US644104A - Duplicating shipping-blank. - Google Patents

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DUPLKIATING SHIPPING BLANK.'

(Application filed Apr. 17, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED v STATES PATENT OFFICEC GEORGE WAYNE SLINGERLAND, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DUPLICATING SHIPPING-BLANK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 644,104, dated February 27, 190. Application tiled Apr117, 1899. Serial No. 713,377I (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE WAYNE SLIN- GERLAND, a citizen of the United States of America, residing in the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, State of New York, have made certain new and useful Improve-l ments in Duplicating Shipping-Blanks, of which the following is a specication.

Under the system now generally used by express companies their receipt is held by the shipper, the forwarding office makes a way-bill or manifest of the shipment and retains a copy thereof, and `the destination office makes and retains a delivery-sheet. After delivery of the shipment the way-bill is sent by the destination agent to the auditor. Thus a part of the information necessary to adjust loss and damage claims is at three or four different and perhaps quite distant places. In important cases it is usually necessary before adjustment of claims to obtain a copy of the receipt from the shipper,

. a copy of the way-bill from the forwarding office, and from the destination ofce all the facts regarding delivery, and in many cases also obtain from the auditor a copy of the way-bill in order to locate agents or messengers and transfermen. The'preparation and copying of these separate receipts,way-bills, and delivery-sheets requires much time of many clerks, and when tracing of short or lost articles is necessary the gathering at one place of the receipts, way-bills, and deliverysheets requires at all large forwarding companics offices quite a staff of correspondence clerks. Hence under the -system above named all this Work is slow, costly, and unsatisfactory, and such correspondence often seriously interferes with the duties of men employed to secure and care for the business lof the company. vVarious expedients have been tried to overcome these disad vantages such, for instance, as the adoption of a system of tags; but this plan is defective because a receipt to the shipper is necessary in addition to the tag, and the tag used in lieu of a way-bill does not provide for entry of messengers names or notations, and therefore the record is not complete for tracing purposes. Furthermore, a way-bill is necessary in addition to the tag if the shipment passes over different routes on which certain proportions of the earnings are paid fortran'sportation, as in such cases it is imperative that the auditor have a record showing the messengers and transfermen handling the shipment.

The objects of my invention are to reduce clerical labor in the use of shipping-blanks employed by express or freight transportation companies or other common carriers, to facilitate checking the shipments while en route and promote quick and easy tracing of lost and short articles, to provide mutually-protective vouchers for the shipper and forwarding company, and thereby prevent or minimize fraudulent practices of employees and 'secure prompt and full cash settlements from them, to facilitate the auditing and settlement of accounts between various carriers of the same shipment to destination, and also to facilitate adjustment of shippers claims for loss `or damage, the special arrangement of the improved blanks being such that parts of them may be utilized to advantage for advertising purposes.

The invention will rst be described and then will be particularly defined in claims hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a front face view of the receipt-blank.7 Fig. 2 is a reverse face view thereof. Fig. 3 is a front face View of the way-bill-delivery blank, and Fig. 4.- is a reverse face view thereof.

The blanks herein shown have the long narrow form commonly used byexpress and freight forwarding companies; but the special form of the blanks and the relative arrangement of the printed matter thereon may vary considerably within the scope of my invention.

l will first describe the receipt-blank and then the way-bill-delivery blank and then explain their coperative use in the forwarding of merchandise.

The receipt-blank A bears on its front face, and preferably at the left-hand portion, the name of any forwarding company or carrier, shown as Delivery Company, with the address of its principal office-such as No. 1 Broadway, N. Y., U. S. A.-the local office receiving the shipment in any special district-such as No 27 West 23d street N.,

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Y.-and its telephone connection, such as 604 38th street. BeloW this datal may print announcements of any usual charactersuch as Merchandise baggage, &c., for- Warded to the United States, Canada, Europe, and all foreign countriesand any desired special clause limiting liability of the forwardin g com pany. Other ordinary announcements may appeal', such as Money orders, Foreign drafts, Travelers checks, We execute commissions, Transfer money by telegraph, the.

The blank A has a space a to receive a revenue-stamp. I prefer to print U. S. Int. Rev. stamp in this space. Should a stamp not be required, this space a lnay be utilized forother announcements-as, for instance, the very important one appearing in space b at the left-hand end of the blank may be transferred to space a. This cautionary announcement here reads: If you write us concerningr this shipment please give No. 283. Any other language conveying the same idea may be used, and the number is one of a series of preferably four like numbers produced on the two blanks, it being understood that each shipment has its own serial number or identifying symbol. A space c, preferably imprinted From, gives room for the name of the consignor. A transferring composition cl, applied to the back of receipt-blank A, as shown in Fig. 2, extends from its right-hand end to include the shippers address-space c in its duplicating field.

The intermediate portion e of the blank A contains imprints Received 1899. Said to contain Marked Value asked and given as dollars. This provides for the customary entries regarding the date and description of the shipment, the consignee, the destination, and the value. On parte there is a space f, preferably followed by imprint Agent, and in which space the forwarding companys clerk or driver signs his name upon receiving the shipment. This spacefis preceded by any appropriate acceptance clause, here reading Accepted for the company subject to conditions on the reverse side. A specially-important feature of this portion c of the receipt-blank is the space g, preferably containing the dollar-mark and preceded by imprint Prepaid. In this spaceg the agent must enter the amount of charges prepaid by the shipper, and he must at the same time enter a like sum in the lcompanion space hof Athe adjacent separable cashiers coupon B and also preceded by the imprint Prepaid This intermediate portion c of the blank A also has a space t', which is specially provided to receive by stamp or Writing any appropriately-Worded oWners-risk clause. The

special advantage of this space t is that the oWners-risk clause has an established location on the blanks where it cannot Well be overlooked by the carrier, the consignor, or the consignee, and which is a decided improvement over the usual method of imprinting this important clause upon any and all parts of shipping-blanks or Way-bills.

The cashiers coupon B is separable from the main body of the blank A on a dotted or perforated linej. Besides the above-named prepaid-space h this coupon B has a space 7o, bearing the imprint Shipment No. 283 or other serial number or symbol corresponding with that in space Z), and it also has a space l imprinted Delivery oiiice No. with room for Writing the special number, symbol, or name identifying the forwarding companys destination office. Coupon B also has a space mimprinted Fordg Office No. with room for Writing or stamping the number or other identifying symbol of the forwarding companys office first receiving the shipment. There is also provided another space n, imprinted Weight, and in which the agent Writes the Weight of the articles nam ed in the receipt. Another space 0 provides for entry of a charge item or one such item of a number accumulating against any particular shipper having a monthly or credit account. Usually the agent will have a hand-stamp for printing in space 0 the shippers name and allowing space for the insertion of the amount to be collected from the shipper at the next settling-day. The coupon B also has imprints C. O. D., Return chgs, Adv. chgs, and Our chgs. Opposite C. O. D. there is a suitable space p for entry of the dollars and cents to be collected from the consignec for account of and return to the shipper. Opposite Return chgs there is a space q for entry of return charges due the forwarding company on the C. O. D. shipment. There is another space r opposite Adv. chgs for entry of advances made by the forwarding company on the shipment, and there is a space s opposite Our chgs for entry of the forwarding companys charges for transportation. Below the spaces p qr s is a spacetfor footings of the total amount due on the one particular shipment or for recording addition, deduction, or paid-through items. Another space u,preferably at the lower righthand corner of the coupon, bears the imprint Advice No. and also has room for a serial number, such as 27.

The rear or reverse face of the receipt-blank A is occupied by the above-named transferring composition d and any usual or special conditions of transportation referred to in the acceptance clause on the front face of the blank. It is unnecessary to reproduce these conditions in detail on the drawings, which therefore show only the Word Conditions dot-ted in the space they occupy. It is obvious that the form ot' these blanks may be changed to permit printing of said conditions on any other portion of the receipt-blank.

The Way-bill-delivery blank C from the lefthand marginal line c2 of the space c' to the right-hand end contains spaces c to tt', having areas and imprints substantially similar IIC to the spaces c' to u of the receipt-blank A; but the space u has the imprint Statement No. instead of Advice No. Adjoining space c of the blank C there is a space or portion o, providing for the usual consignees receipt, which may have any suitable character-such as Received--1899, From the- Delivery 0o., Atin good order the shipment described hereon,7 followed by a blank space for signature of the consignee and then by Delivered--ll/I, in turn followed by a spiace for signature of the forwarding-companys agent and preferably, also, by the final word Deliveryman The way-bill-delivery blank has a dotted or perforated line w, dividing it into a way-billdelivery blank proper and a separable consignees voucher-coupon a3. This coupon has spaces in which the destination agent will Write or imprint the special address and telephone number of his office. There also is room on coupon for unessential announcements-such as Express forwarders, We sell money orders, Travelers checks, Foreign drafts, Orders executed, Collections made. This coupon bears the serial number or other identifying symbol of any particular shipment and also affords provision for giving to the consignee the forwarding companys receipt for all transportation charges collected 011 that shipment. To fulfil these conditions of use, I suitably imprint on the coupon the acknowledgment Received on shipment No. .283, and the phrases Advance charges, C. O. 1)., Our charges, with corresponding spaces y a' a', each preferably having the dollarmark (it), and in which the deliveryman must write the sum or sums collected by him before or after he signs the coupon in the adjacent space b. The coupon a; also preferably bears the important caution to the consignee Keep this, or words of similar import, and preferably, also, has the imprint Over, referring to the reverse face of the coupon shown in Fig. 4, and on which may be printed advertisements of the forwarding companyor of any consignor favoring the company by defraying cost of the shippingblanks, or by renting the space, or otherwise. The dotted word advertisement indicates the space it may occupy. vThe, remainder of the reverse side of the blank C provides a space d2 for instructions to forwarding companys agents regarding the transfer of the shipment to other carriers. These instructions may vary at will. As here shown, they are Every messenger and transferman through whose hands this way-bill passes must stamp his name and enter his check-mark below, followed by a series of spaces numbered l to 7 and indicating as many transfers, and also by instructions to agents to Enter below all notations concerning over, short, bad order, &c., at the time of transfer.

Carbon-paper may be used between the blanks A C; but the obvious advantages of the transferring composition d on the blank A as regards ease of manipulation at all places and under all weather conditions and the dispensing with extra carbon-sheets makes this composition facing d most desirable for furnishing the specially-important duplicated data made possible by my invention.

The shipping-blanks are used as follows: First presume that a C. O. D. shipment is made on April 5, 1899, by John Doe to Richard Roe, and that the forwarding companys receiving agent or driver is Thompson and their deliveryman is Smith, and that the two blanks used have the shipment-identifying serial number 283. The blank A is evenly laid over blank C, and on A are written the shippers name and address, JohnDoe, New

York city, in the space c, and space e then is.

filled in to read Received April 5th, 1899, l box-2 packages, said to contain dress goods, marked Richard Roe, Jamaica, N. Y. Value asked and given as thirteen dollars. Thompson now will fill in at space l the number or letter or other distinguishing symbolof the delivery office at Jamaica, which he knows is 16, and he also enters at space m the identifying number, letter, or symbol of his own forwarding office, which is 3. He then enters in space n the weight of the shipment, which is 25-10-10 pounds. He then enters in space p the amount, $13, to be collected on delivery ofthe goods, and in space he enters the return charges, which are 0.40, or forty cents. There are no advance charges, so space ris left vacant; but the forwarding com panys charges he enters in space s as 0.40, and he enters in spacer/the sum total to collect, or $13.80, on this shipment No. 283. Thompson will then affix and cancel the necessary revenue-stamp in space a, and if the shipment is to go at owners risk he will stamp or write the owners-risk clause in the specially-provided space i, saidA clause here reading Accepted only at owners risk of damage. Thompson now signs his name at the space j' and then tears the cashiers coupon B from the blank A at the line j and leaves the main portion of the blank with the shipper ashis receiptfrom the forwarding company. At the close of the days business the forwarding agent will prepare any necessary advices to accompany the coupon B,with the loo IIO

days settlement, the advice sent with this coupon of Shipment No. 283 having the serial number 27 entered in space u bythe agent. All data written or stamped as above described upon the receipt-blank A will simultaneously be reproduced by the composition nary value.

cal labor, while promoting convenience and correctness in producing the full record or data of this particular Shipment No. 283. As the forwarding company holds the waybill-delivery blank C and also the coupon B, all employees handling the shipment or recording its data can readily'note a loss or shortage of any article originally receipted for. The coupon B enables the forwarding office agent to call on any employee at his of lice to settle any amounts collected by such employee, and when this coupon is sent to the auditor he can call on destinationA office for the settlement of the way-bill and amounts collected on delivery or to show disposition of the shipment in case the way-bill is not settled. Contrariwise, if the coupon B is not settled the auditor receiving settlement of the way-bill can then call on the forwarding oflice for settlement of amounts collected when the shipment was received. As the way-bill shows any declared value of the shipment, all employees handling said shipment can readily see the special care or attention necessary to be given to shipments of more than ordi- When the shipment and accompanying way billdelivery blank C reach destination, deliveryman Smith fills in the blank space o to read Received 6-4-90, from the --Delivery Co. at Jamaica, N. Y., in good order the shipment described hereon. Delivered 0.30 p. in. Smith also lls in coupon o; with the special address and telephone number of his office, here shown as No. l Broad street and 605-13. He then enters at spaces y z a the amounts payable by the consignee and as may be indicated at the spaces p' q' o" s in this instance $13.00 under 0. O. D. and 0.80 under Our charges. When Richard Roe signs the receipt-blank o and pays the total charge of thirteen dollars and eighty cents, Smith signs the blank C at the space cl', and he also signs the coupon m at the space b', and he then tears this coupon from the main body of blank C at the line w and leaves said coupon with consignee Richard Roe as his voucher for the charges paid to the forwarding company on this Shipment No. 283. Smith surrenders the main bodyof blank C athis delivery oice 16 to be returned to the cashiers or auditors department to facilitate final settlement of any disputed or others matters concerning this particular shipment.

Should it be advantageous to send a special statement with the blank to the cashier, such statement-say one having the serial number 28 -wi1l be prepared by the delivery agent, who fills in the number 28 of this particular statement inthe space it', and this statement and the way-bill will together be sent to the auditing office.

Should the shipment be one on which the transportation charges are paid by the shipper, the forwarding companys agent must write the amount of these paid charges in the prepaid-space g and also in the prepaid-space 7L of the receipt-blank A, whereby said sum-"- say 0.25 -(shown dotted at spaces g h) appears in the main body of blank A and also on its coupon B and.by duplication appears' also on the way-bill-delivery blank C in corresponding spaces g' h. This provision foi` double and duplicating entry of prepaid. charges is most important, because it not only gives the shippera receipt in space g fo'r the amount prepaid, but it also gives in space h on the del tached and quickly-forwarded cash-iers coupon B a prompt notice to the cashier or auditor that on any certain shipment havingthe serial number of the coupon-:say No. 283-; there has already been collected a prepaid charge of 0.25, and if the clerk or driver collecting this charge does not at once pay it to forwarding company steps may be taken to assure such payment, thus preventing loss.

`The fact that this prepaid charge is also en tered on the way-bill-delivery blank C at the time of receipt is a safeguard against further collection of transportation charges from the consignee. This provision for prepaid entry on the blanks thus amply protects the shipper, the consignes, and the forwarding comA pany from fraudulent practices of employees, and by the full record it affords reduces to a minimum all complaints of duplicate col lection of charges and also minimizes corre spondence now at times necessary to locate the collecting employee and verify the amount collected by him.

Should the shipment be a charge shipment, the forwarding companys receiving agent will simply fill in and sign the blank A at the space e and then fill in the numbers or other distinguishing marks of the delivery and forwarding offices of the company and the weight in the respective spaces lm n, and then he will stamp or write in the spaces c o a notice, such as Charge John Doe 0.40. (Shown dotted in space o.) This notice is duplicated at the one impression or writing at the spaces c' ol of the companion blank C. Thus the shipper has immediate acceptance by the forwarding company of this charge shipment and also has advance notice of the amount to be later collected therefor, and the cashier of the forwarding company will also on the coupon B have prompt notice to enable him to at once enter necessary charges against the shipper, and the deliveryman also has notice on the way-bill blank C that transportation charges must not be collected of the consignee. This special provision for duplex duplicating entry on the companion blanks of the charge notices for any special patron of the forwarding company thus also is an important feature of my invention.

Upon delivering a C. O. D. or prepaid or charge shipment to the consignee the deliveryman will in every case sign the coupon x at the space h' and then tear oif said coupon at the line w and leave the coupon with the consignee. Thus this coupon will always show which agent or driver of the forwarding coin- IIO pany delivered the shipment. This identification makes preservation of the coupon 00 by the consignee most desirable, and another incentive is afforded by the stamped or written address and the telephone number of the forwarding companys delivery oftice,which thus are always conveniently at hand to indicate where subsequent business may be transacted. In view also of the hereinbefore-explained security afforded by the deliverymans acknowledgment of amounts collected the consignee has further incentive for carefully preserving the coupon so, as advised by Keep this, and therefore the announcements on either face of the coupon will be effective in promoting the business of the forwarding company and of any other parties using the advertising space by rental or other contract with the company.

It is unnecessary further to explain the use of the instructions at (Z2 on the blank C regarding transfers and notations, as these will be understood at a glance by any common carrier. I consider, however, that the use of these transfer ant notation provisions on the reverse side of the specially-devised blank C gives such a way-bilhblank a wider range of usefulness than is attained in the ordinary way-bill.

I am aware that railway companies have heretofore identified their stations numerically and alphabetically; but the use on shipping-blanks of numbers or equivalent identifying symbols for locating particular offices of an express or forwarding company within cities and in territory along different railways or water-routes, and thereby obviating the necessity of repeatedly writing names of places on said shipping-blanks or on advices, abstracts, or statements regarding shipments of merchandise, I believe to be novel, and in practice it effects marked economy of time and expense of clerical work.

With my improved shippingblanks the prompt despatch to the cashier or central ofce of the filled-out coupon B for use by the carriers traffic manager permits immediate and effective supervisory control and tracing by the carrier of the shipment either before or after its delivery and prior to the receipt by the auditor from the destination agent of the way-bill proper, and when said way-bill is returned to the auditor he has all necessary information for tracing lost and short articles and for adjustment of shippers claims, and the tedious and expensive correspondence now necessary for these purposes is not required. and whereby very much time, labor, and expense will be saved to the transportation company. Furthermore,with all necessary information on file at one ofiice of the company that office can keep a much closer check on the financial affairs of each of their local offices and agets than it is now practicable to do and at much less expense than by sending examiners to said local offices.

These blanks may be bound in book form or in pads or may be arranged for clip-files in any manner promoting thc greatest convenience for any special localities.

I claim as my inventionl. Duplicating shipping-blanks comprising a receipt-blank including a portion having indicating imprinted spaces whereby it is adapted when filledout to serve as areceipt to the ship per from the carrier, and a separable cashiers coupon having indicating imprinted spaces for recording identifying and financial data of the shipment; and a way-bill-delivery blank havin giudicati ng i mprinted spaces registering respectively with those of the extended or unfolded shippers receipt and cashiers coupon, substantially as described, whereby as the receipt-blank overlies the way-bill-delivery blank and .the shippers receipt and data of the cashiers coupon are su perscribed, the way-bill-delivery blank receives duplicate inscriptions fitting it for use as the way-bill proper during transit of the shipment, and whereby also the detached filled-out cashiers coupon gives the carrier immediate supervisory control of the shipment for tracing purposes, as herein set forth.

2. Duplicating shipping-blanks comprising a receipt-blank including a portion having indicating imprinted spaces whereby it is adapted when filled out to serve as a receipt to the shipper from the carrier, and a separable cashiers coupon having indicating imprinted spaces for recording identifying and financial data of the shipment; and a'way-bill-delivery blank having indicating imprinted spaces registering respectively with those of the extended or unfolded shippers receipt and cashiers coupon and adapted to be filled out by superscription of the receipt-blank, and also having indicating imprinted spaces providing for consignees receipt to the carrier for the delivered shipment, substantially as described.

3. Duplicating shipping-blanks comprising a receipt-blank including a portion having indicating imprinted spaces whereby it is adapted when filled out to serve as a receipt to the shipper from the carrier, and a separable cashiers coupon having indicating imprinted spaces for recording identifying and nancial data of the shipment; and a way-bill-delivery blank havingindicatingimprinted spaces registerin g respectively with those of the extended or unfolded shippers receipt and cashiers coupon and adapted to be filled out by superscription of the receipt-blank, and also having indicating imprinted spaces providing for consignees receipt to the carrier for the delivered shipment, and for signature of the carriers deliveryman,substantially as described.

4. Duplicating shipping-blanks comprising a receipt-blank including a portion having indicating imprinted spaces whereby it is adapted when filled out to serve as a receipt to the shipper from the carrier, and a separable cashiers coupon having indicating imprinted spaces for recording identifying and iinancial TIO data of the shipment; and a way-bill-delivery blank having corresponding indicating imprinted spaces registering respectively with those of the extended or unfolded shippers receipt and cashiers coupon and adapted to be filled out by superscription of the receiptblank; said way-bill-delivery blank also having a separable consignees voucher-coupon having indicating imprinted spaces providing for receipt from the carrier to the consignee for charges paid on the delivered shipment, substantially as described.

5. Duplicating shipping-blanks comprising a receipt-blank including a portion having indicating imprinted spaces whereby it is adapted when filled out to serve as a receipt to the shipper from the carrier and provided with an identifying symbol for the shipment, and a separable cashiers coupon having indicating imprinted spaces for recording said shipment-identifying symbol and the financial data of the shipment; and a way-bill-delivery blank having corresponding indicating imprinted spaces registering respectively with those of the extended or unfolded shippers receipt and cashiers coupon and adapted to be filled out by superscription of the receipt-blank; said way-bill-delivery blank also having a separable consignees vouchercoupon having indicating imprinted spaces providing for entry of a shipment-identifying symbol similar to that of the shippers receipt and cashiers coupon, and for the carriers delivery-office address, and for receipfrom the carrier to the consignee for charges paid on the delivered shipment,substantially as described.

6. Duplicatingshipping-blanks comprising areceipt-blank including a portion having indicating imprinted spaces wherebyit is adapted when lled out to serve as a receipt to the shipper from the carrier and also providing for an identifying symbol for the shipment; and a separable cashiers coupon having indicating imprinted spaces for recording said shipment-identifying symbol and the financial data of the shipment; and a way-billdelivery blank having indicating imprinted spaces registering with those of the extended or unfolded shippers receipt and cashiers coupon and adapted to be filled out to include duplication of the shipment-identifying symbol of the cashiers coupon by superscription of the receipt-blank, substantially as described.

7. Duplicatingshipping-blankscomprising a receipt-blank including aportion having indicating imprinted spaces whereby it is adapted when filled out to serve as a receipt to the shipper from the carrier, and a separable p cashiers coupon having indicating imprinted spaces for recording identifying and financial data of the shipment and the symbol of the carriers forwarding office and a way-billdelvery blank having indicating imprinted spaces :registering with those of the extended or unfolded shippers receipt and cashiers coupon and adapted to be filled out to include duplication of the symbol of the carriers forwarding ofce bysuperscription of the receiptblank, substantially as described.

8. Duplicatingshipping-blanks comprising a receipt-blank including a portion having indicating imprinted spaces whereby it is adapted when filled out to serve as a receipt to the shipper from the carrier, and a separable cashiers coupon having indicating imprinted spaces for recording identifying and financial data of the shipment and the symbol of the carriers delivery office; and a way-bill-delivery blank having indicating imprinted spaces registering with those of the extended or unfolded shippers receipt and cashiers coupon and adapted to be filled ont to include duplication of the symbol of the carriers delivery office by superscription of the receipt-blank, substantially .as described. i

9. Duplicatingshipping-blanks comprising a receipt-blank including a portion having indicating imprinted spaces whereby it is adapted when filled out to serve as a receipt to the shipper from the carrier and to record the value of the shipment, and a separable cashiers coupon having indicating imprinted spaces for recording identifying and financial data of the shipment; and a way-bill-delivery blank having indicating imprinted spaces registering with those of the extended or unfolded shippers receipt and cashiers coupon and adapted to be filled out to include aforesaid declared value of the shipment by snperscription of the receipt-blank, substantially as described.

10. Duplicating shipping-blanks comprising a receipt-blank including a portion having indicating imprinted spaces whereby it is adapted when filled out to serve as a receipt to the shipper from the carrier and record charges prepaid on the shipment, and a separable cashiers coupon having indicating imprinted spaces for recording identifying and financial data of the shipment including said prepaid charges; and a way-bill-delivery blank having imprinted spaces registering with those of the extended or unfolded shippers receipt and cashiers coupon and adapted to be filled out to include aforesaid duplicate record of prepaid charges by superscription of the receipt blank, substantially as described.

1l. Duplicating shipping-blanks comprising a receipt-blank including a portion having indicating imprinted spaces whereby it is adapted when filled out to serve as a receipt to the shipper from the carrier, and a separable cashiers coupon having indicating imprinted spaces for recording identifying and financial data of the shipment and having a specially-established space for entry of carriers charges passing to shippers accounts for settlement at stated times; and a way-.billdelivery blank having indicating imprinted and specially-established spaces registering with those of the extended or unfolded ship- IOO IIO

pers receiptand cashiers coupon and adapted to be filled out to include aforesaid charges on account by superscription or imprint of the receipt-blank, substantially as described.

12. Duplicating shipping-blanks comprising a receipt-blank including a portion having indicating imprinted spaces whereby it is adaptedwhen filled out t-o serve as a receipt to the shipper from the carrier and having a specially-established space for imprint of the owners-risk clause, and a separable cashiers coupon having indicating imprinted spaces for recording identifying and financial data of the shipment; and a way-bill-delivery blank having indicating imprinted spaces registering With those of the extended or unfolded shippers receipt and cashiers coupon and adapted to be filled out to include aforesaid owners-risk clause by superscription or imprint of the receipt-blank, substantially as described.

13. Duplicating shipping-blanks comprising a receipt-blank including a portion having indicating imprinted spaces whereby it is adapted when filled out to serve as a receipt to the shipper from the carrier, and a separable cashiers coupon having indicating im- Y printed spaces for recording identifying and financial data of the shipment; and a Waybill-delivery blank having on its obverse face indicating imprinted spaces registering with be filled out to serve as the Way-bill proper by I su perscription of the receipt-blank; said Waybill-delivery blank having on its reverse face indicating imprinted spaces for entry of instructions and provisions for transferring the shipment, substantially as described.

14. Duplicating shipping-blanks comprising a receipt-blank including a portion having indicating imprinted spaces whereby it is adapted when filled out to serve as a receipt to the shipper from the carrier, and a separable cashier-s coupon havingy indicating imprinted spaces for recording identifying-and financial data of the shipment; and a Waybilldelivery blank having indicating imprinted spaces registering With those of the extended or unfolded shippers receipt and cashiers coupon and adapted to be filled out to serve as the Way-bill proper during transit of the shipment; said receipt-blank having on its reverse face a transferring composition effecting duplication on the Way-bill-delivery blank of the matter su perscribed on the shippers receipt and cashiers coupon of the receipt-blank, substantially as described.

GEORGE WAYNE SLINGERLAND.

Vitnesses:

ALVIN K. GOODWIN, WILLIAM L. DE Bosr.

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