US1053464A - Account-book. - Google Patents

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M. S. YOUNG.

ACCOUNT BOOK. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 17, 1912.

' Patented Feb. 18, 1913.

. I MARVIN S. YQU1\T'G, or wasn'riverom msrnro'r or COLUMBIA.

7 I cooim'rooK.

L7 '0 all whom, t'tmay concern:

Be it known that I, MARVIN S. a

citizen of the United States, residingat specification.

Tashington, District of Columbia, have-invented new and useful Improvements in Ac-,

count-Books, of which the followi ng "is a This invention r particularly to record books.

It is desirablein'all classes of business to keep records of business transactions in alegible hand or preferably in, typewriting, and in order to accomplish the latter it is necessary to either use a loose leaf record book oremploy a book typewriter, both of these methods have their disadvantages, the loose leaf ledger on account of the fact that the leaves are-liable to beconie lost and the latter, the booktypewriter, on account of the fact that they are expensive, cumbersome to hahdle. and rather diflicult of operation. Furthermore many business houses do not feel justified in going to the expense of buying a book typewriter just for this purpose and it is therefore the object of this invention to provide a :record book which absolately-prevents the loss of leaves and.in, which the leaves maybe written upon with the ordinary form of cylinder platen typewriter machine.

Practically all county records are now made in bound books and written with a socalled book-writing machine. It is obviously necessary that such records bemade. in some form of bound books from wh cha leaf cannot be removed or lost. There is only. one machine. nowavailable-for this class of work, which machine holdsa mo--,

- nopoly of typewritten bound book records. 1

work, and which machine sells for almost twice the price of any" ordinarycylinder typewriter and for three timesas much as some'cylinder typewriters. Vith this form of book it would leave the fi-eldof recording, open to all typewriter companies, and still have the records made in a book from which it is impossible to remove or lose a leaf.

Further objectsofthis invention will ap pear as the following specific description is read in connection with the accompanying drawing,- which forms a part of this application,jand in" which Y Figure l sga perspective -'view showing one of the lids folded back and one portion i .jpsi q fi m qr r t I Patented Feb. 18, 1913. Application filed septem ber lfr', 1912;. Serial No. 720,374.

of "the continuous sheet elevated from the lGcking pins. Fig. 2is a longitudinal sec-- tiona'l-yiew. :Fig'. 3 is a fragmentary per- 'spective view-of the [continuous sheet removed from the'boo-k. In the specific embodiment of the invenseparate back members to eachof which is hinged in any suitable manner a cover member-3. The back imembers 1' and 2 each carry suitable locking members in thelform of bolts ;& which are adapted to pass through the sheets 5 of thebook and through .the'

opposite cover member andreceiv'e wing nuts G-which holds the leaf members in 7o locked p'os ition. {he back members are 1 y 1 tion as illustrated herein fand 2 represent elates .to books. and more.

preferably formed witlrthe cover members.

and weakened: as shown at 7 to provide-a hinge for the leaf members although this constructionmay be varied and other types of hinges may be employed whenfound to be necessary or expedient. It will be noticed that the bolts livhicli areattached to the back member 1 extend in a direction opposite to the bolts t which are carried by the back member Q sothat the covers. may be opened moppos te directions and from opposite sides of the book. i

The leaves of the book are suitably perforaled so as le -permit the. passage ofthe bolts a and consist of a continuous sheet of paper [folded as shown in Fig. 3 so as to make each leaf of double thickness. hen

one side of the book is open the-outside of one leaf is utilized while when the opposite side'of the book is open the insideof this same le'afor the outside of-what is thentwo adjoining leaves maybe i,n'spec ted'.

It will be noticed that'by employing a continuous sheetof paper folded in themanner described the same -may' be placed. in an ordinary cylinder type-writer machine-and "written upon'and then reversed so as to per-.

mit the operator to write upon.the opposite side. It Wlll also be noticed that entries :may be made in the middleof the book without running-the entire sheet or one-half of the same through thetypewriter, it being only necessary to'withd'raw the leaves from thebo'lts and insert a. leaf of double thickness into-.th e typewriter from the middle of the book. i

I With the use of. this book two obvious difliculties have been overcome, that of using a loose leaf ledger Whose leaves are liable to become lost or of purchasing an expensive 2.,A'book comprislng asinglesheet of.

"paper folded to form a plurality ofleaves of double thickness, and means to temporarilybind the leaves at both ends.-

3. A-book "omprisin'g a plurality of leaves,

separate back members arranged upon op: I posi te sides of the leaves and at oppositeends thereof, cover members hinged to the back members and temporary'binding devices carried by each back member and passing/E through the leaves and the opposite cover member.

' 4. A record book comprising cover members, a plurality of leaves constructed from a continuous folded sheet and temporary binding members carried by the opposite cover members and extending through the same and through the sheets at opposite ends of the book. i

" A record book comprising a plurality of connected leaves, and .means for tempo rarily binding the leaves at both ends. In 'testlmony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

-MARV IN s. YOUNG.

- Vitnesses:

G. A. G XTER, EDNAAAICDONALD.

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