US1701657A - Coupon booklet - Google Patents

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Feb. I2, 1929. 1,701,657

S. AsATuRlAN COUPON BookLE? Filed Jan. 10, 1925 INVENTOR ATTORNEY l atented Feb. 12, 1929.

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Application filed January is, 1925. stamina. 1,697.

in For such purposes, besides being used as other ordinary meal tickets or checks, the

coupons thereof can be also utilized for several other purposes as for calling attention to special delicacies on the bill of fare, or for personal or miscellaneous advertising, or it so desired for use also as premium coupons entitling the holder thereof to a rebate or a percentage of the amount of money paid for goods purchased.

In View of such use, either for eating places or for tores generally where commodities of different kinds are sold, I prefer to construct the checks in duplex form with two sets or series of coupons folded together and fastened together at the top thereof so as to constitute a booklet, each booklet also having means whereby'it may be attached to another similar one if desired, thus adapting the same to be used either separately or as a series of booklets forming a long roll and given to the patrons singly either by hand or delivered by automatic machines which are in common use for such purposes.

l l ith the above named objects of the invention and other objects and purposes, which. will be described below, in view, the invention consists in the construction, arrangement, combination and operation of parts hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings, illustrative of one em? bodiment of the invention, which accompany and form a part of this specification,

Figure 1 represents a plan View of one of the sheets of my booklet; Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the sheets when in assembled form and partially separated along the edges. 7

Figure 3 is a view showing the manner in which the sheets are folded over each other. Referring more in detail to the drawings, the reference numerals 1 2. 8 and 4 denote the divisions of asheet of paper having a head portion 5 and a therebelow plurality of series of checks or coupons each series constlt-utlng a page of a booklet. The numerals l, 2, 3 and 4 indicate a series of slmilar .coi'mected sheets each comprising a similar head portion 5 and therebelow series of checks or coupons.

Thesheet comprising the pages 1, 2, 3 and is preferably placed-below the sheet forming the pages 1x2, 3 and l and the said sheets are folded over each other in duplicate as shown in l'ligure at and the head portions of the same are fastened together as by being pasted or otherwise held in assembled rela plurality of tion so as to form the booklet.

h-en so assembled the pages of the booklet will lie from front to rear in the following order, namely: 1, 1, 3, 3, a, 9. 2 and the checks 7. 8 9, l0 and 11, of the page 1 will lie above the checks 13, 14;, 15. 16 and 1? of the page 1, as illustrated in ldi re The pages displaying the two said sets or series of checks will be attached to each other as 7 shown in Figure l. but forclearness of illus tration they are illustrated as being torn apart in Figures 2 and 3. The various booklets so made are each preferably made so as to be attached together as by being provided with flaps or tags 6 by which the booklets may be connected so as to lie adjacent to each other.

The various pages are folded together in unbroken overlapping relation each comprising a number of checks which may be torn from the booklet heading and the several checks of each page may likewise be torn apart individually, for which purpose the lines be tween or dividing the above named parts may be either creased or perforated.

The heading or head portion of each booklet may have a serial number as in the present embodiment the numerals 250 together with the name of the proprietor as John Doe, and the cheers of pages 1, 2', 3' and 4 may display price indicia together with the display of redemption value while the checks of pages 1, 2, 8 and l may serve to be utilized as advertising matter as shown in l igure 2, or to be also used if so desired as price showingones, the price indicia and redemption pages and the advertising pages preferably being alternately disposeth each of said pages and also the checks thereof also preferably the serial number of the booklet;

The various notices, indicizn etc. displayed in the booklet may be marked or printed on or else punched through the checks. For convenience in tearing off the checks the lower end of each page is preferably bevelled as 1 shown at 12.

The coupons or checks of pages 1, 2, 8 and him as a voucher.

4: preferably register with those of pages 1', 2, 3 and l so that the checks may be torn off in duplicate, that is to say coupons 7 and 13 and 8 and 14 may be torn oil at one time, the advertising matter on each of the pages being alike so that in case the checks 7 and 13 and 8 and 1% are torn 05, the advertising matter so torn oii' will be seen onthe last two coupons of page 3,

As one example of the use oi? my duplex advertising device a patron of a cafeteria who buys 15 cents worth of food will tear off the checks 7, 8 and 9 and also 13, 1% and 15, retaining the last named series as rebate coupons and handing the first named series to the counter man or sales man to be kept by He then gives the booklet to the cashier and pays his 15 cents, and when he desires so to do the patron can present the coupons 13, l t and 15 to the cashier for redemption or the rebate due him, the first series thus serving as advertising checks and the latter series it so desired as premium coupons.

1 wish to have it understood that I do not desire to be limited tothe particular use or the exact details of construction shown and described for obvious modifications will. occur to persons skilled in the art.

hat I claim as my invention is z- A coupon booklet 01" the class described comprising a sheet of paper folded in overlapping relation from end to end into a plurality of similar divisions and scored from top to bottom along the folded edges to produce a substantially rectangular coupon book, each or" said divisions being scored at right angles to the folded edges to produce a series of individual coupons and a stub portion, said coupons being; consecutively numbered in units of five andada ltOCl to be severed in single or multiple units, certain of the divisions concealing the coupons of the divisions beneath and the lower corners of said divisions being cut away to permit of the separation of said divisions to facilitate the detachment of the entire division of the lowermost coupon.

Signed at New York in the county of New York and State of New York this 7th day of January, A. D. 1925.

SETRAK ASi TURIAN.

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