USRE10977E - lewis - Google Patents

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W. THOMSON.

BANK ACCOUNT. BOOK.

Reissued Deg. 25

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Be it known that I, WALTEI; THOMSON, a citizen ofthe. United States, residing at Fargo, in the coutityof Cass and Territory of Dakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bank Account-Books; and

I do hereby declare the following to be a full,-

. clear, and exact description of the invention,

such as will enable others skilled inthe art to which it appertains to make'a-nd use the same, reference beingjhad to the accompany- ,ing drawings, and tothe letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. v r

Figure 1 is a perspective viewof' an account-book opened, showing the present invention. Fig. 2 is a like view,fthe outer edge of the first short leaf folded over to allow the account to continue uninterruptedly. Fig. 3

form the state of each d'epositors account.-

isa like view as Figs. 1 and2, the first short leaf turned back upon the wide primary leaf precedingtit, the folded port'ion straightened,

top edge of the book when closed.

-'1his invention relates, chiefly to account books used in banks to show in a convenient In the accompanying drawings, A denotes an account-bookprepared in any usual manner to keep the accounts of bank depositors,

except in the particular forms of construction, which-Iw'i'll .behereinafter more fully de-- scribed and explained. Thefleaves'of thisbook are made up-ofa 'seriesiof short'ones, B,

1."interspersedwithalongleaf, C. 'By the terms shofl and flong,-? applied to the leaves, is

1nea' t, first, a leaf which does not extendvfully to' t leaf a one. of the ordinary size relative to the cove of the Each of theleaves: B" is creased or perforated at b not far from its right-hand edge and parallel thereto,'so that the margin or portion b beyond the line may,

whenv desired, be easily turned back up'on'the bodyoftheleaf'.- f- 4 The several pages of the book are ruled and.

otherwise ekcept'as is peculiar to my inven-- -tion, prepared as usual; for keeping" the deposi ors. accounts. In using'the book, in the ,first staricfe there-is writtenonthe long leaf,

new be in proiiirelatioh to 1 book-keeper edge of the-book; and, secondly,-:the. whereversu at 12', substantially as am f ora the purposes f 9l1 -p v '2-.-The bankaceountebook'herein described- Y i as theleft fiaiidinai im a the-usual a...

nerQ'the depositors. Lnames. When in the course' of business. theseaccounts have nearly reached to the 1ine-"b ,the-partb can be folded ing acc ountsand thebalancesiare thereon duly, entered; grlThua-whentlieleaf B is turned over upon the saidI-Ieaf-C, andthejfolded part of said leaf B is straightenedout or flattened the balances: thereon as above, will depositors entered, as

on the leftrhan'd edgel-of jleafCi Then' the,

' can go. onwith his entries'till he has nearly reachedthe'line of crease or peroperation will be gone through again, and so he will continue with his entries till he comes to the nextleaf C,When itwillbe nec'ssaryto enter again the depositors, n'ames and goon over to'the left that is;itoward 'the approach H the names ofthet has' been stated above,

vforati'on b onthenext' B,wheuthe above be in connection with the next' series of short leaves as he has done in the first instance.

In Fig;:'1 the short leaf B is fiat with Q16 leaf G, and the edgeor margin b of the first short leaf slightly turned. -In Fig.' 3 the first fshort leaf. has beentu-rned over and-11h e strip; b1 flattened and stra'ighted out-{so thatj its-edge comes just againstthe vertical-line f,- where the. depositors names end 1-"fF-hefiguresonthe part b show the'balanc'eofeach. depositor d1 rectl'y opposite his name; These deposit .accountbobks may ipe of any desired slze or shape, and witheach full leaf there maybe as r8 many intenn'ediate short leaves as maybe desired.

1 I do not wish liniitflth isinyehtion depositors books only, 1915561115, principle" may b pl l eentri es are tether-made fol lowing aset: mesor'ethergeneral nattma to whichthef' entri'es haveija common ielatio I.

claim is--' 4 r 1. The bank account-book A,-'ha ving;a sult- Having now describedfniyinvention; what 1 leaves having marginb,creasedpnperforated comp of alternate long and series of short s r any her purposes able numbroffnll ,1eaves,' C,' and atternate series of short f leaveaB, eachj of said short leaves, the several long leaves piepared t6 re balaneefonns the beginning of the nextdays naive the dephsitors names on the left-hand ace-mint 01113116 next page. 10 side, and both also prepared to receiwnthe a.c- In testimony whereof I affix my signature in counts for several successive days, the rightpresence of two witnesses.

5 hand end of each of said sh01'1, leaves having ZALTER THOMSON.

' a margin adapted. by folding to receive the V\"it11esses:-"

last days balance, so that when the leaf is R. S. LEWIS,

I turned and said margin straightened out said I \V. \V. LEWIS.

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