US1883271A - Check holder - Google Patents

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R.. S. YOUNG ET AL Oct 18, 1932.

CHECK HOLDER Filed May 9, 1930 INVENTORJ *5 5 A TTORNEY Patented Oct. 18, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ROBERT S. YOUNG AND'PAUL DEVLIN, OF NEW BRIGHTON, NEW YORK CHECK HOLDER Application filed May 9, 1930. Serial No. 451,148.

This invention relates to slip holders and has special reference to a check holder for holding packets of loose bank checks.

One important object of the invention is to provide an improved general construction of device of this character.

A second important object of the invention is to provide an improved check holder wherein a package of loose checks may be securely held and wherefrom the checks may be readily withdrawn, one at a time, for entry 011 ledger sheets, adding on an adding ma chine and for any other. bookkeeping or accounting operations.

A third important object of the invention is to provide an improved form of check holder having means whereby it may be adjusted for checks of different lengths so that short checks may be securely held and long checks may be easily withdrawn.

lVith the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in general of certain novel details of construction and combina tions of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawing like characters of reference indicate the parts in the several views, and

Figure 1 is a plan view' of the improved check holder.

Figure 2 is a front elevation thereof.

Figure 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is an enlarged detail section on the line 44 of Figure 1.

Figure 5 is a similar section on the line 5-5 of Figure 1. v

In the embodiment of the invention here shown there is provided a holder base the upper surface of which forms a platform or check support 10, this upper surface being longitudinally concave so that checksresting thereon will have their ends slightly raised above their central portions, a package of such checks being indicated in dotted lines at C. A plate 11 closes the under side of this base and the plate and base are supported on rubber legs 12.

In the appended drawing, the curvature of the platform 10 is considerably exaggerated, to make the same more noticeable. In actual construction, the curvature may be such that the middle of the plate 10 (as seen in Fig. 2) is depressed about two-thirds of the thickness of said plate, this figure being (except for the exaggerated curvature) made from an actual device.

Brackets 13 project upwardly from the rear end portions of the base and between 60 these brackets extends a hollow shaft 14 having a journal 15 at one end. At the other end a screw pin 16 is screwed through the bracket and projects into the shaft to form a journal therefor. A spiral torsion spring 17 is housed 55 in this end of the shaft 14 and has one end fixed to the inner end of the pin 16 and its remaining end fixed to the shaft as at 18. By rotating the screw the tension of this spring may be adjusted and a lock nut 19 is mounted on the screw to secure it from accidental rotation so that the spring may be maintained in desired adjustment.

A short sleeve or collar 20 is fixed to one end of the shaft 14 and on the remaining 7 end is a similar collar 21 splined on the shaft 14 by a fiat 22 formed on one side of the shaft, the collar 21 being correspondingly formed so that it cannot revolve on the shaft but may slide freely thereon. Arms 23 pro- 30 ject forwardly from these collars and are provided with down turned ends for engagement over the fronts of checks C as is shown in the dotted line position of these arms in Figure 3.

In operation the arms 23 are raised and a package of checks placed on the platform. The arms are now dropped and will press down on the checks. The operator places the moistened fingers of one hand on the top check and draws it toward him, grasping the check between his thumb and fingers as it moves forward. With the check thus grasped he completes the forward movement and, with the arms properly positioned may disengage the check ends from beneath the arms with great ease, the convexity of the platform aiding this operation. He then performs the same operation on the next check, depositing the drawn off checks as arms extending forwardly from the shaft desired. Thus the checks are brought into view one after the other and the required data may be abstracted therefrom.

There has thus been provided a simple and efiicient device of the kind described and for the purpose specified.

It is obvious that minor changes may be made in the form and construction of the invention without departing from the material principles thereof. It is not, therefore, desired to confine the invention to the exact form herein shown and described, but it is desired to include all such as come within the scope claimed.

We claim: I

1. In a check holder, a platform, brackets at the rear corners of the platform, a shaft revolubly mounted in one of said brackets, arms extending forwardly from the shaft ,and having down-turned ends overlapping the front edge of said platform to engage the front of a package of checks on the platform, and a spring having its ends connected respectively to said shaft and the other of vsaid brackets and urging the forward ends of said arms downwardly toward the platform. I

2. In a check holder, a platform, brackets at the rear corners of the platform, a shaft revolubly mounted in one of said brackets,

and having downeturned ends overlapping thefront edge of said platform to engage the front of a package of checks on the platform,

a spring having its ends connected respectively to said shaft and the other of said brackets and urging-the forwardends of said arms downwardly toward the platform, and means to adjust the tension of said spring.

3. In a check holder, a platform having its upper surface longitudinally concave, brackets at the rear corners of the platform, a shaft revolubly mounted in one. of said brackets, arms extending forwardly from the shaft and having down turned ends to engage the front of a package of checks on the platform, and a spring having its ends connected respectively to said shaft and the other of said brackets and urging the forward ends of said arms downwardly toward the platform. 7

4. In a check holder, a platform having ts upper surface longitudinally concave, brackets at the rear corners of the platform, a shaft revolubly mounted in one of said brackets, arms 'extending forwardly from the shaft'and having down-turned ends to engage the front of a package of checks on the platform, a spring having its ends connected respectively to said shaft and the other of said brackets and urging the forward ends of said arms downwardly toward the platform, andmeans to adjust the tension of said spring. 7 r

5. In a check holder, a platform, brackets at the rear corners of the platform, a shaft revolubly supported by said brackets, a collar fixed to the shaft at one end thereof, a second collar splined on the other end of the shaft, arms extending forwardly from said collars and having down-turned ends overlapping the front edge of said platform to engage the front of a package of checks sup ported on the platform, and a spring having engage the front of a package of checks supported on the platform,a spring having its ends connected respectively to said shaft and one of said brackets and urging the forward ends of said arms downwardly toward the platform, and means to adjust the tension of said spring.

7. In a check holder, a platform having its 1 upper surface longitudinally concave, brackets at the rear corners of the platform, a shaft revolubly supported by said brackets, a collar fixed to the shaft at one end thereof, a second collar splined on the other end of the shaft, arms extending forwardly from said collars and having down-turned ends to engage the front of a package of checks supported on the platform, and a spring having its ends connected respectively to said shaft and one of said brackets and urging the forward ends of said arms downwardly toward the platform.

8. In a check holder, a platform having its upper surface longitudinally concave, brackets at the rear corners of the platform, a shaft revolubly supported by said brackets, a collar fixed to the shaft atone end thereof, a second collar splined on the other end of the shaft, arms extending forwardly from said collars and having down-turned ends to en gage the front of a package of checks sup ported on the platform, a spring having its ends connected respectively to said shaft and one of said brackets and urging the forward ends of said arms downwardly toward the platform, and means to adjust the tension of said spring.

In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures.

ROBERT S. YOUNG. PAUL DEVLIN.

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