US938214A - Account-register. - Google Patents

Description

G GLUNDT L J. REIDT.

ACCOUNT REGISTER.

APPLIGATION NLBD SEPT. 2a, 190e.

Patented Oct. 26, 1909.

WITNESSES ATTORN EY ANDREW. a. GRAHAM ca. mxmumocmmixs. wAsHmcron, n c.

CARL CLUNDT AND JOHN REIDT, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

ACCOUNT-REGISTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led September 23, 1908.

Patented Oct. 26, 1909.

Serial No. 454,390.

To @ZZ whom 'it may concern:

Be it known thatl we, CARL CLUND'r and JOHN Rnm'r, both citizens of the United States, residing in the city and county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented new and useful improvements in Account-Registers, of which the following is a specification.

Qur invention relates to ak system for keeping account of credit sales of merchandise.

ln grocery stores and elsewhere it is usual to make out sales slips in duplicate or triplicate, giving the purchaser one of the slips, and the other going to the bookkeeping department where the proper entries in the books are usually made. There a credit business is carried on, the customer is supposed to keep his slips, 'and the bill when rendered him by the store will tally with the total of these slips. Frequent misunderstandings and disputes arise between the storekeeper and customer by reason of the latter losing' or misplacing one or more of his duplicate slips; and various other inconveniences arise by the usual system of keeping accounts. i The object of our invention is to provide a system whereby the chances of error or misunderstanding arising will be reduced to a minimum; and in which is employed, suitable envelops or holders for keeping not only a summary of the individual accounts, but

which envelop or holders will contain a facsimile of the account slip handed the customer.

rEhe invention vconsists of the parts and the construction and combination of parts as hereinafter' more fully described and claimed, having reference to the accompanying drawings., in which- Figure l is a perspective, partly broken away, of an envelop embodying our invention. Fig. Q is a vertical section of the envelop.

The envelops 2 constitute the principal feature of the present invention. They may be of any suitable size, shape and material. Usually they are made of stiff paper and are open at the top with a projecting tab member 8 in continuation with the back of the envelop, and on which tab portion S may be written the name of the customer corresponding with this envelop. The front of the envelop is provided with suitable means for removably holding a record or account sheet, as 9, as desired, also an underneath carbon l0 and an underneath duplicating record sheet ll. As here shown, he means for removably holding these register slips 9 comprise a poc ret l2 at top and bottom of the front of the envelop, the mouths of the pockets being opened toward each other, and each having an inturned clamping lip or strip 13 underneath which and against the front of the envelop an end of the record strip is easily slipped, but which clamp 13 serves to hold the slip or slips from being easily detached or pulled loose from the envelop. Usually these pockets are formed by folding a strip of stiff paper which is either in continuation of the top and the bottom of the front of the envelop, or may be pasted thereto, this strip of paper being folded twice on itself, so that the portion 13 projects into the pocket and coacts as a clamp, in the manner described, with the body of the envelop; a strip of suitable fabric let being pasted across the folded strip which carries the clamp 13, and closing the sides of the pocket and being carried around and the ends pasted on the back of the envelop. The record strips or slips 9-11 may be of special design, or they may simply be slips from an ordinary manifolding salesbook.

In practice, this account register is used in the following manner: At the beginning of the month, or whenever a credit account is opened, one of these envelops is taken, the customers name written on the-tab portion 8, and a record sheet 9, and if desired, a duplicate sheet or slip l1 and carbon l0 are engaged in the pockets l2. When a sale is made to this customer he is given the original tag, and the duplicate tag is placed in the customers envelop after the salesman has made his entry on his record sheet 9 showing the date of the sale, the number of the tag put in the envelop, and the total of the sale. The next day, or any other time when a sale is made to this same customer, the operation is repeated; the customer getting his original tag, the salesman making his proper entry on his record sheet 9 and then placing the duplicate tag in the customers envelop. F rom the tags in the envelop the bookkeeper makes up his books. The record sheet 9 thus becomes an itemized bill and is rendered to the customer at the proper time, the duplicate sheet ll, however, being placed in the customers envelop or otherwise preserved. ln this way all the tags of each customer are carefully kept together, and no chances for a dispute or misunderstanding over the loss of a tag by the customer may arise, and any discrepancy or error is easily corrected.

In order to facilitate the insertion and the removal into the envelop of the limp tags, We may employ a folded strip 15 of stiiiish material which acts as a supplemental holder to be inserted into the envelop with the ends of this holder l5 projecting slightly above the mouth of the envelop so as readily to be grasped by the fingers.

Having thus described our invention, What We claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- 1. In an account register, an envelop having a main pocket adapted to receive record slips, and having supplemental top and bottom pockets on its front surface adapted to form holders for an account slip removed from the main pocket, said supplemental f pockets having means for engaging the account slip With a clamping action.

2. In an account register, a tag holder comprising an envelop member open at one end, the ends of the front of the envelop being returned parallel .With said front to form outside pockets adapted to receive a record tag, said pockets having their entrances presented toward each other and the extremities of said ends being turned in- Wardly to engage the inserted record tag.

3. In an accounting system, the combination of an envelop, and means for removably holding a record sheet thereon, said last-named means comprising opposed pockets opening toward each other, with spring set our hands in presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

CARL CLUNDT. JOHN REIDT.

Witnesses:

CHARLES A. PnNmLn, D. B. RICHARDS.

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