Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Andre Adolphe Gaget, of No. 39, Rue de l'Echiquier,
Paris, and 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Gentleman, for the Inven-
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said André Adolphe Gaget in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
26th November 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS. SHALL COME, I, ANDRÉ
ADOLPHE GAGET, of No. 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, and 4, South Street,
Finsbury, London, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord

page_text: One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Iler heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
André Adolphe Gaget, Her special license that I, the said André Adolphe
Gaget, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said André Adolphe Gaget, my excentors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others; from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN BOOKBINDING," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said André Adolphe Gaget, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said André Adolphe Gaget, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawing hereto annexed, and to
the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to say:
The improvements relate to an improved mode of constructing moveable
binding, applicable to fly leaves, sheets of paper, pieces of music, pamphlets,
and other articles, and which improved mode is more easy and less expensive
than the usual process of binding, and consists,-
First, in the employment of hooks for connecting or holding together at top
and bottom the sheets of paper or pamphlets.
'Secondly, in the application at top and bottom of a holdfast or connecting
piece in an inclined position over all the hooks, for obtaining a firmer hold.
Thirdly, in the use of a back, by preference of wood, in one or several pieces
united together according to circumstances. This back is furnished with grooves
or slots, to receive the pressure hooks and connecting pieces.
Having thus set forth the nature of my Invention, I will now proceed to
describe the manner in which the same is carried into effect, reference being
bad to the annexed Sheet of Drawings.
Figure 1 is a front view of an arrangement, in which the hooks a, a, are
fixed and firmly held by the uniting pieces b, b. Each pair of hooks at
top and bottom supports a sheet, which is perfectly adjusted on the back d, of
wood or other suitable material; Figure 2 represents a side view of the same;
Figures 3, 4, 5, and 6 shew another arrangement, which consists of a series of

page_text: separate plates e, united together at the slots f, f', to form a single cover, and
having the appearance of a book, the thickness of the back of which can be
thus diminished or increased at pleasure. Each of the plates e carries one or
several separate sheets, supported by hooks a, as in the preceding arrangement,
and made firm by the same number of uniting pieces as there are plates e.
These plates are united to each other by hooks K on a single plate, Figures 4
and 5. Figure 6 shews a front view of one of these plates, with grooves h, h³,
traversed by small bars i, i, in which are set the hooks K, K'. Figure 9 shows
an arrangement, in which, instead of filling it with sheets, so as to form a book,
a sheet of paper or cardboard, folded in the form shewn at j, Figure 9*, is
substituted. I have shown at Figures 10 and 11 some hooks o, p, which serve
to keep the sheets apart; I make a guard for the sheet and pass the hook
through the sheet and guard, then the hook is drawn back, which thus becomes
a solid stop. Without cramping the sheets I close the extremities of the hook
p, when required, so as to form a spring. Figure 7 shows the book open, with
one of the hooks which holds the paper at top; Figure 8 is a transverse section
of the book, indicating the position of the leaves m, m². The leaves may be
held by covering hooks w, as shown in Figures 12 and 3. These hooks are
bent at suitable angles at their extremities v, v, and the holders u, u', receive
the extremities of these hooks. Figure 13 is an end view, showing the groove
of the plates which form an edge above the other plates.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be carried into effect, I would have it understood that
what I claim is, the construction of a moveable binding for sheets of paper,
manuscripts, music, engravings, newspapers, pamphlets, and other like articles,
as herein-before described, and referred to in the annexed Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said André Adolphe Gaget, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.