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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
CHARLES CLEVELAND McCOMBS, OF STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS.CHECK-PROTECTOR.
Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Mar. 13, 1917.
Application filed May 11, 1916. Serial No. 96,888.To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, CHARLES CLEVELAND
MCCOMBS, a citizen of the United States of
America, residing at Stephenville, in the
5 county of Erath and State of Texas, have
invented certain new and useful Improve-
ments in Check-Protectors, of which the
following is a specification, reference being
had therein to the accompanying drawing.
10 This invention relates to a check protector
and has for its principal object the produc-
tion of a device which is so constructed as to
facilitate the perforating of certain por-
tions of a check and thereby prevent unau-
15 thorized tampering with the subject-matter
as appearing thereon.
Another object of this invention is the pro-
duction of a check protector wherein the
. body is formed from a blank and is pro-
20 vided with a plurality of spring-like jaws
being adapted to support the perforating
rollers in such a manner that the check may
be inserted between the jaws at various posi-
tions, thus permitting the perforating rollers
25 to engage the check at different points
thereon.
Another object of this invention is the
production of a check protector wherein the
jaws have parallel spring tongues so as to
30 carry the perforating rollers along the cen-
tral longitudinal axis of the jaws, whereby
the check being positioned between the jaws
will be in the correct position to have the
rollers move toward the longitudinal' axis of
35 the check, while the tongues are formed so as
to yield slightly when necessary, thus taking.
up undue pressure..
With these and other objects. in view this
invention consists of certain novel combina-
40 tions, constructions, and arrangements of
parts as will be hereinafter fully described
and claimed.
In the accompanying drawing:
Figure 1 is a top plan view of the check.
45 protector, showing the same in use..
Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the check pro-.
tector. .
Fig. 3 is a fragmentary enlarged longi-
tudinal section through the outer end of one
50 jaw, showing the perforating roller in side
elevation.
Fig. 4 is a plan view of the blank from
which the jaws are formed.
Referring to the accompanying drawing
55 by numerals it will be seen that the body 1 is
formed from a blank sheet of material and
is preferably diamond shaped as inthe planview of the blank as shown in Fig. 4. Thus,
it will be seen that the jaws 2 are tapered
from the body 1 to their outer reduced ends. 60
This body 1 is bent transversely so as to
cause the jaws 2 to extend substantially in
parallel planes. In this manner it will be
seen that a substantially U-shaped support-
ing body and jaws are provided so as to per- 65
mit the check to be inserted therein for a
considerable distance when the protector is
in operation.
The outer ends of the jaws 2 are bent to
provide the outer tongues 3 having apertures 70
4 formed therein. Adjacent these tongues 3
the jaws 2 have inwardly extending inner
tongues 5 struck therefrom, these tongues 5
being bent along the lines 6. It should be
noted that these limes 6 are at a spaced dis- 75
tance from the portions of the tongues 5
which extend directly from the jaws 2,
whereby the bases of the tongues 5 will be
carried normally in alinement with the jaws'.
2. These tongues 5 are also provided with 80
apertures 7 so that when the tongues 3 are
bent so as to extend toward each other and the
inner tongues 5 are bent so as to extend to-
ward each other, it will be seen that the aper-
tures 4 of the outer tongues 3 will be in 85
alinement with the apertures 7 of the inner
tongues 5. At this time the usual perforat-
ing rollers 8 will be positioned between each
pair of jaws so as to allow the pintles 9 to fit
within the apertures 4 and 7 for rotatably 90
supporting the perforating rollers 8. It is,
of course, obvious that each jaw 2 is adapted
to carry a perforating roller 8, as clearly
shown in Fig. 2, so as to permit a check to be
passed therebetweeji when the check pro- 95
tector is in use.
When this check protector is in operation
it may be used upon a check as referred to
herein at 10, permitting the check to extend
between the slots as shown. If it is.'so de- 100
sired the numerals designating the amount
of the check may be perforated and in this
operation written designating numerals may
also be perforated. In the operation of per-
forators of this type now in use it is only 105
possible to perforate the 'portions. of the
check adjacent the marginal edge for it is
impossible to perforate an entire line as the
protector is shown to be doing in Fig. 1, for
in the usual style of protectors the perfo- 110
rating rollers extend across or transversely
to the longitudinal axis of the body or the
jaws. The rollers as above set forth, how-
ever, extend in the same plane as the longi-1,219,336.
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McCombs, Charles Cleveland. Check-Protector., patent, March 13, 1917; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth860025/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.