Year: 1896

page_text: WILLIAM EDWARD COLEMAN 27 Lothair Road Finsbury Park N. Wholesale
Stationer FREDERICK GEORGE FENDER 14 Rydevale Road Balham S.W.
Commercial Traveller do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
Folded sheets or leaves have applied, paste, gum or other suitable substance, at
folded edges, and between folded sheets or leaves to a sufficient depth to adhere &
bind together, no wire or stitching with thread being required.
Quantity of 25 folded sheets, riz. 50 leaves & upwards making a book, pad & the
like.
F. G. FENDER.
W. E. COLEMAN.
WILLIAM EDWARD COLEMAN Manufacturing Stationer, residing at 27 Lothair
Read, Finsbury Park, London N. and FREDERICK GEORGE FENDER, Commercial
Traveller, residing at Whyteleaf, Rydevale Road, Balham do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
Heretofore. books and pads have been bound by making them up of sections
which are stitched with wire or with thread on to some backing such as linen or
webbing. This kind of binding is very strong and excellent for books which have
to last as long as possible, whereas for hooks of a temporary use, such as duplicate
and manifold copy books, pads and the like, it is rather too costly, and all attempts
to replace it by a less expensive method have been without success.
There is in use another binding of great simplicity, which consists of passing a
wire or a thread through the sheets or leaves from front to back, but the same docs
not permit to open the hook sufficiently for the facility of writing.
Our present method consists substantially of folding sheets or leaves and of
applying paste, gum, or any other suitable substance at the folded edges and
between the folded sheets or leaves to a sufficient depth to adhere and bind
together. No wire, or stitching with thread is required aud the binding offers the
double advautage of being very simple and of permitting the book to be entirely
and easily opened at any place. The quantity of sheets for making up the book
or pad may vary from 25 sheets viz. 50 leaves and upward according to
requirements.
We shall now more particularly describe our method with reference to the
accompanying drawing.

page_text: The paper sheets are first cut to a size double of that of the book and folded
together each separately so as to form two leaves a a¹ Fig. 1.
These folded sheets are then taken up and opened out or featheredged so that
the folded edge of each sheet shall exceed the next one a certain depth b say
abont of an inch, as shown in Fig. 2.
The sheets then have applied piste or other suitable material on the projecting
parts and are taken up at once, whereby they will fall together and form the
body indicated Fig. 3.
The binding is completed by slightly compressing the volume until it has
got dry.
If the process is used for binding duplicate and manifold copy books, the sheets
of paper are previously provided with a perforated line and, if desired, with a
heading as indicated in Fig. 1.
In order to consolidate the binding,
board C Care used on both sides of the
other webbing is pasted round the back.
cut and finished in the usual manner.
sheets of stronger paper or of card
book and a band d, Fig. 4, of linen or
When dry the sides of the volume are
The sides C C and the back d may be also replaced by a strong sheet of paper
pasted arround the volume, which may be laid in a special cover, Fig. 5, where it is
held in place by pushing the last sheet C', provided with a tongue e, under a flat
bar and by securing it by means of a knob g. h is a carbon leaf, fixed to a
special support i.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :
1. The method of binding books, pads and the like, by folding the sheets so as to
obtain two leaves; by pasting or otherwise sticking them externally to a sufficient
depth from the folded edge, and by arranging them above each other so as to form
a volume which is slightly compressed until the sheets will adhere together,
substantially as described with reference to the drawing.
2. In combination with the above claimed binding, the use of stronger sheets of
paper or cardboard for the sides and of a band of linen pasted round the back, for
the purpose and as described.
3. In combination with the above claimed binding, the use of sheets either blank
or provided with a perforated line and a heading, if desired, such as required for
duplicate and manifold copy books, substantially as set forth.
4. In combination with the claimed binding consolidated by a strong sheet of
paper or linen pasted arround the back and the sides,-a special cover, Fig. 5,
where the binding is secoured by means of a flat barf and a knob g and where the
carbon leaf is fixed on a special support i all substantially as described and
represented in the annexed drawing.
TH. WIESEMANN,
Agent for Applicants.