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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
MARCUS P. EXLINE, OF DALLAS, TEXAS.
BANK PASS-BOOK.Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Dec. 8, 1914.
Application filed August 19, 1913. Serial No. 785,577.To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, MARCUS P. ExLINE,
~ a citizen of the United States, residing at
Dallas, in the county of Dallas and State of
5 Texas, have invented certain new and use-
ful Improvements in Bank Pass-Books; and
I do hereby declare the following to be a
full, clear, and exact description of the in-
vention, such as will enable others skilled
10 in the art to which it appertains to make
and use the same.
This invention relates to pass books for
use at banks and the like and has for an
object to provide a book wherein the name
15 of the depositor is written but once to serve
both for identifying the inside and the out-
side of the book, such name being positioned
to prevent wear and obliteration of the name.
A further object of the invention is to
20 provide a pass book having the top of the
first leaf cut away to disclose the top of the
second leaf and with an opening in the cover
registering with the .top of the second leaf
to disclose the name of the depositor written
25 thereon.
With these and other objects in view the
invention comprises a certain novel arrange-
ment of parts as will be hereinafter more
fully described and claimed.
3o In the drawings: Figure 1 is a view of the
improved book in perspective showing a
conventional name for a bank and John
Doe's name as that of a depositor. Fig.
2 is a view of the book in front elevation
15 closed. Fig. 3 is a view in elevation of the
book with the cover opened but the second
leaf covered by the first. Fig. 4 is a view
of the book opened showing the pages for
receiving entries of debit and credit.
t0 Like characters of reference designate
corresponding parts throughout the several
views.
The improved pass book which forms the
subject matter of this application comprises
5 a cover 10 of substantially the usual and
ordinary form and proportion whose front
leaf is provided with a slight opening 11
adjacent the top. This sight opening may
be covered by a transparent sheet or not as
I0 circumstances may make desirable. The
first leaf 12 is as usual blank upon the cover
side and ruled upon its inner side as at 9
for the debit account, and it is cut short
at the top as at 8 to disclose the top of the
5 second leaf 13. The second leaf has its first
page ruled as at 8 for the credit account andnear its upper end it is provided with a line
7 for the name 6 of the depositor, herein
shown as John Doe. By preference this
page also is properly provided at its top 60
with the name of the bank, as indicated at
14, while.the name of the bank also appears
at 15 upon the cover of the book. When the
book is closed, as shown at Fig. 2, the name
of the bank appearing upon the second leaf 65
at 14 is not visible so that the name of the
depositor is associated with the name of the
bank appearing at 15 upon the outside of
the book. When the book is opened either
as shown at Figs. 3 or 4 the name of the 70
bank upon the exterior of the book is not
visible and the name of the depositor is
associated with the name of the bank ap-
pearing upon the top of the second leaf.
It will be apparent that by providing the 75
outlook opening 11 and cutting away the
first leaf at 8 the name of the depositor
written upon the second sheet in association
with the name of the bank serves the pur-
pose of identifying the book from the in- 80
side when opened, and when closed also
serves the purpose of identifying the book
from the outside. As ordinarily used the
name of the depositor is written upon the
outside of the book upon the cover and is 85
also written upon the inside at the head of
the credit page requiring that the name
must be written twice. While this entails
work and consequent expenditure of time
such work and time is not so objectionable 90
as the fact that upon any material yet dis-
covered for bank books the name written in
ink is not permanent and very quickly be-
comes obliterated so that upon the. outside
the book is with difficulty identified. In the 5
present invention the name is written upon
paper which as distinguished from leather
or other cover material retains the writing
and is also either covered by the transparent
sheet in the sight opening 11 or if no such 100
transparent sheet is employed then is de-
pressed below the surface of the book cover
and not subjected to wear the same as
though appearing upon the cover proper.
As seen in Fig. 4, when the book is opened 105
the debit and credit pages 9 and 8 are ex-
posed; and, while the first two pages may
be a little short as the upper end of the
first leaf is cut away and the caption of the
credit page occupies a little space, the rul- 110
ing throughout the remainder of the book
may be that ordinarily followed in deposit1,120,463.
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Exline, Marcus P. Bank Pass-Book., patent, December 8, 1914; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth858994/m1/2/: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.