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UNITED STATES PATTEN OFFICE.
WALTER ROYSTONE, OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR TO M. P. EXLINE, OF DALLAS,
TEXAS, INDEPENDENT EXECUTOR OF A. S. EXLINE, DECEASED.
PASS-BOOK.1,168,966.
Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Jan. 18, 1916.
Application filed Jane 24, 1914. Serial No. 847,113.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, WALTER RoYSTONE, a
citizen of the United States, residing at
Fort Worth, in the county of Tarrant and
5 State of Texas, have invented certain new
and useful Improvements in Pass-Books;
and I do hereby declare the following to be
a full, clear, and exact description of the
invention, such as will enable others skilled
10 in the art to which it appertains to make
and use the same.
This invention relates to book binding,
and more especially to covers; and the ob-
ject of the same is to produce a pass book
15 whose cover may be externally rough' and
its surface of a character which will not
readily receive writing, with a panel de-
pressed into the face of the cover and so
surfaced that it - will readily take writing
20 fluid. This object is carried out in a num-
ber of ways whereof certain embodiments
are set forth in the following specification
and shown in the drawings in which:
Figure 1 is a front elevation of a 'pass
25 book or deposit- book, such as is used in
banks, the front cover thereof being pro-.
vided with my invention; and Fig. 2 is a
central- vertical section through a portion of
said front cover on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1,
30 this view being on an enlarged scale. Fig.
3 is a horizontal section of another plan
for carrying out the same general idea, and
Figs. 4 and 5 are fragmentary horizontal
sections of yet other plans and on a slightly
35 larger scale. Fig. 6 is a horizontal section
through a complete pass book provided with-
my invention by means described below.
Fig. 7 is a fragmentary section of yet an-
other manner of carrying out the invention.
40 By the term "pass book" herein I refer
to any book whose size is such that it is
usually carried in the pocket and whose use
is such that it is frequently drawn forth
for the reception of important memoranda.
45 We may assume that the pass book referred
to is a deposit book such as is used by
banks for crediting their customers with the
amounts deposited. As these books are
often carried in the pocket of the working
50 man, or of any person where they are sub-
jected to considerable wear against adjacent
objects and where they possibly sometimesbecome damp from perspiration or other
sources, they are securely bound in a cover
which is usually embossed on its outer face 55
as by being pebbled, grained, or otherwise
rendered rough, or perhaps by being made
of leather or other material or composition
of materials upon which it is somewhat diffi-
cult to write with the pen and ink or from 60
which' such writing soon wears off. Ordi-
narily the name of the bank is printed on
the front cover, together with the words
"In account with," and below the latter is
written the name of the depositor. In this 65
specification we are not concerned with what
is printed or written upon the pages of the
leaves of the book, but when anything is
written on an exposed face of the cover it
is subjected to wear as has been suggested, 70
and is soon obliterated by abrasion or from
other causes. If the name or other mat-
ter so written on the cover is not duplicated
on the pages of the book, confusion arises
which sometimes results in disagreements or 75
losses.
It is the purpose of the present invention
to provide on a cover which is otherwise
rough or in any event a poor writing sur-
face, a panel which is itself faced with some- 80
thing which is a good writing surface and
will retain the ink; and in the preferred
embodiment of my invention the front face
of the panel is depressed below the sur-
rounding portion of the front face of the 85
cover so that-if the panel be not too large-
the contact of the cover with contiguous ob-
jects in the pocket prevents the contact of
such objects with the face of the panel.
Heretofore it has been proposed to cut an 90
opening in the cover through which an inner
sheet or card is visible, and write on the face
of such card which is exposed through the
opening; but I find that when the cover is
cut in any way it is weakened, no matter if 95
the card be lapped well over the edges of the
opening and carefully secured inside the
cover. It is undesirable to weaken the cover,
especially in books which are to be carried
in the pocket and handled often, and accord- 100
ingly I .employ other means for forming
these panels.
In the drawings hereto annexed the
cover has a rear leaf R and an unbroken
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Roystone, W. Pass Book, patent, June 24, 1914; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth859227/m1/2/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.