US1071491A - Register system. - Google Patents

Description

J. WITMER.

REGISTER SYSTEM.

APPLIOA1ION FILED IEB.6, 1912.

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Patented Aug. 26, 1913.

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IAN/Ell! TOR Jae! I Vflmeit ATTORNEY UNITED STATIES PATENT ornicn JOEL WI'IMER, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO ELIZABETH W-ITMER, .OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, DOING BUSINESS AS WITMER RECORD COMPANY.

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Specification of Letters Patent,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOEL WITMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Register Systems; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and fig ures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to a register for the keeping of accounts and records, particularly by physicians and surgeons, and has for its principal object to provide a system comprising record slips, envelops and files whereby information may be tabulated and filed so that part of the information is readily accessible, and full information regarding any particular matter or case vmay be secured. In accomplishing this object, I provide specially printed and ruled case slips and envelops adapted for disclosing the amount of the account on an exposed part of the slip when the latter is in the envelop, and a file for containing the envelop and exposing an index portion thereof so that the particular account may be readily found in the file, and by pulling the envelop from the file the amount of the patients balance may be seen without remov ing the slip from the envelop. In accomplishing this object, I have provided the details of structure hereinafter described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure I is a perspective view of a cabinet or filing drawer constructed according to mv invention, showing a number of. en-

velops in the file. Fig. II is a front view of an envelop containing a record slip. Fig.

III is a detail view of a slip showing the particular ruling.

Referring more in detail to the parts, 1

designates a cabinet having a drawer 2' which is preferably divided longitudinally by a rail 3. The compartment on each side of the rail is in turn divided by vertical pare ti'tions l to provide the narrow envelop bins 5.

While I prefer to provide a number of the drawers 2, and divide same as described, I

as it may be divided to meet different requirements, my invention relating only to the combination of a cabinet of this kind with my particular envelops and record slips.

6 designates one of the envelops, which comprises a back portion 7 and a front portion 8, the back being extended from the body to substantially twice the length thereof, intheform here illustrated. On the free end of the back portion 7, and on what would ordinarily be the inner face of the envelop, I provide spaces for writing the name and address of a patient and'the disease with which he isafllicted, preferably printing the index of the information'which is to be written thereon.

for writing-information thereon and preferably having the information indexes printed thereon to indicate where the various items are tobe written, such as the name symptoms, temperature, pulse,- respiration, etc.

hand side thereof, are dollars and cents columns 10 and 11 for showing a balance, a new charge and the total amount of the account. This ruling may be extended, if desired, as the ruling itself is not claimed as part of the invention, the feature claimed being merely the locationv of the ruling and its particular relation to the special envelop.

In using the system and devices, a physician calling on a patient may make a and record the charge for that visit in; the proper column in the right-hand lower corner of the slip. If a prescription is given it is preferably written on the back of the slip over-a carbon sheet in his prescription tab, so'that. the carbon copy may be given to the patient and the original retained as a-rec-' 0rd. YWhen the physician returns to his oflice he places the record slip in one ofthe special envelops so that the right-hand side of the slip is at the top. The envelops are so made, with reference to the slips, that when a slip is in place the only'information visible above the front portion 8 is the charge at the right-hand lower corner of the slip, which slip being placed on its leftand residence of; the patient, the date, his

Patented Aug.26,1913.

make no special claim to this construction,

9 designates a record slip having spaces. i

At the bottom of the slip, and at the right- I record of his name and address on the slip to be shown while the mass of the information contained on the. slip is hidden by the front of the envelop. The name and address of the patient is then Written on the frontexposed face of the back portion 7 and the envelop filed in the cabinet drawer 2, which latter is constructed for the purpose of containing suchenvelops and is of a depth to expose the name and address of the patient above the partitions 4, without exposing the charge or any other information contained on the record slips. An envelop for each of the physicians patients, having an unsettled account, may be kept in the drawer so that accountv may be found readily in case the patient wishes to pay his bill, or if the physician'wishes to look up the record of any particular case. Should the physician have another call from the same patient, a new slip is made out for that particular call, and when he' returns to the oflice he files same in the same envelop in front of the preceding slip, carrying the balance of the account forward above the last charge and bringing the new balance down to the proper column.

1 It is apparent that with a system and device of this character a record of any par ticular patient, both as to physical condition I and account, may be simply and easily kept normal so that it can be readily found when desired. 4

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters-Patent is A'register comprising an envelop having a back leaf of greater width than the front ply thereof, the edges ofthe back leaf and the front portion being uninterrupted and parallel with each other throughout their .length, the portion of the. back leaf above the front'ply having spaces in which to in-' dicate the name, disease, address, and to whom the account is to be charged, and

an insert record slip constructed to fit in said envelop and project throughout its length above the said front ply to a point on the back leaf below the designations on the back leaf, whereby. said designations are always in unobstructed view, said insert having a space above the said front ply ap propriately designated to show the balance due in the account without removing the insert from the envelop.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LnrA E. Coars,

W. A. Bun.

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