US84372A - Improvement in baggage-checks - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES VIl ATENT OEEICE.

ENOCH HALE PAINE, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

IM PROVEM ENT IN BAGGAGE-CHECKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 84,372, dated November 24, 1868.

To all 'whom it may concer/n:

Be it known that I, ENOOH HALE PAINE, of the city of Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have originated a new Device for Railroad Baggage-Checks, to be attached lo the fare-tickets, and of corresponding number with the ticket, of which the following is a full, clear, andv exactdescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

The advantages of my invention are as follows:

First, that the check being attached to all tickets, baggage can -always be checked between all points where tickets are sold, and the bad practice of marking baggage for way-stations and giving the passenger no receipt for his baggage will be avoided.

Second, there can be no possibility of a mistake made by reason ot' mismatched checks, or bythe baggage-master misunderstanding the passenger as to the point to which he Wants his baggage checked.

Third, it will accomplish what has beenv so long desired by transportation companies in the United States-namely, protection against carrying extra baggage Without recompenseand at the same time afford the means of obliging the passengerin all cases to buy his ticket at the office before he can have his baggage checked, for without the ticket the baggagemaster can have no check to attach to the baggage. In case of a passenger having more than one piece of baggage, the baggage-master will attach to each extra piece a slip which shall show the number of the ticket on which the piece is being carried, the name of the road and baggage-master, the amount collected for extra baggage, the date it leaves the startingpoin't, and the precise route it shall follow to destination. Furthermore, and in order to prevent fraud and protect the transportation companies, all duplicate slips and checks shall be stamped by the baggage master when he checks the baggage, this being required in order to show that the passenger actually delivered his baggage to the company after purchasing his ticket.

Fourth, the cost of these checks will be almost nominal, as the printer, in furnishing the tickets, would make but a very small additional charge for the baggagecoupons attached, while all the expense and trouble of returning checks over long distances, as it is necessary to do with the checks now used, will be avoided, while at the same time no station can ever be out of checks to any point they can sell a ticket to.

Fifth, this duplicate baggage-check is more easily taken care of by the passenger than the bulky brass check, and will also save much labor on the part of many checkmen, train baggage-masters, and others of similar occupation, whose business compels them to carry on trains and elsewhere a great variety of checks.

Sixth, in case a passenger should lose his duplicate check, his ticket will at all times show the number ofthe original check attached to his baggage, with the place it started from, its route and destination, and will prove beyond question his rightof ownership, and will often save much trouble and delay, both to travelers and to the transportation companies.

WhatI claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The baggage-check attached to the ticket, and corresponding in number with the number of the ticket, as herein set forth.

ENOGH HALE PAINE.

Witnesses JNO. F. BLEYH, WM. F. MoCoRMIcx.

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