US632487A - Paper-roll for manifolding sales-pads. - Google Patents

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No. 632,487. Patented Sept. 5, I899.

C. M. DISSDSWAY.

PAPER ROLL FOB MANIFOLDING SALES PADS.

(Application filed May 5, 1899.)

(No Model.)

WITNESSES;

v UNITED STAT S I PATENT OFFICE.

OROWELL M, DISSOSWAY, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN GOODOHILD, GUARDIAN, OF SAME PLACE.

PAPER-ROLL FOR MANIFOLDING SALES-PADS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 632,487, dated September 5, 1899.

Application filed May 5, 1899,

T to whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CROWELL M. DISSOS- WAY, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper- Rolls for Sales-Pads, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to paper-rolls for sales-pads wherein there is a main recordstrip marked and divided transversely into sales-checks of equal length, numbered successively from one end of the strip to the other, and one or more auxiliary record-strips x 5 having on them consecutive identifying-numbers corresponding to the numbers on the main strip and spaced in the same manner. The sales-pads with which such paper-rolls are used vary in form; but a simple form consists of a box to contain a single paperroll, having a slit for the strips to pass out through, means for holding sheets of carbonpaper, which are'interleaved with the strips from the roll, a keeper to hold the strips down, and a cutter for cutting off the bunch of checks. In making such paper-rolls it has been difficult to make the sales-checks on the various record-strips register at their end limits, so that when torn off simultaneously 0 all the checks torn off at one time will register properly with each other and the identifying mark or marks thereon will appear uniform. This difficulty is due to the fact that in rolling up the several superposed 3 5 strips in forming the roll the outer ones will take up more in length than the inner ones. The object of the present invention is to provide a roll composed of a plurality of strips all having printed on them the same 40 successive series of identifying numbers or marks, those on one strip registering exactly with those on the others, and this is effected by so arranging the severalsuperposed strips that they overlap each other laterally along 5 one edge in the manner of tiles or shingles, the lower sheet projecting beyond that next above it, so as to expose a portion of its side margin along its entire length, the next one projecting a little beyond the one next above it,-and so on. The superposed strips thus laid are passed through a consecutive number- Serial No. 715,677. on model.)

ing and printing machine which prints the identifying numbers and inscriptions on all of the strips simultaneously and rolls the strips into a roll as they are printed. This construction of the roll insures the saleschecks of the strips being exactly in register when the strips are unrolled and enables them, if desired, to be transversely perforated or weakened for tearing off along the end limits of said checks. I

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate an embodiment of theinvention, Figure l is a perspective view of the paper-roll as finished and ready for use. Fig. 2 is a face View of the roll partly unrolled and showing the markings. Fig. 3 is an edge view of the roll partly unrolled. The above views show the main record-strip rolled on the inside. Fig. 4: is a perspective view showing the main record-strip rolled on the outside.

R represents in Fig. 1 the complete paper roll secured in a known way by an encircling band.

Referring particularly to Fig. 2, A is the main record-strip divided into sales-checks CL of equal length, separable at the dotted lines as. B and O are two auxiliary record-strips under the strip A, the three strips being superposed. It will be noted that the strip B projects lat erally beyond the strip A at one side, so as to expose a marginal portion 1) thereof, and the strip O projects in the same manner beyond the strip B, so as to leave exposed amarginal portion 0. The lines of perforations x, if such are used, may extend across all of the record-strips, as shown.

On the sales-checks a are or may be printed any form or inscription that the particular business requires, that shown being a common form, and in addition to this printed matter there will be printed simultaneously on the main strip and on the exposed margins and c of the auxiliary strip the usual identifying numbers or marks cl. In the present case the marks consist of numbers arranged consecutively on the sales-checks and a letter N, common to this rollR; but the only requsite is the consecutive identifying numbers or marks repeated on the three strips. Only the checks at will bear the printed form.

In producing the roll the several superposed strips will pass under the printing and consecutive numbering devices, and as soon as they pass or clear these devices they are rolled up in the usual way on a spindle, the ob ject being to effect the printing (and the perforating also, if such is employed) as nearly as possible to the point where the strips pass to the roll or begin to roll up. The several checks of the strips will be nearly of uniform length; but in rolling up after passing the printing=point those on the outer side in the roll will be a little the longer, this difference in length becoming less as the roll increases in size.

Itis notimportant to this invention whether the strip A is rolled inside or outside. Fig. 2 shows it rolled inside and Fig. 4 outside. It is preferable to have the strips A, B, and O of difierent widths and adapted to register along the edge y in Fig. 2, so that they may be guided conveniently through the printing and numbering devices; but this inequality in the width of the strips is not essential to this invention.

The devices for numbering and printing form no part of the present invention, and, indeed, substantially similar devices are now used for printing single strips, and such modification as may be necessary to adapt them for printing the three superposed strips is well within the skill of any one used to constructing this kind of mechanism.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a paper-roll for sales-pads composed of a main record-strip and one or more auxiliary record-strips, superposed and rolled up together, the auxiliary strip projecting laterally, as described, so that a marginal portion of the same is uncovered by the main, overlying strip, said strips having printed on their ex posed faces corresponding consecutive identifying-marks for the sales-checks which form the strips.

3. As an improved article of manufacture,

a paper-roll for sales-pads, comprising a plurality of superposed record-strips A, B and C, of unequal width, substantially registering with each other along one margin y, said strips being divided by weakened lines so, which register, and having corresponding consecutive identifying-numbers on their faces,- as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name, this 3d day of May, 1899, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CROWELL M. DISSOSW'AY.

WVitnesses:

MEYER SINDEL, EDMOND OONGAR BROWN.

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