US980988A - Registered-letter record. - Google Patents

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H MGD. MOORE.

REGISTERED LETTER REGORD.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 27, 1909 sa ggg Patented m. m, 1911 2 SHEETS-SHEET l.

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REGISTERED LETTER RECORD. APPLICATION FILED JULY 27, 1909.

Patented Jan. 10,1911.

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WITNESSES Allorney Kym j HENRY Moll). MOORE, 0F LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY.

REGISTERED-LETTER RECORD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 1!), 1911.

Application flled J'uly 27, 1909. Serial No. 509,845.

To all whom it may concern:

lie it known that I, HENRY MoD. MOORE, citizen of the United States, residin at Lexington, in the county of F ayct'te an State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Registered- Letter Records, of which the following is a specifi ation.

My invention relates to registered letter records, and more particularly to a registered letter receipt for quick and eiiicient handling of registered mail between postmasters and railway mail clerks.

Broadly, my invention consists in the'provision of a book, alternate pages of which are permanent, and alternate pages of which aremade up of post-cards which are detachable from the, book and from one another.

The permanent pagcsare divided into' specification sectionsand receipt sections, and the detachable pages are similarly divided and perforated along the lines of division. The

specification sections are provided with spaces properly designated to receive the registry number of each piece of mail, its

point of despatch, date and point of desig- 3 nation, while the receipt sections have aces properly designated to receive thename of the post-ofiice to which the registered matter" is being forwarded. the number of pieces, the lock and number of the .ouch 111 which the matter is being iorwan ed, and statemcnts above the signature of the receiving post-master or clerk, of discrepancy or dam- The record which is filled out in the 1 age. correct spaces of the permanent page, is transferred to the corresponding spaces of the post-cards.

The specification card has i on its reverse side, spaces for the name of the receiving post-oliice, while the receipt 1 ml line 8, and the reverse s1 e 0t said dc- In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the preferredembodiment of my invention, Figure 1 is perspective view of the book showing a permanent page uppermost. Fig. 2 is anenlarged plan view of a portion of the permanent page, showing one of the permanent return or receipt cards.

Fig. 3 is a similar view, showing one of the permanent specification cards. Fig. s a perspective view showing the reverse side of 5 designates a book, which is composed of alternate pages 6 and 7. Each of the pages (3 is permanently secured within the book, while each of the pages 7 is formed of a plurality of detachable cards. These cards are of two kinds, namely, specification cards and receipt cards, and are designated respecti vely by the numerals 7 and 7 1 The cards 7 and 7" are disposed to form adjacent horizontal pairs of the same, which are detachable from each other by means of a vertical perforated line 7 (see Fi 6). The cards 7: and 7 are also arranged in vertical rows and are detachable from each other by means of horizontal perforated lines 8; The permanent sheet 6 is printed upon its upper side to form permanent cards 9. and 10, cor- \-cspon ling in number, arrangement and' the permanent cards 9 and 10, the same may e transferred to the corresponding detachable cards 7 and 7*.

The permanent specification and return cards 9 and 10 are filled out by the sending post nmstcr or clerk and the writing upon Mll'l) cards 0 .and l transferred upon the dctachabh. cards 7" and T, as above described. The detachable specification and return cards 7 and 7" are then removed from the book by tearing alon the horizontachablo specification card is addressed to llw station to which the mail is being forwarded. The detachable cards 7* and 7 are now secured together and the same are postmarked in the spaces 3 at their lower left hand corners. \Vhcn the shipment has been checked up at the receiving station and found correct, the cards'7 and 7 are detached from each other. The return or reccipt card 7 after having been signed upon its obverse side, by the post-master at the receiving station, is then reversed and addressed to the post-master at the sending stations. This return card. is ostmarked, in the space 14 at its corner. T e specification card 7 is retained at the receiving station to form a record for such station. This book will provide a simple economical and efiicient record, and the labor of: keeping it will be less than one-half of that required in the ordinary system of handling registered mail. 'It will almost entirely eliminate the liability of mistakes as each entry can be checked across the permamail, comprising alternate permanent and detachable pages, correspondingly divided intosections, one of said sect 0ns-h av1ng spaces thereon properly designated to receive the total number of packages and the receiving agents signature, and another of said section's having spaces properly designated to receive a separate specification of each of the packa es, the said sections of the detachable pages being detachable from one another and respectively constituting return and record cards, and having their reverse sides ruled to provide spaces'to receive the address of the sending and receiving agents respectively.

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

HENRY McD. MOORE. Witnesses:

Josnrn H. BULLOCK, CHARLES Kenn.

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