Improvements in and in connection with Binders for Office and other Documents.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 30th May, 1893-Accepted, 1st July, 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and in connection with Binders for Office and
other Documents.
I, JONATHAN LEWIS YOUNG, of 69, Fore Street, Moorgate Street, London,
E.C., Electrical Engineer, 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 :-
The object of my invention is to provide a method of and means for temporarily
binding together office and other documents, in place of, and to supersede the
metallic fasteners hitherto used for that purpose, the rigidity of which often causes
such documents to become more or less torn and disconnected during examination,
and by the possible protrusion of the sharp points thereof, other and valuable
documents have been frequently torn, but by the use of the method and means
constituting my invention, perfect elasticity of the fastening and absolute security
against injury to other documents is thereby provided.
"Young's
My invention, (which I intend shall be commercially known as
simplex paper binders") consists of short tabs or strips of cloth, linen, cotton,
leather or other fabric or material, (and which may be made in various lengths
from a quarter of an inch upwards) one surface of which I coat with mucilage or
other adhesive material, and one of these I pass through a puncture or punctures
made in the documents to be fastened together (by the means of a special tool
forming part of my invention) in such a manner, that, when the said tab is passed
therethrough, the superfluity of the ends thereof, may be damped, and caused to
adhere to the outer sheet or sheets of the documents.
In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is a plan view of one of said strips or tabs,
Fig. 2 being one form of tool I employ for making the necessary puncture, and
conveying Fig. 1 therethrough.
Fig. 3 illustrates the manner of carrying this into effect.
Fig. 4 illustrates two methods in which Fig. 1, when passed through the puncture,
may be fastened to the outer document or sheet or sheets.
Figs. 5 and 6 are external view and vertical section respectively of a spring plunger
for use in making the necessary puncture when a large quantity of documents or
sheets are to be fastened or bound together.
In carrying my invention into effect, I procure a strip of narrow cloth, linen,
paper, cotton, leather, or any other thin material of a like texture, and which may
be of indefinite length, one side of which I coat with mucilage, glue or any other
adhesive substance, and when dry, I cut the said strip into suitable and various
lengths, so as to form tabs A, which may be, after the form of Fig. 1, and these I
employ in the following manner.
Let it be supposed that, say, six sheets or documents are to be fastened together,
and that two or more fasteners A are to be used for this purpose, I provide of any
suitable metal or material a puncturing tool B, which may be formed as at
Figs. 2, or 3, the end of the blade of which is sharpened to a knife edge at C, and
slightly above this a slot D is made therein, through which one of the gummed
tabs A is passed as at Fig. 2. The tool B is then used to puncture the said six
sheets or documents, and as this passes therethrough one end of the tab A is carried
therewith, as at Fig. 3, and may then be released from B, and this be withdrawn,
leaving the tab A in the puncture thus made, the ends of which may be moistened
and caused to adhere to the outer sheet or sheets as at 1, Fig. 4, or the ends of A
may be folded over each other as at 2 Fig. 4, but the method of fastening must be
decided upon before pasing A through the slot D, in order that the gummed surface
of A may be in the right position for fastening in the manner required. Any

page_text: number of punctures may be made in like manner in the said sheets, each being
provided with a tab A in the manner described.
When a large number of sheets are to be so bound together, to make a puncture
or punctures therein, a greater force would be needed than that afforded by the
tool B, to accommodate which I provide the tool shewn by Fig. 5 and 6, which
consists of a metallic tube E, carrying a plunger F, provided with a spiral or other
spring G, the tension of which tends to keep the plunger F in its highest position
within E. The lower end of F is provided with a knife edge C, and slot D,
similar to Fig. 2, through which a tab A would be passed in like manner to that
shewn by Fig. 2. The documents to be bound together would be laid upon a table
or other flat surface, and the edge C placed where the puncture was required, and
by the impact of a sharp blow given to the head F of the plunger F, C and its tab
would be driven through the documents, the lower end of E meanwhile pressing
upon the upper sheet. One end of the tab A would then be withdrawn from D,
and the binding carried out as before.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
First. In an improved method of, and means for temporarily binding documents,
the employment of linen, paper, cloth, leather or other strips A, rendered adhesive
upon one side, and passed through a puncture or punctures made in said documents
by the aid of a tool B, provided with a knife edge C, and slot D, and caused to
adhere to the outer sheet or sheets as at 1 or 2, Fig. 4, substantially as and for the
purposes herein described and shewn by the drawings.
Second. In combination with the tab A, the construction and use of a puncturing
tool, consisting of a tube E, spring G, plunger F, F, with knife edge C, and
aperture D, for carrying the tab A, substantially as and for the puposes herein
described and shewn by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 30th day of May 1893.
GEO. THIOS. HYDE,
4, Moorfields, Fore Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.