US1382198A - Sales-check holder - Google Patents

Description

R. J. KRAUTHEIM.

SALES CHECK HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 6. I920.

1,382,198, PatentedJune 21,1921.

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SALES-CHECK HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 21, 1921.

Application filed March 8, 1920. Serial No. 363,727.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, RICHARD J. KnAU'ennrn, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Newark, county of Essex, and tdtate of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sales- Check Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved sales check holder which is adapted for the use of employees of places like restaurants. where it is necessary, at present, to detach a check -from the holder by grasping the holder with one hand and detaching a check with the other, the detaching being usually done by the right hand.

In order to punch the check to indicate the amount purchased, the average employee finds it necessary to use the right hand in manipulating the punch, usually suspended from a chain or string from the belt, and in running the hand along' the chain until the punch is reached considerable time is consumed, in addition to the prior waste of time in transferring the check from the right hand to the left, and then the necessary time is consumed in finding, with the punch, the proper amount, through which perforation is made.

The present invention is designed to provide a check holder which is manipulated in the usual way so far as removing or detaching a check is concerned, but the punch is manipulated by the same hand that holds the check holder and is disposed so that no material change in the position of the hand is necessary, and a great deal of time is thus saved. in addition to this, the necessity of carrying two separate articles on the belt is overcome.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a front view of one form of my improved check holder. Fig. 2 is a top view of the device shown in Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is an end view 01 the device shown in Figs. 1 and 2, part of the check punch being broken away to more clearly illustrate its construction.

The check holder, which functions as holding a pad or pile of checks, can be of any desired form, but preferably consists of a bottom plate 10, on which the plle of checks 11 is placed. Suitably arranged, usually on one end, is a structure vertically disposed so that the pile of checks 18 held 21 or similar fastening means.

against displacement or loss, the form shown comprising a rear wall 12, an end wall 13 and a front wall 14, thus formin a box-hire casing, one end of which is opeii to permit the ends of the checks to'project so that they can be successively grasped and torn off. in the form shown these checks are torn so as to leave the stubs 15, but any form of commercial check can be used. I In order to hold the pile of checks in position I show a screw 16, which passes up through the bottom plate 10 and has a pressure means on the top, consisting of a presser plate 17 and a nut 18.

This holder is usually attached to a belt,

one form of such attaching means being indicated by the loop 19, shown in Fig. 3.

Su tablydisposed on the check holder, and in position so that when the hand steadies the check holder to permit the tearing of a check therefrom the hand is in position to provide for its operation, is a marking or identifying device, thisusually taking the form of a punch, althoughanv other means for indicating on the check the required information can be used.

The drawing shows a check punch which is supported by means of a bracket 20 suitably secured to the front wall 14L by rivets To the bracket 20 is secured a fixed member consisting of a base plate 22 and cheek-pieces 23, which are usually formed so as to extend on each side of the bracket 20 and to be tastened thereto by suitable pins 24. Pivoted to the fixed member is a swinging jaw 25, pivoted as at 26 and being held in its normal raised position, shown'in Fig. 1, by springs 'i and 28. Thejaw has a suitable projection 29 which fits into a similarly shaped opening 30, so as to punch a hole in a check, the cheek-pieces being slotted, as at 31, to permit the insertion, from the front, of a check to be punched.

Fig. 3 shows the punch in its closed position, but without indicating a check, but the insertion of the checkand the method of punching are well known and need not be described here. 7

A suitable finger-piece 32 is preferably placed on the jaw to assist in punching without the operator being particular to look where the punching device can be grasped in order to operate it.

It will be evident that in the use of these devices, the left hand grasps this part of the holder, which is usually to. the left on the front part of a belt, and the right hand tears or pulls the check from the holder,

the projecting punch providing means for hookinga finger of the left hand around it, so that the pull necessary to tear a check from the holder is V easily resisted. The check is then put into the check punch and the left hand is naturally in position for op-' erating the punch, one or two fingers e3:- tendlng under the punch and the thumb of the lefthand being adjacent to the fingeriece '32 and b s ueezin the left hand thecheck is punched, the only time lost being the time necessary to convey the check,

, after it is torn from the holder, to the punch,

and properly placing ittherein. The upper r forward ends of the cheek-pieces are preferably curved, as at 33, to provide for easily finding the opening 31 into which the thin check is slid. V

It will be evident that other forms of check unchesor other marking devices can be used" in lieu of the exact form shown, and

I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the particular form shown and described herein.

I I claim: 7

l. A check punch having means on one end for receiving a check to be punched, and a handle secured to the other end, said ha11- dle beingiboX-like and adapted to be held 7' in the hollow of the hand while the fingers thereof operate the punch, the handle hav mg an open side at right angles to the punch. 2. A check punch having means on one end for receiving a check to be punched a handle secured to the other end, said handle being box-like and adapted to be held in the hollow of the hand while the fingers,

thereof operate the punch, said punch acting as ahook over whicha finger is caught to resist the pull when a check is torn from the handle. f I

3. A device of the kind described comprisinga box-like casing open at one side, and a punch proj ecting from the front wall of the'casing, whereby its acts as a hook around which a finger iscaught when the box-like casing is held in the hollow of the hand, said punch having movable jaw operable laterally of the punch so that when the hand grasps the casing the hooked finger and the thumb thereof are in position to operate the punch.

4:. A device of the kind described comprising a fixed member having a shelf projecting from the bottom thereof andrhaving cheek pieces at the sides and having a slot between the shelf and cheek pieces for q a check,- a swinging jaw pivoted between the cheek pieces in the back end thereof, a punch and die means on the end of the jaw and the end of the shelf for perforating a. check, the jaw and also the fixed inemberbeing recessed in rear of the shelf, spring mounted bracket abutting between the cheek pieces and having means thereon for its attachment to a support. e

In, testimony that I'claim the foregoing I have hereto set my hand, this 5th day of March, 1920. i V

RICHARD J. KRAUTHEIM.

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