A NEW OR IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF BINDING CLIP OR HOLDER FOR UNBOUND PERIODICALS, MANUSCRIPTS, AND LOOSE PAPERS
Year: 1880

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James MacCunn at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 4th November 1880.
JAMES MACCUNN, of Greenock, in the County of Renfrew, North Britain. " A
NEW OR IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF BINDING CLIP OR HOLDER FOR UNBOUND
PERIODICALS, MANUSCRIPTS, AND LOOSE PAPERS."
This Invention relates to a new or improved construction of binder or clip for
fixing, holding, or binding together the loose pages of unbound periodicals and
manuscripts, either permanently or temporarily for convenience in reading; and it
is designed to avoid the tearing and defacing of the pages which occurs with the
use of pins, binders, and paper fasteners as hitherto made. The new clip or binder
is easily applied and removed, and most efficient in use.
The improved binding clip consists of a tubular shell somewhat like a pen
holder cut away longitudinally to leave little more than a semi-cylinder in cross
section for the greater part of its length, and rounded or curved at the end. The
opposite or uncut end is preferably closed, and has fitted into it a long tongue or
spring blade extending longitudinally along the inside of the shell and out beyond
it at the cut end, this blade being preferably formed with its narrow edge. curved
to bear on the inside shell of the tube and outwards at the point, and being
sufficiently elastic to give way to the paper sheets or pages of the periodicals
which are entered between the blade and shell, but at the same time to act as a
short spring tongue. The outer shell may either be made out of tubular steel, or
other metal cut in the manner described, or from sheets stamped out by dies or
cresses to the required shape, to be formed into the tubular shells, and the tongue
or blade may be similarly struck out or stamped and fixed to the entire tubular
end of the clip shell by being formed to fit into it and secured by stamping, or by
means of pins, or soldering, or otherwise.
The outer shell of the clip may be made elliptical, hexagonal, or of other shape
in cross section, although the cylindrical form is preferred, and the tongue or blade
may be either curved or straight. The whole may be made of iron, steel, nickel,
or other inetal, or of vulcanite, bone, or other elastic material, or a metallic shell
may be combined with a blade of vulcanite or similar or other tough substance.
The improved binding clip is applied to hold together the pages of unbound
periodicals by inserting the blade inside the fold of the pages and pressing it in

page_text: between the pages, whilst the outer shell embraces the outside or back of the
paper, and holds the pages firmly over or round the blade.
In applying the improved clip to bind manuscripts or other loose papers, the
whole are folded over at one edge, so that they form a fold like the back of a
periodical, and the clip is inserted as already described.
The clip is thus applied without defacing or damaging the pages, and one size of
clip may embrace and bind together more than one size of journal or number of
pages, but the clip may be made of various sizes.