US1330726A - Combined waybill accounting, and receipt appliance - Google Patents

Description

F. P. SMALI..

COMBINED WAYBILI, ACCOUNTINGAND RECEIPT APPLIANCE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 1.1919.

Patented Feb. 10, 1920.

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COMBINED WAYBILL, ACCOUNTING, AND RECEIPT APPLIANCE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed July l, 1919. Serial No. 308,050.

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This invention relates to shipping appliances particularly applicable to consignments by express, although I do not wish to be unnecessarily limited or restricted to such use.

Among the objects of the invention is to 4provide a shipping appliance that constitutes an enlargement or carrying forward of the inventive idea covered by Letters Patent of the United States No. 1,239,977, issued to me on the 11th day of September, 1917, but having a number ofnovel features of construction and utility over the device previously patented.

Specifically stated the objects of the invention include a device for the more complete and comprehensive means for not only labeling a parcel or package, but providing a more complete record-of the transaction from the time of receipt by the shipping clerk to the time of the delivery from the express wagon to the consignee, during which time every person or arty handling the package is supplied with) a voucher or coupon identifying the transaction, and as in the previous invention', thewaybill is carried from the shipping oiice to the oiiice of receipt upon the package itself. Again, sent with the waybill and as an integral but detachable part of the device is a Ikseparate sheet identified by the title delivery sheet providing a means for securing the signature of the consignee at the time of delivery by the delivery oiice or expressman.

With the foregoing'and other objects in view the invention consists inthe arrangement and combination of partshereinafter described and claimed, and while the invention is not restricted to the exact details of construction vdisclosed or suggested herein,

like reference characters designate the same parts in the several views, and in which-- Figure 1 is a plan view of the face of the appliance laid out Hat; and

Fig.. 2 is a similar view of the opposite face of the same, the appliance as shown in Fig. 2 assuming the position resulting from the turnin of the sheet from the position of Fig. 1 y lifting one end thereof and swinging it through 180 degrees around the opposite end as a pivot.

My improved deviceJ inthe form illustrated is made from'a rectangular sheet of paper, or its equivalent, designed in a peculiar manner Iand printed on opposite sides and otherwise arranged to carry descriptive matter serving to identify the parcel by description of the contents, value, the name and place of the shipper, the name and place of the consignee and other information relating to the transaction, a full history of the transaction bein written with the least amount of time an effort, and the device being so formed and folded that various portions thereof may be removed by a single act of detachment from the remaining' portions. The ortions removed from the others are calcu ated to be retained at the shipping end of the line, while all the remaining portions are carried on the package and are intended to constitute complete directions for the receiving agent, the delivery man, and the consignee. The sheet of paper in original flat form is substantially twice as lona as it is wide and is foldable along a wecrened line 10 midway between its ends. The first fold, therefore, is made as though the right end of Fig. 2 be lifted and swung through 180 degrees around the line 10 as a hinge. What then may be termed the upper portionY of the device after the first fold is completed, may be described as being folded under the portions A, E and E', and toward the operator around a longitudinal hinge line 11. This line, however, While parallel to the lateraledges of the sheet is nearer to one edge than the other whereby at the completion of the second fold around the line 11 there is observed at the lower edge an overlap of about one inch at 12. A special press has been built for the printing and folding of these sheets as thus far described, and when so foldedl there are `throughout the main portion'of the device four plies, while the overlapping portion 12 has but two plies.

In the making of the first fold around the line 10 a weakened line 13 comesrinto direct registry with -a similar weakened line 14, and when the second fold is made the upper ends of the weakened lines 13 and 14 coinciding substantially with each other are Ibrought down to register with the lower portions of the same lines except that the extreme original upper ends of said weakened lines 13 and 14: after` the second fold are made to coincide with the points 15 at the inner corners of the overlap.

The formation of the sheet as above 'described, folding it around weakened ybending lines constitutes the sheet into a series of separable panels or coupons designated on the drawings as A and B, as one insepara'ble coupon sheet, C, D, E, E', F, F, Gr and H. The parts of the coupons A and B are permanently connected, the bending line 11 between them and constituting an extension of the weakened line 11 being unweakened. When the device is folded and ready t0 be written upon by the shipping agent it is held lia-t in folded form and with the panels A, E E constituting the upper surface upon which the `shipping agent writes the information desired as indicated at the lower left hand quarter of Fig. 1. The information carrying slips or coupons A, C, D, E and F 'are all similarly numbered as indicated at 16 so that any infor mation slip that might become dama-ged or lost can be reproduced from any other of the s ame series as indicated by the number.

As shown in the drawing coupon A constitutes the shippers receipt in connection with the att-ached slip B of information printed thereon giving the express terms and conditions. The face of coupon A is printed at its upper right hand corner to indicate its nature and purpose and such information as will assist the agent in fil1- ing in the information required such 4as. the name of the office of destination, the name and address of the consignee, the description of the article and the name of the shipper. The back of coupon A is spotted with carbon at 17 whereby the rst carbon impression ofV the same description is roduced upon the face of coupon C. oreover coupon C is carbon spotted at 18 on its back-and causes thereby a reproduction of the principal description on the face of the coupon D. Thus three records Aare produced at the same operation.

Likewise the agent in making the origina-l inscription upon the face of coupon E, which is the waybill, causes simultaneously a duplication of the same record by' virtue of the carbon spot 19, carried by the coupon E,

upon the face of coupon F. The coupon F which is the delivery sheet carries a small carbon spot at 20 for the second duplication Yedto him. Coupon C is the office copy and hence isfiled in the office, and coupon D is the abstract. The right hand portion of the device is applied bodily to the package, the

four portions thereof being directly applicable to the package by means of paste or the like applied to the overlapping parts E and F of coupons E and F and the back faces of coupons Gr and H. To make possible this simultaneous connection of all of these parts tothe package I provide a plurality of large holes 21 in the member F and 22 in the member H. The holes 21 afford communication directly with the back of extension E', while the holes 22 provide similar Communication with the back of coupon G. The thus exposed portions of the coupons to be pasted may be supplied with mucilage spotted thereon to be moistened by anyagent or driver, or wet paste may be applied to the back of the said right hand portion of the device as a whole at the time it is to be applied to the package. The operator holding .this portion of the device in' one hand and applying paste or moisture to the perforatedside or face thereof with the other hand easily and quickly effects the desired result and then the device is simply applied to the package in fiat form, but consisting in such form of four plies, namely, E, F, G and H. Thus the device is carried by the packa e from the shipping office to the office of destination. The agent 'at the oice of destination following the directions printed plainly upon the face thereof detaches the coupons E and F from the other portions which remain `fixed to the package.

This detachment is effected by first running his finger or a tool beneath either free side edge of the parts E and F ripping the same loose along the line 11. He then folds the partially severed coupons forward toward him and downward around the yline 23 and severs the same from the parts E and F along such line. Coupon E,the waybill, is retained by the receiving agent, while ooupon F, the delivery sheet, is carried by the delivery man and serves fr his complete instructions and also to receive the consignees signature and the indication ofthe time of delivery. This sheet obviously must be returned by the driver or delivery man with any charges to be collected to the office from which he received the package for delivery. Whilej illustrate my improvement as adapted for a C, O. l). shipment it is to be understood that it is likewise capable of use for prepaid or other speciesof shipments.

l claim:

1. The herein described combined waybill, accounting and receipt appliance comprising a series of similarly numbered andidentied superimposed coupons connected detachably to one another by means of weakened lines folded so that certain portions of the weakened lines register with one another whereby one folded portion is directly detachable from the other folded portion as a Whole, the faces of the two separable portions being adapted to carry identification infomation of an individual package to be shipped by the use of the appliance, said coupons being so ruled and. printed as to constitute respectively a shippers receipt, any oce copy thereoffand an abstract advice, the other lnain separable portion being formed with paste receiving holes to make it attachable as a whole to the package to be carried therewith and comprising a plurality of coupons so ruled and printed as to constitute respectively a waybill, a delivery sheet, and a waybill label, the last of which remains iii-ml attac-hed to the package.

2. he herein described shipping appliance for express packages or the like comprising a plurality of superimposed labels, there being yprovided weakened folding lines whereby two of the labels are separable simultaneously from the remainder and which labels are so ruled and otherwise identified to constitute first a' waybill and secondly a delivery sheet, the waybill and delivery sheet portions being extended n along one side to overlap the remaining portions, and meansto attach firmly and perma nently said remaining portions and the overlapping portions to the package whereby the waybill and delivery sheet when detached from the remaining portions may likewise be detached from the iixedoverlapping portions thereof.

3. The herein described shipping appliance comprising a plurality of superimposed coupons, the same comprising two coupons, extension attachment stubs formed integral with said two-coupons respectively and being separabley therefrom along predetermined lines, the `under stub, being provided with perforations whereby the application of paste to the bottom surface there.

of will cause they application thereof to the under surface of the upper stub, said stubs quent 4separate use.

FREDERICK PERCIVAL SMALL.

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