Improvements in the Mode of Preparing Cheques, Bills of Lading, and other Documents for the Use of Bankers and others,
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Sept., 1886.
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 order to carry out my invention perforate the cheques with two or more
parallel rows of perforations and when required I also perforate the space or spaces
between the beforementioned rows by means of transverse or diagonal rows of per-
forations by either or any of which the cheque or other document may be detached
from its Counterfoil so that sums of one pound or any multiple thereof may be at once
seen by the space in the perforation at which the cheque or other document is detached
from its counterfoil.

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
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 parallel rows of figures from the top to
the bottom and perforate the document between and at each side of the parallel rows
and also perforate the spaces between the figures transversely or diagonally so that the
Cheque or other document may be detached from the counterfoil along the lines of
perforation at any figure that may be desired. By this means the figure in the
margin at which the Cheque or other document is by the parallel and transverse or
diagonal perforations detached from the counterfoil is made to correspond approximately
to the amount for which the Cheque or other document is drawn.
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I also preferably give directions for use in the body of the document such as
"This
Cheque must not exceed the highest figure left hereon or "This receipt must not
exceed the lowest figure left on the counterfoil."
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
The preparation of Cheques or other documents having rows of figures separated by
or accompanied with paralled and transverse or diagonal perforations so as to
indicate the approximate amount for which any document is drawn by the figure at
which it is detached from the counterfoil substantially as hereinbefore described.
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