US1419066A - Ticket - Google Patents

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. M YRIC THEATRE Adml'l 0n: Arron/ms CrA. UCKf TICKET.

APPLICATION man DEC'.27, 1920.

To all to 710m it may concern.

ire earns oAr'rILLns ALOYN LICK,- or roar. sivrrrmhnxansas, nssrenon. 'ro WELDON, WILLIAMS -A1\TD "LICK, or roar smrrrr, naxnnsas, A oonronnrronor ARKANASAS.

aiaeee l Be itknown that-l, C rTiLLns LICK, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Fort Smith, in the county of Sebastian and State of Arkansas, have invented a new and Improved Ticket,-of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in tickets, and more particularly to strip tickets which are arranged in book form and maintained flat as distinguished from tickets such as are wound in a roll, an object of the invention being to provide an improved manner of numbering the tickets so that the accurate number of tickets sold is concealed and can be determined only by the utilizing of one of the tickets in connection with the number on the binding stub of the strip of.

tickets.

A further object is to provide a ticket which can be conveniently torn oil with one hand leaving the other hand of the operator free for making change, and which will prevent fraud in the sale of tickets as the tickets must be torn off in consecutive order. W 1th these and other ob ects in View the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, and combinations and ar rangements of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a broken plan view illustrating a ticket strip.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary view illustrating the next adjacent stub to that shown in Figure 1.

lVhile I have illustrated but a single ticket strip, it is, of course, to be understood that in use I provide any desired number of ticket strips all constructed alike and each having a stub 1 with a series of tickets 2 thereon, all formed from a single strip of paper or other suitable material having perforated lines 3 between the tickets and between the end ticket and the stub and having notched edges 4 so that the tickets can be conveniently torn apart.

Thestrips are made so that the lines of perforation extend parallel with the grain and not across it, as is common with strip tickets such as are sold in'the form of a roll, so that the tickets can be easily torn with one hand while the other hand of the operator is free to make change.

Specification of Letters Patent. Paieentgd June (3, 1922. a lication filed December 27, aa. serial in. 433,393.

I The tickets may, of course,

TICKET.

contain anydesired printed matter, as, for example, the name of the theatre, the number of persons admitted by the ticket, usually one person,

the desires of the trade. I

Each stub 1 will contain a number 5 and each of the tickets 2 of each strip will contain numerals indicated by the reference character 6, these last-named numerals being in consecutive order, as, for example, the tickets, beginning with the one farthest removed from the binding stub] should bear the numerals 0 to 9. tickets to the strip, the numerals appearing the same on every strip. The number on the binding stub, of course, is consecutive.

As the stubs l are secured in some apand other printed matter inaccordance with proved manner in a book, the numbers indicated by the reference character 5 are concealed so that a casual observer or the ticket seller himself cannot tell how many tickets have been sold even though he knows the manner of determining this answer.

To determine the number of tickets sold, it is necessary to add the numeral on the free end of the strip to the end of the series of numerals constituting the number indicated by the reference numeral 5. In the drawing the stub member is 2603, and assuming that this strip constitutes one strip of a book of strips, to find out the number of tickets sold, the numeral 0 at the end of the strip must be added after the 3 of the stub number, so that it will be shown that 26030 tickets have been sold.

It is, of course, to be understood that the stub numbers indicated bythe reference numeral 5, will be on the several strips ar ranged in proper consecutive, so that the method of disclosing the number of tickets sold in a day, or for any given period, can be readily determined by subtracting from the lastnumber indicated the number indicated at the close of the prior days business.

In furnishing to the trade an order, say for one hundred thousand tickets,the stubs in regular consecutive order will be numbered from 0 (cipher) to 9,999. In

There are but ten parts described Without departing from the invention, and hence I do not limit myself to the precise details set forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall Within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a ticket strip, comprising a stub, and a series of tickets attached thereto, said stub containing a number, and said tickets containing numerals, the ticket numerals being arranged in consecutive order, and said stub, number and said ticket numerals having a relation to each other whereby, to determine the number of tickets sold, by adding the numeral of the ticket at the free end of the stripat the end'of the series of numerals forming the stub number.

"2. As a new article'of manufacture, a a

ticket strip, comprising a stub, and a series of tickets attached thereto, said strip having lines of perforations and notched edges forming weakened portions between the tickets of the strip, said lines of perforations being With the grain of the strip, Where-

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