US1065624A - Invoice-register. - Google Patents

Description

C. L. PETERS.

INVOICE REGISTER.

APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 8, 1912.

1,065,624, Patented June 24, 1913.

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CHARLES L. PETERS, 0F MARINETTE, WISCONSIN.

INVOICE-REGISTER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES L. PETERS, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Marinette, in the county of Marinette and State of Visconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in In voice-Registers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention consists in what is herein particularly set forth with reference to the accompanying drawing and pointed out in the claim of this specification, its object being to provide loose-leaf invoice registers organized to facilitate the entry of invoices under dates when payment of the same are due, and incidentally to save figuring discount time on said invoices.

The drawing represents a plan view of an invoice register in accordance with my invention spread open and having parts of entry leaves and a discount table of the same broken away.

Referring by letter and otherwise to the.

drawing A indicates each of the covers, A the back, and B each of a plurality of split spring leaf-impaling rings in the binder of an improved loose-leaf invoice register in accordance with my invention, the detail of said binder being such as may be found preferable in practice.

Contained in the binder on the impalingdevices of the same are a series of indexleaves, one of the same being indicated by C where entry-leaves, hereinafter more particularly described, are broken away. Each index-leaf is tabbed at its outer vertical edge with an indicator denoting a month in a year, and the indicators are in calendar order, reading downward.

Held in folding connect-ion with each index-leaf, conveniently at the top of the same, as herein shown, or otherwise, as may be preferred, is an invoice-table D, hereinafter more fully specified. As a matter of detail, an invoice-table and the relative index-leaf may be pasted to a connecting-strip E in order to provide for ready fold of one upon the other, as herein shown.

Arranged to follow after each index-leaf is a group of entry-leaves F, having a daily numerical index preferably at the outer vertical and lower horizontal edges thereof upon opposite sides, said entry leaves being suitably cut to expose the index or indexes thereof in regular order from the first to Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 8, 1912.

Patented June 24, 1913.

Seria1 No. 713,983.

the last day inclusive of one month. The entry-leaves are ruled and printed with reference to the notation thereon, in arbitrary spaces, of data pertaining to invoices, those herein shown being divided into spaces for the writing in of the name and addresses of creditors, the date and amount of bill, rate of discount, amount of discount, credits, date of payment and remarks. However the ruling and printing may be indefinitely varied to accord with the demands of the trade, and without departure from what is herein claimed. The indexing of the entryleaves at their outer vertical edges is such as to facilitate finding a place in the register according to the ascending numerical order of days in a month, while the indexing of said leaves at their lower horizontal edges is such as to facilitate turning back to the leaf of a prior day in the same month.

The invoice-table attached to each indexleaf is for ascertaining quickly, without figuring, when an invoice is due from date thereof, the table being provided with a left hand index or key-column of numerals indicating the days of the month of said index-leaf in regular order reading down, and each of the other columns of numerals to the right of the key-column indicate a progressive order of days in a month. or months. The auxiliary columns of numbers to the right of the key column of the discount table as herein shown, are intended to alternately indicate ten and thirty days progressively ahead of each day indicated in said key-column, and the system may be extended indefinitely although in the showing it is restricted to ninety days, as indicated by a scale 10, 30, 40, 60, 70, and 90 at the head of said auxiliary columns in which the beginning of months are indexed to the left of the first day of any month as the same may occur.

An invoice-table in connection with any index-leaf being spread out in view, the bookkeeper employing the entry leaves for the month of said index-leaf can readily determine the date of payment of the various invoices by consulting the key-column of the table and the proper auxiliary column on said table. For instance, if an invoice is dated January 7 of the year, at ten days discount, the bookkeeper finds 7 in the keycolumn alined with 17 in the auxiliary col umn having the scale-number 10, and thus determines the date of payment of the invoice to be the 17th day of the same month as its date. If the discount be thirty days, the key-column number 7 will be found to aline with February 6, in the auxiliary col umn having the scale-number 30. For sixty days the said key-column number is alined with a number in the auxiliary column having the scale number 00, showing the date of payment 01 the invoice to be the following March 8. Hence it will be readily understood that a date of an arbitrary number of days of time, within DIQClQtQI'D'liHQCl limits, ahead of any date in the key-column may be easily determined by the bookkeeper at a glance from said key-column date to the one in the proper auxiliary column alined therewith.

I claim:

A loose-leaf invoice register comprising a suitable binder, a series of index-leaves on in'ipalii'ig-devices of the binder each pro vided at an outer edge thereof with an indicator denoting a month in a year, the indicators being arranged in calendar order; and an invoicetable in connection with each index-leaf comprising a left hand key-cob umn of numerals indicating the days of the month of the relative index-leaf in regular order reading down as Well as auxiliary columns of numerals to the right of the one aforesaid each indicating a progressive order of days in a month or months indexed thereoin the numerals in the several columns being in lines and the auxiliary columns indicated by a scale number denoting an arbitrary division of days of time ahead of the dates indicated in said key-column.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand at Marinette, in the county of Marinette and State of Wis consin in the presence of two Witnesses.

CHAS. L. PETERS.

Witnesses H. L. FRINK, A. E. SWANSON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, I). C.

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