AN IMPROVED METHOD OF PRINTING AND PERFORATING BILLS, DRAFTS, ORDERS, AND DOCUMENTS OF A SIMILAR CHARACTER, 80 AS TO PREVENT FALSIFICATION
Year: 1878

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Carl Kesseler at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 11th September 1878. A communication
from Friedrich Mejer, of Berlin.
CARL KESSELER, of 63, Mohrenstrasse, Berlin, W., in the Empire of Germany,
Civil Engineer and Patent Solicitor. "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF PRINTING AND
PERFORATING BILLS, DRAFTS, ORDERS, AND DOCUMENTS OF A SIMILAR CHARACTER,
80 AS TO PREVENT FALSIFICATION." [A communication from Friedrich Mejer, of
Berlin.]
To provent the falsification or forgery of the document, bill, check, &c., it is, in
an appropriate place, provided with a row of figures, from nought to nine (0 to 9),
(0 to 9), &c., which may either be printed, lithographed, written, or worked in the
paper like water marks, or may be put down by means of any other convenient
method. Each single figure of the number which has to be protected is marked in
the above-named row of figures, either with holes or by any other shape of cutting,
or is distinguished by any other method of marking. Each of the figures of the
number to be protected against falsification or forgery is therefore pointed out by
the mark borne by the corresponding figure in each of the rows mentioned before.
Words and such like can also be marked in the same manner. The row of figures
can than be replaced by alphabets, &c.
The facsimile or scheme, or sham check, as represented in the adjoined Drawing,
bears, as an example, the amount of 2,455 marks, which, in the manner before
stated, is distinctly pointed out by representing it, for example, in the row of figures
placed at the top by the number 02455, and by providing each of these figures with
a separate mark, as shown. It is therefore impossible to alter the number to be
protected without it being at onco detected. Moreover, the day, month, and the
year of acceptance can likewise be marked as shown in the present case on the
Drawing. It is of course of no consequence in what place of the bill, check,
document, &c., those rows of figures are set down.
To provent the eracing of the row of figures and setting them down in another
place, say by shifting them of one figure, the beginning and the end of the row
could also be marked in a convenient manner.

page_text: The holes, cutts, notches, grooves, or similar marks can be made with any
convenient instrument or apparatus, say with a punch, drill, scissors, &c.
Having thus herein described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, it will be understood that the improvements upon which
the claims are principally based consists,―
In the method of preventing the falsification, imitation, or forgery of documents,
bills of exchange and others, checks, &c., as far as the alteration of figures, letters,
&c. is concerned.
In the manner of distinguishing or pointing out the number or the word to bo
protected by marking separately each of the single figures or letters as they follow
one another in the corresponding row placed on the check, bill, document, &c.
In the manner of marking those places on the paper, which may be done either
by piercing, punching, drilling, notching, or cutting the paper in any shape, taking
it partially off, or damaging it in such a manner that any falsification, imitation, or
forgery will at once be detected.