IMPROVED MEANS FOR PREVENTING THE FRADULENT USE OF BONDS, RECEIPTS, CHEQUES, TICKETS, AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES.
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Rice Hayes and Charles Rolla Peters, of
the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, United
States of America, Gentlemen, for the Invention of "IMPROVED
MEANS FOR PREVENTING THE FRADULENT USE OF BONDS, RECEIPTS, CHEQUES,
TICKETS, AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES.'
".
Sealed the 22nd December 1870, and dated the 29th July 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Rice Hayes
and Charles Rolla Peters at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 29th July 1870.
We, THOMAS RICE HAYES and CHARLES ROLLA PETERS, of the City
and County of San Francisco, State of California, United States of
America, Gentlemen, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVED MEANS FOR PREVENTING THE FRAUDULENT USE OF BONDS,
RECEIPTS, CHEQUES, TICKETS, AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES," to be as follows:--
Our said Invention consists in ruling or marking straight lines in a
diagonal manner on the face or back of printed or other forms such as
are herein-before named when such forms are required to be separated
for the purpose of leaving or preserving a check or stub or evidence of

page_text: the business matter to which such torn off forms may relate. The lines
or marks are straight lines and converge, diverge, and cross each other in
a diagonal and irregular manner over the whole surface of the leaf and
stub. It is not important at what point at the edge of the leaf the
lines commence or terminate so that they commence and terminate in
acute or obtuse angles or with converging and diverging points. When
these lines are made on the face of the form or leaf some importance
may be attached to the lines which indicate the point of separation or
detachment of the forms from the stub or from each other, but the same
general principal of ruling or marking may be followed whether the
lines are made on the face of the leaf or on the back. And we prefer
generally to make these lines and apply our Invention to the back of
the form so as not to interfere with the engraved or printed matter upon
the face; yet in the manufacture of the paper of which the forms are
composed water lines may be employed with the same effect as if the
ruling or marking were made by hand or by machinery before or after
the forms are prepared. As a more rapid means of matching and
comparing the torn off form with the stub from which it was taken
double parallel lines and different coloured inks may be employed.
Each form is numbered in the usual way to correspond with the number
of the stub, check, or evidence of the business matter to which such
torn off forms relate. The entire want or absence of regularity in the
lines or marks so formed (if the lines are straight lines) is the
distinguishing feature of our Invention. The manner in which such
lines or marks are produced may be varied either singly or collectively,
but that which we have found to answer well consists in forming the
necessary lines
or marks upon the outer surface of a cylinder to
correspond to the lines or marks we desire to imprint or apply to the
sheets or forms. The cylinder may be operated in connection with a
"Hoe
or other press, and the sheets or forms fed to it in an irregular
manner and without guides.
"

page_text: Dan Francisco, State of Camornia, United States of America, Centiemen,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said Thomas Rice Hayes and Charles Rolla
Peters, Her special licence that we, the said Thomas Rice Hayes and
Charles Rolla Peters, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said Thomas Rice Hayes and Charles Rolla Peters, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVED MEANS FOR
PREVENTING THE FRADULENT USE OF BONDS, RECEIPTS, CHEQUES, TICKETS, AND
OTHER LIKE ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the
said Thomas Rice Hayes and Charles Rolla Peters, our executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one
of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Thomas Rice Hayes and Charles
Rolla Peters, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement: -
Our said Invention consists in ruling or marking straight lines in a
diagonal männer on the face or back of printed or other forms, such
as are herein named, when such forms are required to be separated for
the purpose of leaving or preserving a check or stub, as evidence of the
business matter to which such torn off forms may relate.
The Drawing represents one page of a cheque book. The lines or
marks a are straight lines, and converge, diverge, and cross each other
in a diagonal and irregular manner over the whole surface of the leaf
and stub. It is not important at what point on the edge of the leaf the
lines commence or terminate, so that they commence and terminate in

page_text: acute or obtuse angles, or with converging and diverging points. When
these lines are made on the face of the form or leaf, some importance
may be attached to the lines b and c, which indicate the point of
separation or detachment of the forms from the stub d or from each
other, but the same general principle of ruling or marking may be
followed, whether the lines are made on the face of the leaf or on the
back, and we prefer generally to make these lines and apply our Invention
on the back of the form so as not to interfere with the engraved or
printed matter upon the face; yet in the manufacture of the paper
of which the forms are composed, water lines may be employed with
the same effect as if the ruling or marking were made by hand or by
machinery before or after the forms are prepared. As a more rapid
means of matching and comparing a torn off cheque or other form with
the stub from which it was taken, double parallel lines and different
coloured inks may be employed, but these do not affect the success of
the Invention, but are only a help to a quick detection and comparison
to ascertain if the said form is the original or a counterfeit. It will
here be observed that each form is numbered in the usual way to
correspond with the number of the stub, check, or evidence of the
business matter to which such torn off form relates. It will also be
observed that the entire want or absence of regularity in the lines or
marks (if the lines are straight lines) is the distinguishing feature of our
Invention. The manner in which such lines or marks are produced
may be varied, but that which we have found to answer well consists
in forming the necessary lines or marks upon the outer surface of a
cylinder, to correspond to the lines or marks we desire to imprint on
or apply to the sheets or forms. The cylinder may be operated in con-
nection with a "Hoe" or other press, the sheets or forms being fed
to it in an irregular manner and without guides.
By the use of this Invention it is fully believed that a quick detection
of counterfeits will be possible, as the liability of matching the lines of
the form with any other stub, check, or other evidence of the business
matter to which such torn off forms may relate, would not occur once
in a million times, if ever.
It is also confidently believed that the said Invention will be of great
benefit to the commercial world, to governments in issuing bonds to
individuals, bankers, railroad and other corporations, as well as to ticket
and coupon holders.

page_text: Having thus described the said Invention, we claim marking or
forming irregular straight lines on a printed or other form, when a part
of such form is to be torn off or separated from the other part, and the
latter is to remain as a check upon or evidence of the business or other
transaction for which such form may be used, whether such forms are
bound up into books or not.
In witness whereof, we, the said Thomas Rice Hayes and Charles
Rolla Peters, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twelfth
day of September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and seventy.
THOMAS RICE HAYES.
(L.S.)
CHARLES ROLLA PETERS. (L.S.)