US788346A - Form for sales-slips. - Google Patents

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PATENTED APR. 25, 1905.

WL F. BECK. PORMVFR SALES SLIPS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 2z, 1904.

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W. P. BECK. PURM PoR sALEssLIPs.

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Patented April 25,1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

WTARREN F. BECK, OF ELMIRA,. NEV YORK.

FORNI FOR SALES-SLIPS- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 788,346, dated April 25, 1905.

Application iiled August 22, 1904. Serial No. 221,602.

To (L7/Z whom, it nto/ 7] con/cern:

Be it known that I, IVARREN F. BECK, a citi- Zen of the' United States, residing at Elmira, in the county of Ohemungand State of New York, .have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Forms for Sales-Slips, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in the printed forms for sales-slips which are used generally by merchants in transacting business with their customers; and the object of my improvements is to provide a form whereon at the top of the slip or some other suitable place may be displayed in a position convenient for inspection when the slips are iled away in a manner substantially as hereinafter explained not only the name of the customer, but also the total amount of the .charges against him, so that a mere inspection of the exposed portion of the slip will give at once the condition of the customers account.

I` attain my object by means of printed blanks, such as illustrated in the accompany-v Figure 1 represents a blank leaf with my preferred form printed thereon; Fig. 2,2m illustration of the manner of iiling away these slips by the merchant; Fig. 3, a detail showing a transverse section of a form of liling-case adapted for this purpose, and Fig. 4 a modilication in the arrangement of the form.

Like letters of reference designate like parts in the several views.

These sales-slips are ordinarily put up in pads or pass-books, from which they or some of them are rendered detachable either by means of perforated lines at one side or one end of the slips or otherwise. They are usually put up with a carbon transfer-sheet, so that an original and duplicate may be made of each transaction, one for the customer and one for the merchant, and it is with the slips that are retained by the merchant that my invention has principally to do.

For convenience in filing the merchant will be provided with a filing case or receptacle made up of a series of compartments, preferv ably of a liexible nature, as illustrated, for

example, in Figs. 2 and 3, within which the sales-slips are placed, with an inch or so of the top displayed above the tops of the compartments, the compartments being' so arranged that the top of each package of slips will be shown above the top of the slips in the next lower compartment, thus economizing space. In order that the condition of the customers account may be ascertained by the merchant without removing the slips from the compartments, I print one end of the slips with a form which when filled out will give to the merchant all the necessary information, so that by simply glancing at his file he can ascertain at once the state of any of his customers accounts.

In my preferred form the sales-slips A will be printed at the top at one side with name', date, and address lines, and at the other side, preferably the right-hand corner, with a form of ruling for dollars and cents, as indicated at B. On the upper line of this ruling will be placed the amount of the customers account as brought forward from the sales-slip last made out to him, and underneath this will be placed the footing of the items as shown on the slip itself, whether these items be debit or credit, and the footings of these two items will be placed opposite the word Total in the third line. Thus in the files, as illustrated in Fig. 2, the sales-slips belonging to John Adams, which are placed in the upper compartment O, willshow that there has been brought forward from the last transaction previous to June 30 the amount of twentythree dollars and one cent, that the amount of his purchase of June 30 was one dollar and seventy live cents, and his total account twenty-four dollars and seventy-six cents. In the next lower compartment the package of slips belonging to J. O. Andrews show that on August l there was brought forward a balance against him of nine dollars and thirtylive cents, that on August 1 he paid, as shown by his last slip, two dollars on account, leaving a total charge against him of seven dollars and thirty-five cents. In this manner the files will be made up to show the individual accounts of customers, the slips of each customer being placed together in a compartment by themselves with the slip of the latest date outermost and all arranged in alphabetical IOO order, and it will be apparent that the whole story ofeach customers transactions will be ascertained by a glance at the iiles Without requiring the slips to be removed.

In some instances the sales-slips are put up in pass-books, the original slips being retained by the customer', while the duplicates are taken by the merchant and ledaway. In this form of book the condition of the customers account is shown to the salesman by the preceding slip of the book, so that the salesman himself may carry forward the amount already standing against the customer and include it in the items of the slip which he is making out in the manner shown on the lower package of slips in Fig. 2, where the compartment is broken away at I) to show the items on the slip. In this form of slip it will not be requisite to carry up to the top of the slip the amount brought forward or the footing of the items charged on the slip, since these are allfooted up in the body of the slip, and therefore I may provide only a ruling at the top for the entry of the total charge against the customer, as shown at B on the slips under the name of T. H. Ball and H. C. Benjamin. This, however, will be an optional modilication, my preferred form for the slips in these pass-books being that first described, since thereby the whole story of each slip is told in condensed form and in a convenient manner and place for inspection.

By this improvement in the form of salesslips I provide means whereby the merchant, in connection with a suitable filing-case, can do all of his bookkeeping by means of the sales-slips themselves by arranging said slips in a most convenient and compact manner, thereby saving much time and labor and doing away with keeping a set of books in which entries must be made from the slips.

I do not confine myself to the precise arrangement and location of the rulings and other data on the slips as hereinabove described. It may not be required to place the date where it will show when the slips are in the files, and the entry-spaces entitled Forward and This bill may be transposed, so that either entry may be placed above the other. Moreover, since the filing case or receptacle may be arranged with its compartments opening in the reverse position to thatv yention.

Having thus described my improvement, what I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- l. A sales-slip having one end provided with a space containing a place designated to receive a customers name, said space also containing a designated place of entry for the amount of the customers account brought forward from a preceding slip, a designated place of entry for the footing of the items entered on the slip, and a designated place of entry for the total account.

2. A sales-slip having one end provided with a space containing designated name and date lines, together with places of entry for the amount of a customers account brought forward from a preceding slip, the footing of the items entered on the slip, and the total account, said places of entry being arranged in sequence at one side of said space and appropriately designated.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WARREN F. BECK.

Witnesses:

IV. C. Mn'rzenr., A. H. MARKS.

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