US2143625A - Manifolding record - Google Patents

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Jan. 10, 1939. D. J. JOHNSTON MANIFOLDING RECORD 1931 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Aug. 25

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Patented Jan. 10, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE MANIFOLDING RECORD Application August 25, 1931, Serial No. 559,173

14 Claims.

This invention relates to improvements in record assemblies of the type having long continuous interleaved record and transfer sheets or strips adapted for division into sets or piles of record and transfer sheets, and embodies an improved structure and arrangement facilitating stripping or separating the sheets or leaves of a manifold pile from each other, and to maintain superposed printed forms in registry for manifold inscription.

An important object of the invention is the provision of a practical construction of mani folding record such that by dividing it into formlengths, these latter find themselves equipped with devices readily accessible and capable of easy actuation to effect stripping of the carbon sheets from the record sheets.

Another important object is the provision of a simple and, practical construction of manifolding pile of single form-lengths equipped with very convenient and easily operated stripping instrumentalities.

Other objects of the invention will in part be obvious and will in part appear hereinafter.

The invention accordingly comprises an article of manufacture possessing the features, properties, and the relation of elements which will be exemplified in the article hereinafter described and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the claims.

For a fuller understanding of the nature and objects of the invention, reference should be had to the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a manifolding pile or multi-assembly web embodying the invention, the same being zigzag folded to form a pack, as illustrated;

Figs. 2 and 3 are perspective details on an enlarged scale of certain features of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a manifolding pile or multi-ply web embodying the invention,but having some modified features over Fig. 1;

Figs. 5 and 6 illustrate in enlarged perspective certain details of the pile of Fig. 4;

Fig. '7 is a perspective view of a manifolding pile or assembly embodying the invention, the construction being similar in many respects to that .of Fig. 1, but the form-lengths embodying gripper-tabs at each end thereof;

Figs. 8 and 9 are enlarged detail perspective Y views of features of Fig. '7; and

Fig. 10 illustrates a detail of a further modification.

Referring now more specifically to the drawings, each modification includes a number of paper record sheets, or strips, I, with carbon sheets, or strips, 2 interleaved with the record sheets in superposed relation. The number of sheets or strips employed may be varied and is mainly dependent upon the number of copies desired. For the purpose of illustration, three record sheets and two carbon sheets interleaved therewith are employed. As illustrated, the several record strips or sheets each has a longitudinal series of printed forms 3, the series of printed forms in one record strip being in superposed registry with those in the other strips. Thus a long, multi-ply web or pile is formed as shown in Fig. 1. Also, the record assembly or pile is divided into form-lengths by a succession of superposed, main, transverse, weakening lines 4, these main weakening lines being in the record sheets as well as in the carbon sheets. Along these lines the pile may be torn into form-lengths or sets of relatively superposed record and transfer leaves or sheets positioned in interleaved transfer relation.

In each of the record sheets, or strips, is a succession of gripper-tab'areas 5, the grippertab areas in the different sheets being in superposed registered relation, as illustrated, for instance, in Fig. 2, the outer ends, or tips, 6 of the gripper-tabs 5 being coincident with the transverse weakening lines 4, whereas the bases 1 of the gripper-tabs are well within the formlengths, between successive weakening lines 4, of which the gripper-tabs 5 form a part. In the various embodiments illustrated, it will be seen that the gripper-tabs 5 are included between respective successive weakening lines 4 and do not extend across the weakening lines [into the adjacent form-lengths. Also, in the preferred embodiment, as illustrated, the form-lengths are rectangular in general outline, and it will be perceived that the gripper-tabs 5, including both their tips and their bases, lie within the general rectangular outlines of the form-lengths.

The gripper-tabs 5 are formed by providing apertures, slits or cuts in the sheets, these apertures intersecting the adjacent, transverse, main weakening line 4. In the embodiments illustrated, the apertures are provided by slitting the record strips, as indicated at 8 and 9, these slits being laterally spaced apart to give a substantial width to the gripper-tab 5, the tab being bounded by these two slits and the free edge 6 which coincides with the transverse weakening line. It will be understood that the spaced slits 8 and 9 of the form-lengths of the different record sheets are respectively in superposed registry with each other, as indicated, for instance, in Fig. 2. For the purpose of readily effecting parting of the gripper-tab 5 from the body of the form-length, each record leaf or form-length is provided with a supplemental, transverse, weakening line I!) intervening the gripper-tab area and the body of the form-length, these weakening lines being preferably at the bases of the gripper-tab areas and extending crosswise thereof so as to join the slits 8 and 9. The apertures or slits 8 and 9 in the sheets at the opposite sides of the gripper-tabs 5 are illustrated as shear cuts in the paper sheets, extending fully through the sheet bodies. This slitted construction is preferred, inasmuch as it is believed that the arrangement is in the interest of strength, and more of the sheet is retained for recording purposes in the event this part of the sheet is utilized for that purpose. However, it is to be understood that, in its broadest aspect, the apertures may be wider and quite large, as for instance illustrated in Fig. 10, wherein the apertures 38 are quite wide. Ordinarily, when a number of superposed strips are employed, the tendency is to tear straight through the carbons on the weakened lines 4 in the carbons, and this tends to guide the tear in the record strips along the weakened lines 4 therein, so as to render it less likely that the tear would proceed along the supplemental weakening lines l0 at the bases of the tabs.

The gripper-tabs 5 of different sheets are fastened together, the securing means in the present instance being by stitching, as by a wire staple II which pases through the superposed tabs 5 and is clinched thereagainst. As illustrated, the staples I l are disposed between the tips and bases of the tab and also between the slits 8 and 9, and they attach the record sheets and the carbon sheets together within the respective gripper-tab areas. At those points where the superposed gripper-tabs 5 are provided in the record sheets, the carbon sheets 2 are also secured to the record sheets by the stitching II, but the carbon sheets remain substantially unweakened on lines corresponding to the supplemental weakening lines l8 and the slits 8 and 9. Wire stapling offers a somewhat firm part which may readily be grasped in effecting the stripping operation. However, textile stitching may be employed.

It will be understood that adjacent each of the main, transverse, weakening lines 4 throughout the pile, the record strips are equipped at one side of the weakening line with the gripper-tab areas 5 bounded by the slits or apertures 8 and 9 and the supplemental weakening line I0. Thus, when the pile is divided in two along the weakening lines 4, the superposed gripper-tabs 5 at one end thereof may be readily grasped by one hand without grasping the adjacent body of the formlength.

In the embodiment illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the opposite end of the form-length may be readily grasped by the other hand so that, upon suflicient pulling force being exerted, the grippertabs 5 will be torn or parted from the formlengths along the supplemental weakening line [8. At points of the severed set of form-lengths opposite to the grip-tabs 5 the intermediate carbon sheets are so fashioned as not to be firmly gripped. To this end, the carbon sheets are provided with fairly large apertures l2, preferably of rectangular shape, which permit the grasp of the record sheets without gripping the carbon sheets at this point. When a number of carbon sheets is employed, the grip-escaping apertures l2 will be in superposed registry with each other at the opposite side of the main weakening line 4 from the gripper-tab areas 5 which are closely adjacent said line. tion illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the pile is first parted along the main, transverse weakening lines 4. Thereupon, the gripper-tabs 5 of this parted, multi-ply, form-length are grasped between the thumb and finger of the left hand, and the opposite end of this form-length is grasped between the thumb and finger of the right hand immediately above the grip-escaping apertures [2, so that the grip, in efiect, practically escapes the apertures. Thereupon, by pulling in opposite directions, the record sheets will part along the supplemental weakening line l0, thus permitting the carbon sheets to be readily simultaneously withdrawn or stripped from between the record sheets, inasmuch as these carbon sheets are practically free of grip at the opposite end of this form-length.

It is to be noted that in the construction illustrated in Fig. 3, the grip-escaping aperture l2 in the carbon strip is formed by complete removal of a rectangular section which otherwise would fill the aperture l2. It is to be understood, however, that a grip-escaping aperture is provided even though this section or filling were permitted to remain as a part of the construction before tearing along the weakening lines 4. For instance, as illustrated in Figs. 4, 5 and 6, the carbon sheets are slit along the outline of the grip-escaping aperture, as along the lines l3, l4 and I5. But the filling section l6, which is wholly removed in the modification shown in Fig. 3, is permitted to remain attached to the next adjacent carbon sheet form-length H in the modification shown in Figs. 4, 5 and 6. Under these circumstances, when the pile is divided along the weakening lines 4, the grip-escaping aperture occurs in the formlength precisely as explained in connection with Figs. 1, 2 and 3, but the cut-out filling or section l6 (Fig. 6) may remain attached to the next adjacent carbon sheet form-length l1 and cooperate with the gripper-tab 5 thereof to permit more effective gripping. Or this section I6 may be wholly removed by tearing it along a weakening line l9 provided therein coincident with the weakening line 4 at that point.

In the embodiment illustrated in Figs. 7, 8 and 9, the construction is in many respects similar to that of Figs. 1, 2 and 3. But in the embodiment of Figs. '7, 8 and 9, the grip-escaping apertures I2 of Fig. 3 are omitted, and the carbon sheets are provided with gripper-tabs 20 like the grippertabs 5 in the former figures. As in the former construction, these gripper-tabs 20 are formed by laterally spaced apertures or slits 2i and 22, which intersect the main transverse weakening lines 4. Also, the tips of the gripper-tabs 28 lie in the main weakening lines 4, whereas the bases of the gripper-tabs 28 have supplemental weakening lines 23 on which they may be readily detached from the main body of the carbon sheet. Like the preceding construction also, the grippertabs 20 in the carbon sheets are attached together and to the superposed record sheets by additional stitching or staples 24. Thus, in the modification of Figs. 7, 8 and 9, both the record sheets and the carbon sheets have gripper-tabs, and the tabs of the record sheets are at a different gripping point from those of the carbon sheets,

In operating the modificaeach having a supplemental weakening line connecting the tabs to the bodies of the sheets respectivelif.

It is to be understood that the manifolding record is readily utilizable in a typewriting machine, teletype machine, or other writing machine or autographic register, and that the printed forms of the several sets of form-lengths are maintained in superposed registry by the stitching or other fastening means employed. When one set of form-lengths has been inscribed, it may readily be torn along the weakening line 4 from the long, multi-ply web, and the leaves or sheets of the parted section will remain attached to each other and. in registration ready for subsequent manifold inscription, as may be desired. As before explained, however, by grasping the rnulti-ply form-length at opposite ends, all the carbon sheets may be stripped from the record sheets in one operation, and with the carbons will go the fastening means, so that the inscribed record sheets will be left in a uniform, standard, satisfactory condition with only a small rectangular aperture at one end. It is to be understood, of course, that the several form-lengths may have one or more filing apertures c-r punch openings 25, so as to permit the placing of the record sheets on filing pins or in a binder, as desired. Between each filing opening and the edge, the sheets are weakened as by relatively small perforations 26, so as to permit the sheet to be readily torn through the perforations 26 into communication with the filing openings 25.

Whereas in the illustrated embodiments the gripper-tabs 5 are mainly illustrated as being provided in the record sheets, it is to be understood that this is illustrative, and that the invcntion is not departed from by reversing the arrangement illustrated, that is, by confining the gripper-tabs to the carbon sheets, the record sheets being unprovided with the gripper-tabs o the slits 8, Q and the supplemental weakeniii-g lines iii.

Since certain changes may be made in the above article and different embodiments of the invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

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

1. A manifolding pile composed of carbon sheets interleaved with record sheets, one or more of said sheets having two spaced slits in its edge cooperating to form a gripper-tab positioned in superposed relation with an edge portion of another sheet and a weakening li-ne across the base of the tab.

2. A manifolding pile composed of carbon sheets interleaved with record sheets, one or more of said sheets having spaced-slits forming a gripper-tab in its edge in superposed relation with an edge portion of another sheet, a weakening line across the base of the grippertab, and a fastener disposed between said slits and securing two or more sheets together.

3. A manifolding pile composed of carbon sheets interleaved with record sheets, each of the record sheets having a pair of spaced slits in its edge forming a gripper-tab in superposed relation with an edge portion of a carbon sheet,

weakening lines.

superposed registry with the pairs in the other record sheets, and means disposed in the space between said slits fastening said sheets together.

4. A manifolding pile composed of carbon sheets interleaved with record sheets, each of the record sheets having a pair of spaced slits in its edge forming a gripper-tab in superposed relation with an edge portion of a carbon sheet, the pair of slits in one record sheet being in superposed registry with the pairs in the other record sheets, and means disposed in the space between said slits fastening said sheets together, the respective record sheets having a weakening line crosswise of and between said slits therein.

5. A manifolding pile composed of carbon sheets interleaved with record sheets, the record sheets and the carbon sheets each having gripper tabs integral with the respective sheets and having weakened attachment to the latter so as to be readily detachable, the tabs of the record sheets being in superposed registry at one gripping point and those of the carbon sheets being in superposed registry at another gripping point, and devices fastening said tabs together at each point.

6. A manifolding pile comprising carbon sheets interleaved with record sheets, said record sheets having a succession of superposed gripper-tab areas and of superposed, main, transverse, weakening lines adjacent said areas for tearing the pile into form-lengths at successive points, respective record sheets having apertures, one at each side of respective gripper-tab areas and resoectively cutting said weakening lines, the bases of said gripper-tab areas being within the form lengths and being separated from the latter by '7. A manifolding pile comprising carbon sheets interleaved with record sheets, said record and carbon sheets having a succession of superposed gripper-tab areas and of superposed, main, transverse, weakening lines adjacent said areas for tearing the pile into form-lengths at successive points, said gripper-tab areas of the record sheets being disaligned depthwise of the pile with said gripper-tabs of the carbon sheets, each of said record and carbon sheets having laterally spaced slits, one at each side of the respective gripperslits at the bases of the gripper-tab areas, re-

spectively.

8. A manifolding pile comprising carbon sheets interleaved with record sheets, said record sheets having a succession of superposed gripper-tab areas and of superposed. main, transverse, weakening lines adjacent said areas for tearing the pile into form lengths at successive points, respective record sheets having laterally spaced slits, one at each side of the respective grippertab areas and intersecting the adjacent main weakening line and also having supplemental weakening lines extending transversely between the slits and positioned between the respective gripper-tab areas and the form lengths, said gripper-tab areas. being relatively superposed with edge portions of the carbon sheet formlengths, and stitching attaching the record sheets and carbon sheets together at points within the respective gripper-tab areas. 7

9. A manifolding pile comprising carbon sheets interleaved with record sheets, said record sheets having a succession of superposed gripper-tab areas and of superposed, main, transverse, weakening lines adjacent said areas for tearing the pile into form-lengths at successive points, respective record sheets having laterally spaced slits, one at each side of the respective grippertab areas and intersecting the adjacent main 'weakening line and also having supplemental weakening lines extending transversely between the slits and positioned between the respective gripper-tab areas and the form lengths, said gripper-tab areas being relatively superposed with edge portions of carbon sheet form-lengths, stitching attaching the record sheets and carbon sheets together at points within the respective gripper-tab areas, the'carbon sheets being substantially unweakened on lines corresponding to said supplemental weakening lines and said slits, and having grip-escaping apertures in superposed registry at the opposite side of said main weakening lines from said gripper-tab areas.

10. A manifolding pile comprising carbon sheets interleaved with record sheets, said record and carbon sheets having a succession of superposed gripper-tab areas and of superposed, main, transverse, weakening lines adjacent said areas for tearing the pile into form-lengths at successive points, said record and carbon sheets having a slit at each side of the respective gripper-tab areas and respectively cutting said weakening lines, the bases of said gripper-tab areas being within the bounds of the form-lengths and being separated from the latter by weakent ing lines.

from said second edge of the set to permit the' set to be grasped wholly outside the line of weakness, and the carbon sheet and the writing sheets having their edges at said second edge of the set in continuous substantial coincidence with each other from corner to corner of the set and to permit the carbon sheet as well as the writing sheets to be reliably held and fully typed in a typewriter adjacent to said second edge of the set, and the writing sheets being free of any lines (i weakness adjacent to said second edge thereof.

12. A transfer set including a plurality of writing sheets, a carbon sheet therebetween, means detachably interconnecting the carbon sheet with the mainbody of the writing sheets along one edge of the set to permit the main body of the writing sheets to be removed from the carbon sheet by exerting a pull on the set, said means including a line of weakness in one edge portion of each writing sheet in sufiiciently spaced relation to one edge thereof to permit the set to be grasped outside the lines of weakness, the

carbon sheet having a portion thereof perforated near a second edge of the set opposite to the interconnecting means, the perforations being sufiiciently spaced from said second edge to permit the writing sheets to be grasped between the fingers outside the perforations, and the carbon sheet and the writing sheets having their edges at said second edge of the set in substantial coincidence with each other to permit the carbon sheet as well as the writing sheets to be reliably held in' a typewriter at said second edge of the set, and the latter to be fully typed throughout, the carbon sheet and the writi-ngsheets being respectively free of lines of weakness at their said first mentioned edge portion and at said second edge portion.

13. A transfer set including a plurality of writing sheets, a carbon sheet therebetween, means detachably interconnecting the carbon sheet with the main body of the writing sheets along one edge of the set to permit the main body of the writing sheets to be removed from the carbon sheet by exerting a pull on the set, the carbon sheet having a line of weakness at the bottom edge of the set opposite to the interconnecting means, the line of weakness being suificiently spaced from the bottom edge of the set to permit the set to be grasped wholly below the line of weakness, and the carbon sheet and the .writing sheets having their edges at said bottom edge of the set in continuous substantial coincidence with each other from corner to corner of the set and to permit the carbon sheet as well as the writing sheets to be reliably held and fully typed in a typewriter adjacent to said bottom edge of the set, and the writing sheets being free of any lines of weakness adjacent to the bottom edge thereof. 1

14. A transfer set including a plurality of writing sheets, a carbon sheet therebetween, means detachably interconnecting the carbon sheet with the main body of the writing sheets along one edge of the set to permit the main body of the writing sheets to be removed from the carbon sheet by exerting a pull on the set, said means including a line of slits in the top of each writing sheet in sufilciently spaced relation to the top edge thereof. to permit the set to be grasped above the lines of slits, the carbon sheet having a portion thereof perforated near the bottom edge of the set opposite to the interconnecting means, the perforations being sufficiently spaced from said bottom edge to permit the writing sheets to be grasped between the fingers be low the perforations, and the carbon sheet and the writing sheets having their edges at said bottom edge of the set in substantial coincidence with each other to permit the carbon sheet as well as the writing sheets to be reliably held in a typewriter at said bottom edge of the set, and

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