IMPROVEMENTS IN THE BACKS AND COVERS OF ACCOUNT BOOKS AND OTHER Booкs
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph William Schlesinger, of The Grove, South
Lambeth, in the County of Surrey, Manufacturer, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE BACKS AND COVERS OF ACCOUNT BOOKS AND OTHER
Booкs." A communication. .
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph William Schlesinger
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
8th May 1857.
I, JOSEPH WILLIAM SCHLESINGER, of The Grove, South Lambeth, in the
County of Surrey, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE BACKS AND COVERS OF ACCOUNT BOOKS AND
"OTHER BOOKS" (a communication), to be. as follows:-
:
My said Invention consists in the application of metallic, backs to account
books and other books, such metallic backs being composed of a series of three.
or more hinges, and they are applied.in the manner herein-after explained.
The book is bound in the usual way, or by any of the ordinary methods up
to the point of putting on the covers and back, and then in lieu of the leather,
or any other back, I fix to the covers a back made of copper or any other
metal, which back is composed of a 'series of hinges; by which means greater
strength and durability are obtained, and the book always presents a nearly.
level surface when open.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph William Schlesinger in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 7th November 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
WILLIAM SCHLESINGER, formerly of The Grove, South Lambeth, in the County
of Surrey, but now of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Joseph William Schlesinger, Her special licence that I, the said Joseph
William Schlesinger, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Joseph William Schlesinger, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ACCOUNT AND OTHER BOOKS;"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Joseph William
Schlesinger, my executors, or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph William Schlesinger, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
My said Invention consists in the application of metallic backs to account
books and other books, such metallic backs being composed of a series of
more hinges, and they are applied in the manner herein-after
three or
explained.
The book is bound in the usual way, or by any of the ordinary methods up:
to the point of putting on the covers and backs, and then in lieu of the leather
or any other back, I fix to the covers a back made of copper, or any other
metal, which back is composed of a series of hinges; by which means greater

page_text: strength and durability are obtained, and the book always presents a nearly
level surface when open.
Having thus set forth the nature and mode of employing my said Invention,
I claim as my Invention the use or application of metallic backs with hinges
to books," in the manner above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph William Schlesinger, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, the Seventh day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
JOSEPH WILL SCHLESINGER. (L.S.)