US900242A - File-cabinet. - Google Patents

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Patented Oct. 6,1908.

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Patented Oct. 6, 1908.

` Application filed November 1, 1907. Serial No. 400,163.

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Be it known that 1, @HARLEY GRANT WARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at J effersonville, in the county of Clark and State oflndiana, have invented a new and Vuseful File-Cabinet,

of which they following is a specification.`

The object of the invention is the piro-V` vision of a file cabinet particularly adapted for use with a filing system which will be hereinafter described. Figure l is a perspective view ofthe cabinet closed; Fig. 2, a perspective view of the cabinet with the front door let down to formV ing the arrangementoffthe register of salesmen; Fig. 9, a view showing the arrangement of the ledger index; and, Fig. 10, a

view showing the arrangement of the ledger.

Similar reference numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views of the 1 drawings.

A book or pad 1, of orderblanks (Fig.

5) is provided, consisting of printed pages numbered consecutively with numerals preferably printed in red in order that they may not be obliterated by writing over them with a pencil. The lines upon which the names of the articles ordered are to be written may be numbered as shown. Beneath each order blank is provided a blank leaf 3, upon which a carbon or duplicate copy ofthe written order is made. A carbon sheet 4L is VprovidedA to be placed between the order blankV and, `of. duplicate the blank leaf. This` form order book I do not claim as my invention, for it is already on the market. An order book, such as described, is vgiven to each salesman at the beginning of the day. `The order blanks and duplicate pages are perforated in the usual manner, as shown at 5, in order that they may be easily removed from' the stub 6, where they are bound together.

When the order books arel givenv to the salesmen, the ordinal number, shown at 2, upon the topmost blank isrecorded opposite the salesmans number under the proper date in a register of salesmen 7 (Fig. 8). The page shown in Fig. 8 shows that all the salesmen started with a new book on January lst, and 'consequently the order blanks are all No.` l. On January 1st, salesman No. 1 may have written fourteen orders, and hence the topmost blank on his order book, on January 2nd,will be No. l5. The salesmans register is kept in order to determine how many order blanks each salesman has used during the day in order that they may all be accounted for at the end of the day.

At the end of the day each salesman passes in his'pad ofduplicate orders to the proprietor or the bookkeeper. If the proprietor keeps the books, which hel may easily do with my improved system, he takes the pads consecutively, looks through each pad to ascertain ifthe duplicates are consecutive and none are missing, removes the duplicates from the stub, and places them upon a table 8, which I prefer to form of the front door vof `a cabinet 17." The table 8 is provided with the letters of the alphabet suitably arranged. As the orders are removed from lthe stubs, they are placed alphabetically according to the customers names in` the spaces under the corresponding letters on the Y table. Suitable spaces, are also provided and marked P aid and Void (Figs. `2 and 3) upon which duplieatesof paid orders and void orders respectively are placed. Then the duplicates marked paid are assorted al* phabetically, the amounts added, and the resulting amount checked with the cash in the cash drawer, after which they are added to the bottom of the pile of charged duplicates. The voided duplicates may be added also finally, if desired; By this means they may be quickly assorted alphabetically.

`When the order duplicates have been assorted Vthe different piles are placed upon eachother successively, beginning with A, and thus all the duplicates are assembled into a book 12, arranged alphabetically. by customers names. VA perforation 9 is provided in the duplicates through which is now placed a paper fastener 10. A tab 11, having a suspending ring, may now be stuck to the back of book l2 and fastened by means of fastener 10. The order duplicates are `then numbered consecutively by writing upon eacha pagenumber, as shown at 13. If a bookkeeperis employed the proprietor may `at any time check the bookkeepers work if he himself makes up the books of order duplicates at the end of the day and Writes the page number 13 thereon in his own handwriting, so that any attempt to erase these numbers and rewrite them may be detected. In this Way the proprietor may easily prevent collusion between the bookkeeper and the salesmen and may trace responsibility for errors made by either. The days business is novv ready for posting in the ledger 15 (Fig. 10). As each order duplicate is posted, the number of the page of the ledger upon which the account is post.- ed is Written under the number of the order duplicate as shown at 141 (Fig. ln the ledger, the day of the month, the page of the book of duplicates, and the amount of the purchase is posted. The names of customers are arranged in the ledger alphabetically, Which greatly facilitates posting, because the ledger index is not required for posting. The ledger index 1G (Fig. 9) is of the usual form.

The cabinet 17 is provided, with a front door S, Which is let down and used as a table, aspreviously described. The cabinet is shown 4as provided With inner doors 18 and 19. On the outside of doors 18 and 19 are placed receptacles 20, preferably in the 'form of hooks, for the purpose of suspending books 12. Numbers corresponding to the days of the month are placed on doors 1S and 19 at the hooks, and the book 12 formed from each days business is suspended on its corresponding hook.

When all the hooks 20 upon both doors arc 1 beyond the boek with theldate of the book. A

Thus any book of duplicates required niay be readily withdrawn and replaced after use.

Having thus described iny invention so that any one skilled in the art pertaining thereto may make and use it, claim- A tiling cabinet comprising a body portion divided into a plurality of compartments, a, pair of horizontally swinging doors hinged to said body portion and adapted to coinpletely close the front thereof, a vertically swinging door hinged to the lower edge of said bodyportion, said door forming a table when in its lowered position, and overlying the inner doors When in its closed position, and a plurality of bookreceiving hooks carried by said inner doors, the upper face of the vertically swinging door bearing letters of the alphabet.

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