AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COVERS FOR BOOKS
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Taylor, of Spring Grove, Hounslow, in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF COVERS FOR BOOKS."
Scaled the 28th September 1855, and dated the 2nd April 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Taylor at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
2nd April 1855.
1:
I, JOHN TAYLOR, of Spring Grove,. Hounslow, in the County of Middlesex,
do hereby declare the nature of the. Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE
MANUFACTURE.OF COVERS FOR BOOKS " to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object the making of envelopes suitable for and
in covering the flaps and backs of books with envelopes. By these means the
flaps and backs of books. may be more readily and conveniently covered than
heretofore. For this purpose, envelopes are made, folded, and cemented, so
far as three of the flaps are concerned, in a similar manner to envelopes for
letters; but in respect to the fourth or open flap of an envelope to be used in
covering a book, in place of its being cut away, and shaped in a suitable
manner. to receive a seal or wafer or adhesive matter, such fourth or open

page_text: flap is made of the same length as the envelope, and two of such envelopes are
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used for covering a book, one being prepared with adhesive matter.
covering a book, an envelope, such as above described, is placed on each of the
flaps of the cover of the book, and the fourth or open flap of each of the two
envelopes is then folded and cemented one on the other, and thus is the
covering of the book completed.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Taylor in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 1st
October 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOIN
TAYLOR, of Spring Grove, Hounslow, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said John Taylor, Her special licence that I, the said John Taylor, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as 1, the said John
Taylor, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF COVERS FOR BOOKS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said John Taylor, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be
filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Taylor, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof (that is to say):—
This Invention has for its object the making of envelopes suitable for and.

page_text: in covering the flaps and backs of books with envelopes. By these means the
flaps and backs of books may be more readily and conveniently covered than
heretofore. For this purpose, envelopes are made, folded, and cemented, so far
as three of the flaps are concerned, in a similar manner to envelopes for letters;
but in respect to the fourth or open flap of an envelope to be used in covering
a book, in place of its being cut away and shaped in a suitable manner to
receive a seal or wafer or adhesive matter, such fourth or open flap is made of
the same length as the envelope, and two of such envelopes are used for covering
a book, one being prepared with adhesive matter. In covering a book, an
envelope, such as above described, is placed on each of the flaps of the cover of
the book, and the fourth or open flap of each of the two envelopes is then
folded and cemented one on the other, and thus is the covering of the book
completed.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shows an inside view of an envelope suitable for covering one half
of a book; Figure 2 is a similar envelope for covering the other half of
a book. In each case the flaps a, b, c, are to be folded in any desired order,
one over the other, and cemented together, as when making an envelope
for a note or letter. And it may be stated that the form or cut of the flaps
a, b, c, may be varied, according to taste. On Figure 1, at the inside edge
of the flap d is applied a quantity of adhesive matter or cement, as is shewn
at d¹, d¹.
The other half of the cover for a book, shewn at Figure 2, does not require
any adhesive matter to be applied thereto. When these two envelopes have
been placed on the two covers of a book, the unfolded flaps d, d, are to be
folded over the back of the book and on to cach other; the flap d of Figure 2
is to be first folded, and the flap d of Figure 1 is then to be folded thercon, the
adhesive matter or cement being first moistened. Or, in place of the inside
surface d having the cement or adhesive matter applied thereto, the same may
be applied to the outside surface of the flap d of either half of the cover for a
book, in which case that flap d which has the cement thereon will be first
folded on to the back of the book, and the unprepared flap of the other half
of the cover folded thereon. The flaps & should be made suitable for covering
the thickest books when overlapping but slightly.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner

page_text: of performing the same, I would have it understood that what I claim is, the
manufacture of covers for books, as herein described.
In witness whereof; I, the said John Taylor, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this First day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
Witness,
JA³ TAYLOR,
15, Furnival's Inn,
Sol.
JOHN TAYLOR. (L.S.)