Improved Protecting Tips for the Corners of Book Covers, Albums,. Purses, Portfolios, and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 20th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 6th Feb., 1397
Improved Protecting Tips for the Corners of Book Covers, Albums,.
Purses, Portfolios, and the like.
I, FRITZ KAISER of No. 4 Amerlinggasse, Vienna VI, Bookbinder, do hereby
declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
It is customary to connect the edges of cardboard boxes and the like by means
of strips of sheet-metal provided with teeth-like points, or eyelets. The object of
this invention, however, is to protect the corners of covers for books, albums,.
purses, portfolios and the like from being bent over or otherwise damaged, and
for this purpose I provide sheet-metal tips of the shape of such corners and having
points, or eyelets, for attaching same to the article.
These tips are preferably made to fold over the corners and may be provided
with points on one or both inner faces, such points being made in the tips by
punching or in any other suitable manner. It will also be evident that the tips
may be wholly or partly secured by means of eyelets punched through same.
Dated 24th February 1896.
GEO.
DOWNING,
8 Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent.
Improved Protecting Tips for the Corners of Book Covers, Albums,
Purses, Portfolios, and the like.
I, FRITZ KAISER of No. 4 Amerlinggasse, Vienna, in the Empire of Austria,
Bookbinder, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:--
It is customary to connect the edges of cardboard boxes and the like by means
of strips of sheet-metal, provided with teeth like points or eyelets. The object
of this invention, however, is to protect the corners of the covers for books
albums, purses, portfolios and the like from being beut over or otherwise damaged
by a device or protecting tips, of which in the accompanying drawing some
modifications are represented.
Fig. 1 is a plan and
Fig. 2 a section on the line -y of a protecting tip a having points arranged
at the edges both on the upper part and on the lower part b; in some cases, the
points c of the lower part can be dispensed with.
Fig. 3 is a plan and
Fig. 4 a section on the line y' of a protecting tip a, b in which, besides the
points c, also eyelets e are provided serving to connect the upper part a' and the

page_text: lower part 6 of the tip either by punching such eyelets e through the corner d to
be protected (as shown in the drawing) or by connecting such parts with one
another without damaging the corner d.
Figs. 5 & 6 represent elevation of two further modifications of such protecting
tips in which the points c are punched out of the inner part of the protecting tip
so that by thus cutting out the tip same is somewhat ornamented.
The points c are preferably arranged at a right angle to the surface of the
protecting tip and penetrate into or through the corner d to be protected.
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 :-
1. An improved protecting tip for the corners of book covers and the like
characterized by points (c) arranged in the protecting tip and penetrating into or
through the material of the corner to be protected, substantially as described and
shown.
2. In combination with the improved protecting tip as described in Claim 1,
the arrangement of eyelets connecting the upper part and the lower part of the
tip enclosing the corner to be protected, substantially as described and shown.
Dated 18th November 1896.
GEO.
DOWNING,
8 Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent.