IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOKS FOR HOLDING SCRAPS, LETTERS, INVOICES, OR OTHER SEPARATE SHEETS
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Bernard Jacob Beck, of Brooklyn, in the State of New
York, United States of America, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
BOOKS FOR HOLDING SCRAPS, LETTERS, INVOICES, OR OTHER SEPARATE
SHEETS."
Sealed the 22nd Juno 1877, and dated the 3rd April 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Bernard Jacob Beck at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd April 1877.
BERNARD JACOB BECK, of Brooklyn, in the State of New York, United States
of America. "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOKS FOR HOLDING SCRAPS, LETTERS, INVOICES,
OR OTHER SEPARATE SHEETS."
Invoice files, letter files, and scrap books require filling strips at the back to
produce the required firmness in the back and to give the spaces required for the
sheets or pieces of paper added between the leaves; these filling pieces are usually
separate folded strips; it is difficult to position and hold these while sawing the
channels and making up the book.
The first part of my Invention relates to making the back-filling pieces of one or
more thicknesses of paper folded with reverse folds like a fan, and cut with the
necessary channels for the binding cords, so that the filling pieces of the back are
all in their proper relative position before the scrap book is sewed together; there-
fore in sewing the same it is only necessary to introduce the sheets of that
paper
form the scrap book between the folds of the back-filling pieces and sew the parts
together in the manner usual in binding hooks.
The second feature of my Invention relates to the book when made up with the
adhesive strips that are inserted between the filling pieces, to which adhesive strips
the edges of letters, invoices, or other sheets are caused to adhere by moisture.
These adhesive strips are made by cutting up sheets of paper that are covered on
one side with mucilage, British gum, or other adhesive material and dried. The
strips are laid together in bundles of any suitable number, say, five to twenty each,
and united by a line of stitching running longitudinally and near the back edge,
and then the back edges can also be glued together, and these strips are to be bound

page_text: up with the filling pieces aforesaid to form the book for invoices and other similar
articles. The covers of the book and the back are of usual character.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Bernard Jacob Beck in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 3rd
October 1877.
BERNARD JACOB BECK, of Brooklyn, in the State of New York, United States
of America. "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOKS FOR HOLDING SCRAPS, LETTERS, INVOICES,
OR OTHER SEPARATE SHEETS."
Invoice files, letter files, and scrap books require filling strips at the back to
produce the required firmness in the back, and to give the spaces necessary for the
sheets or pieces of paper added between the leaves; these filling pieces are usually
separate folded strips; it is difficult to position and hold these while sawing the
channels and making up the book.
The first part of my Invention relates to making the back-filling pieces of one or
more thicknesses of paper, folded with reverse folds like a fan, and cut with the
necessary channels for the binding cords, so that the filling pieces of the back are
all in their proper relative position before the scrap book is sewed together; there-
fore in sewing the same it is only necessary to introduce the sheets of paper that
form the scrap book between the folds of the back-filling pieces and sew the parts
together in the manner usual in binding books.
In the Drawing, Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the back-filling piece; Fig. 2 is
a perspective view of one of the sheets; and Fig. 3 is a section of the back as
complete.
The back piece or guard a is made of one sheet of the proper thickness or of
two or more layers or sheets. The folds 1, 1, are made in one direction, the folds 2, 2,
are intermediate and made in the other direction. This may be done by dies or
fluted rollers. The number of folds will be regulated according to the thickness of
the book, and the length of the back strip will correspond to the length of the
folded sheet b at the back. I compress the folds tightly together and cut the folds
at the back with the register notches or saw cuts 4, usually employed for the
attaching cords to pass into, and I cut similar notches 5 in the edges of the folded
sheets, so that the parts will correspond when the folded sheets are placed succes-
sively between the folds of the back and sewed together.
The manner of sewing is well known to bookbinders and need not be described,
as the same is to be of any usual character.
When the book has been sewed, the back is to be glued, and the covers attached
in the ordinary way. The back will be very strong because the glue will pass in
between the folds of the backing piece, and the backing piece is continuous
throughout, instead of being in separate pieces.
The second feature of any Invention relates to the book when made up with the
adhesive strips that are inserted between the filling pieces, to which adhesive strips
the edges of letters, invoices, or other sheets are caused to adhere by moisture.
These adhesive strips are made by cutting up sheets of paper that are covered on
one side with mucilage, British gum, or other adhesive material, and dried. The
strips are laid together in bundles of any suitable number, say, five to twenty each,
and united by a line of stitching running longitudinally and near the back edge,
and then the back edges can also be glued together; and these strips are to be
bound up with the filling pieces aforesaid, to form the book for invoices, &c. The
covers of the book and the back are of usual character.
Fig. 4 is a section of the file, and Fig. 5 is a perspective view representing the
adhesive strips.
Sheets of paper suitable for the adhesive strips are covered with mucilage or
S

page_text: suitable adhesive material upon one side. After they are dry they are laid together
in the proper number for forming sections, and cut up into strips of the proper
length and width. This plan avoids counting the strips and lessens the expense,
but the strips may be counted after they are cut up.
The proper number of adhesive strips a laid together to form a section are sewed
together by a line of stitching near the back edgo, as illustrated in Fig. 5, and it is
preferable to also glue the back edges of the strips forming the section, and also to
saw notches into them for the back cords of the book, as at 61. In placing the
sections together to form the file or adhesive binder it is necessary to use filling
strips or guards, as at d¹, between the sections, the same as ordinarily used in letter
files and scrap books, and such guards d' are shown as made like those at a in
Figs. 1 and 3.
The guards or filling pieces and the sections of strips a' are united by sewing
in any of the modes usually practised in sewing books. I remark that the line of
stitching in each section takes the place of a fold in the strip, and the sewing
threads come inside the same, and the back is very strong and durable.
All the adhesive surfaces of the strips a¹ being in ono direction secure the letters,
invoices, or bills in the usual manner, after the back of the sheet is moistened near
the inner edge, and inserted between the strips a¹. By this mode of manufacture a
great saving is effected in the labor required, because the sections do not require to
be cut or trimmed after they are put together, and the labor of folding and counting
is avoided.
The adhesive strips may be slightly corrugated, as shown in Fig. 5, to prevent the
strips curling up when the adhesive material is applied to the sides.
What I claim as my Invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,—
First. The scrap book made with a filling piece or guard of paper folded in
opposite directions, and provided with the register notches, and receiving the folded
sheets, as set forth.
Second. The adhesive sections for the invoice or letter file made of strips sewed
together at the back edge by a line of stitching, and connected together and to the
intermediate filling strips, in the manner specified.
Third. The strip of adhesive paper corrugated to prevent it changing form by
gumming, substantially as specified.
In witness whercof, 1, the said Bernard Jacob Beck, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixth day of September, A.D. 1877.
Witnesses,
CHAS. H. SMITH, 76, Chambers Street, N. Y.
WILLIAM G. MOTT,
"
"
"
BERNARD J. BECK. (L.S.)