US1199692A - Duplicate sales-check tag. - Google Patents

Description

A. GREENSTEIN.

DUPLICATE SALES CHECK TAG.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 20. 19:5.

1 1 99,692 Patented Sept. 26, 1916.

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ABRILHAM GREENSTEIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DUPLICATE SALES-CHECK TAG.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patentedsept; 26, 1916 Application flied September 20, 1915. Serial No. 51,546.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM GREEN- STEIN, a citi zen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Duplicate Sales-Check Tag, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact de scription.

This invention relates to shipping devices and has particular reference to improved facilities forthe billing and delivery of packages or other articles in or fromv retail. stores or the like.

In the ordinary practice in the delivery system of a large business house, the salesman or clerk is provided with a salesbook with sales slips arranged therein in dupli cute and adapted for use of carbon paper or the like for making a duplicate record on the second sales slip While the original r'ecoriginal or first sheet or slip is sent to the ofiice and the duplicate slip is torn off and sent with the package. When the package is wrapped, the duplicate slip is folded or rolled and slipped within the package or beneath the cord, and when a considerable number of such packages have accumulated, an employee pastes the loose slips upon tags which are then tied upon thepackages. Among the disadvantages of this present system may be noted, first, that the identification slips become either torn, misplaced or lost in the interval between the application thereof to the packagesand thepasting operation; secondly, much time is lost in the pasting of the slips upon the packages in addition to the inconvenience and delay incident to the loss of the slips; and thirdly, the expense of delivery is very much increased by reason, not only of additional clerk hire, but because of theother inconveniences above referred to.

Among the objects of this invention, therefore, is to provide a combination duplicate salesbook and check tag having all-of the facilities or advantages of the duplicating or manifolding system now in use and without the several disadvantages referred to above.

More definitely stated, the invention comprises a duplicate salesbook having the usual original record slips and beneath each of which is a leaf or sheet adapted to receive the duplicate record, but whlch leaf The or sheet is formed of strong tough paper. or

its equivalent and having a hole at either or both ends whereby the duplicate sheet may be treated as a tag and readily adapted to be tied to the package coincidentally with the wrapping of such package. 7 1th the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the arrange meut and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed, and while the in-.

vention is not restricted to the exact details.

of construction disclosed herein, still for vthe purpose of illustrating a practical embodiment thereof, the figure is a face view in perspective of a duplicate salesbook made in accordance with this invention, fragments of the original sheet being torn off to disclose the tag sheet. 5

The numeral 10 indicates a salesbook havsecond or duplicate sheets 12 arranged (in.

pairs and connected to the stub 13 by weaking first or original sheets or slips 11, and

in two parts 11 and 11", these two parts being connected by a weakened line 15. It will be understood, however, that the specific arrangement of these several partsha s no immediate bearing upon the presentinvention. lint such parts are shown in order to set forth the characteristic features or advantages of the real invention. On' the second or duplicate sheet there are formed two parts 12* and 12" corresponding in form and arrangement of printed. matter to the similar parts of the first sheet. 12 and 12", however, are printed on strong tough and heavier paper suitable for use as tags to be tied upon the bundles. These parts are. connected by a weakened line 15 for easy separation. The tag 12 is provided with a hole 16 and the shorter tag 12" is provided with a hole 17, either tag of which is adapted to be readily tied to the bundle coincidentally with the original wrapping thereof Without material loss of time or inconvenience.

By way of further explanation of the manner of using the invention in a C. O. D. transaction, the original thin slip 11' goes 'to the auditor, and the original thin slip 11 is sent to the C. O. D. clerk at the oilice. The tag slip 12* is tied to the package for collection and the tag 12 is wrapped within the package where it may be found for future The parts i the ofiice to prove deliverv.

identification should it be necessary to dupli- -ate the tag 12*. The tagelip lil being longer tharl the slip 12' facilitates the handling of the packages with reference to hether the transaction'is (I. O. DQ or a paid or charged transaction. In practice; when the saleis made for-cash'or charge, the original thin slip 11 is sent to' the auditor as before described and the shorter slip l1" i.'-: held by the p a3 his vouch'er. The longer tags-lip 12 1; pu t'inside off the ack} age and the shorter't'ag slip 12" is tie as a shipping tag. This tagon removal from the package by 'thedeliveryinanis receipted on the hack hy therecipijent of the package and returned by the 'deliv'ervrhan or driver to I am aware that duplicate salesbooks are in comi'non use in u'liieh original and dupli-' cate records are made simultaneously by a ealesman, the several checks thus produced being; adapted to be sent to different departments of the el'vtahli'shment or utilized for difi'erent purpoeee". I am also aware that it f 15 a common expedient to'provide a shipping tag to carry the name and address of the ad dressee of a package or parcel to which the tag is adapted to hescured. I believe, however, it is new with me to construct or provide a saleshook havingthe characteristics and advantages settorth herein and specifically claimed below. T

1. is a nevi article of manufacture, a manifold sales check'and' shippingtag hook, comprising a plurality of alternate thin and tough and heav vfieh'eetfs' boundtogethe'r at one end. and having weakened li'nsadpcen't' the boundfends and vveakened line's intermediate oftheir ends forming e'aeh'sheet into two parts, each part" having provision for address of purchaser andfor memoran duin of sale and amount of same and movided with indications designating tllecimrpackage to serve" asa shipping 'ftag ,"ah

cons'isting of a plurality o alternate t and tough and heavysheets bound together;

'at one end and {having weakened lineadjm acter 01 the transaction, the parts of the thin 45 and heavy sheets corresponding in and having the same and registering: matter thereon the thin sheets being adapted to receive the original record of. a transaction. and forming sal e checks, and the tough and 5 heavy sheets retxiving the duplicate dune transaction androvided with an opehing to permit one 01 it5 .parts to be tied av a receiptfor the delivery of the otherpart of id sheet tification card.

2. As a new articleo'f manpfactn manifold sales check andshi 'piri'g'ta-g cent the bound ends; and 'vveakeiied line-s 1in term'ediateof their ends"'forining each sheet" into two parts of unequal size," eachpart- 85" I either "partto be tied toia package ac'cording to the nature of" theftraitsjaction; to serve as a shipping tag for the saline, and a-receipt; for

the deliver): of the package the other-part of said sheet serving: as jan 'ident1ticat1ofl card." p

ABRAHAMLGREENSTEIX.1

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