Improved Means for Securing Together Samples of Cloth, Leather, Paper, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 5th July, 1894-Accepted, 11th Aug., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Securing Together Samples of Cloth, Leather,
Paper, and the like.
I, SAMUEL JONES, of 44, Arundel Street, Walsall, Staffordshire, Woollen
Warehouseman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of the herein described improved means for securing
together in a bundle samples of cloth or leather or paper or other like samples.
An ordinary method of securing together cloth samples or other like samples is
by means of the well known two prong sheet metal binders which are passed
through the samples and through two binding strips of cardboard leather or other
like stiff substance one strip at either side of the bundle the projecting end
portions of the two prongs being then turned outwardly so as to secure the binders
bundle of samples and cardboard or other like stiff binding strips together. The
turned down pointed ends of the prongs of the binders are liable to scratch the
person who is handling the bundle or the counter or table on which the bundle of
samples may be placed. As the binders are necessarily made of thin and ductile
metal to permit of their prongs being bent as aforesaid the prongs are liable to be
bent back into their original shape and then one of the strips of cardboard or other
like stiff substance may become detached from the bundle which defects it is the
object of my invention to overcome.
My said invention is carried out as follows:-I make that binding strip against
which the end portions of the prongs of the binders are bent as aforesaid with a
flap of similar shape and size to the binding strip this flap being adapted to turn
down flat on to and to cover the said end portions of the binders so as to prevent
their scratching or coming into contact with anything and the said flap is provided
with means for securing the said flap in position when covering the ends of the
binders as aforesaid. For instance the said flap may be made with one or more
metal tongues projecting from its edge which tongues when the flap is folded down
as aforesaid are bent underneath the binding strip thus securing the flap in place;
or the said flap may be secured to the strip by laces or by binders passed through
the flap and through the strip; or the flap may be made with a part or parts which
fold underneath the binding strip; or the flap may be made entirely separate from
the binding strip and attached thereto in any of the several ways above described.
In a further modification of my invention the said flap is made in a piece with
or secured underneath or on the top of that binding strip at the other side of the
bundle where the heads of the two prong binders are and the said flap is then
folded round the ends of the samples and over the ends of the binders and secured
in any of the several ways above described.
Dated this 12th day of April 1804
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Securing Together Samples of Cloth, Leather,
Paper, and the like.
I, SAMUEL JONES, of 44, Arundel Street, Walsall, Staffordshire, Woollen
Warehouseman, 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 consists of the berein described improved means for securing
together in a bundle, samples of cloth or leather or paper or other like samples.
An ordinary method of securing together cloth samples or other like samples is by
means of the well known two prong sheet metal binders which are passed through
the samples and through two binding strips of cardboard leather or other like stiff
substance onc strip at either side of the bundle the projecting end portions of the
two prongs being then turned outwardly so as to secure the binders bundle of
samples and cardboard or other like stiff binding strips together. The turned
down pointed ends of the prongs of the binders are liable to scratch the person
who is handling the bundle or the counter or table on which the bundle of samples
may be placed. As the binders are necessarily made of thin and ductile metal to
permit of their prongs being bent as aforesaid the prongs are liable to be bent
back into their original shape and then one of the strips of cardboard or other like
stiff substance may become detached from the bundle which defects it is the object
of my invention to overcome.
I will describe my invention by referring to the accompanying sheet of
drawings on which the same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding
parts in all the figures and in which Fig. 1 represents some cloth samples or
other like samples secured together in a bundle in the usual way but with one of
the binding strips made with a flap in accordance with this invention so as to cover
the turned down end portions of the prongs of the paper binders and obviate the
defects above enumerated. A is the bundle of cloth samples or other samples,
B is one of the binding strips, and C is the other binding strip; the end portions
of the two prongs of one of the binders are marked d and the end portions of the
prongs of the other binder are marked . It will be understood that these binders
are as usual passed through eyelet holes in the binding strips B and C and the
end portions of their prongs are turned down as shewn in Fig. 2 so as to secure
the binding strips and the bundle of samples together.
According to this invention I make the binding strip C, against which the end
portions dd ee of the prongs of the binders are bent as aforesaid, with a flap
marked C of similar shape and size to the binding strip C.this flap being hinged
at c to the binding strip C and adapted to turn down flat on to and to cover the
end portions e ed of the binders as shewn in Fig. 1 so as to prevent their
scratching or coming into contact with anything. When the flap C¹ is turned
up as shewn in Fig. 2 access is had to the prong ends e ed d of the binders for
turning them up and removing the binders or for turning the prong ends of the
binders down to secure the binding strips and samples together. The said flap C
is provided with means for securing the flap C₁ in the position shewn in Fig. 1
when covering the ends of the binders as aforesaid. Various means may be
employed for this purpose. For instance as in the examples shewn by Figs. 1
and 2 the flap C¹ may be made with two ductile sheet metal tongues marked f
projecting from its edge which tongues when the flap is folded down as aforesaid
and as shewn by Fig. 1 are beut underneath the binding strip C thus securing the
flap C in position; or the flap C' may be made with only one of the sheet metal
tongues which in that case would be placed in the centre; or as shewn by Fig. 3
the said flap may have some of the projecting tongues at the ends of the flap as

page_text: well as at the front; or as shewn by Fig. 4 the flap C¹ may be secured to the
binding strip C by a lace g or by laces threaded through eyelet holes in the
binding strip C and in the flap C¹; or as shewn by Figs. 5 and 6 ordinary sheet
metal binders may be used to secure the flap C' to the binding strip C these
binders passing through eyelet holes in the flap C¹ and binding strip C the ends
of the prongs of these binders being then turned outwardly underneath the
binding strip C as shewn in Fig. 6; or as shewn by Figs. 7 and 8 the flap C' may
he made with projecting portions such as which as shewn by Fig. 8 can be
turned down and tucked under the binding strip C thus securing the flap C¹ in its.
folded down position; or the flap C₁ may be made entirely separate from the
binding strip C and be secured thereto in any of the several ways above described.
For instance as shewn by Figs. 9 and 10 where the flap C₁is made entirely
separate from the binding strip C and is secured thereto by six of the metal
tongues two on one side and two on the other side and one at each end thereof
which, when the flap has been placed in position on the binding strip C, are folded
and tucked under the binding strip C thus securing the flap C in position.
When it is desired to cover the heads of the binders as well as the prongs eed d
of the same the binding strip B is made with a flap B' see Fig. 11 which is provided
with means for securing it to the binding strip B similarly as above described with
reference to the flap C¹ and binding strip C.
In a further modification of my invention the flap is made in a piece with or
secured underneath or on to the top of the binding strip B at the other side of the
bundle where the heads of the two pronged binders are, as shewn for instance by
Fig. 12, where the flap C¹ is made in a piece with the binding strip B and this
flap C¹ is then folded round the ends of the samples A as shewn in Fig. 12 and
folded over the ends d dee of the binders and secured in any of the several ways
above described for instance as by the two sheet metal prongs shewn in
Fig. 12.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
In combination with one or both of the binding strips which are used with
pronged binders to secure samples of cloth leather paper cotton or other like
samples together in a bundle, the employment of a flap or flaps hinged to or made
separate from one or both of the said binding strips and adapted to lie flat upon
the same and to be secured thereto so as to cover the turned down ends of the
prongs, or cover the turned down ends of the prongs and the heads, of the said
binders substantially as herein before set forth.
Dated this 3rd day of July 1894.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.