IMPROVEMENTS IN COVERS FOR PROTECTING THE BINDINGS OF BOOKS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Stephen Salisbury Tuckerman of Kinver in the County
of Stafford Artist for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN COVERS FOR
PROTECTING THE BINDINGS OF BOOKS
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Stephen Salisbury Tuckerman
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th May 1883.
STEPHEN SALISBURY TUCKERMAN of Kinver in the County of Stafford Artist
"IMPROVEMENTS IN COVERS FOR PROTECTING THE BINDINGS OF BOOKS
"
Covers for protecting the bindings of books are ordinarily extemporized or made
as occasion requires from paper cut and folded of the required size and shape and
fitted on the book so loosely that they perform their function imperfectly being
liable to unfold during the use of the book and to become partially detached
therefrom.
My invention has for its object to remedy the defects of ordinary book covers
and to provide book covers neat strong and consequently lasting capable of ready
application to the book and fitting it with a closeness and security unattainable by
covers of the ordinary kind
In making a cover for a book according to my invention I proceed as follows.
I take two pieces or blanks of paper or other material of which it is intended to
form the cover each of the said pieces or blanks being of a size and shape proper
to form when folded and pasted or gummed an article somewhat resembling an
ordinary envelope excepting that the flap part is rectangular and of a breadth
about equal to two thirds the breadth of the body part. I call these articles
half covers as two of them are required to cover a book. In order to strengthen
the half cover a narrow strip or band of linen or other fabric may be secured to
the blank on those parts which are folded and which cover the edges of the
binding of the book as well as along the edges of the parts which protect the back
of the book. These strip are however only necessary where a more than ordinary
I Price Edi

page_text: care in protecting the binding of the book is desirable as in the case of valuable
books or the books of public or circulating libraries.
In using the half covers one is placed on each flap or side of the binding of the
book. The flap parts of the half covers now overlap to an extent depending on
the thickness of the book and by means of gum or other adhesive material the
overlapping flaps may be connected together and the cover thereby securely
attached to the book. To facilitate the attachment of the overlapping flaps of the
half covers their edges may be gummed so that in using them it is only necessary
to wet one of the gummed edges to secure the overlapping flaps together. The
half covers may however be used without securing them together.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Stephen Salisbury Tuckerman in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 2nd November 1883.
STEPHEN SALISBURY TUCKERMAN of Kinver in the County of Stafford, Artist
"IMPROVEMENTS IN COVERS FOR PROTECTING THE BINDINGS OF BOOKS
"
Covers for protecting the bindings of books are ordinarily extemporized or made
as occasion requires from paper cut and folded of the required size and shape and
fitted on the book so loosely that they perform their function imperfectly, being
liable to unfold during the use of the book and to become partially detached
therefrom.
My invention has for its object to remedy the defects of ordinary book covers
and to provide book covers neat, strong and consequently lasting, capable of ready
application to the book and fitting it with a closeness and security unattainable
by covers of the ordinary kind.
In making a cover for a book according to my invention I proceed as follows:
I take two pieces or blanks of paper or other material of which it is intended to
form the cover, each of the said pieces or blanks being of a size and shape proper
to form when folded and pasted or gummed an article somewhat resembling an
ordinary envelope excepting that the flap part is rectangular and of a breadth
about equal to two thirds the breadth of the body part...I call these articles half
covers as two of them are required to cover a book. In order to strengthen the
half cover, a narrow strip or band of linen or other fabric may be secured to the
blank on those parts which are folded and which cover the edges of the binding of
the book as well as along the edges of the parts which protect the back of the book.
These strips are however only necessary where a more than ordinary care in
protecting the binding of the book is desirable as in the case of valuable books or
the books of public or circulating libraries.
In using the half covers one is placed on each flap or side of the binding of the
book. The flap parts of the half covers now overlap to an extent depending on the
thickness of the book and by means of gum or other adhesive material the over-
lapping flaps may be connected together and the cover thereby securely attached
to the book. To facilitate the attachment of the overlapping flaps of the half covers
their edges may be gummed so that in using them it is only necessary to wet one
of the gummed edges to secure the overlapping flaps together. The half covers
may however be used without securing them together.
Figures 1 and 2 represent the blanks of paper from which the half covers are
made. Each of the said blanks consists of an oblong part a with side wings b, b
and an end wing c. The blanks of the half covers are strengthened by strips or
bands of linen or other fabric or other flexible material such as leather marked d, e
secured by pasting gumming or otherwise on those parts which are folded and
which cover the edges of the book binding as well as along the edges of the parts
which protect the back of the binding. The parts which strengthen and cover the
edges of the binding are marked d and those which protect the back are marked e.
These protecting and strengthening strips d, e may however be dispensed with.
The wing parts b, c are gummed or pasted and the end wing c being first folded
upon the middle part of the blank the side wings b, b are then folded upon the end
wing part c as indicated in Figure 1. The two half covers are thus produced as
represented in Figures 3 and 4. The half covers somewhat resemble envelopes but
have rectangular flaps g, g. The flap part g may be gummed at h as seen in
Figure 4. The manner in which the half covers are applied to the binding of a

page_text: book is illustrated in front elevation in Figure 5 and end elevations in Figures 6
and 7. That is to say, the envelope or pocket parts f, f of the half covers are
slipped upon the flaps or sides respectively of the binding and the flap parts g, g
of the half covers made to take the position at the back of the binding shown in
Figure 6. The said flap parts are next made to overlap to an extent depending 5
on the thickness of the book and by wetting the gummed part the overlapping
flaps may be connected together and the cover thereby securely attached to the
book as represented in Figure 7.
Although generally I prefer to secure the two half covers together by gumming
or pasting at the flap parts g, g yet they may be used. without being connected 1
together.
い
Having now described the nature of my invention and the manner in which
the same is to be performed I wish it to be understood that I claim as my
invention
י "!
a
cover for protecting the bindings of books consisting of two separate half 1
covers each half cover having a pocket resembling the pocket of an envelope
together with a rectangular flap for protecting the back of the binding, the said
separate half covers being made and used substantially as herein before described
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing
s
D
In witness whereof I the said Stephen Salisbury Tuckerman have hereunto set 2
my hand and seal this Twenty third-day of October in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and eighty three
.
¿D. STEPHEN SALISBURY TUCKERMAN. (L.S.)