US1718214A - Combination shipping slip - Google Patents

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R. A. BRECUNIER ET AL COMBINATION SHIPPING SLIP Filed Dec. 2, 192'? June 25, 1929.

Patented June 25, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RAYMOND A. BRECUNIER, GEORGE SHERRILL, AND ALLAN' D. DONNELL,

OF WATER- L00, IOWA, ASSIGNORS TO THE BATH PACKING COMPANY, OF WATERLOO, IOWA.

l COMBINATION SHIPPING- SLIP.

Application filed December 2, 1927. Serial No. 237,172.k

Our invention relates to improvements in combination shipping slips, and the object of our improvements is to furnish for shippers a convenient device of this class having 5 like parts arranged for sequential separation from each other at different-.initial stages of handling of a package or container upon which one part is permanently secured, whereby a consecutive check and record is io made of each such stage of handling to be ultimately assembled for recording and preservation.

This object we have accomplished by the means which are hereinafter described and claimed, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which F ig. 1 is a plan of a slip embodying our invention, as its upper surface appears before folding. 2 is a plan of the opposite face of the slip as before such folding. F ig. 3 is a top plan of one of the divisional parts ofthe slip as secured upon a supporting surface, the other divisional parts having been sequentially removed, except separable end margins thereof which are in this figure shown as alsolsecured upon the supporting surface idly.- l s Our invention is not restricted toY thel vprecise construction and arrangement of parts herein shown and described, nor to the various details thereof,'a s thesame may be. modilied or rearranged in various particulars without departing from the spirit and scope of our invention, one practical embodiment of which has been herein illustrated and devarious modifications in which ourinvention might be embodied.

Our improved combination shipping slip is particularly designed for use by large shippers of goods, who place in a particular car or other means for transportation packages or containers of goods to be delivered thence to different consignees at one station. The intention is to prevent confusion or errors in the distributions at the different initial stages of transference of the goods to the means for transportation, and by the means we supply herein checking of such stages may be had sequentially, and the check slip parts as removed from the slip at each such stage later assembled for comparison, recording and filino.

Rferring to Figs. 1 and 2 in which our shipping slip is spread out flatly before folding, the numerals 1, 2 and 3 denote parts of scribed without attemptingto showall of the the slip having upon one face of each identical -printed matter, such as indicative numbering, directions, and other words or. inscriptions, together with a portion subdivided by means of ruled lines to receive at Z entries of goods shipped and to which the shipping slip refers. For instance, at a is a serial number for the whole shipment and this number appears on each of said inscribed slip parts. Said slip parts also display at e sequential numerals, such as 1, 2 and 3 for the three slip parts for detachmentl at different stages of handling of the goods initially before the actual storing of the package to which they refer, in a car reserved for them and Whose car number may be entered at Z). Other insertions may be made at e and f as indicated by the reference words.

The slip may be rendered more easily tearable transversely at suitable places by means of lines ofperforations at g, 7i, z' and la, and these perforated lines also serve as places for .folding over the parts of the slip upon each other beforefabny of the parts 1, 2 and 3 are separated at the different stages of handling ofthe package. The perforated line g sets ofi` at the left hand a narrow end strip or *margin 4, while the perforated lines 7L and `Z separate from the inscribed slip parts 1 and 2 an interposed narrow strip 5 whose use as also that of the other strip 4: will be described.

It should be noted that the printed matter upon the spaced, slip parts 1 and 3 appears upon the upper face of the slipy before folding, while the printed matter upon the slip y,part 2 appears upon the nunder face of the slip before folding.

When a package of goods is ready in the shipping room of a pla-nt, the slip, its paits l, 2 and 3 previously inscribed with all necessary entries relating to the goods, the reserved car therefor and other data, is pasted or otherwise secured as a whole after folding of its parts upon each other in registering superposition, upon the package.

The manner of folding is to position the slip part 3 next to the package, folding the slip part 2 at the line 7c thereover in registration, with the strip part 5 extending beyond the part 3 to the right, then refolding the slip reversely along the perforated line 7L, so that the printed face of the part 2 which is uppermost'is covered in registration by the part 1 whose printed face is also now uppermost, because thesaid part is longer than the underlying part 2 as a blank space is left at the right hand of the part 1 to o-verlay the said strip part 5. The end marginal strip 4 will then project beyond the part 2 at the left and contact with the package. As thus folded, the rear faces, alined, of the slip parts 3, l and 5 may be pasted upon the package permanently. The slip parts 1 and 2 are thus held at both ends to the package and against accidental removal from the part 3 and said package.

When a shipment is to be made, the uppermost inscribed slip part 1 may be removed for checking there by tearing the slip at the per forated lines g and 7L. This exposes the slip part 2 beneath, which may be similarly re moved when the package is placed in the car, and preserved there for checking purposes, and to be compared with the part 1 later before also comparing them with the book entry of the shipment. Errors are thus easily detected before departure of the car, and packages for consignees at the same station segregated properly for and in the reserved car. The end strips 4 and 5 remain upon the package, as their. only use is to intiallyl secure the ends of the slip parts 1 and 2 in superposition over the part 3 before removal ofV said parts 1 and 2 successively at the sequen- .tial stages therefor.

While the securing strips 4 and 5 may be omitted without departing from the principle of our invention, yet their use tends to pre-V vent loss of the loosely positioned parts 1 a'nd 2 by accident.

It is to be understood, that but two like inscribed slip parts may be used or any other number thereof than those illustrated y Without departing from the invention.

Carbon paper or transfer coats may be used atthe back of the parts land 2, so that a written inscription made upon the part l will be identically transferred to the underlying parts 2 and 3, if desired. The backs of the parts 3, 4 and 5 may be given a gummed coating.

Having described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A combination shipping slip, compris= ing detachably connected portions in triplicate of which end portions on one face and an intermediate portion on the opposite face contain the same reserved blank spaces with adjacent inscribed designations therefor, one end portion having a blank end tab at its outer end, and having at its opposite end a like blank end tab integrally connecting it'` to said intermediate portion, so that when the slip is folded upon itself with the intermedi ate and the other end portion in piled registration and their inscribed faces presented l outwardly, and the first-mentioned end portion is folded in like registration upon said other portions, the said end tabs will project oppositely beyond all tions. y

2. A combination shipping slip, compris` ing detachably connected portions in triplicate of which end portions `on one -face and an intermediate portion on the opposite face contain the same reserved blank spaces with adjacent inscribed designations therefor, said portions being numbered serially and all having a common identification inscrip tion, one end portion having a blank end tab at its outer end and having at its opposite end a like blank tab integrally connectingit to said intermediate portion, so that when the slip is .folded upon itself with the interina diate and the other end portion'in piled regis# tration and their inscribed faces presented outwardly, and the first mentioned portion is folded in likerregistration upon said other portions, the said end tabs will project oppositely beyond all the said piled portions. s In testimony whereof we affix `our signa tures. f 'f RAYMONDA. BRnoUNinn. GEORGE sHERnrLL. i ALLAN D. DONNELL.

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