US1336922A - Sales-check holder - Google Patents

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T. R. F. POTTER. SALES CHECK HOLDER.

. APPLICATION FILED MAYlG. 1919.

1,336,922. Patented Apr. 13, 1920..

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THOMAS R. F. POTTER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW' YORK, ASSIGNOR TO LOCK STUB CHECK COMPANY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEVI' YORK.

SALES-CHECK HOLDER.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented A131213, 1920.

Application filed May 16, 1919. Serial No. 297,694.

ments in Sales-Check Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to holders for saleschecks particularly adapted for use in restaurants and lunch rooms and has for its object the provision of means secured to said holder whereby each check may be notched at the point designating the amount purchased, thus avoiding the necessity of using another tool for this purpose.

The invention consists in providing the bottom plate of the check holder with a cutting prong adapted to coact with; a perforation in a spring plate secured to the under face of said plate.

The invention further consists in providing means for limiting the insertion of the checks between said plates.

The invention further consists in providing a receptacle in which the chips cut from the checks may be deposited.

The invention further consists in certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts which will be fully understood from the description of the drawings and to the claims hereinafter given.

For the purpose of illustrating the invention one preferred form thereof is illustrated in the drawings, this form having been'found to give satisfactory and reliable results, although it is to be understood that the various instrumentalities of which the invention consists can be variously arranged and organizedand the invention is not limited to the precise arrangement and organi- Zation of these instrumentalities as herein shown and described, except as required by the scope of the appended claims.

Of the drawings- Figure 1 represents a plan of a sales check holder embodying the fatures of the present invention.

lFig. 2 represents an elevation of the same.

Fig. 3 represents a vertical section of the bottom plate and the devices secured thereto.

Fig. 4 represents a plan of the same, a portion of the bottom plate being broken away, and

i. Fig. 5 represents an inverted plan of the same.

Similar characters designate like parts through the several figures of the drawj ings. vented certain new and useful `lmprove- In the drawings, 10 is a box-like frame having anopen side 11 and an open end 12.

This box-like frame may be made up in any preferred manner.

It is provided on one side with the usual clip 13 pivoted at 1li and adapted to secure the box-like frame 10 to the belt of the waiter or waitress.

. |The device as thus far described forms no part of the present invention.

Secured to the under face of the plate 15 is a spring plate 19.

@ne of these plates 15, 19, preferably the plate 15, is provided with a il-shaped prong 2O extending from its outer edge as indicated in Fig. 1.

The prong 2O is bent toward the other plate, preferably the plate 19, and has cutting edges.

The plate coacting with the pronged plate is provided with a triangular perforation 21 into which the prong 2O accurately fits so that when the two plates are pressed together the point 22 will first enter the perfoi-ation 21 and then the side cutting edges will coact with the side walls of the perforation 21 and cut a notch in the edge of any material, such as sales checks, inserted between said plates.

The perforated plate, as 19, is provided with limiting stops 23 which will serve as guides for the sales checks 16 when inserted between the plates 15, 19 so that when the cutting operation is performed, the same shaped chip will be cut from each check so inserted.

ln order to prevent the chips being scattered over the floor of the restaurant or lunch room, a receptacle 24 is provided in which the chips will be collected as cut from the sales checks 16.

This receptacle 2tvis positioned beneath the perforation 21 and has ears 25 extending leo rearwardly therefron"L and straddling ears 26 depending from theplate 19.

A pivot pin 2T extends through the ears 25, 2G and is surrounded by a helical spring 28 having ends bearing respectively against the under face of the plate 19 and the rear wall of the receptacle 2a.

This spring 28 normally retains the upper edges of the receptacle 2-1- against the under" face of the plate 19 but when the receptacle 24 is filled with chips it may be moved about the axis of pin 27 to permit the removal of said. chips.

1When a customer has purchased the desire-d amount, the upper check 16 is removed and inserted between the plates l5; 19, until. its inner edge bears against the limiting stops 23 with the figures 29 indicating the amount of purchase beneath the prong 20.

The spring plate 19 is then pressed toward the bottom plate 15 and the point 22 of the prong 2O will pass through the check and then by means of the cutting edges of the prong 20 coacting with the walls of the perforation 21; a V-shaped notch will be cut into the edge of the check at the designated point thus indicating to the cashier the amount purchased.

Usually the punching of the checks has been performed by a separate tool and it is self-evident that there is considerable advantage in providing the check holder with some means forming a part thereof whereby the check may be punched without requiring the use of another tool.

Tt is believed that the operation and many advantages of the device will be readily understood. Without further desc iptioir Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. The combination with a box-like frame having an open end and a rigid bottom. plate adapted to support checks and extending beyond 'said open end and beyond the outer ends of checks; a spring plate secured to the under side of the bottom plate and having a perforation in its out-er end; an outwardly extending prong bent downwardly from the outer end of the bottom plate with cutting edges adapted to coact with the edges of said perforation; stops to limit the insertion of a check beneath said bottom plate; and a receptacle secured to said spring plate beneath said perforation to receive the chips cut from the checks.

2. The combination with a box-like frame having an open end and a rigid bottom plate adapted to support checks and extending beyond said open end and beyond the outer ends of checks; a spring plate secured to the under side of the bottom plate and having a perforation in its outer end; an outwardly extending prong bent downwardly from the outer end of the bottom plate with cutting edges adapted to coact with the edges of said perforation; stops to limit the insertien of a check beneath said bottom plat a ceptacle secured to said spring plate beneath said perforation to receive the chips cut from the checks; and means whereby said receptacle may be moved relatively to said spring plate to permit said receptacle to be emptied.

3. The combination with a box-lili frame having an open end and a rigid bottom plate adapted to support checlrs and extending beyond said open end and beyond the outer ends of checks; a spring` plate secured to the under side of the bottom plate ...id having a perforation in its outer end; an outwardly extending prong` bent downwardly from the outer end of the bottom plate with cutting edges adapted to coact with the edges of said perforation; stops to limit the insertion of a check beneath said bottom plate; and a receptacle pivotally secured to said spring )late beneath said perforation to receive the chips cut from the checks.

l. The combination with a box-like frame having an open end and a bottom plate extending beyond said open end and adapted to support checks; a spring plate secured to the under side ofthe bottom plate and having a perforation in its outer enr.; an outwardly extending prong bent downwardly from the outer end of the bottoni plate with cutting edges adapted to coact with the edges of said perforation; stops to limit the insertion of a check benez th said bottom plate; a receptacle pivotally secured beneath said perforation to receive the chips cut from the checks; and a spring for normally retaining the upper edge of said receptacle in contact with the under face of said spring plate.

5. The combination with a box-like frame having an open end and a'bottom plate extending beyond said open end and adapteiil to support checks; a spring plate secured to the under side of the bottom plate and having a perforation in its outer end; an outwardly extending prong bent downwardly from the outer end of the bottom plate with cutting edges adapted to coact with the edges of said perforation; stops to limit the insertion of a check beneath said bottom plate; downwardly extending ears on said spring plate; a receptacle beneath said per,- foration having ears at the rear end thereof; a pivot pin extending through all of said ears; and a spring on said pivot pin and adapted to retain the upper edge of said receptacle in contact with said spring plate.

Signed by me at Brooklyn. N. Y., this 14th day of May. 1919.

THOMAS R. F. POTTER. litnesses OLIVIA A. THOMAS, P. V. AuBnosE.

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