A NEW OR IMPROVED DAILY BALANCE BOOK, WITH MOVEABLE OR SLIDING TICKETS OR SLIPS
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Louis Van Tenac, of Tredegar, Monmouth-
shire, South Wales, Civil Engineer, for the Invention of "A NEW OR
IMPROVED DAILY BALANCE BOOK, WITH MOVEABLE OR SLIDING TICKETS OR
SLIPS." A communication from abroad by Emile Canderon, of 25, Rue
de Penthiévre, Paris.
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Sealed the 4th December 1863, and dated the 11th June 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Louis Van Tenac
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
11th June 1863.
I, CHARLES LOUIS VAN TENAC, of Tredegar, Monmouthshire, South Wales,
Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW
OR IMPROVED DAILY BALANCE BOOK, WITH MOVEABLE OR SLIDING TICKETS OR SLIPS,"
being a communication to me from abroad by Emile Canderon, of 25, Rue de
Penthiévre, Paris, to be as follows, viz*. :-
This Invention consists of a new kind of book composed of tables with
moveable tickets for the purpose of obtaining and shewing daily an exact
balance of the accounts and the position of affairs, and is easily adapted to any
kind of accounts, and will be found suitable for any counting-house. These
tables with moveable tickets or slips are bound like a common book, and can
be made with any quantity of tables that may be desired, and the tables dis

page_text: posed in sets of twenty-four at the most, with a recapitulation table, save the
first set, which should contain twenty-five tables.
The Drawing No. 1 shows a table with four vertical columns A, B, C, D, at
the right side, placed separately two by two, as shewn on Drawing. The
columns A and B are filled up with one single ticket sliding from the top to
the bottom of the page inside the table, and intended to be removed only once
a month. The columns C and D are fitted with the same number of hori-
zontal tickets E as of names written in the page, including the total at the
bottom of the page. The three columns at the left side are for the following
purposes: The column F is either for the numbers of the page of the ledgers
or for the current accounts book. The column O is for a number to be given
to each account, to avoid the transposition of the names. The column N is
intended for registering the names and address for each account. The
numbers of names to be limited according to the length given to the table;
I find that a book containing twenty-five names is most convenient.
The Drawing No. 2 shews outside view where horizontal tickets or slips E¹
are placed across the whole length of the four columns A, B, C, D.
The Drawing No. 3 shews the table where there are only two columns, with
horizontal tickets or slips.
To obtain the above-mentioned results, three sheets of strong paper, thin
cardboard, or any other suitable material are to be put and pasted together,
the front or upper sheet being cut out in such a way as to allow vertical and
horizontal slides, in which the tickets are to be introduced, to fit in or fill up
the small frames or cuttings made at the right of each name. The third sheet
of material is used as a smooth and solid back. To make the whole as strong
as possible, I trim the slides with linen, parchment, or any other suitable
material. In this way each name written on one line has on its right two or
four small frames quite distinct from each other, and solid, the tickets only
being moveable, which can be replaced when wanted.
The Drawing No. 4 shows a. single sheet with columns intended to be
annexed to the above-mentioned daily balance book, if required. This table
includes the twelve months of the year, and for each month two columns are
prepared. It has also at the right of each name two special lines for the
numbers.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Louis Van Tenac in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 8th December 1863.
:
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
LOUIS VAN TENAC, of Tredegar, Monmouthshire, South Wales, Civil Engineer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Charles Louis Van Tenac, Her special licence that I, the said Charles
Louis Van Tenac, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Charles Louis Van Tenac, my 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
"A NEW OR IMPROVED DAILY BALANCE BOOK, WITH MOVEABLE OR SLIDING TICKETS
OR SLIPS," being a communication to me from abroad by Emilie Canderon, of
25, Rue de Penthièvre, Paris, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Charles Louis Van Tenac, my executors or administrators, by
an instru-
ment in writing under my, 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 the said Charles Louis Van Tenac, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the acccompanying Drawings, that
is to say-
This Invention consists of a new kind of book composed of tables with
moveable tickets for the purpose of obtaining and shewing daily an exact
balance of the accounts and the position of affairs, and is easily adapted to
any kind of accounts, and will be found suitable for any counting-house.
These tables with moveable tickets or slips are bound like a common book,
and can be made with any quantity of tables that may be desired, and the

page_text: tables disposed in sets of twenty-four at the most, with a recapitulation table,
save the first set, which should contain twenty-five tables.
The Drawing No. 1 shows a table with four vertical columns A, B, C, D,
at the right side, placed separately two by two as regards the accounts, as shewn
on the Drawing. The columns A and B are filled up with one single ticket sliding
from the top to the bottom of the page inside the table, and intended to be removed
only once a month. The columns C and D are fitted with the number of horizon-
tal tickets E as of names written in the page, including the total at the bottom
of the
page. The three columns at the left side are for the following purposes:
The column F is either for the numbers of the page of the ledgers or for the
current accounts book. The column O is for a number to be given to each
account, to avoid the transposition of the names.. The column N is intended
for registering the names and address for each account. The numbers of
names to be limited according to the length given to the table; I find that a
book containing twenty-five names is most convenient.
The Drawing No. 2 shews outside view where horizontal tickets or slips E
are placed across the whole breadth of the four columns A, B, C, D.
The Drawing No. 3 shews the table where there are only two columns, with
horizontal tickets or slips.
fit in or fill up the
The third sheet of
To obtain the above-mentioned results, three sheets of strong paper, thin
cardboard, or any other suitable material are to be pasted together, the front
or upper sheet being cut out in such a manner as to allow vertical and hori-
zontal slides, in which the tickets are to be introduced, to
small frames or cuttings made at the right of each name.
material is used as a smooth or solid back. To make the
possible, I trim the slides with linen, parchment, or any other suitable mate-
rial. In this way each name written on one line has on its right two or four
small frames quite distinct from each other, and solid, the tickets only being
moveable, which can be replaced when wanted.
whole as strong as
The Drawing No. 4 shows a single sheet with columns intended to be
annexed to the above-mentioned daily balance book, if required. This table.
includes the twelve months of the year, and for each month of which two
columns are prepared. It has also at the right of each name two special lines
for the numbers.
Having thus described the nature and object of this Invention, and the
manner in which the same is or may be carried into effect, I would observe
that I do not limit or confine myself to the precise details herein-before given,
as they may be varied as circumstances may require; but what I claim and

page_text: desire to be secured by the herein-before recited Letters Patent is, "the making
of a new or improved daily balance book with moveable or sliding tickets
or slips substantially" as herein-before described and illustrated on Drawings,
or any mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Louis Van Tenac, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Third day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
CHARLES LOUIS VAN TENAC. (L.B.)