Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-08-15 | Page 14 | Device to Detect Counterfeit Paper

DEVICE TO DETECT COUNTERFEIT PAPER Two Chicago Mori Produce an Inven. ticm Adopted by FolornJ Oov-! Oov-! enimeiit. Tho federal Kovernmrnt haa at lat I found 11 mechiiiii. nl device which will (in two minutes detect the most nkillt'ul j counterfeit bond, ruiiruad ticket or 1 paper money. j to highly is tho device regarded in ort'icial cii'lci that the I'nited Mates secrot servicn ha already ofTiciallv adopted il. The l"nit-d Stiite tn-nmiry at Vnnhinjft un i to tie equipped with an im m en s) number ol' t he machines, and tho American Hankers' asnocjat ion, comprifed of aoine ).".nild nntieunl banhM, is about to ndnpl it. t tuo of the machini-s will prtduililv be received at the local nflVe of thn Tutted States secret srrvici ithin a tdmrt time. The deicn is the invention of two f'hii'iio men, ('aplain Thomas 1. i'urter, in charge t.l' tho ( lticno otl'icp of the neciet service, and 1'eter '. I 'rant Hier, one of his opera 1 1 es. It coiimnts brief I lv of a jilale of the finest I'rench Ins j divided into two sect inns, each of winch ! is ruled bv fine ilianuind cut lines into nn lu f i ni t v of I i ny sipm res. N umbers 1 nlnnu one side ol the frame and Idlers I ulotitf the other side ivn each sipiMie : . a detd)'nnt leu. j A genuine bill is plaeed under Ihe; 1,'i'is oil one side and a suspected COlin- 1 leil'eit under the other, each perfectlvj ad,iiiNl''il. Then every shade nml every j line of Ihe con nt erf ei I which is a thou-' Isnmlth part, of an inch dilVrrViit from I the genuine hlaitds out in IniTu con traat .