IMPROVEMENTS IN BINDING PAMPHLETS, PAPERS, AND OTHER DOCUMENTS
Year: 1842

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
GYE, Junior, of South Lambeth, in the County of Surrey, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-first day of June, in the sixth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Frederick Gye, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that I, the said Frederick Gye, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Frederick Gye, my exors, adññors, or assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during
the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BINDING PAMPHLETS, PAPERS, AND
OTHER DOCUMENTS;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I,
the said Frederick Gye, shall cause a particular description of the nature of
my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar
month next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters
Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more
fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Frederick Gye, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and

page_text: ascertained in and by the following statement thereor, reference being mad wo
the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say :-
My Invention relates to constructing and applying wire instruments, bent
into suitable forms, to facilitate the binding of pamphlets, papers, and docu-
And in order that my Invention may be fully understood and readily
carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawing hereunto annexed.
ments.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 represents a wire instrument constructed according to my Inven-
tion, and Figure 2 shews a series of sheets or folded leaves of a pamphlet or
The
other papers or documents bound by means of such instrument.
instrument a, a, consists of a piece of wire bent up at its two ends, and
pointed so as readily to penetrate the paper which it is to bind together;
and there are two eyes a¹, a¹, formed as is shewn. These eyes or openings
allow of the papers being filed or hung up, or several may be combined by
running a string through the eyes. And I would remark, that more or less
eyes or openings may be used, and the eyes may be dispensed with. In using
this instrument the points are forced through the paper, and then are bended
down as is shewn by dotted lines in Figure 2. In some cases where the
pamphlets or papers are long, then I use two or more instruments, a, a, as is
shewn at Figure 3, where each instrument has only one eye or opening a¹, as
is shewn.
Figure 4 represents a plan, an end view, and a perspective view of another
instrument, a, a, which binds several pamphlets together, the points of the
instrument passing laterally through the papers or documents, and when the
points are passed through the paper they are turned down.
Figure 5 shews two pamphlets or other documents or papers bound together
by the instrument Figure 4, and Figure 6 shews an edge view of of Figure 5.
When it is desired to bind papers at the corners, such as drafts of legal
documents, Figure 7 shews such a mode of binding a series of leaves of papers
or documents; Figure 8 shewing an end view of Figure 7; and Figure 9
shews the instrument separately in plan and side view. It will be seen that
in all cases the instrument consists of a piece of wire pointed at each end, so
as readily to penetrate the papers, and when passed through the ends are folded
down so as to bind or hold the papers together.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the mode of
performing the same, I would have it understood that what I claim is the
mode of binding pamphlets, papers, and documents, by bending pieces of wire,

page_text: and passing the ends through such papers, and folding or bending the ends of
each piece of wire, as above described.
And secondly, I claim the forming instruments a, a, each of a piece of wire,
for binding pamphlets, papers, and other documents, when the same are formed
with eyes or openings as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Gye, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-two.