Improvements in the Mode of Preparing Cheques, Bills of Lading, and other Documents for the Use of Bankers and others, where
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Jan., 1887.
Complete Left, 17th June, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 19th July, 1887.
Improvements in the Mode of Preparing Cheques, Bills of Lading,
and other Documents for the Use of Bankers and others,
whereby a Cheque, Bill of Lading, or other Document can be
so Detached from its Counterfoil as to Prevent the Amount
for which the Cheque or other Document is Drawn being
Substantially Increased.
I CHARLES LONGBOTTOM HINDLE of 80 Trinity Road Handsworth near Birmingham,
Publisher do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:―
In my previous patent number 11922 of the year 1886 I propose to perforate the
Cheques with two or more parallel rows of perforations and when required also
perforate the space or spaces between the above mentioned rows by means of
transverse or diagonal rows of perforations by either or any of which the Cheque
or other document may be detached from its Counterfoil so that the sums of £1 or
any multiple thereof may be at once seen by the space in the perforations at which
the Cheque or other document is detached from its Counterfoil.
By means of my present invention I place a plate of metal or other suitable
material of such a form that the edge thereof may correspond with the parallel and
transverse or diagonal positions previously indicated by the rows of perforations so
that it may be placed upon the Counterfoil of the Cheque or other document and the
Cheque detached at will from the Counterfoil according to the position of the edges
of the plate and so obviate the necessity of the parallel or diagonal rows of
perforations.
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page_text: Improvements in the Mode of Preparing Cheques, Bills of Lading,
and other Documents for the Use of Bankers and others,
whereby a Cheque, Bill of Lading, or other Document can be
so Detached from its Counterfoil as to Prevent the Amount
for which the Cheque or other Document is Drawn being
Substantially Increased.
I CHARLES LONGBOTTOM HINDLE formerly of 80 Trinity Road Handsworth near
Birmingham but now of 7 Newstead Road, Lee in the county of Kent, Publisher
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:
In the interspace between the body of the Cheque Bill of Lading or other
document and its counterfoil I place one or two or more rows of figures from the top
to the bottom and then by means of a plate of metal or other suitable material
(hereinafter called the cutter) made of such a form that the edge thereof can be
placed against the side and bottom of any desired figure in the series and so as to
form there a right angle or preferably an obtuse angle with a slightly rounded
shoulder I detach the Cheque or other document by drawing the same against the
shaped edge of the cutter in whatever position it is placed.
By this means the last figure in the margin at which the Cheque or other, document
is by the cutter detached from the counterfoil is made to correspond approximately
to the amount for which the Cheque or other document is drawn.
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 -
A method of detaching Cheques Bills of Lading Receipts and other documents
from their counterfoils by means of a cutter so shaped as to fit a row of figures
printed between the body of the Cheque or other document and its counterfoil so that
such shaped cutter may be placed against any figure in any row and the Cheque or
other document may be detached at the amount approximately corresponding to the
sum for which the document is drawn substantially as herein before described.
Dated this 17th day of June 1887.