US1222375A - Check-book-stub holder. - Google Patents

Description

M. P. EXLINE.

CHECK BOOK STUB HOLDER.

APPLICATION man AUGJ, 191s.

Patented Apr. 10, 1917.

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CHECK-BOOK-STUB HOLDER.

Application filed August 1, 1916.

'1 '0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARCUS P. EXLINE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dallas, in the county of Dallas and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Check-Book-Stub Holders; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will en able others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to book binding, and more especially to leaf holders; and the object of the same is to produce a device for holding back the used stubs in a check book when writing new checks or posting the old stubs. Details of construction appear in the following specification and are shown in the drawings wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a check book held open by this device; Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective detail of the device itself viewed from below; and Fig. 3 is a plan view of the blank from which the device is formed.

The device is made of rather stiff metal of proper size, ornamentation, and finish, stamped initially into a blank as best seen in Fig. 3, then bent into the form shown in Fig. 2, and finally used in the manner illustrated in Fig. 1 and described below; and essentially it comprises a claw, a shank, and a yielding tongue bent under and coacting with the shank to form a spring clip. I do size or exact shape of parts, nor to the metal used nor the finish thereof, but it is quite obvious that the device can be made neat in appearance so that it will be an ornament to the desk rather than otherwise.

The general contour of the claw 1 is by preference initially rectangular and slotted for sake of lightness as shown at the lower end of Fig. 3, and in'the finished article it is bent as seen in Fig. 2, its extremity being forked or divided into a number of toes 2 which are intended to pass astride the staples or other fastening devices ofthe book binding. The tips of the toes are provided with projections 3 which rise from them as seen in Fig. 1, whereas the bodies of the toes are provided with other projections 4 which depend from them and which therefore appear in Fig. 2all projections being formed in any suitable manner as by stamping them up from the metal.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 11), 1917. Serial No. 112,623.

The shank 5 is integrally continued from the upper end or the heel of the claw 1, and the combined length of the upper portion of the claw and the entire shank is greater than that of the stub from the stitching to the perforated edge. For sake of lightness it may also be provided with an opening or slot 6. In the finished article this shank overlies the claw as seen, by reason of the bend imparted to such claw.

The tongue 7 projects integrally from the upper end of the shank, than which it may be a little smaller in width as seen, the finished device being bent over on about the line 8 as illustrated in Fig. 2; and within the length of the tongue it may well be provided with a thumb piece such as a disk 9. Its remote end is again bent over on about the line 10 to form a clip 11, and the extremity of said clip may be coiled as at 12.

In Fig. 1 I have shown this invention as applied to a check book, whereof C are the checks, S the unused stubs, and U the used stubs, although it is quite obvious that the device could be used on other books whose stubs or pages were intended to be turned back so as to expose a certain page as indicated in the drawing collectively by the letters S, C. Having out out the blank as shown in Fig. 3, it is bent into approximately the shape illustrated in the other views, and the use of this device on a check book is as follows: The used stubs U are laid back with the left hand, and the curved claw 1 grasped in the right hand and its toes 2 pushed into the binding astride the staples or other fastening devices therein, the upstanding projections 3 engaging beneath the outermost used stub and the depending projections 4i sinking slightly into the exposed stub S. The obvious purpose of these projections is to hold the device in this position. The bend of these stubs now lies in the bend of the claw, and the shank 5 overlies such stubs and holds them back as shown in Fig. 1, and new checks and stubs can be written without the danger that the old ones will fly down onto the fresh ink and smear it. Also the stubs can be posted at this time, even if some of them have not been included under the device. By this I mean that if the device is used when the check book is to be posted, it will be inserted among the used stubs between those which were formerly posted and those yet to be posted, and as the bookkeeper posts the latter one by one they are laid back over the shank '5 and slipped under the clip 11 whose tendency is to press them into gentle contact with the shank or the upper end of the claw, and in this way quite a number of stubs can be posted without removing the toes from the binding. After the use of this device it is withdrawn and laid aside and the check book is closed and laid away. \Vithout further illustration it will be quite obvious that the toes of the claw could be stuck into the binding of any book and the shank would hold its leaves open at any place desired. I consider it desirable that the claw be given a rather gentle bend within its length, the obvious reason being because an. abrupt bend. within the claw would find resistance if the used stubs were too numerous.

The thumb piece may be grasped for rais- -.ing the tongue and clip when one or more stubs under the latter are to be freed.

What I claim is: V V

1. A check book stub holder made of stiff sheet metal comprising a shank, means at its lower end for attaching it to the book, and an integral tongue extending from the upper end of the shank, bent down, and normally contacting with the shank, for the purpose set forth.

2. A check book stub holder made of stifi sheet metal comprising a shank, means at its lower end for attaching it to the book, and an integral tongue consisting of a strip extending from the upper end of the shank and having a thumb piece within its length, the remote end of the tongue normally contacting with the shank to form a clip, for the purpose set forth.

3. A device for use in a check book comprising a curved claw having toes at its lower end adapted to be inserted in the binding of the stubs and upright projections from the tips of the'toes for holding them in place, a shank rising integrally from the other end of the claw, and means for holding the used stubs open.

4:. A device for use in a check book comprisinga claw having at its lower end toes for entering the binding of the book, pro- Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Washington, D. 0.

' sheet metal comprising a shank, an integral claw at its lower end adapted to enter the binding of the book, and a clip carried by the upper end of the shank and bent into normal contact therewith, for the purpose 7 set forth.

6. A check book stub holder comprising a shank, a claw at its lower end adapted to enter the binding of the book, and a tongue extending from the shank, the remote end of the tongue being bent into a clip normally contacting with the shank, for the purpose set forth.

7 A check book sheet metal comprising a claw at its lower end adapted to enter the stub holder made of stiff shank, an integral binding of the book, and an integral tongue consisting of a strip extending from the upper end of the shank, having a thumb piece within its length, and with its remote end bent into a clip normally contacting with the shank, for the'purpose set forth.

8. A device for holding the used stubs of a check book in open position comprlsing a curved claw having a forked lower end adapted to be inserted shank, a tongue rising rigidly from and extending over the shank andused stubs for holding them open, and means at the remote end of the tongue stubs. I

9. A device for use on the stubs of a check book comprising a shank, a curved claw at one end thereof having toes adapted to be inserted in the binding, means on the toes for holding them in place, and means carried by the other end of the shank for holding the used stubs open.

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

MARCUS P. EXLINE. Witnesses:

A. J. BOEDEFELD, M. L. SHEPHERD.

Commissioner of Patents,

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