Improvements in the Manufacture of Scrap, Pattern, Newspaper Cutting, and other like Books.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Apr., 1895-Accepted, 11th May, 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Scrap, Pattern, Newspaper
Cutting, and other like Books.
We, JOHN WALKER & COMPANY LIMITED of Farringdon House, Warwick
Lane in the City of London, Wholesale Stationers and EVERITT JOHN RANBY
of 226 Victoria Park Road, South Hackney in the County of London, Foreman
Bookbinder, 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 has reference to the manufacture of scrap, pattern, newspaper
cutting and other like books.
Hitherto books for holding scraps, pictures or the like have generally been made
with filling pieces or guards between the sheets for the purpose of keeping the
sheets sufficiently apart to allow of the scraps or the like being pasted or attached
thereto without causing inconvenient expansion of the book. These filling pieces
and the sewing of them in place as well as the sewing together of the sheets cause
considerable expense.
Now the present invention consists of a mode of manufacturing scrap or other
like books without the use of permanent filling pieces and without any sewing
of the sheets either to each other or to any back piece.
According to our invention we first fold or double the sheets of which the book
is to be formed upon temporary filling pieces of millboard or other suitable material
of appropriate thickness so that each double sheet has a back edge of appreciable
width say about one-sixteenth of an inch more or less at the fold. We then place
upon each other or side by side as many of the double sheets as are required to
make up a book, together with their temporary filling pieces, taking care that the
doubled parts or back edges of the sheets are all flush with each other. We then
apply strong paste or adhesive material to the back edges and secure thereto by
means of this paste a backing piece or strip of canvas or other suitable material
which consequently holds or binds all the sheets together. A second backing piece
can be pasted upon the first piece if necessary. The book is now ready to receive
any desired cover, the temporary filling pieces being previously or subsequently
removed from between the folds of the sheets.
The accompanying drawings will enable the invention to be readily understood.
Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a sheet a a folded or doubled upon a
temporary filling piece of millboard or other material so that a back edge say
one-sixteenth of an inch wide more or less is formed at the fold c.
Figure 2 is a sectional view on an enlarged scale showing a number of these
folded or doubled sheets containing the temporary filling pieces and placed together
with their doubled parts or back edges c c flush with each other; this view also
shows a backing piece or strip & which has been secured by paste or other adhesive
material to the back edges of the sheets when in the position shown in the figure so
as to bind them all together.
Figure 3 is a perspective view of the finished book with its cover e, the temporary
filling pieces having been removed.
For some purposes as for example for pattern books to contain patterns some of
which are thicker than others we can provide more space between the leaves at
one portion of the book than at another by employing during the manufacture of
the book thicker temporary filling pieces between the folds of the sheets at one
portion and thinner filling pieces at another portion.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
:-
1. The manufacture of scrap, pattern, newspaper cutting, or other like books by
folding or doubling the sheets upon temporary filling pieces so that each sheet has
a back edge of appreciable width at the fold, then placing the folded or doubled
sheets, containing their temporary filling pieces upon each other or side by side
with the back edges flush with each other and then securing a backing piece or
strip by adhesive material to the back edges so as to bind them all together
substantially as set forth.
2. A scrap, pattern, newspaper cutting or other like book made substantially as
herein before described.
Dated this 1st day of Anril 1895
J. C. MEWBURN & ELLIS,
55 and 56, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.