Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture of Distinctive Paper for Bonds, Notes, Checks, and other Securities.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Mar., 1891-Accepted, 4th Apr.,
1891
TELATION.
Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture of Distinctive
Paper for Bonds, Notes, Checks, and other Securities.
I, JAMES MACDONOUGH, a citizen of the United States of America, residing
at No. 86, Trinity Place, in the City, County, and State of New York, one of the
United States of America, Gentleman, 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 :-
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My said invention relates to certain improvements in what is generally known as
distinctive paper," and has for its object to produce paper designed to be used
for bonds, bank notes, checks or other securities, which shall possess a distinctive
character, and which may be at the same time a "safety
paper, whereby said
securities can be easily and readily identified, and by means of which paper
possessing individual characteristics can be supplied to the consummer by the
manufacturer at small cost.
To this end my invention consists in a paper having incorporated within it,
during the course of the manufacture thereof, a multiplicity of planchets, and I
wish it to be understood that by the term "planchets," I mean pieces of paper,
or other material, cut or punched from sheets of manufactured paper or other
suitable fabric or material, to form flat or plane surfaces of any desired shape,
and these planchets may be cut or punched from coloured or uncoloured sheets;
and said planchets may be incorporated within either a sheet of paper of uniform
colour or variegated colour, and in the latter case, the planchets preferably lie
within the coloured portion of the sheet. The planchets in each sheet may be of
the same colour or of different colours, or of the same shape, or of different shapes,
or of both different colours and shapes all of which will be fully hereinafter
described and specifically pointed out in the claims, reference being had to the
accompanying drawings forming a part of this Specification, wherein―
and
Figures 1 and 2 represent sheets of paper made in accordance with my invention,
Figure 3 is the section of the same, the planchets being shown as enlarged.
In the manufacture of my improved paper I take the paper pulp such as is
ordinarily used in the manufacture of this class of paper, and as it comes from the
pulp-vat or reservoir and passes out upon the apron incorporate therewith a
multiplicity of planchets. The planchets are preferably introduced into the pulp
in such manner that they shall lie within the same plane as the finished sheet of
paper and lie wholly within the body of the pulp and be covered upon each side
with a layer of the pulp, the planchets being visible to the eye upon each side of
the finished sheet of paper. But they may be intimately mixed with the pulp
before it passes to the apron, or scattered over the surface of the pulp as it passes
over said apron.
In order that each individual consumer may possess a paper possessing charac-
teristics to be found in no other paper I contemplate using planchets of different
shapes or configurations, as for example, square, round, oval, star or other shaped
planchets, or they may represent figures or letters or any desired geometrical
or fanciful shape, or planchets of two or more different shapes may be
incorporated in the same sheet, or, again, planchets of different colours or
combination of colours may be employed. Thus, one kind of paper may have
incorporated within it red planchets, another blue, a third yellow, and this
method may be employed until all the different colours and shades of colours
have been exhausted; then planchets of one colour, such as red for example,
can be employed, cut or punched into different shapes such as round,
quare, triangular, star-shaped. or any other well-known geometrical or fanciful
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page_text: shape or a multiplicity of planchets of differing colours may be employed, in one
paper red, white and blue planchets may be used, in another blue and red, in a
third green and yellow, any combination of colour desirable being employed; and
again, the planchets may be all of one colour, but distributed or disposed within the
pulp in such manner as to form different figures within the pulp, such as parallel
stripes, curved or waved lines, etc., thus localizing the same, or again planchets of
different colours or different shapes or of both different colours and shapes may be
disposed within the pulp in like manner, the result being that by using different
colours and shapes and different combinations of colours and shapes and disposing
the planchets of such different colours and shapes or combinations of colours and
shapes in the manner above described, I am enabled to produce an absolutely
unlimited number of different varieties of paper, each of which can be readily and
easily distinguished from the others.
In practice, I may introduce the planchets into the body of the pulp by means
of tubes or nozzles which project within the body of the pulp as it passes from the
pulp reservoir or vat upon the apron, and 1 prefer to mix the planchets with a
small quantity of pulp before introducing them into the sheet of pulp designed to
form the finished sheet, but I may scatter the planchets indiscriminately upon the
surface of the pulp sheet or mix them intimately with the pulp before it passes out
upon the apron.
In some cases I may colour the pulp with which the planchets are mixed
preliminary to their introduction within the sheet in such manner that the planchets
will lie within a coloured field within the sheet, differing from the colour of the
sheet itself, or I may, at the same time the planchets are introduced within the
sheet, introduce colouring material, a similar effect being produced in both cases.
Referring to the drawing, the letter A, indicates the paper sheet, and B, the
planchets.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A distinctive paper for bonds, notes, checks or other securities, consisting of a
sheet of paper having incorporated therewith a multiplicity of planchets, sub-
stantially as described.
2. A. distinctive paper for bonds, notes, checks or other securities, consisting of a
sheet of paper having incorporated therein a multiplicity of planchets of a colour
differing from said shect.
3. A. distinctive paper for bonds, notes checks or other securities, consisting of a
sheet of paper having coloured portions and having incorporated therein a multiplicity
of planchets.
4. A distinctive paper for bonds, notes, checks or other securities, consisting of a
sheet of paper having incorporated therewith a multiplicity of planchets of different
colours.
5. A distinctive paper for bank notes, checks, bonds or other securities, consisting
of a sheet of paper having incorporated therewith a multiplicity of planchets of a
predetermined shape.
6. A. distinctive paper for bonds, notes, checks or other securities, consisting of a
sheet of paper having incorporated therewith a multiplicity of planchets of different
shapes.
7. A distinctive paper for bonds, notes, checks or other securities, consisting of a
sheet of paper having incorporated in portions thereof a multiplicity of planchets.
Dated this 23rd day of February 1891.
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.