Improvements in Note-books, Diaries, Pocket-books, Account-books, Exercise-books, and other like Books.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 19th Dec., 1890-Accepted, 14th Feb., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Note-books, Diaries, Pocket-books, Account-books,
Exercise-books, and other like Books.
I, WILLIAM PENMAN, Director of William Collins, Sons & Co., Ld., Publishers,
of 4 and 5, Bridewell Place, in the City of London, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is mainly to construct note books, diaries, pocket
books, account books, exercise books and other like books in such a manner that
they can carry within them a pencil or it may be a pen which wherever the book
is opened is exposed to view and can be taken out and used.
To effect this I cut a long slot in the centre of all of the several leaves of the book
where in the ordinary way they would be bound to the back. In this way a cavity
is formed at the back of the book within which a pencil can lie and wherever
the book may be opened the pencil can be taken out from the cavity and used.
The several leaves I bind to the back at top and bottom above and below the
ends of the slot. If desired the pencil may be formed with an enlarged head and
the slot be cut of corresponding form. In this way the pencil when lying in
the cavity would be kept from all endway movement wether the pencil were
long or short.
Where the leaves are perforated in a line from top to bottom near to the back so
that they may readily be torn out, this line of perforations is made at a distance in
from the edge of the slot so that even when most of the leaves have been torn away
there is still sufficient left of each leaf to keep the cavity properly enclosed so that
the pencil may be retained within it.
Dated this 26th day of March 1890.
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Note-books, Diaries, Pocket-books, Account-books,
Exercise-books, and other like Books.
I, WILLIAM PENMAN, Director of William Collins, Sons & Co., Ld., Publishers,
of 4 and 5, Bridewell Place, in the City of London, 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 :—
The object of this invention is mainly to construct note books, diaries, pocket
books, account books, exercise books and other like books in such a manner that
they can carry within them a pencil or it may be a pen which wherever the book
is opened is exposed to view and can be taken out and used.
To effect this I cut a long slot in the centre of all of the several leaves of the book
where in the ordinary way they would be bound to the back. In this way a cavity
is formed at the back of the book within which a pencil can lie and wherever the
book may be opened the pencil can be taken out from the cavity and used.
Figure 1 of the drawings is a face view of an open note book formed in the manner
above described.
Figure 2 is a perspective view and
Figure 3 an edge view of the book when closed.
Figure 4 is a section through the line ab Figure 1.
Figure 5 is a similar section when the book is opened near one cover.
The several leaves 1 bind to the back at top and bottom above and below the

page_text: ends of the slot and afterwards cover the back with leather or other material in
the ordinary way of bookbinding.
From Figures 1, 4 and 5 it will be clearly seen that wherever the book is opened
the pencil or pen lying in it is ready to hand-and when the book is closed with the
pen or pencil resting as it does in the hollow formed within the leaves there is no
bulging of the back neither does the pen or pencil tend to make it gape.
book can be made in a variety of sizes and with bindings of various kinds.
The
If desired the pencil may be formed with an enlarged head and the slot in
the leaves be cut of corresponding form. In this way the pencil when lying in the
cavity would be kept from all endway movement whether the pencil were long
or short.
Where the leaves are perforated in a line from top to bottom near to the back
so that they may readily be torn out, this line of perforations is made at a distance in
from the edge of the slot so that even when most of the leaves have been torn away
there is still sufficient left of each leaf to keep the cavity properly enclosed so that
the pencil may be retained within it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed declare that what I
claim is :-
A note book, diary, pocket book, account book, exercise book, or other like book,
having a long slot cut out from the centre of the several leaves where they would
ordinarily be bound to the back so as to form a cavity within which a pen or
pencil can lie and from which it can be taken out wherever the book may be opened
substantially as described.
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