US569478A - Bookkeeper s posting-guide - Google Patents

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-(No Model.

B. H. WINTERMUTE, Jr.

BOOKKEEPERS POSTING GUIDE.

No. 569,478. Patented Oct. 13, 1896 WITNESSES: INVENTOR g2? 08 BY ATTY'S.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDIVIN H. IVINTERHUTE, JR, OF NEWARK, NEIV JERSEY.

BOOKKEEPERS POSTING-GUIDE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 569,478, dated October 13, 1896.

Application filed November 9, 1895. Serial No. 568,444. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWIN H. WINTEEMUTE, J r., a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bookkeepers Posting-Guides; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to facilitate the operation of posting accounts in book keeping and to secure greater correctness in said operation; and the invention consists in the improved posting-guide and in the arrangements and combinations of parts, all substantially as will be hereinafter set forth, and finally embraced in the clauses of the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters indicate corresponding parts in each of the views, Figure 1 is a side elevation, and Fig. 2 is a plan, of the device. Fig. 3 is a sectional detail taken at line ac.

In said drawings, a indicates an ordinary paper-clamp of any suitable construction, having broad clamping-jaws a a, a spring 0 adapted to hold said jaws normally together to clamp the sheets of paper and to hold them together in place, and finger pieces or parts a' by which said jaws may be easily and conveniently forced apart to release said jaws from holding or binding contact with said papers. To the upper face of the upper jaw are attached hinge or pivotal bearings a" for a long angular rod 1), the said rod being hinged or pivoted upon said bearings so as to vertically oscillate thereon.

0 indicates a transverse extensible guidebar which slides on said rod 1), said bar being provided with means, such as the perforated flange c and springs d d, for holding said bar at right angles or approximately at right angles with said rod and yet admitting of a free and easy sliding of said bar on said rod.

In the construction shown and preferred I make the bar 0 in sections, one of which is provided with turned longitudinal edges, forming ways 0 c", in or on which the other section slides. By drawing one section from the other the bar may be extended to suit the lines of any ordinary large-sized accountbook, or by pushing the sections together the said sections will be made to correspond with the width of smaller books. The perforated flange c, forming a part of the bar 0, is soldered or otherwise rigidly fixed at or near the longitudinal center of the section or member of said bar which is arranged in the ways 0 c" and which overlies the body portion of the member having said ways. At one side of said flange the latter carries the opposing springs (Z (Z, which press against the opposite sides of the rod 7) at a little distance forward from said flange, where it is perforated and receives the rod 1). I prefer to form at the perforation for the rod an angular tube f, which provides bearings for said rod 1), said tube closely engaging said rod b and serving to prevent oscillatory motion or looseness of the bar 0 on said rod, confining said bar 0 to a straight and regular sliding motion. The flange 0' serves as a finger-piece, by which the bar may be drawn down from or pushed upon toward the clamp.

In operating the device the bookkeeper attaches the clamp to the top of the page, so as to hold the device securely in position, the clamp preferably grasping a dozen or more leaves at a time to obtain a rigidity best adapted to admit of a manipulation of the bar on its rod by the hand. The broad jaws, being considerably wider than the rod 1), compress the leaves, so that the said bar is held firmly against any tendency to lateral displacement, notwithstanding the fact that said jaws do not extend but a very limited distance down the page. The clamp being fixed, the rod 5, which is not intended to serve in clamping, projects beyond the broad clamping-jaws and extends down the center of the page and holds the bar 0 in a direction parallel with the lines on said page. As the postings are being made the bookkeeper forces the bar downward from line to line or otherwise moves it as he may desire, said bar sliding on the rod, and being held by the springs and perforated flange in the proper parallel relation to the lines of the page. Said bar guides the eye of the bookkeeper from one side of the page to the other, so that errors due to misapplying the figures of one line of entry to another line will be avoided. Should the rod cover a figure or word, so as to cover or obscure the same, said rod may be raised on its forward pivot by the hand to bring the figure or word into view.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is- 1. In combination with the spring-controlled clamping-jaws, of the rod 1), and extensible bar 0, arranged and sliding thereon, substantially as set forth.

2. In combination with the spring-controlled clamping-jaws, of the pivoted rod and sliding bar, all arranged and combined, substantially as set forth.

3. In combination with the spring-controlled clamping-jaws, of the rod pivoted upon the upper face of one of said jaws, and adapted to extend downward therefrom over the center of the page, and an extensible guide-bar centrally perforated to receive said rod, and means for holding said bar and rod in sliding relation, substantially as set forth.

4:. The improved posting-guide for bookkeepers, the same comprising a clamp, a rod b, pivoted to one of the jaws of said clamp, and adapted to extend down over and lengthwise of the page, and a bar 0 adapted to extend parallel with the lines of the page, on

opposite sides of said rod, and be drawn down from line to line, substantially as set forth.

5. The improved posting-guide for bookkeepers, the same comprising a clamp, a rod (2, pivoted to one of the jaws of said clamp, and a bar 0, having a flange c, angular tube f, and opposing springs cl, d, all arranged and combined, substantially as set forth.

6. The combination with spring-actuated jaws a,-a', adapted to grasp the top of the leaves of a book and present broad clamping surfaces thereto, of a rod b,-secured to one of said jaws and projecting beyond said broad clamping-surfaces so as to extend down over the central part of the uppermost leaf, and a sliding transverse bar, carried by said rod, substantially as set forth.

7. The combination with the clamp, comprising broad jaws a, a, a spring normally closing said jaws and finger parts for opening said jaws against the power of the spring when said finger parts are pressed together, of a rod 5, and transverse guiding-bar c, all arranged and operating, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 2d day of November, 1895.

EDWVIN H. WIN TERMUTE, JR.

\Vitnesses:

CHARLES H; PELL, C. B. PITNEY.

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