US939979A - Barber's account-check. - Google Patents

Description

J. CHURCH.

BARBERS ACCOUNT CHECK. APPLICATION FILED DEC. 11, 1907.

939,979. Patented Nov. 16, 1909.

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BARBERS ACCOUNT-CHECK.

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Specification ofletters Patent.

Patented Nov. is, race.

Application filed December 11, 1907. Serial No. 405,982.

To all whom it may conccrnf Beit known that I, Jnrrnnson CHURCH, a citizen ot the UnitedStates, residing at New.- York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Barbers Account- Checks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to checks, slips or cards used in connection with checking systems in hotels, barber shops, railroads, and in many large business houses.

The main object of the invention is to provide a system whereby any peculation or dishonesty on the part of an employee using this checking system may be'easily traced and accurately determined.

The invention, in the present instance, is shown as applied to barbers checks and will be described in that connection in the following specification, though it is obvious that it may be used for many other purposes.

' Broadly, the present system makes use of a barbers check or slip of paper comprising three sections separately connected. The

first section, a stub, contains certain identifying marks or numbers a barbers chair number and a card or serial number. The second or intermediate section contains in addition to similar identifying marks a list of services and price list indicating the cost of each separate service. Below this service list and on the same section is a list of totals by which the total chargeior the service rendered a customer may be indicated. The third section also in addition to said identifying marks or numbers contains a list of which is printed a column of numbers, each number representingthe total amount indicated on one of the barber's cards or slips.

Referring to the accompanying draw ngs, wherein similar letters of reference are used to indicate corresponding parts in each of the views: Figure 1 is a face view of the barbers card. Fig.2 is an edge View of the same showing the sections in position to be punched, and Fig. 3 is a face view of the daily report sheet.

A B and G indicate respectively the first,

second and third sections of the barbers .check, as shown in Fig. 1, said sections being column of services to be rendered a custoiner, such as Shave, Haircut Shampoo, etc.

Atthe right of the slip is a column of numbers, each indicating the cost. of the respective item opposite which it appears. To the right of each of these figures is a suitable mark to be punched out when the service for which it stands has been given," thus indicating the amount to be paid. Below these columns are a plurality of horizontally-arranged rows of numbers. Above each of these numbers is a suitable mark to be punched out. \Vhcn so punched it indicates that the amount above which it stood represents the total price of the services rendered as shown by the several items punched on the list of items of services, as previously described. It will be noticed that the numbers indicating the total. amounts decrease in value as read from left to right and also as read from top to bottom of the slip or card. Section G contains an exact duplication of par allel rows of numbers on section B, except. that they read in exactly the reverse order on section Cto that in which they read on section B, so that, when folded for punching, as in Fig. 2, thenumbers on sections B and C will be superposed, thus allowing the same sums on both sections to be punched at one time. Section C further contains a chair number and a card serial number exactly identical with the chair and serial number on sections A and B respectively. This card or slip is to be used in connection with the daily report. slip previously mentioned in the following manner; The proprietor of the shop will give to barber having chair No. 6 a pad of the slips or cards previously described. Ebch of these slips bears a serial number, the top barber punches out the marks opposite 15, 35 and 35, reckons the total amount, folds the slip, as indicated in Fig. 2 on line y-y and punches out the mark above 85, when the parts are so folded. He then severs sections B and C on line y'y, giving section C to the customer with the charge indicated thereon and himself retains the other sections with the itemized charges punched thereon. When paying, the customer passes section C in to the cashier, who files it for comparison, as hereafter shown. At the end of the day the barber will transfer fromsections B of the slips retained by him on to the daily report slip the total of each slip issued by him. In doing this, the following method is used: Opposite each munber on this daily report slip indicating the total amount of a barbers slip, the barber will indicate the number of slips issued by him during the day, on -which he punched a similar total. Thus in the drawing, it is clear that during the day he issued one 15, one 20, one 30, three 35, etc., slips. Just above this column of numbers are arranged successively the following: Stubs, high No, Stubs, low No, and Stubs returned, witha blank space opposite each. In the firstblank space the barber will fill in the serial number of the check he first issued, in the second the serial number of thevlast one issued, and in the last the difference between them, which difierence is the number of slips issued and, accordingly, the number of stubs to be returned by the barber. Directly beneath the column of numbers andwith a. space at either side thereof aresuccesslvelyarranged the words, Total, Void, and Lost, No." In the.

first of these left hand spaces the barber will place the total of the number slips,

which total he obtains by adding up the figures to the left of the column of numbers representing totals, tothe right of the word total he will place the total amount of all slips issued by him; this he obtains by addition of the various amounts previously placed to the right of the column of totals. If any slips have been destroyed, he will place they number of those destroyed in the.

space to the left of the word, Void and the serial number'of such slip in the space i to the right thereof. If any have been lost he will place the number so lost in the space to the left of the word Lost and the serial number in the space to the right. In conclusion, he will fill in at the topof the slip, as clearly indicated in the drawmgs, at the r respective places, .-the date and the chair number. He will then hand this daily re port sheet, together with section B of all of his slips issued for that date to the bookkeeper. By comparing the daily report and I the sections B with one another and with sections C previously handed in by variouscustomers, the bookkeeper has an accurate and infallible check on all slips issued, de-

stroyed'or lost by this barber.

It is obvious that this system may beemployed in other business than that of barbers and that many minor changes may be made as to arrangement of numerals, items of service, etc., without in any way departing from thescope of the present invention.

Having thusfully described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

An account check of the character de scribed, comprising a body provided with a detachable section, said body being provided with two tabulated portions, ,thefirst tabn-' lated portion containing printedi bmtterfdescriptive of the character 'of work tobe per- I formed, andthe price to be charged for each piece of work, the: second tabulated portion containing a table showing combinat ons .of

tachable portion when, the latter portion is bent back upon thebody.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses. 1

JEFFERSON cHURcH. Witnesses:

A. W. TAYLOR, H. A. CoNNo LY.

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