An Improved Book Protector and Marker.
Year: 1896

page_text: Complete Consil
Date of Application, 8th Oct., 1896
4007
1000
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Book Protector and Marker.
We, ARCHIBALD DUDDINGSTON WILLIS, Member of the House of Representa-
tives of New Zealand, and FREDERICK WILLIAM SEARS, Draughtsman, both of
54 Lambton Quay, in the City of Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to appliances used for protecting books from being soiled
by the hands of the reader, as happens more particularly in the case of children
attending school; and to markers used for indicating any page which the reader
desires to find readily when taking up the book a second time; and the object
of our invention is to provide a protector and marker which is always in position
ready for use; is inexpensive to manufacture, and may be used for advertising
purposes.
We carry the object of our invention into effect by attaching pieces of paper,
buckram, leather, cloth or other similar material to the covers of the book, and
when turned inwards these attachments will overlap preferably the hottom of
the pages, so that the thumbs will rest upon the attachments when gripping the
book; but when not required they may be folded upon the cover and between
it and the pages.
A portion of a leaf of the book may be shaped at its lower part to form the
protector or marker; and it will be obvious that the attachments may be extended
up the sides as far as desired, or that more than one may be affixed to each side
of the book.
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BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicants.
An Improved Book Protector and Marker.
We, ARCHIBALD DUDDINGSTON WILLIS, Member of the House of Representa-
tives, and FREDERICK WILLIAM SEARS, Draughtsman, both of 54 Lambton Quay,
Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand, 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:-
Our invention relates to appliances used for protecting books from being soiled
by the hands of the reader, as happens more particularly in the case of children
attending school; and to markers used for indicating any page which the reader

page_text: desires to find readily when taking up the book a second time; and the object
of our invention is to provide a protector and marker which is always in position
ready for use; is inexpensive to manufacture, and may be used for advertising
purposes.
We carry the object of our invention into effect by attaching pieces of paper,
buckram, leather, cloth or other similar material to the covers of the book, and
when turned inwards these attachments will overlap preferably the bottom of
the pages, so that the thumbs will rest upon the attachments when gripping the
book; but when not required they may be folded upon the cover and between
it and the pages.
In order that our invention may be easily understood by one skilled in the art
to which it appertains we will now describe the same in detail and shall refer to
the accompanying drawing, whereon similar letters of reference indicate corre-
sponding parts throughout the views.
Figure 1 is a view of a book with our protectors and markers, one of which
is shewn folded back on the cover and the other opened out.
Figure 2 is a similar view, but shewing the hands holding the book.
Figure 3 is a view of a book shewn closed and with our attachments used as book-
markers.
Figure 4 is a view of the attachment when formed out of the leaf of the book.
Referring to the views, (a) are the attachments fixed by preference to the
covers (b) of book (c) and made of buckram or any suitable material which is
pliable and will bend over the pages as shewn in Figures 2 & 3 or will fold back
upon the cover as shewn in Figure 1. The attachments (a) are preferably fixed
during the process of binding and inserted between the cover and lining of the
same for the sake of neatness as shewn at (a) Figure 1, though they may be
fixed to existing books by any suitable adhesive material applied to their edges as
shewn at (a) Figure 1.
Figure 4 shows a portion of a leaf of the book shaped at its lower part to form
the protector or marker (a).
It will be obvious that the attachments may be extended up the sides as far as
desired, or that more than one may be affixed to each side of the book.
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. A book protector and marker consisting of a piece or pieces of buckram or
other similar or suitable material attached to the cover, and capable of being
folded over the leaves or turned back upon the inside of the cover, substantially
as and for the purposes set forth herein.
2. A book protector and marker, formed integrally with a leaf of the book
substantially as and for the purposes set forth herein and illustrated on the
accompanying drawing.
0911 of Aumil 1807
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicants.