US1295105A - Manifolding sales-book. - Google Patents

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E. K. BOTTLE.

MANIFOLDING SALES BOOK. APPLICATION FILED DEC-22.1916.

1,295,105, 7 Patented Feb. 25, 1919.

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NEW YORK, fiQSIGNOR T AMEEICANBALEE 306K ONT-ARK), CANADA, A GORPG :TIW arena k e OLEING' SALES-BO0K Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed December 22, 1916. Serial No. means. 7

' a salesbook in which multiple copies may be made from a single record in a practical manner, and more particularly in which five or less copiesmay be made at the will of the manipulator, in a more ellicient manner.

Another object of this invention is to enable one or more of the records to be retained in the book without interference with the subsequent use of the book, in a more satisfactory manner.

Other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed out hereinafter.

The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction, combination of ele- -ments and arrangement of parts which will be exemplified in the construction hereinafter set forth, and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the following claims.

One embodiment of'myinvention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and wherein similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views, in

which v Figure 1 is a perspective view of one embodiment of this invention.

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the book in operative position;

' Fig. 3 is a view showing the manipulation of the hook Fig. i is a perspective view of a modified form showing the pads in superposed rclas tion. with a port n of one pad broken away to show the carbon sheet; and

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the modified form. showing the sheets arranged in manifolding position.

In the embodiment of the invention illustrated in Figs. 1. 2 and 3, there are provided two pads so disposed as to permit the leaves of the one pad to be placed upon and between the leaves of the other pad, with transfer sheets having four carbon faces which may be placed between the sheets of the-pads to form a quintuplicate record. These pads may be held in associated operative relation by means of a support 1. One of these pads, as 2, is hingedly attached, as at3, to one edge of this support, and the other of the pads, as 4:, may be attached to another edge of the support, which is conveniently the edge opposite the hinge 3. As the sec-- ond pad need not be hingedly connected to the support, it is convenient to bind it fast, as, for example, by staples 5. The padQ'is conveniently made of a set of superimposed sheets bound together along one edgefi, as

i by staples 7, each sheet being folded upon itself to form two leaves, as a free leaf 8 and a bound leaf 9, joined along one edge, as 10, which, in the form illustrated, is opposite to the binding edge 5. The binding edge 6 of the pad 2 may conveniently be the edge opposits to hinge 3. The pad 4 may consist of separate leaves, as 11, 12 and 13, held to gether by the fastening means 5. By this construction, it will conveniently be possible to interpose the leaves of the pad 4 either under or on top of the pad 2, or between the leaves of thetop or uppermost set of the pad. Suitable transfer material is so arranged, as to be operatively associated with said pads, and is conveniently bound into and on top of the pad 2. This transfer material is double faced, having'fa plurality of carbon faces to permit a 'miiltiple record to be made,and is conveniently made in the form of a sheet folded upon itself,- like the sheets of the pad 2 to provide two leaves, an under or bound leaf 14; and an upper or free leaf 15, and bound in the pad 2. To enable the-unbound leaf of the top set from the pad 2 to be readily grasped and removed from beneath the carbon without first removing the carbon, a notch 16 is made in both leaves of the carbon in position to expose a corner of the free end of the free. leaf.

In Figs. 4 and 5 is illustrated a modificaQ the staples 19. This modification provides a simpler and cheaper book where the retention of the copies in the book is not required. The bound sheets of the pad 2 and the 5 sheets of the pad 4; will preferably be provided with weakenedportions, as a line of perforations, shown at 17 and 18, respectively, andthc sheet constituting the leaves 8 and 9 will preferably be perforated at the ill fold 10 so that the copies may be readily removed from the book, if desired, and so that the leaves 8 and 9 may be. readily separated.

With this construction, by removing the free leaf of the top set from beneath the transfer material, so that the transfer material will lie between the two leaves of the top set of the pad 2, the sheets of thepad 4 may be inserted between and upon the two leaves of the transfer sheet.

The manipulation of this bobkis as follows: With the book in the position shown in Fig. 1 and the ad 4 superposed on the pad 2 in the position in which they would normally rest, the unused leaves of the pad 4 are I thrown back to expose the pad 2. The original leaf, as 8, of the top set from the pad 2, may now be removed from beneath the carbon sheet. so as to permit the lower leaf 14 of the carbon sheet to restin contact with the leaf 9, hereinafter called the duplicate leaf, of the top sheet from the pad 2. The top leaf, as 15, of the transfer sheet may now be turned back to expose the upper face of the lower carbon leaf 14.

When it is desired to make a quintuplicate record, two sheets 11 and 12 from the pad a are their laid over the carbon leaf 14:, to constitute, respectively, the quintuplieate and quadruplicate copies, and the top leaf I 15 of the carbon sheet is superposed thereon.

vAnother sheet from the pad 4, as 13, is laid over the carbon leaf 15 to form the triplicate copy, and the original sheet 8 is folded over on topthereof;

It will be obvious that if desired, the top leaf 8 of the top sheet from the pad 2 may be placed beneath the sheet 13 from the pad 4, with which it lies in contact. Thus such sheet 13 would become the original and the v 9 sheet 8 the triplicate. It is preferable, how

ever, to use the book as described because, since it is desirable to make the triplicate transparent because its record is reversed and on'the under surface, and the duplicate is preferably opaque since its record is direct on the frontsurface, it is more economical to provide transparent sheets in the pad 4; than to make one-half of the sheet of the pad-'2 transparent. 69 With the construction outlined, it is obvious that any writing upon the original. sheet 8 will be copied reversed upon the under side of the triplicate and quintuplicate sheets and will be copied directly upon Y the top side of the quadruplicate and dupliquired, the sheet from the pad 2 may be placed in any one of the three positions which the sheets of the pad 2 occupy in making a quintuplicate record, and where a quadruplicate record is required, any two of these three positions may be used.

Where it is desired toenable five copies to be made, the transfer sheet will be surfaced on both sides of both sheets; but one or more of these surfacings may be omitted if a less number of copies is suflicient.

The original and duplicate sheets may now be torn from the book and from each other along the weakened lines 17 and 10, and as many 'as desired of .the triplicate, quadruplicate and quintuplicate sheets may be torn from the book along the weakened line 18. The pad 2 may now be folded upwardly around the hinge 3, and those copies which it is desired to have remain in the book may be folded down therebeneath be tween the pad 2 and the support and the pad 2 folded thereon. The book is now ready e for a repetition of the manipulation described.

By the construction recited, it will be obvious that as many of the records as desired may be allowed to remain in the book without interfering with subsequent inanipulation of the book.

By the foregoing construction are accom plished, among others, the objects hereinbefore set forth, as well as others which will be obvious.

As many changes could be made-in the above construction and many apparently widely diiferent embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all mat tcr contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and notin a limiting sense.

i It is also to be understood that the language used in the following claims is intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention herein described and all statements of the scope of the invention, which, as a matter of language, might be said. to fall therebetween.

Having described my' invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A device of the character described comprising, .in combination, a set of superimposed folded sheets, a et of leaves associated with said sheets so as to be interposable between the folds of the uppermost sheet of the first mentioned set and afolded transfer sheet providing double face trans fer leaves arranged to be interposed between the folds of said uppermost sheet, and to receive, between its folds, leaves of said sec- 0nd mentioned set.

2. A device of the character described comprising, in combination, a set of superimposed folded sheets, a set of transparent leaves associated with said sheets so as to be interposable between the folds of the up permost sheet of the first mentioned set, and a folded transfer sheet providing double face transfer leaves arranged to be interposed between the folds of said uppermost sheet, and to receive, between its folds, leaves of said second mentioned set.

3. A. device of the character described comprising, in combination, two sets of .sheets so arranged that the leaves of one may be interposed between those of the other, and a folded transfer sheet providing double face transfer leaves between said sets and adapted to be interleaved with the leaves of each set.

4. A device of the character described comprising, in combination, a support, a pad comprising leaves joined together and to said support along one edge of said leaves and said support, a second pad hingedly connected tothe opposite edge of said support comprising leaves joined together along the edge opposite the said hinged edge said transfer sheet being notched to permit the upper leaf of the top set of the second pad to be readily removed from beneath the carbon sheet.

5.'A device of the character described comprising, in combination, a set of superimposed folded sheets, a set of leaves associated \vit-h'said sheets so as to be interposable between the folds of the uppermost sheet of the first mentioned set and a folded transfer sheet providing doube-face transfer, leaves arranged to be interposed between the folds of said uppermostshcet, and to receive, bctween its folds, leaves of said second men-- tioned set, each of said transfer leaves being notched to expose an edge of one of sa'u other leaves.

6. A device of the character described comprising, in combination, two sets of sheets so arranged that the leaves of one maybe interposed between those of the other, and a folded transfer sheet providing double face transfer leaves between said sets and adapted to be interleaved with the leaves of each set, each of said transfer leaves being notched to expose a portion of one. of said other leaves.

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

EDlVAlt-D KIRBY, BOTTLE. fWitnesses: i l A. L. GENTI-IUER,

J. E. l-lnNnY.

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