US558081A - Memorandum sales-slip book - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

W. MLKINNARD. MEMORANDUM SALES SLIP BOOK.

No. 558,081. P atentedApr 14, 1896.

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WILL M. KINNARD,

on DAYTON, OHIO.

MEMORANDUM SALES-SLIP BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 558,081, dated April 14, 1896. Application filed August 23, 1895. serial No. 560,249. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILL M. KINNARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain. new and useful Improvements in Memorandum Sales-Slip Books, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a cover for the sales-slips, within which packages of slips either loose or bound may be readily and easily secured.

' Another object of my invention is to so construct the sales-slips that the slip written upon and its duplicate copy having been detached from the cover the next slip may be readily and easily arranged for writing without touching or displacing the carbon material.

, The ordinary memorandum sales-sli p books may be divided into two classes-those in which the original and duplicate slips are folded together and those in which each slip is folded on itself separately. The advantage gained from the books in which the leaves are folded together is that the carbon material never has to be raised or touched by the hand of the operator. The disadvantage in the use of this sort of book is that more than one slip or page is apt to be folded over the carbon-paper in the use of the book, and more bulky. In the books in which the leaves are folded separately, after the written sheet has been detached from the book the next slip has to be unfolded and the carbon material raised by the user, thus bringing his hands in contact with the carbonized paper and soiling them.

The chief object of my invention is to combine the advantages of both of these forms of book into one, to have the leaves folded separately, so as to get thebook in compact form and make it impossible to turn over or arrange for writing more than one slip at a time, and to so construct the pages that in using the book the hand of the operator need never come in contact with the carbon-paper.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the sales-slip book open and ready for use. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal secthe cover A tion of the book, showing the slip partly drawn out from under the carbon-paper. Fig. 3 is a perspective View in detail of the re taining device for the slips. Fig. 4 isa front view of the part shown in Fig. 3 with the slips in place.

. A A are the two covers of the book, having a flexible connection a. The lower half of is formed with a pocket, within which is folded back and forth a considerable quantity of carbon transfer material b. Secured at the inner end of the cover A is a strip of tin or other suitable material B. This strip is bent over at right angles to form a back 0 and a top d, the top d being cut away at each end. Secured to the inner surface of this top d, at the outer ends of same and extending downward, are two little pins 6 6, while at the center of the base of the strip B the semielliptic spring 0 is secured, the outer ends of this spring normally pressing against the under surface of the top 01 and these ends extending beyond the edge of the top portion d.

The sales-slips are made up'in packages of fifty or a hundred, folded at the center to form two sheets or pages f g, the upper fold f being shorter than the lower fold and the upper fold of each slip being cut away, preferably on the right-hand side, to form a tongue h on each one of these folds. Each slip is folded in the same way, so that at the inner end the folds 9 will all come together, leaving the upper pages of the slips f loose. The user then presses down the spring 0 at each end and inserts the package of slips between the spring and the top d of the spring B, where the slips are firmly held by the pressure of the spring, the pins 6 e piercing the uppermost slips. A sufficient quantity of the carbon material is then drawn out from the pocket in the cover A and laid between the fold of the uppermost slip. This carbon material is narrower than the slips, so that the right-hand portion of same is free and not in contact with the carbon material. The upper sheet f is filled with the sales-memoranda, the carbon-paper making a duplicate copy of same on the lower half of the slip g, and the user then tears out the original and duplicate copy, readily tearing the same from the pins 6 e, while the pins at the same time hold the other slips in place. The carbon material will then be on top of the next slip, and in order to arrange the next slip for writing with the carbon material between the two pages thereof the operator runs his pencil underneath the tongue h and draws same out, as shown in Fig. 2, allowing the carbonsheet I) to drop down between the fold, as will be readily understood, and thus the carbonpaper is not touched or manipulated in any Way. Vhen one package of slips has been used, other packages are to be inserted and used in the same way. As the carbon-paper is used up in making the transfers, the wornout portion is cut off and a fresh supply drawn from the pocket.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A memorandum sales-slip book provided with carbon material for making duplicate copies and'a series of sales-slips folded separately on each other each slip being wider than the carbon-sheet and the upper fold thereof having an opening cut on one side to enable the user to unfold the slip without touching the carbon-sheet, substantially as shown and described.

2. A book-cover provided with carbon material for making duplicate copies and a series of sales-slips folded separately upon each other, each slip being wider than the carbonsheet and the upper fold being cut away on the side to form a tongue, substantially as shown and described.

3. A book-cover provided with a metallic strip secured thereto at its inner end, said strip being bent to form a bottom, back and top, with the top cut away at each end, flat spring secured to said bottom normally pressing against the top of said strip at its ends, and extending beyond the edge thereof, with pins secured to the top to pierce the uppermost sales-slips and hold them in the covers, substantially as shown and described.

4. A bookcover, provided with a metallic strip secured thereto at its inner end, and fiat spring normally pressing against said strip at its ends, and a series of sales-slips and carbon material therefor, each slip being folded separately and being wider than the carbon material, and the upper fold of each slip being cut away on the side to form a tongue, substantially as shown and described.

WVILL M. KINNARD.

\Vitnesses:

O. B. BROWN, LE0 J. HEINREICH.

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