Improvements relating to Books containing Perforated Leaves.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Apr., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 25th Jan., 1899-Accepted, 18th Mar., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Books containing Perforated Leaves.
We, FREDERIC MADELEY MOLE, and WILLIAM JOHN NICHOLS, both of Barwick
Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Printers, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
slits
cuts
The object of our invention is to effect improvements in the method of manu-
facturing books some or all of the leaves of which require to be partly or wholely
removable in portions. Instead of perforating the said leaves in lines and transverse
lines where they may be required to be separated or torn out as now practised,
we perforate in lines parallel to the binding and instead of the usual transverse
which
substitute
commencing
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of perforation
near the perforation nearest to the binding extend to
the fore edge of the leaf. This method of perforating in lines in one
direction and slitting or cutting the leaves in the transverse direction allows the
portions of the leaves to be torn out with much greater ease and rapidity than if
perforated only as now practised.
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FREDERIC MADELEY MOLE.
WILLIAM JOHN NICHOLS.
Improvements relating to Books containing Perforated Leaves.
We, FREDERIC MADELEY MOLE, and WILLIAM JOHN NICHOLS, both of Barwick
Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Printers, 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:-
This invention consists of improvements relating to books containing perforated
leaves, whereby the said leaves or portions of the same can be more readily and
conveniently detached.
In order that our invention and the manner of carrying the same into effect may
be the more readily understood we append hereunto one sheet of explanatory
drawings to be hereinafter referred to.
Figure 1 is a plan showing one of the leaves of a book, the said leaf being made,
in accordance with our invention, for division into six portions.
Figure 2 is a plan showing the leaf of another book, such leaf being made, in
accordance with our invention, for division into three portions.
Referring to Figure 1, we divide each leaf of the book into six portions as (1, 2, 3,

page_text: 4, 5, and 6), but instead of making the division lines by perforations both in longi-
tudinal and transverse directions we perforate in one direction only, as along the
lines A B and CD, whilst in a direction at a right or other angle to the lines A B
and CD we cut or slit through the paper or other material, as along the lines EF
and GH. The cuts or slits commence at the perforated line A B adjacent to the
portion J, which is secured within the binding in the ordinary manner,
extend to or near to the fore edge of the leaf.
and
In the example shown at Figure 1 the slits or cuts extend right to the fore edge
of the leaf; but in the example shown at Figure 2, in which the leaf is divided
into three parts as a, b and c, the slits terminate a little short of the fore edge, the
intervening distance between the termination of the slits and the fore edge being
perforated as indicated in the figure. The three portions being thus connected
together at the fore edge, the complete leaf can be turned over as readily as an
ordinary or undivided leaf.
By the perforation of the leaves in one direction and the slitting or cutting of the
same in the other direction, as hereinbefore described, the divided portions can be
detached with great ease and rapidity.
We apply our invention to manifold post-card books, cheque books, order books,
and to books of all kinds in which the leaves are arranged for detachment in any
required number of portions.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. In books containing perforated leaves the slitting or cutting of the said leaves
substantially as and for the purpose described.
2. Cheque and other books provided with leaves having a combination of slits
and perforations, substantially as and for the purpose described and as illustrated.
Dated this 24th day of Janua
1900
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, and
25, Cross Street, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants.