US694103A - Manifold-book. - Google Patents

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N0. 694,l03. Patented Feb. 25, I902.

A. Lawson. IANIFULD BOOK.

.(Applic'lti on filed. Dec. 4, 1901.)

(No Model.)

WITNESSES: 3 3 4 INVENTOR.

ATTORNEY.

THE NORRIS PETERS 60.. PHO70-L|THO.. WASHINGTON, m c.

' backing and carbon-paper.

UNITED STATES.

P TENT @FFrcE,

ALEXANDER LEVISON, or SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

. MANIFOLD-BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. $4,103, dated February 25, 1902. 1

Application filed December 2, i961. $erial No. 84,682. (No model; 7

T0 coZZ whom it may concern: Y

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER Lnvlson, a

citizen of the United States, residing at San" Francisco, in thecounty of San Francisco and State. of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Manifold- Books, of which the followingis a specification.

My invention relates to an improved mani fold receipt and record book for mercantile, railway, express, or other business uses.

The object of my invention is to provide a book of this character which shall be convenient in use, economical in the number ofcarbons required, which shall give secure protection against alterations and forgeries, and the sheets of which can be readily and conveniently placed on record after the impression has been taken.

My invention therefore resides in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts for the above endmhereinafter' fully specified, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of one ofmy improved manifold-books before use. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the position when folded for use; and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the book, a number of sheets being turned up and the book being broken away to show a card Referring to the drawings, it will be seen that my improved manifold-book is formed in sections, each section comprising in order, first, a carbon-sheet 1, of about two-thirds the width of the book, then, below said carbon-sheet 1, a number ofsheets 2, of ordinary paper, the full width of the book, then a sheet 3 of hard thick cardboard. Each recordsheet is divided into three parts by vertical lines of perforations 4, said parts having suitable printed matter 5 and blank lines 6, whereon to inscribe the. desired record. The carbon-sheets 1 are of suflicient width to extend over two of said parts, while the cardboard backing 3 occupies the width of the innet parts only of the sheets above it. The record-sheets and the cardboard backings are attached to stubs 7 along lines of perforations 8, so that they can be readily detached from said stubs, and said stubs and the edges form a book. y

In use the record sheet is first folded on the outer line of perforations 4, so as'to cover about one-half of the'carbon-sheet, and it is of the carbon-sheets are all bound together to then folded in the same direction on the sec- 0nd line of perforations, so that the carbon is now folded inside of the record-sheet, as shown in Fig. 2.

portion of the sheet when it was fiat and un folded, which will now, however, have come to the top. The carbon-sheetis double or carbonized on both sides, so that a-copy of 6o The record will now be written upon what was the back of the middle the record will he made upon each of thetwo terminal parts of the sheet. 'Also an inverted.

or backhanded copy'of the writingwill be formed upon the back of each part,except the inner one. ditional security-against subsequent alteration of the record, sincelit is difficult to'erase This latter feature gives adand rewrite both'th'e original and the reverse the cardboard backingis to pro-' of the record-sheet is pun'chedwith two holes 9 to facilitate the filingof said part.

The advantages of the above construction are that any kind of paper can be used'for:

the record-sheets, and the construction does not require anytran'sparent paper. The car- -bon naturally falls into the position for use for the next record-sheet when one record-' sheet has been removed, and the record-sheet is very readily folded in the desired manner,

the fold being twice in the same direction.

The device is economical of carbon-paper.

The cardboard backings are an important feature of my invention, since they permit a large number of sheets to be bound into a' book with a small number of carbons without any danger of transmitting an impression from one sheet to another'sheet. They are readily removable by means of the lines of perforations when all the sheetsabove them have been used.

I claiin said stubs and the edges of the carbon-sheets A manifold-book composed of sections, each being all bound together to form a book, subsection comprising in ordera double carhonstantially as described. sheet, a plurality of recording-sheets, and a In witness whereof I have hereunto set my 15 5 cardboard backing, the record-sheets being hand in the presence of two subscribing witdivided into three separable parts, the carnesses. hon-sheets extending the width of two of said CECELIA POWNING.

. w 7 parts, and the cardboard backing extending ISON the width of one of said parts, said recording- YVitnesscs:

IO sheets and backings having stubs to which i FRANCIS M. WRIGHT,

they are attached alonglines of perforations,

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