Cheque book assembly

Claim 1

A cheque book assembly including a set of cheques and having facilities for journal entries recording particulars of cheques issued therefrom and for analysis entries for classifying expenditure; the assembly comprising a plurality of carrier leaves each having right and left hand ends and first and subsequent fields delineated thereon and being arranged one above another; binding means binding the carrier leaves together at their right hand ends; a sub-set of cheques having right and left hand ends and carried on each carrier leaf with the cheques overlaying the carrier leaf in a staggered overlap with respect to one another and bound detachably to the carrier leaf at the left hand ends of the cheques and carrier leaf; an elongated inscription field forming part of the surface of each cheque; first pressure sensitive reproduction means for causing an inscription effected on said elongated field of a first cheque to be reproduced on said first field delineated on the carrier leaf to provide a journal entry for the first cheque on the carrier; second and successive pressure sensitive reproduction means for causing second and successive inscriptions respectively on second and successive cheques respectively to be reproduced on second and successive fields respectively of the carrier leaf; the fields on the carrier leaf being offset from one another by the stagger of the cheques so that the reproduced inscriptions form a journal for the sub-set of cheques; a first analysis leaf overlying the first sub-set of cheques and bound to the carrier leaves at the right hand edge thereof and having analysis fields delineated on the under surface thereof such that when opened away from the first carrier leaf analysis fields for each cheque are provided to the right of the journal entries, the under-surfaces of successive carrier leaves defining analysis fields opposite corresponding journal entries on the next successive carrier leaf for subsequent sub-sets of cheques.