Improvements in Books for Cataloguing, Indexing, or the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Complete Specification Left, 27th Nov., 1895-Accepted, 28th Dec., 1875
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Books for Cataloguing, Indexing, or the like.
I, HUGH GEORGE GOODACRE of 35 Queen Victoria Street in the City of
London, Esquire, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention has reference to books for cataloguing, indexing or the like and
relates more particularly to books in which additional entries have from time to
time to be made in the catalogue, index or the like in alphabetical, chronological
or other order between entries previously made. The object of the invention is to
allow of these additional entries being readily made without crowding the entries
at any part, and without the necessity for leaving large blanks or spaces between
early entries to receive possible later entries.
According to my invention I provide that any particular entry or entries in the
catalogue, index or the like can readily be shifted in case of need to another
position to make room for one or more later entries in their proper order.
For the purpose of my invention I form the pages of the book with two vertical
rows of holes parallel with each other, and I provide slips or strips of paper or
other material upon which the entries are written or otherwise marked; the length
of these slips is approximately equal to the distance between the rows of holes and
the slips have a tongue at each end to pass into holes in the two rows respectively,
so that by inserting the tongues of a slip respectively into opposite holes in the two
rows, the slip is secured and the entry contained on the slip becomes part of the
catalogue or index. The slip can readily be removed and inserted into another
pair of holes to make way for another entry in the proper order.
In carrying out the invention the rows of holes should not pierce the pages of the
book, as this would render it inconvenient to use both sides of the page for
cataloguing or indexing. I secure to each side of the page by pasting or otherwise
a sheet or two parallel strips of paper or other material in which the two rows of
holes are formed, the parts of the sheet at and outside the holes being left free.
Or I form the page with vertical covered channels below the lines of the boles, so
that the holes open into these channels.
In order to avoid any risk of the catalogue or index slips accidentally getting
loose the tongues may be of dovetail form the widest part of the dovetail when
flat being too large to enter the hole; the tongues in this case should be slightly
bent on their longitudinal line to enable them to enter the holes, and then by
returning to their normal flat form on the closing of the book they are too wide to
accidentally pass out of the holes. Or other ways may be adopted to ensure the
tongues remaining in position; for example the tongues may be of hook form, the
book on one tongue being turned upwards and that on the other tongue downwards.
The holes should preferably be circular or semicircular.
Dated this 27th day of February 1895.
J. C. MEWBURN & ELLIS,
55 and 56 Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents:

page_text: Improvements in Books for Cataloguing, Indexing, or the like.
I, HIGH GEORGE GOODACRE of 35 Queen Victoria Street, in the City of
London, Esquire, 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 :—
My invention has reference to books for cataloguing, indexing or the like and
relates more particularly to hooks in which additional entries have from time to
time to be made in the catalogue, index or the like in alphabetical, chronological
or other order between entries previously made. The object of the invention is to
allow of these additional entries being readily made without crowding the entries
at any part, and without the necessity for leaving large blanks or spaces between
early entries to receive possible later entries.
According to my invention I provide that any particular entry or entries in the
catalogue, index or the like can readily be shifted in case of need to another position
to make room for one or more later entries in their proper order.
For the purpose of my invention I form the pages of the book with two vertical
rows of holes parallel with each other, and I provide slips or strips of paper or
other material upon which the entries are written or otherwise marked; the length
of these slips is approximately equal to the distance between the rows of holes and
the slips have a tongue at each end to pass into holes in the two rows respectively,
so that by inserting the tongues of a slip respectively into opposite holes in the
two rows, the slip is secured and the entry contained on the slip becomes part of
the catalogue or index. The slip can readily be removed and inserted into another
pair of holes to make way for another entry in the proper order.
In carrying out the invention the rows of holes should not pierce the pages of
the book, as this would render it inconvenient to use both sides of the page for
cataloguing or indexing. I secure to each side of the page by pasting or otherwise
a sheet, or two parallel strips, of paper or other material in which the two rows
of holes are formed, the parts of the sheet at and outside the holes being
left free.
Figure 1 shows a fragment of a page of a catalogue made according to one
form of my said invention.
Figure 2 is a section on the line
Figure 3 shows a fragment of a
another form of my said invention.
-y of Figure 1.
page of a catalogue constructed according to
Figure 4 is a section on the line -y of Figure 3.
In Figures 1 and 2 the sheet A is gummed to or otherwise attached to au
ordinary page. This sheet A is provided with two parallel rows of holes B the
parts of the sheet at and outside of the holes on either side being left free for
the insertion of the slips C which will be clearly seen from Figure 2. The
slips C are provided with tongues D.
In order to avoid any risk of the catalogue or index slips accidentally getting
loose, the tongues may be of dovetail form, the widest part of the dovetail when
flat being too large to enter the hole; the tongues in this case should be slightly
bent on their longitudinal line to enable them to enter the holes, and then by
returning to their normal flat form on the closing of the book they are too wide
to accidentally pass out of the holes. Or other ways may be adopted to ensure
the tongues remaining in position; for example the tongues may be of hook form,
the hook on one tongue being turned upwards and that on the other tongue
downwards. The holes should preferably be circular or semicircular.
In Figures 3 and 4 the ordinary page of the catalogue book E is two-fold and
is provided with two parallel rows of holes F through which the tongues D of the

page_text: slips C can enter. The sheet E is connected at the outside edge or fastened at top
and bottom so that the tongue and slips when inserted do not pass through from
one side of the sheet to the other but lie between the two sheets. The position of
the slips when inserted is clearly seen in Figure 4.
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. In books for cataloguing, indexing or the like, two parallel vertical rows of
holes, formed in the respective pages of the book, in combination with slips or
strips of paper or other material having tongues at their ends to respectively enter
two opposite holes in the said rows, substantially as and for the purpose herein before
described.
2. The improved book, substantially as herein before described and repre-
sented in Figures 1 to 4 of the accompanying drawings, for cataloguing, indexing
or the like.
Dated this 27th day of November 1895.
J. C. MEWBURN & ELLIS,
55 and 56 Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.