US722234A

US722234A - Cash-check holder and cutter.

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Publication number: US722234A
Authority: US
Inventors: Alexander D Joslin
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1901-11-01
Filing date: 1901-11-01
Publication date: 1903-03-10
Anticipated expiration: 1920-03-10

Description

No. 722,234. PATENTED MAR. 10, 1903. A. D. JOSLIN.

CASH CHECK HOLDER AND CUTTER. APPLIGATION FILED Nov. 1, 1901,

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ALEXANDER D. JOSLIN,

OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CASH=CHECK HOLDER AND CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 722,234, dated March 10, 1903.

Application led November 1, 1901. Serial No. 80.751. (No model.)

T0 all 1071.011?, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER D. J osmn, a citizen of the United States, residing in Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cash-Check Holders and Cutters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in holders for cash-checks, tickets, dto., for the use of railway conductors, and is a modification of and in some respects an improvement upon the construction of such devices shown in the patent to me, No. 467,936, dated February 2, 1892.

The main object of the invention has been to simplify, cheapen, and otherwise improve the construction.

In the accompanying drawings I show at Figure l a plan of my improved holder; at Fig. 2, a plan of the cheek with which. the holder is adapted to be used; at Figs. 3 and el, end and side elevations, respectively, of the holder; at Fig. 5, a vertical cross-section of the severing-blade, showing also the perfo rating device for indicating the amount paid and the perforating device for indicating the date; and at Fig. 6 a perspective, partly in section, of a portion of the holder.

The check which I prefer to use in the holder is fully shown at Figs. 1 and 2 and consists of the check proper or voucher slip X, which after the cheek has been severed by the conductor is delivered by him lto the passenger, and the stub Y, which is returned by the conductor to the auditor or other proper officer of the railroad. The slip and stub are integral when placed in the holder,

and the line upon which they are separatedby the conductor is shown at Z.

The holder is much like that of my said patent--that is to say, it embodies a suitable box or inclosing frame 7, whereina pile of the checks may be inclosed sufficiently to protect them while the holder is in the conductors pocket.

S is the severing blade or edge along which the checks are torn and serving also as a means of retaining the checks in the box 7. Springs 9, one at each end of the blade, press on it and insure pressure on the tickets at all times. These springs are entirely independent oi' each other and their construction is best shown at Fig. 6. They are formed of wire doubled upon itself into U form and attached to the box by buttons 10, located at the corners of the box and entered in the crotch of the springs. The springs are practically alike, and the ends of the lower limbs or members thereof and which bear ou the blade are passed through transverse slots 11, formed in the ends of the blade. These ends of the springs are `given several bends, as shown, one of which, the lateral bend 12, is intended to set under the blade and prevent it from sliding on the spring when the pressure of the spring is released and the blade raised from its normal position to permit the removal of the body of checks or the insertion `of a fresh supply. The laterally-bent point 13 is the part which bears on the severingblade, and it is connected to the bend 12 by the vertical part 14. The springs are inserted in the transverse slots by turning the former from normal positions sufficiently to bring the points 13 parallel with the slots and returning them to normal positions after the points have been passed through the slots. The ends of the upper limbs or members of the springs are also bent, as shown at Fig. 6- that is to say, a portion of the spring is offset, as at 15, and the point 16 is left standing at right angles to the body of the spring, so as to adapt it to be entered in the opening 17 in the end wall of the box. This end of the spring is slightly deiiected by preference, so as to allow the point 16 to be entered in said opening 17 from the inside of the box and be held therein with suicient power to prevent the point from accidentally slipping out. The offset 15 gives room to the upstanding portion of the box iu which the opening 17 is made and allows the engagement of point 16 Without increasing its length, as would otherwise be necessary, and also keeps the upper member of the spring from interfering with the checks. The buttons not only hold the springs to the box, but when the blade is raised to put in or remove the checks they serve as pivots on which the blade may be swung.

Several sliding perforating devices for indicating the amount of dollars, dimes, cents, and excess paid by the passenger are shown. They are each formed in one piece of fiat spring metal and bent into the form shown at IOO VIO

Fig. 5 and inserted in the long slot 18 in the severing-blade. The long horizontally-projecting ends 19 are pointed to enable them to perforate the checks, and the balance of the metal is bent upward and looped over so as to form handles 19"', by which the devices may be slid along the slot 18, and the other ends 2O press against the beveled side of the slot 18 and cause friction between the walls of the slot and the perforating devices suficient to insure their remaining stationary while perforating. The bevel side of the slot and the points 19 prevent the devices from jumping out of the slot, but do not prevent their removal by squeezing the handle, so as to carry end 20 away from the bevel side of the slot. The points 19 project over the series of figures printed on the check at 22, 23, 24, and 25, arranged along and parallel with the severing-line Z, and, as Will be understood, when positioned over any figure they prevent that gure from being severed with the rest of the figures from the voucher-slip, and at the same time they form a notch in the auditors stub. One of the series of figures represents cents, another dimes, another dollars, and another excess charges.

Projecting from the back side ofthe severing-blade 8 are other perforating devices intended to make such perforations in the voucher-slip X as will indicate lthe date of the issuanceoftheslip. Theseperforating-points are also formed of flat spring metal and bent, as shown at Fig. 5, so as to form points 26, frictional clamping portions 27 setting around the back edge of blade 8 and projections 28 by which they can be slid. The points are preferably bent double below the blade, as shown, to give a rm hold against accidental springing off. The checks are printed with the years at 29, the months at 30, and the days of the month at 31, and the points are moved opposite the printed characters at which the perforations are desired, precisely as in the case of the points 19. The perforations enable the auditor when the slip comes back to him to verify the returns of the conductor who issued it to the passenger.

It will be noticed that instead of using on the voucher-slip separate figures for each day, as is customary, I employ altogether only fourteen figures. Of these the group 0, 1, 2, 3 are intended to represent the tens or the absence of tens in the number of the day, and the other group, consisting of a cipher and the nine digits, indicate either the absence of units or the number of units in the number of the day. A perforator is employed with each group of figures, so that one may be positioned for perforating the tens and the other the units. If the check shown in Fig. 1 were perforated by the points as there positioned, the 28th day of the month would be indicated. If it were desired to indicate the 8th day, the perforator employed for the tens would be moved so as to perforate at O and the other remain as shown, or if the day were the 20th the lower perforator would be moved so as to perforate at 0,7 the other remaining at the place shown. By this feature I greatly economize the amount of room needed on the slip. I also prefer to perforate the check adjacent to and directly opposite each of the date-indicating characters, as seen at 32. These perforations are of a length slightly exceeding the width of the bases ofthe puncturing-points 26, and, as will be noticed, they are arranged close under the base of the points, so that the severations made by the points will extend to the perforations 32 and so that the triangular severed portions of the paper under the points will be entirely detached and free to drop out, and thus form indicating-openings 33, Fig. 2, in the slip X. Two instances of these openings 33 are shown at Fig. 2, because it can best be illustrated there; but, as a matter of fact, these holes are not made in the slips until they are placed in the holder and issu ed by the conductor.

The severing devices 1.9 and the severing devices 26 are entirely independent of each other and can be moved past each other on the blade. This is important, as the latter need adjustment only at the beginning of the days business, while the others require to be changed generally with the issuance of each check.

It will be noticed that the ends of the springs are inserted in transverse slots in the blade, and the ends ofthe springs are thus enabled to move in the slots when the blade is raised or lowered in the ways in the box ends without causing binding against said ways; also, that the interiors of both ends of the box are cut away on one side of the blade, as plainly shown, so that there is no contact by those portions of the ends with the checks except at the outer corners. In this manner I prevent the checks from catching on the ends of the box when raised preparatory to being severed by the blade and obviate many accidental tearings which would otherwise occur.

I claim- 1. rIhe combination With a box or holder, of the severing-blade and detachable springs for holding the blade down on the checks, said springs being bent double and having one point resting on the blade and the other secured to the box and being also attached to the box by buttons upon which they swing and from which they may be detached by an endwise movement, substantially as specified.

2. The combination with the box and the severing-blade of U-shaped springs one at each end of the blade, each spring having one end bent so it may pass through and be detachably secured to the blade, and the other end bent so it may be detachably entered in an opening in the box, substantially as specified.

3.v The combination in a check-holder, ot' a severing-blade and a device below the blade IIO for severing the figures from the check or stub, said device being movable along the blade and formed of spring metal, and held to the blade by its own friction, substantially as specified.

4. The combination with the blade 8 of independent movable severing devices below the blade, said devices being made of flat springi metal bent around and frictionally bearing on the blade, and also adapted to be detached by springing the metal, substantially as specified. i

5. The combination with the slotted blade 8 of independent movable severing devices below the blade, said devices being made of spring metal bent upward through the bladeslot and creating friction with the sides thereof, substantially as specified.

6. The combination with the slotted blade of movable severing devices made of iiat spring metal having projections formed thereon whereby they may be moved, and also having portions bent around the blade and frictionally engaging the same, substantially as specied.

7. The combination in a holder or box, of a single severing-blade and character-severing devices on both sides of said blade, those on one side being entirely independent of those on the other side, substantially as specified.

8. The holder or box provided with a series of movable character-cutters 19 for severing the figures indicating the amount paid by the passenger, and another series of movable character-cutters 26, independent of cutters 19, for severing the figures and words indieating the date, both of said series of cutters being mounted on the same supporting device, substantially as specified.

9. The combination in a holder or box, of a single severing-blade provided on one side with adjustable character-severing devices and on the other side with other adjustable character-severing devices independent of and movable past the iirst--mentioned devices, substantially as specified.

10. The combination in a holder of a blade for severing the check into two parts X and Y, and character-severing devices adjustable on said blade and located part on one side of the line along which the check is severed by the blade and part on the back side of the blade and away from said line, all said character-severing devices being independently adjustable, substantially as specified.

ll. The box having the interior surface of its end members cut out or recessed essentially as shown so as to avoid contact with the ends of the checks, whereby danger of tearing the checks from their outer edges is obviated, substantially as specified.

ALEXANDER D. J OSLIN.

Witnesses:

H. M. MUNDAY, EDW. S. EVARTS.-