Improved Means and Appliances connected with Book and like Covers to Receive Numbers or Parts of Pamphlets, Serials, and the like, and to Hold Them Temporarily or Permanently as Desired.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Dec., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Aug., 1895-Accepted, 12th Oct., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means and Appliances connected with Book and like
Covers to Receive Numbers or Parts of Pamphlets, Serials, and
the like, and to Hold Them Temporarily or Permanently as
Desired.
I WALTER SYMONS of 22 Hareingy Park, Hornsey, County of Middlesex,
Publishers' Manager do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improved means and appliances connected with book
and like covers to receive numbers or parts of pamphlets, serials and the like
and to hold them temporarily or permanently as desired the object being to
enable the daily, weekly, monthly or quarterly serials to be placed in the covers
as they are presented periodically and thus be kept for reading purposes in book
form.
The invention consists of a book cover with an extra thick back preferably of
some light wood, the outside of the cover being of the usual description according
to the kind of binding and embellishment with the usual identification of the nature
of the serial to be inserted.
This backing has for the purposes of my invention a plate or any desired number
of plates secured to it transversely with turned up or hinged ends provided with
pivoted catch hooks or their equivalents. The ends are also slotted for the reception
of blades of steel or other flexible material, the ends of said blades being also slotted
or having holes for the noses of the catch hooks to enter and fix them in position.
In conjunction with the foregoing I employ a loose fitting bridge slotted length-
wise at intervals to go over the flexible blades to hold any less number than is
required to fill the cover in their respective positions but with plenty of play to
yield as fresh numbers are placed in the covers.
To carry my invention into practice I first stab or pierce the serial close to the
back edge at places corresponding to the position of the plates in the cover back
and pass it over and on to the blades which may have been secured at one end only
to the plates by the catch hooks. I then place the bridge in position and pass the
free ends of the blades through the other bent or hinged pieces and fasten them
with the catch hooks in a similar manner to the first mentioned method. The side
covers are perfectly free to be opened and closed and from the flexibility of the
blades any portion of the serial can be opened for reading purposes almost flat and
without shifting the sections or tending to break the leaves away.
Dated this 6th day of December 1894.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166 Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said W. Symons.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means and Appliances connected with Book and like
Covers to Receive Numbers or Parts of Pamphlets, Serials, and
the like, and to Hold Them Temporarily or Permanently as
Desired.
I, WALTER SYMONS, of 22 Hareingy Park, Hornsey, County of Middlesex,
Publishers' Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to he particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:
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This invention relates to improved means and appliances connected with book
and like covers to receive numbers or parts of pamphlets, serials, and the like, and
to hold them temporarily or permanently as desired, the object being to enable the
daily, weekly, monthly, or quarterly serials to be placed in covers as they are
presented periodically, and thus be kept for reading purposes in book form.
The invention is illustrated in the annexed drawings, Figure 1, it consists of a
book cover A with an extra thick back B preferably of some light wood, the
outside being of the usual description according to the kind of binding and
embellishment with the usual identification of the nature of the serial to
be inserted. This backing B has for the purposes of my invention a plate C
(or any desired number of such plates, say, 3. as shown) secured to it transversely
with one turned up end D and one hinged end E provided with catch hooks F, F, F,
or their equivalents pivoted at G. The ends are also slotted for the reception of
blades of steel, or other flexible material H, H, H, the ends of said blades being
also slotted, or having holes for the noses of the catch hooks F, F, F, to enter
and fix them in position as shown
In conjunction with the foregoing, I employ a loose fitting bridge or gauge
plate J slotted lengthwise at intervals to go over the flexible blades H, H, H, to
hold any less number of serials than is required to fill the cover A in their
respective positions but with plenty of play to yield as fresh numbers are placed
in the cover.
I form a
lip K to the bridge J, so that it can when placed on a serial, as at
Figure 2, indicate the exact position where the blades have to be pushed through.
Figure 3 represents one of my appliances detached and such as could be affixed
to cover back of a serial case or affixed to the head of a board for holding
trade price list, shipping ing fitted in daily and retained for
future reference in weekly or monthly collection.
Figure is an elevation of a single back plate (with three bent lips D, D, D,
from one edge and thre hinge jointed Hp E, E, F, with the flexible steel
Blades H., H, ench having one turned back end X for location in the slot of
the lips 1) the other end being of the form providy describel for attachment
to the lip E by a catch hook F, this end of the blade If being slotted only.
To carry my invention into practice, I first place the bridge J on the serial L
with the lip K against the back and mark the places to be stabbed and then pierce
the serial close to the back edge at places corresponding to the position of the
plates in the cover back and pass it over and on to the blades H, H, H, which
may have been secured at one end only to the plates by the catch hooks F, F, F,
I then place the bridge J in position and pass the now free ends of the
blades H, H, H, through the other bent or hinged pieces D, E, and fasten them
with the catch hooks F, F, F, in a similar manner to the first mentioned method.
The side covers
are perfectly free to be opened and closed, and from the
exibility of the blades H, H, H, any portion of the serial can be opened for

page_text: reading purposes almost flat, and without shifting the sections or tending to break
the leaves away.
I have shown three of such appliances but the plate C may be in a single piece
with the requisite number of end pieces projecting from or jointed to it for
folding.
In conjunction with the invention, I purpose employing a curved and slotted
strip of springy metal, as per dotted lines, M, M, Figure 1 to press the serials
home against the bridge.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The invention hereinbefore described and represented_in_the_drawings
consisting of a plate C, ends D, E, pivoted catch hooks F, F, F, flexible
blades H, H, H, as and for the purposes set forth.
2. The hereinbefore described means and appliances connected with book and
like covers or backings to receive numbers or parts of pamphlets, serials, and the
like, and to hold them temporarily or permanently as desired.
The word day of August to
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166 Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Walter Symons.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166 Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Walter Symons.