Improvements in the Method of and Means for Checking and Keeping Accounts of Sales.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Oct., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 27th July, 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 14th Sept., 1888
RESERVE CO
Improvements in the Method of and Means for Checking and
Keeping Accounts of Sales.
We, ALFRED CLARE of 95 Worsley Road Little Hulton near Bolton in the County
of Lancaster Secretary and ROBERT COOKE of 68 Manchester Road Farnworth near
Bolton in the County of Lancaster Printer, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion to be as follows:
This Invention relates to the method of, and to means for, checking and keeping
accounts of sales especially in Co-operative Stores and retail establishments.
Each salesman is provided with a sales book and an endorsing stamp. The sales book
is ruled on each page with a money column or columns and the pages or the tickets
may be numbered to facilitate reference and to prevent fraud. If no account or ticket
of sale is to be given to purchasers, each alternate page is perforated in such a
manner as to produce several tickets on a page each of which includes a portion of a
money column. If accounts or tickets of sales are given to purchasers, then two
perforated pages alternate with one unperforated page. The endorsing stamp may
have upon it any desired information such as the date, the name or style of the firm or
trading Corporation, and the name or number of the salesman.
A sheet of "carbonic paper" is interposed between the perforated and the unperforated
pages which are at the time in use, and when two perforated pages are used, a sheet
of carbonic paper is placed between these also.
When a sale is made, the salesman impresses one of the tickets and its duplicate and
triplicate if required with his stamp and writes upon the top one the name or number
of the purchaser or customer and the amount of the purchase. If two perforated
sheets are used, there are thus produced triplicates of the particulars of sale one of
which is torn off by means of the perforations and given to the customer. In either
case there may be retained a perforated sheet of tickets and an unperforated duplicate.
The total of the amounts in the money columns shows the total receipts of the sales-
man and the unperforated sheets may be kept for reference. If however it is not
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page_text: desired to keep the unperforated sheets for reference the cash may be added up
upon the duplicate perforated sheet when the unperforated sheets may be omitted
altogether.
The perforated sheet retained by the salesman is torn into its component tickets
and these are then sorted with the aid of boxes or pigeon holes into numerical or
alphabetical order according as the customer is indicated by a number or a name, the
tickets relating to the same customer being also sorted together in chronological order
at the same time.
From this system of sorting it results that the trouble of finding the desired page
in the ledger is avoided and that less wear and tear occurs.
After posting, the tickets may be filed separately on wires or spikes fixed in a board,
there being one spike for each customer and the boards may be placed in a rack
or racks.
Dated this 27th day of October A.D. 1887.
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for Applicants.

page_text: Keeping Accounts of Sales.
We, ALFRED CLARE of 95 Worsley Road, Little Hulton in the County of Lancaster,
Secretary, and ROBERT COOKE of 42 Manchester Road, Farnworth near Bolton, in
the County of Lancaster, Printer 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 :-
This Invention relates to the method of, and to means for, checking and keeping
accounts of sales, especially in Co-operative Stores and retail establishments.
Each salesman is provided with a sales book and an endorsing stamp. The sales
book is ruled on each page with a money column or columns, and the pages may be
numbered so as to facilitate reference and to prevent fraud. If no bill account or
ticket of sale is to be given to purchasers, each alternate page is perforated in such a
manner as to produce several detachable tickets on a page each of which may be
numbered and each of which includes a portion of a money column.
If accounts or tickets of sales are given to purchasers then two perforated pages
alternate with one unperforated page. The endorsing stamp may have upon it any
desired information such as the date, the name or style of the firm or trading corpora-
tion, and the name or number of the salesman.
A sheet of "carbonic paper" is interposed between the perforated and the
unperforated pages which are at the time in use, and when two perforated pages are
used a sheet of carbonic paper is placed between these also.
A suitable form of sales book is illustrated in the sheet of drawings appended hereto.
The figures represent part of the salesman's sales book or sales sheets consisting of an
upper or outer perforated sheet A a duplicate perforated sheet B and an unperforated
sheet D with two sheets of carbon paper C C interposed.
When a sale is made, the salesman impresses one of the tickets and its duplicate and
triplicate if required with his stamp and writes upon the top one the name or number
of the purchaser or customer and the amount of the purchase. This information is
duplicated or triplicated by the carhonic sheets. If two perforated sheets are used,
there are thus produced triplicates of the particulars of sale one of which is torn off by
means of the perforations and given to the customer. In either case there may be
retained a perforated sheet of tickets and an unperforated duplicate. The total of the
amounts in the money columns shows the total receipts of the salesman and the
unperforated sheets may be kept for reference.
If however it is not desired to keep unperforated sheets for reference, the cash may
be added up upon the duplicate perforated sheet and the unperforated sheets may be
omitted.altogether.
The perforated sheet retained by the salesman is torn into its component tickets or
parts, and these are then sorted with the aid of boxes or pigeon holes into numerical
or alphabetical order according as the customer is indicated by a number or a name,

page_text: the ticket relating to the same customer being also sorted together in chronological
order at the same time.
From this system of sorting it results that the trouble of finding the desired page
in the ledger is avoided and that less wear and tear to the books occur.
After posting the tickets may be filed separately on wires or spikes fixed in a board,
there being one spike for each customer and the boards may be placed in a rack or
racks.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is :
(1) The herein before described means for the checking and keeping accounts of
sales, consisting of a specially constructed and arranged sales book, an endorsing
stamp, sorting boxes or pigeon holes, and wires or spikes fixed upon a board, and their
employment as and for the purpose set forth.
(2) As part of a means for checking and keeping accounts, a sales book constructed,
arranged and used substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described.
Dated this 24th day of July A.D. 1888.
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for the Applicants.