US755721A - Attachment for bank-ledgers. - Google Patents

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PATENTED MAR. 29, 1904.

A. STONEHOUSE. ATTACHMENT FOR BANK LEDGBRS.

APPLICATION TILED MAR. 17, 1903.

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ANTHONY STONEH OUSE, OF LARIMORE, NORTH DAKOTA.

ATTACHMENT FOR BANK-LEDGERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 755,721, dated March 29, 1904:. Application filed a c l7, 1903. $eria1 No. 148,162. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANTHONY STONEHOUSE, of Larimore, Grand Forks county, North Dakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Attachments for Bank-Ledgers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to devices designed for use in connection with bank-ledgers to facili. tate making the entries therein; and the object checks are received at the bank.

balances are provided.

week are entered above that line.

of the invention is to provide means whereby the bookkeepercan easily and accurately de. termine the proper place to make an entry to the debit or credit of each depositor on either the right or left hand page of the ledger without the necessity of following along the line across the pages from the depositors name on the edge of the left-hand page each time an entry is made.

A further object is to provide means to facilitatc the carrying forward of the weekly balances.

The invention comprises a bank-ledger attachment, as hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

2 5 In the accompanying drawings,forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a bank-ledger, showing my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the ends of the attachment, the middle portion thereof being broken away.

In the drawings, 2 represents the left-hand uncut leaf of abank-ledger, having on its outer margin a series of spaces 3, wherein the names of the depositors are written. I

3 5 4: represents a series of leaves following the leaf 2 and having their left-hand margins cut away to expose the names in the blanks 3. This is for the convenience of the bookkeeper and avoids the necessity of entering the de- 4 positors name on each page as his account is carried forward and greatly facilitates the work of the bookkeeper in'carrying forward the balances from one Week to another. The pages are divided vertically into sections 5,

there being one section for each day ofthe week, the deposits, checks, and the total checks drawn being entered up against each depositors name within the section that is appropriated for the day on which the deposits or the entries have been properly made.

having, preferably, a series of cross-lines device is placed thereon.

Patented arch 29, 1904.

Between these sections columns for credit and debit For each depositors name a horizontal line is carried across the page on both the left and'right hand leaves of the ledger, and all the checks, deposits, and balances for that depositors account for the In making the entries in the first one or two sections the bookkeeper will have but little difficulty in placing the figures in the proper horizontal column; but toward the last of the week the entries are made on the right-hand leaf, and it is necessary for the bookkeeper to follow along each'horizontal line from the depositors name in making an entry to that depositors account to make sure that the entry is properly made. It is evident that if checks be charged to a customer that should have been put on some one elses account very serious results may follow, and the bookkeeper frequently wastes considerable valuable time in following along the lines across thepage from the depositors names to make sure that avoid all these difficulties attendant with the use of the ordinary bank-ledger and to enable the bookkeeper to make his entries with certainty and dispatch, I provide a plate 6,

thereon, that are adapted to register with the horizontal lines on the ledger-page when the Upon these lines 7 I write the names of the depositors corresponding to those at the ends of the horizontal lines on the ledger at the edge of the lefthand page. When, therefore, the bookkeeper desires to make an entry at some little distance from the depositors name on the page, he will move the plate 6 until it is opposite the point where he desires to make the entry, and the position of the depositors name on the plate will enable the bookkeeper to readily determine in which horizontal column to make the entry. The plate may be made of any suitable material, such as paper, which I prefer on account of its cheapness and flexibility, and to aid the bookkeeper in holding the plate in position on the page I prefer to provide a plate with turned-in edges 8, that are adapted to pass around the upper and lower edges of the leaf and prevent the plate from becoming displaced thereon.

When the device is made of paper, the ends 8 can be readily folded around the edges of the leaf, care being taken to make the crosslines 7 register with the horizontal lines on the page.

I prefer to provide the plate 6, near one edge, with a series of vertically-arranged unitlines, forming spaces 9, wherein the credit or debit balance, as the case may be, of each depositor may be entered by the bookkeeper on the last day of the week, and then the plate forward to the left-hand page of the succeeding week the balances can be easily and quickly transferred to the section appropriated for Monday of that week without the necessity of turning the leaves to examine the balances for the preceding week. The balances placed upon the plate 6 may be arranged under one another, and a debit balance may be distinguished from the credit balance by a minus-sign placed before the figures in unitcolumns, or, if preferred, debit and credit columns may be provided upon the plate. It will be readily understood that with all the balances for the preceding week upon the strip before him and close to the column to which they are to be transferred the bookkeeper can very readily make such transfer in a short space of time and with very little chance of error. The bookkeeper will enter the balances in pencil on the movable slip of paper, so that the same strip can be used successively, the balances for the preceding Week being rubbed out when it is desired to enter in the blank spaces the balances of the current week to be carried forward.

by moving I claim as my invention 1. The combination, with a bank-ledger leaf, having the depositors names written at the left-hand end of the page, and horizontal lines leading from said names across the page, of a flexible plate arranged thereon and movable crosswise of the page, said plate bearing the names of the depositors opposite and corresponding to those written on said leaf at its left-hand edge and having a series of appropriately-designated blank spaces wherein the balances at the end of the week are entered, for the purpose specified.

2. The combination, with abank-ledger leaf having a series of horizontal rulings and provided With appropriately-designated blank spaces at its left-hand edge to receive the names of depositors written therein, of a series of shorter leaves following said firstnamed leaf and having horizontal rulings arranged to register with the rulings of said first-named leaf, said leaves being divided by vertical lines into sections appropriately designated for each day of the week, and a strip of paper having its edges bent around the edges of a leaf and slidable thereon and having blanks to receive names corresponding to the names of the depositors on said first-named leaf and opposite the same respectively, and said strip also having appropriately-designated blank spaces to receive the balances at the end of the week, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 7th day of March, 1903.

ANTHONY STONEHOUSE.

In presence of-- G. W. SWINGEL, ARTHUR LORD.

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