Improvements in Letter Copying Books or the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application 1st Apr., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 15th June, 1892-Accepted, 9th July. 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Letter Copying Books or the like.
We, REGINALD HOLLAND MAY, HERBERT MAY and HARRY MAY, trading as
Wodderspoon & Co. of 7, Serle Street, Lincoln's Inn, in the County of London,
Manufacturing Stationers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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This invention relates to improvements in copying books for copying letters and
other documents requiring to be copied.
Heretofore it has been found that owing to the fact that in damping copying
paper when bound in books the moisture renders the copying paper soft and very
easy to tear.
Now this invention is designed to get over this difficulty by providing means
whereby the paper when damped or moistened is not liable to be torn by the thread
wire or other material used in sewing and binding.
For this purpose we introduce round each group or section of copying paper
and on the outside thereof a cover or local binding which can be made of bank
paper linen or any other fabric or suitable material either waterproof or not as
desired and such external waterproof binding of the several parts of the book we
are well aware is not new. In the inside of cach such section or group. or part
of a copying book we arrange and mount a guard of waterproof material and
sew or bind through same and the copying paper and thus reduce the liability or
probability of the copying paper being torn away from the sewing or back of the
book.
Greater strength is also given to the book by the addition of these inside guards
as the action of binding takes place on the guards and the strain of the binding
lies against these inside guards and not on the copying paper.
It also enables a quantity of letters to be copied at one time as the said guards
allow room in the back of the book for the oil sheets used in copying letters
etcetera as well as for the documents themselves without the back of the book being
abnormally stretched.
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicants."
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Letter Copying Books or the like.
We, REGINALD HOLLAND MAY, HERBERT MAY and HARRY MAY, trading
as Wodderspoon & Co. of 7, Serle Street, Lincoln's Inn in the County of London,
Manufacturing Stationers, 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 :-
This invention relates to improvements in copying books for copying letters
and other documents requiring to be copied.
According to the method of binding such books hitherto the paper when damped
was very liable to tear at the binding.
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Now this invention is designed to obviate this difficulty by providing means
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page_text: whereby the paper when damped or moistened is not so liable (as hitherto) to
be torn by the thread wire or other material used in sewing and binding.
For this purpose we introduce round each group or section of copying paper and
on the outside thereof a cover or local binding which can be made of bank paper
linen or any other fabric or suitable material either waterproof or not as desired
and such external binding of the several parts of the book we are well aware is not
new (especially when waterproof material is used).
In the inside of each such section or group or part of a copying book we arrange
and mount an inner guard of waterproof material (or if desired a non-waterproof
material may be used instead thereof) and sew or bind through same and the copying
paper (and of course through the outer binding as heretofore) and thus reduce
the liability or probability of the copying paper being torn away from the sewing
or back of the book.
Greater strength is also given to the book by the addition of these guards to the
inside as well as the outside of each section as the action of the binding takes place
on the guards and the strain of the binding lies against these inside guards and not
on the copying paper.
It also enables a quantity of letters to be copied at one time as the said guards
allow room in the back of the book for the oil sheets or other copying sheets used
in copying letters etcetera as well as for the documents themselves-without the
back of the book being abnormally stretched or injured.
And in order that our present invention may be easily understood and readily
carried into practice we will proceed to further describe same with reference to the
drawings hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows a single "section" or bundle of paper (before being bound up
into a copying book) according to our invention.
Figure 2 shows a complete copying book composed of eight such "sections" (as
shown in Figure 1)-but more or less may be used.
a is the external covering or guard on the outside of the paper 6 forming the
"section" Figure 1.
c is the internal guard or piece of strong protecting material arranged and
mounted on the inside of the "section" of paper 6 so that the sewing or binding
takes place through a b and c and it is this inner guard or lining c which forms
the essential feature of our present invention-the strain of the binding being
borne by the said lining or guard c instead of coming in direct contact with the
paper 6 which when damped becomes (as is well known) extremely soft and liable
to tear.
d is the ordinary copying book cover or "back."
We make no separate claim whatever to the outer guard or covering a―as such
covering of waterproof material has we are aware already been patented.
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 combination with a copying book of an inner guard or lining such as c
in the middle of each section group or bundle of paper substantially in the manner
and for the purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated in the drawings hereunto
annexed.
و"
2. We claim a copying book having the various sections groups or bundles of
paper composing same formed with an inner guard or lining arranged and mounted
or bundles of paper
on the inside respectively of each of the several "sections
composing the said copying book substantially in the manner and for the purposes
herein before set forth.

page_text: 3. We claim the combination of the parts a and b with c substantially in the
manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated in the drawings
hereunto annexed.
Dated this 14th day of June 1892.
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicants."