IMPROVED MODE IN BINDING BOOKS, ESPECIALLY MERCHANTS ACCOUNT BOOKS
Year: 1800

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EBENEZER
PALMER, of Saint Mary Cole, Cheapside, Stationer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent. under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Thirtieth day of December, in the forty-first year of His
reign, give and grant unto the said Ebenezer Paliner, His special licence
that I, the said Ebenezer Palmer, during the term of years therein mentioned,
should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
the Town upon Berwick-upon-Tweed, and His Majesty's Colonies abroad, my.
Invention of an "IMPROVED MODE IN BINDING BOOKS, ESPECIALLY MERCHANTS
ACCOUNT BOOKS;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso
obliging me, the said Ebenezer Palmer, under my hand and seal, to cause
a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within one month after the date of the said recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Ebenezer Palmer, do hereby declare that my said Invention of an Improved
Method in Binding Merchants' Account Books is described in manner
following, that is to say, by the addition of a certain metallic hinge or chain,
contrived and made in the following manner :-
First, there are certain various small bars of metal, or composition of metals,
about the thickness of a shilling or more, according to the size and thickness of

page_text: the book to be made, the length of each such bar being from half an inch
to several inches long, in proportion to the strength required in the back
of the book.
Secondly, at each end of every such bar of metal is made a pivot by being
filed down or otherwise, and which are of different lengths; also in proportion
to the thickness of two links which they are to receive.
Thirdly, there are a certain number of links, made rather in, an oval form, to
the said hinge, each of which contain two holes, according to the sizes of the
pivots they are to go on, which links are of the same metal as the hinge, or a
composition of metals, as is judged necessary, each of the said links being
nearly the length that two of the above-described bars are wide.
Fourthly, when such metallic pivots are prepared, the afore-mentioned links
are then rivetted on those pivots, each pivot receiving two links, and thereby
hold the said hinge together on the principle of a link chain or hinge.
Fifthly, there are two holes or more of different sizes, as required in cach
bar of the hinge or chain, by which means each section of the book is strongly
fastened to the same, which hinge, so fastened, operates with the back of the
book, when bound, in such an improved manner that thereby occasions the
said sections to open in such a manner as to bring them on a parallel with
each other, and in consequence thereof admit of the ruled lines being written
into, even close to the back, without any inconvenience.
In witness whereof, I, the said Ebenezer Palmer, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of January, One thousand