US1094887A - Account-register. - Google Patents

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D.S.DUNN. ACCOUNT REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 19, 1911.

1,094,887, Patented Apr. 28, 1914.

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D. S. DUNN.

ACCOUNT REGISTER.

APPLIGATION FILED JAN.19, 1911.

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1 ATTORNEY DANIEL S. DUNN, OF BAY CITY, MICHIGAN.

ACCOUNT-REGISTER.

To aZZ 207mm it may concern Be it known that I, DANIEL S. DUNN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bay City, in the county of Bay and State of Michigan. have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Account-Registers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full. clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to account registers and pertains more particularly to that class of account registers in which the carbon copy of the purchasers order is filed on an index sheet of metal or other suitable material, there being a series of such sheets 1ndexed alphabetically or in any other convenient manner for ready reference.

The object of my invention is to provide. an account register of the class above referred to. with means whereby all of the accounts may be readily inspected, filed or removed by a number of persons simultaneously, thereby greatly facilitating the clerical work of operating an account system.

A further object is to provide an account register capable of containing a large number of accounts in a small space, yet allowing each account to be readily inspected, and furthermore to arrange the account sheets (on which the orders are mounted in groups or books) so that a group of the sheets may be removed from the register without disturbing the remaining sheets in the register. All of the sheets comprising one group are fastened together and removable from the register as a single book. The purpose of this construction is to enable a number of clerks to work upon the accounts in the various books simultaneously, and to permit all of the books to be stacked and filed in the vault or other safe place when the register is not in use.

A further object is to provide a novel means for filing the orders on the metal sheets.

lVith these and certain other objects in view, which will appear later in the specification, the invention consists in the devices illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation showing the working parts of an account register of my improved construction; Fig. 2 is a top plan Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 19, 1911.

Patented Apr. 28, 1593. at.

Serial No. 603,558.

view of the upper revolving disk with one book in place; Fig. 3 is a perspective of one of the brackets by which the sheets are bound into groups and the groups removably mounted on the disks; Fig. 4 is a perspective of a book of sheets, a second book being indicated by dotted lines to show how a number of books may be piled together for storage; Fig. 5 is an enlarged sectional detail taken on the line a".-a; of Fig. 1; and Fig. (3 is a perspective detail showing the springs by which the bills are held to the sheet, the sheet being broken away in part.

In the drawings, 1 indicates a base or other suitable support, which may be in the form of a pedestal as shown. Fixed to the base 1 is a central upright standard 2. Revolubly mounted on the standard 2 are disks 3 and 4 connected by a hollow spindle 5, the disks and spindle being adapted to re volve together in either direction around the standard. I prefer to make the upper disk 4 in the shape of a polygon, although it may be of circular or other shape. The disk 4 is provided with a plurality of pairs of holes 6 in alinement with corresponding holes 7 in the lower disk. The pairs of holes 6 and 7 receive the pins, by means of which the books of sheets may be readily mounted upon or removed from the disks.

In Fig. at is illustrated one of such books. It consists of a number of sheets 8 preferably made of sheet metal, having rearwardly and downwardly projecting lugs 9. 9 at their ends. The downwardly projecting lugs are received in apertured brackets 10, 10 so that each sheet is hinged to and may be turned in the brackets like the leaf of a book, the two brackets 10 and 10 serving as binders for the sheet. The lower end 9" of each lug 9 is upset to prevent the lugs from coming out of the brackets. Each bracket is provided with a pair of down wardly projecting pins 11 and 11 adapted to be received in the holes 6 and 7 respectively so that the book of sheets can be attached to the disks by simply inserting the pins into the holes, and can be removed by merely lifting the book.

The entire register may be revolved around the upright standard so that two or more persons may work at different sides of the case at the same time, either filing orders or figuring accounts. .Vhen desired the books may be lifted from the case, stacked te l as imlicated in Fig. l, :lforming a. compact package, and stored in the vault for safe keeping.

I have also devised an iinproveifl means for a ttachiug the orders 12 to the sheets 8. This means is illustrated in detail in Figs. and (S, in which 13 is a flat strip of metal riveted or other 'ise secured at its lower part to the plate 8 in horizontal position, the upper part 1 of the strip being "Folded outwardly to form a pocket in which the bottom edge oi? the hill rests. ihe upper edge oi? the strip is slitted as at 14,, to form a lip 1st which is bent downwardly to engage a rod lroiiind the rod 15 is wound a spring wire 16, one end 16 of which presses against one face of the sheet and the other end 16 presses against the opposite face, the extremities of the wires being bent to form flattened loops 1?, 17 to better hold the bill against the sheet 8. The lower end of part lo passes through a perforation 13 in the strip 13 and sheet 8, as indicated in Figs. and 6. Both spring clips are thus formed oil? a single piece oi wire.

l prefer to make each sheet 8 of sullicient size to hold four orders on each face, thereb giving capacity for eight accounts on each sheet, and prefer to mount the sheets in groui is of live or six to each book, although any other number of sheets may be employed. lly this means any book of say forty-eight accounts may be readily taken from the register, used at some other place, and quickly restored thereto as easily as a single sheet could be removed from an ordinary register. It is also possible for a numher of accounts while in the register, to be inspected by a nmnber of persons at the same time, thereby expediting the figuring Genes of t is atent ma he obtained for five cents each h addressing the liommissiener ou sa? up ot a large number of accounts or the aranging of a great number of orders.

.t number of devices may be combined with my improved register if desired, as for instance a revolving case 1.8 for use as a display rack, as a receptacle for spices or other articles, or for any other desired purpose, the case being mounted on the up-- wariilly projecting end of the spindle.

ll hile l have shown and descrilil my improved register as adapted to the filing of orders and hills such as are commonly used in retail stores, it is obvious that it may also be adapted for filing other sheets used in different kinds of business, by simply making the sheets and springs of proper size to take the papers to be filed.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters latent, is

In an account register, the combination with a standard, of an upper and a lower polygonal. disk having holes therein in proximity to each edge, said disks revolubly mounted on said standard, pairs of brackets adapted to be removably attached to said disks, each bracket comprising a plate provided with projecting pins adapted to he received in the holes of said disks and formed with a plurality of openings near its outer edge, a plurality of iul'lcxiblc sheets adapted to carry papers, said. sheets pivotally secured to said openings oil": each pair of brackets.

in tcstin'iony whereof, I allix my gnature in presence of two witnesses.

Dilllll lli DUNN.

li itncsses ANNn'rtm CRAIG, CHRISTINE A. BRATDEL.

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