and means for checking receipts
and payments for goods and other articles by waiters and other employees and has
for its object the prevention of fraud and the simplification of keeping the
accounts and dissecting the same in their various departments.
In carrying this invention into effect I use a series of books each book being
suitably numbered to correspond with a number assigned to the waiter or other
employee. Each such book contains a number of payment checks of various
denominations, those of each denomination being of a different colour for the
purpose of casy identification. In addition to the foregoing each book of checks
bears on every such check a similar distinctive number throughout corresponding
with the number by which the waiter or employee is known. The books may
contain any series of checks representing amounts from the smallest coin of the
realm to any desired sum, or the books of checks may be specially arranged to suit
the requirements of any particular class of business or department of such. Each
waiter or employee is required at the commencement of his days duties to obtain
or purchase from the cashier or other authorized person a book of checks and to
use them in payment for goods or articles obtained from the various departments.
At the conclusion of the waiter or other employees days duties the checks that
have been used in exchange for articles required are collected from the various
departments and compared with the charges made on the bills which sums have to
be accounted for by the waiter or employee, or in the event of their having
purchased a book of checks previous to commencing duty the face value of the
checks remaining in the book, if any, is repaid to the waiter or employee, and they
are used in a similar manner to the foregoing during the subsequent days proceedings.
In order to prevent imitation checks being introduced for the purpose of fraud I
do not confine myself to the exclusive use of checks having any particular colour
for any stated sum or denomination, but may alter and change the colours at
discretion. In connection with this invention I have devised a special method of
book keeping of a simple character which may be advantageously adopted to suit
the requirements of any particular class of business and for the purpose of easily
ascertaining the results of the transactions in each branch or department, but that
does not form any part of this invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
The device and general arrangement of checks or any similar modification
thereof for the purposes hereinbefore described.
Dated this 16th day of November 1804
STANISLAW SOLCBERG.