Improvements in Cases or Receptacles for Magazines, Music, Manuscripts, and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Sept., 1898-Accepted, 5th Nov., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cases or Receptacles for Magazines, Music,
Manuscripts, and the like.
I, JOIN GEER, trading as Orrin and Geer, of Farringdon Road Works, Farring-
don Road, London, E.C., Bookbinder, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is be performed to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:―
This invention relates to improvements in cases or receptacles for magazines,
music, manuscripts and the like, and has for its object the provision of a case or
holder in which magazines, periodicals, papers, sheet music, manuscripts and the
like can be temporarily placed, pending their binding into book form, such case
or holder being so constructed that by the removal of a portion of same it can be
converted into a cover for permanently binding such magazines, periodicals or the
like in book form.
With this invention unbound publications and other papers are provided with
a temporary self-contained cover, which, when placed in a bookshelf, for instance,
can be rendered undistinguishable from permanently bound books adjacent to such
temporary cover.
In order that this my said invention may be the more readily understood and
carried into practical effect reference is hereby made to the accompanying sheet
of illustrative drawings, wherein :-
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the complete case or cover, and
Fig. 2 a similar view illustrating the manner in which the case is converted,
by the removal of a portion thereof, into the boards and back of a permanent
binding cover.
Referring to the drawing, wherein like letters of reference indicate corresponding
parts in both figures, a are the cloth or other covered boards of a bookbinding
cover (which may be of any suitable material, shape and form) connected together
in the usual manner by means of the flexible back b.
Fixed to one of the said boards a, by means of mucilage, stitching or other
suitable means, is a tray-like receptacle c, formed of card-board, mill-board or
other suitable and convenient material. This said receptacle c has three raised
sides c which are preferably covered, with paper or other material of a suitable
pattern in order to cause them to resemble the edges of the leaves of a book.
Although I have shewn and described the tray-like receptacle cas having only
three raised sides c', it may be provided with four of these sides if found desirable
or convenient.
When in use as a temporary case or receptacle for magazines et cetera, such
magazines, for instance, are placed in the tray-like receptacle c and removed' there-
from at will, the boards a when closed, causing the whole to closely resemble

page_text: In order to convert the said temporary case or receptacle into a permanent
binding cover, the tray-like receptacle c with its sides care removed and the
boards a and back 6 then employed by the book-binder in the usual manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
In a case or receptacle for magazines, music, manuscripts, and the like, the
boards a connected together by a flexible back b and suitably covered to resemble
the permanent binding of a book, in combination with the removable tray-like
receptacle provided with raised sides e¹ having their outer surfaces so treated
as to imitate the edges of book-leaves, all arranged, combined, and operating
substantially as and for the purpose described, and as illustrated by the drawing.
Dated this 27th day of September 1898.
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, W.C., For the Applicant.