An Improved Method or Tool for Binding or Fastening Together Papers, Cloth, Leather, Metal, or other Sheets of any description; also for Perforating, Cutting, and Stamping,
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Oct., 1892-Accepted, 19th Nov., 1892
CUM DEIE DI MUITIVATION.
An Improved Method or Tool for Binding or Fastening Together
Papers, Cloth, Leather, Metal, or other Sheets of any description;
also for Perforating, Cutting, and Stamping Sheets of Paper,
Leather, Cloth, Metal, or other material where it is desirable to
Retain the Substance of the material Partially Cut Out or Shaped,
but still Attached to the Body or Bulk of the Material so Cut or
Shaped.
HENRY HOPKINS 15 Hardware Street West Bromwich in the County of
Stafford, Draughtsman & Engraver, CHARLEY CLEGG of 6 Elmar Road
Tottenham, London, in the County of Middlesex, Bookkeeper, & WILLIAM
EDWARD PITT of 85 Constitution Hill Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Letter Cutter 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 :-
Our invention has for its object to provide a tool or machine which will effect the
binding or fastening together of papers, pieces of leather, cloth, sheets of metal, or
other substances of any description, without the use of wire staples, cords, gum,
glue, paste or fasteners of any kind, thus effecting a great saving of time labour &
material. Also as a further object the said tool or machine can be used for the
purpose of perforating cutting out or stamping sheets of paper, cards, leather,
cloth, metal or other materials where it is desirable to retain the substance of the
material partially cut out or shaped but still attached to the body or bulk of the
material so cut or shaped.
In carrying our invention into practice we construct the tool or machine in either
of the following manners:-First in the case of a hand tool which will make one cut,
perforation or incision, we propose to construct the said tool with two jaws worked
by means of a pair of handles upon a joint or pivot similar to a pair of pliers, shears,
or such like tools. Secondly in the case of a machine to make any number of cuts,
perforations or incisions the said machine would be constructed with a top & bottom
tool carrying any number of cutters and beds, recesses, or slots as desired and at
any distance apart. The said top & bottom tool to be connected by any approved
method & operated in the ordinary manner for bringing the cutting tools & beds,
recesses or slots together by means of screws, levers or any other suitable motion or
power. The top tool or tools in either case would be formed as a cutting tool of
any desired shape or size, and the bottom tool or tools would be formed in either
case as a bed, recess, or slot, to correspond with the said cutting tool, and into
which bed, recess or slot the said cutting tool would be forced by any approved
method of leverage as before mentioned, in such a manner that when in action the
said tools would cut the materials placed between the jaws, on three sides of an
oblong or other shape, leaving the fourth side or end uncut and still attached to the
body or bulk of the material so cut or perforated. The top tool then passes further
into the bed, recess, or bottom tool, and in doing so turns back the cut portions of
the material; such cut portions passing clearly through the body or bulk of the
material and lying back upon one or other side of the bulk, on the opposite side to
that on which the incision is made; thus forming a complete fastening or binder.
The incision, perforation or cut can be made of any desired shape or size by means
of the tools being so constructed of any particular shape or size, and the tools or
machines can be constructed to carry any number of pairs of cutters and beds or
recesses and at any distance apart.
In using the tool or machine in connection with the binding of periodicals or
thin books, if thought advisable, after the said periodicals or books had been cut,

page_text: stamped or perforated, a cover could be pasted, glued or gummed on the outside of
the book &c. the said cover would then effectually fix the cut portions in such a
manner as to prevent their return through the slots, perforations or incisions made
in the bulk, thus forming a complete hinge or joint for every leaf or sheet.
For the purpose of making a strong fastener or binding for large books, leather,
metal sheets &c. we propose before piercing or perforating the same to fix a narrow
binder of thin tin late, iron, brass or other metal of shape along and
embracing the edges of the said sheets and then to proceed to pierce or perforate
the entire bulk so clipped or bound together as before described. In this case, in
addition to the small pieces of the materials of which the bulk is composed there
would also pass through the slots and clench or turn back two small pieces of the
said strips of metal, at each perforation or cut, which would of course, materially
strengthen the binding of the said bulk, & by means of the stiffness or rigidity of
the metal would retain the small pieces of cut material in their desired positions
without the use of glue paste gum &c. Or instead of the said metal strips, binders
of cloth, leather or other suitable material may be used. The tool or machine can
also be used for a variety of purposes, such as stamping out portions of cards, or
metals, for the purpose of hanging on to the partially cut portions thereof articles
of jewellery or the like for exhibition in shop windows &c.; or for any other purpose
where it is desirable to retain the substance of the material so partially cut out or
shaped.
The sheets numbered 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings represent respectively
the shapes and methods of action of the hand tool and the duplicated or multiple
machine respectively; the handles being omitted in the case of the hand tool, and
also the connections between the top & bottom tools of the machine for the purpose
of making the drawings more clearly understood. As before mentioned the said
connections can be constructed by means of levers screws, or any approved
mechanical method for bringing the top and bottom tools together for the purpose
of cutting, perforating, or stamping the material placed between them.
At E
In referring to Plate 1 the hand tool is shewn at A with the jaws open ready to
receive the substance B to be pierced. C shews the cutting tool just entering the
said substance. D shews the tool or cutter having passed completely through the
substance B carrying with it the small pieces of partially severed material.
is shewn the tool nearly closed & the pieces of partially severed material thrust
back upon the bulk of the substance pierced as shewn by the dotted lines.
F represents a perspective view of the hand tool, the handles being omitted as
before mentioned. G shews the bulk of material ready to be pierced. H shews
the same after being pierced, and the pieces of partially severed material lying
back upon the bulk underneath, as left by the cutting tool. J shews the same
reversed, giving a clearer view of the small pieces of partially cut material which
can now be gummed, glued, or pasted down if thought necessary; or can be held
down in their places by the fixing of a cover or strip of metal or any other material
upon the outside of the same as before mentioned.
Plate 2 shews the top & bottom tools for a machine which can be made to carry
any desired number of cutters K and beds, recesses, or slots L, the said cutters and
beds can be fixed at any required distance apart. The action of each pair being
precisely similar to that described with regard to the hand tool.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. To construct a single tool for hand, or duplicated or multiple tool or machine
for power for the purpose of cutting, stamping or perforating any number of sheets
of paper, leather, metal or other substance in such a manner that the pieces of the
said material are not completely cut away or detached from the bulk of the said
material, but are turned back upon the surface of the said bulk of material so
pierced or cut.

page_text: 2. That the said hand tool or machine can be used for the purpose of binding
together books, periodicals, sheets of music, drawings, plans, papers, cards, or sheets
of cloth, leather, metals, or any similar substances which it may be desirable to
bind or fasten together, without the use of wire staples, cords, gum, glue, paste, or
fasteners of any kind.
3. That the said tool or machine can also be used for partially cutting out
portions of cards, metals or other substances for various purposes such as to hang
thereon articles of jewellery or the like for exhibiting same in shop windows &c.;
or any other purpose where it is desirable to retain the substance of the material
partially cut out or shaped but still attached to the body or bulk of the material so
cut or shaped, substantially as herein set forth and illustrated by the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 27th day of September 1892.
HENRY HOPKINS.
CHARLEY CLEGG.
WILLIAM EDWARD PITT.