US9211A - Improvement in bill-registers - Google Patents

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, YUivirnn STATES J. N. AYREs, or

FFICEQ STANFORD, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN BILL-REGISTERS.

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Be it known that l, J. N. AYRES, of Stanltord, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and uset'ul article to be used in counting-houses, stores, or offices to indicate those days of the month on which bills are receivable and payable, serving also as an almanac, which said article I denominate The Perpetual Countingdflouse Calendar and Bill-Register, and I do hereby declare that the following' is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specilication, in which- Figure l is a front view, and Fig. 2 tical section, of myinvention.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the several figures.

The principal Object of this invention is to show at a glance to those persons in a counting-house or other place of business whose duty or wish it is to know what bills are becoming payable or receivable every month and their dates and amounts.

To enable those skilled in the artgto make and use my invention, I will proceed to de scribe its construction and operation.

A is the frame or case, which may be made ot wood, pasteboard, or other suitable material. Down the middlel of the face of the case is printed or otherwise marked the days of the week several times repeated in regular succession, and opposite to each day so marked, on the right-hand side, there is a small opening through which is seen a number on a movable strip or tape a, which has marked upon it in regular succession the iigures which denote all the days in the longest months. rlhis strip is adjustable to bringthe proper numbers opposite the days ofthe week. In the drawings it is supposed to consist of an endless band, and is represented in Fig. 2 ot a red color, passing round suitable guides?) Z) within the box, having` two tapes cc attached to it and passing out through holes in the back B of the box. By pulling these tapes the numbers may be raised orlowered. Above the column of the days of the week there is an opening` in the face, through which is seen the name ot' the month, which is marked upon an endless band C, which passes round a pair of rollers d d within the case. This endless band has the names of all the months marked at equal distances apart and extending all round it. It is moved by a crank e outside the case, the said crank being upon the axle of the upper roller d. At each side of the columns of the days of the week and month there are suitable spaces crossed by strips ff of paper, thin leather, or other suitable material. These strips divide the spaces into weeks, being opposite the Sundays in the column. Under these strips f f are inserted strips ot paper or other suitable material D D ot' the whole width of the spaces. strips are ruled across with lines which correspond with or are opposite to the days of the week and month, and are ruled downward in any way considered most convenient to divide them into columns for names and amounts. They can be veasily removed and renewed every month. The cross-stripsff covering the spacesin the columns D D, which are allotted to the Sundays, make a very perceptible division ofthe weeks. Above 011e of the spaces which receive the strips of paper D D is marked Bills payable, and above the other Bills receivable.77 V30th spaces are covered, when desired, by hinged tlaps or doors E, with which the case is furnished, and which when closed only leave displayed the name of the month and the days of the month and week. The back B is movable and secured in pla-ce by any means which admit of its being taken ott to adjust the interior.

The article is used in the followingl manner: The crank c is turned each month to bring the name ot the new month opposite the opening, and the strip Aor band a is moved to bring the first day of the month opposite the proper day in the first Week in the column. The almanac is then correct. The names of the persons to or from whom bills are payable or receivable, together with the amounts of said bills, are on the strips of paper D D, under the proper head, and opposite the proper dates in the middle columns.

The article is hung up in a suitable place, and the doors E E (which are shown open in the drawings in Fig. l to exhibit the interior) are kept closed except when it is desired to refer to the bill-register, the calendar being always visible.

The strips of paper D D want renewing every month unless there is room to contain a large number, when all that is necessary is to remove the old one at the end of every month.

These renewable, on either side of the columns of- (lays of the month and week, under suitable headings which denote Whether the bills are payable or receivable, as herein substantially sei forth.

J. N. AYRES.

Witnesses:

DUNCAN PHYFE, 'THEoD. DAVENPORT.

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