IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR QUICKLY BINDING INTO VOLUMES LETTERS, PAPERS, AND OTHER SHEETS
Year: 1881

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Benjamin Joseph Barnard Mills at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th February 1881.
A communication from abroad by La Société Depoix Lefèvre, of Paris, in
the Republic of France.
BENJAMIN JOSEPH BARNARD MILLS, of the Firm of Harris and Mills, of
23, Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR QUICKLY BINDING INTO VOLUMES LETTERS,
PAPERS, AND OTHER SHEETS." A communication from abroad by La Société
Depoix Lefèvre, of Paris, in the Republic of France.
The Invention has for its object a speedy system of binding with flexible back,
offering great advantages for the formation into volumes of letters, notes, papers,
and other sheets.
This binding is of the type of those in which the different papers to be classified
are united by a thread or cord furnished with tags at their ends.
The cover contains also a blotter and an index analogous to those employed in
ordinary letter copying books.
And in order the better to explain the Invention, I have shown in the accom-
panying Drawings, as example only, different views of a speedy binding constructed
according to the present Invention.
Figure 1 shows an interior view of the binding open.
Figure 2 represents a section of the same drawn on the line 1, 2, of Figure 1.
Figure 3 shows a section of the same drawn on the line 3, 4, of Figure 1.
Figure 4 represents a section of the same drawn on the line 5-6, of Figure 1.
Figure 5 shows a perspective view of the binding closed.
In these various Figures similar letters of reference indicate like parts.
The binding is composed of two covers a of cardboard, millboard, wood, or other
material joined together by a flexible back b of leather, parchment, or other material
or fabric.
One of the covers has two eyelets c, traversed by an elastic cord d, terminated by
tags e.
The other cover also has two eyelets f, and a band of parchment which serves
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page_text: parchment or other suitable material is furnished with notches i corresponding
with the eyelets f, to permit of the tags e piercing the papers to be bound.
The band of parchment presents over the clasps hitherto employed the advantage
of being very solid, and of centering or binding the paper very exactly without
rumpling or tearing it.
The covers of the binding present small sockets k, the leaves of which are
embedded in the thickness of the cardboard; these sockets serve to receive the
tags e at the ends of the elastic cord.
The binding is furnished with a blotter and index m, which occupies the end of
the binding.
The back of the binding being flexible, this last does not occupy much space, but
contains a considerable number of papers.
Further, each of the covers a carries, if desired, a fold or joint n, which
much facilitates the opening of the binding when it contains a considerable number
of papers.
The binding of the papers is effected in the following manner :-
The sheet to be bound is placed under the band of parchment h; it is pierced at
the position of the notches & with the tags which pass through the eyelets f. The
sheet is then placed against the blotter m, and the tags e are placed in the sockets k,
as shown at Figure 5, the two ends of the cord & being crossed.
The binding above described may be effected in various sizes and shapes, and
may be ornamented as desired.