US403499A - Money-order blank - Google Patents

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J. J. WILLIAMSON. MONEY ORDER BLANK.

Nofflomgg. Patented May 14, 1889.

vor iw 1S! UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

JOIIBT J. 'ILLIAMSOX, OF BOSTON, l\I.f\SS.-\C1ISE'I"1`S.

MONEY-'cansa BLANK.

SPECIFICATION forming pa'rc of Letters Patent No. 403,499, dated May 1`4, 1889. .Application tiled August l13, 1883. Serial No. 103,686. (No mode1.

Taull whom, it may concern.-

ot Boston, in the county of Suol-k and State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement .in Money-Order Blanks, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in explaining its nature. This invention is an improvement on that described in my application of March 11,1882, and some parts of it are applicable to other forms of money-order, such as express-certificates of deposit,'postalnotes or postal-orders, checks, andthe like.

The example given in the drawings is', a money-order postal-card.

-Figure l represents a card with part of. the value-column canceled. Fig. 2 represents a card and its stub uncanceled.

The invention consists in providing,- one or more peculiar value-columns on the margin of the order, on which lthe value of the card shall appear plainly in figures, wl1ich,when

added, shall make the value to be paid at a redemption-otiice.

'In a decimal currenqv-sawv of dollars and' cents, or francs and' centimes--the use of one column would-indicate a value .in cents or of centimes: up to one dollar or one frane, the 'use of two columns would indicate a value in dollars or francs up to one hundred, and the range of the third column would he up to ten thousand dollars or francs, so that bv the use of three columns ot the same table any value up to ten thousand one hundred and one dollars or francs could he represented. The

numbers most convenient for making` the columns are 50, 25, 10, S, et, 2, 1,-whereby any number may be expressed up to 100. Arabic numerals,-two Os, two ls, two 2`s, two s, one i, one S make the case Afor printing this table, while for .printing a column of units and tens twenty differentthvpes of -ten different. sorts would' be required.

The issuer ot the ea rd would u se it as t'ollows: .lle knows the table adds up to one hundred,

he has money given him to a given amountsay thirty-nine centsfhe takes a card and a punch and punches out the numbers 50, 1U, and l, just as itl he were nia-king change out;

Ten-

vof a dollar, adding the vaille ot tlu.mnnhers canceled to the snm paid him till he .trots to a dollar, and the numlwrs left when the punching is done when added will make the amount received.l

The former tables in use were generally heavy columns of values which proceeded hv short stages-sav a progression of tive cents, from five cents to tive dollars, or from one dollar to five-dollars, or the like. 'lhese last tables would require {sixt}v Arabic tigures to each hundred after thetirst, and for the first.l

some, awkward, and un ready to make chan In such ease also a largo number ot' tigures have beenneeessary to make the order-available' for use. It will thus he seen that these lparticular additit'm-columns are a new departure in moneyeorde r hln nlc s. y

In the drawings, r1 is a place for the postl is a legend showing the party resptmsihhfor the-redemption of the order, which may .be .the United States postaldepartment or an express-company, a' bank, or a private person, as each particular case may he. 1- is a space for the address.

lis the coupon indicating, value, and ff is the stub indicating value. l

The stub and coupon beine' tolded tog-e1 her in the usual way with .ligure columns, as inv railroad-blanks, f or simultaneous cancella# tion, the numbers which are not needed for indicating the amount 'are punched out and `the coupon andcard torn from the stull and delivered', to the purchaser ot the money order. It the card-bea postal-card, the inessage is written upon the-'reverse side, not covering .any part of the money-coupon, and the whole order is presented at the pay-ottico,

and the party paying it removes the coupon as a voucher. Inorder to show the ottico from which the coupons have come,the v should be stamped either on theft-ont or hat-l: of the coupon, so that the accounts may lu- 1 made Correct.

Ut' course, this moueworder cannot be lOO Yrziised, because only thedigures are left on it, f

which, when added togetl1er,.1nake up the amount for which it is am.' order, and so being stamped uponiliebaek by the issuing-office the eherge cm1-be entered up against that office.

In lease this inventionV is used as en lexpress money-order o1'- for-ba'nker's the .plee for the postage-stump will be omittedand the direc-l` .tions maybe printed on the back, oit an aid-'- ditional blank robe lled *up with ink for the. amounts Could'` be added for protection. `In

ease bwas usedl in t e En Dilish eheekdmnk 7 system aV book of orders Wouldjbe issued,and on the return of the stub andcomparison- With 'che Cheeks reeei ved .the amount of inone'y' not used would be refunded.v i

'I claim is vmyinvencion and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United Statesz'o 1 'Amney-Oider blank or tlie'likeprovided with. 4a' margin,upon Whieh is .printed a' eol- ,umn of figures representing vdenominations of 'the eui'reney ofV the country, as described,

the additions of ,',whie'h gureswill make 'diev change in lche accustomed manner, and of the common standard of currency of the 'eountr and the amount for which the order' is giveny 3 5 will beimmediately recognizable. i J NO. J; WILLIAMSON.

' Titnessesz l u TH-os. WM. CLARKE, 'monos RL TomiAN.

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