AN IMPROVED PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING BLANK OR OTHER BOOKS FROM ONE OR MORE CONTINUOUS ROLLS OF PAPER
Year: 1878

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LETTERS PATENT to Philip Middleton Justice, of 14, Southampton Buildings,
in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of AN
IMPROVED PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING BLANK OR OTHER BOOKS FROM
ONE OR MORE CONTINUOUS ROLLS OF PAPER." A communication from
abroad by Robert Grimshaw, of the City of Philadelphia, United States,
Gentleman.
Sealed the 29th April 1879, and dated the 2nd November 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Philip Middleton Justice at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd November 1878.
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PHILIP MIDDLETON JUSTICE, of 14, Southampton Buildings, in the County
of Middlesex, Patent Agent. AN IMPROVED PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING
BLANK OR OTHER BOOKS FROM ONE OR MORE CONTINUOUS ROLLS OF PAPER.
[A communication froin abroad by Robert Grimshaw, of the City of Philadelphia,
United States, Gentleman.]
This Invention has for its object the manufacture of blank or printed books from
one or more continuous rolls of paper. When using one roll only I fold the paper
in zig-zag plies, either transversely or longitudinally to the length of the paper,
uniting the folded edges by stitching, stabbing, pasting, riveting, wiring, or in any
other desirable manner; I may then cut the pile transversely through the centre,
thus forming two books, or I may bind one edge only, and trim the other, making
one book the size of the ply. Again, if the rolls of paper are wide, or if narrow
books are desired, I may cut the pile longitudinally to the length of the paper so as
to give two or more sections of books for each bound side. Any number of rolls
may be used depending upon the result desired, as, say, six, which I may fold zig-
zag lengthwise or crosswise in a compound fold, or I may fold once only in a
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page_text: lengthwise compound fold, secure, and bind as herein-before described. If I employ
say six rolls of white paper and one coloured one I produce books having 24 white
pages with a coloured cover. When the paper is folded longitudinally_to_the_roll_
or rolls it may be bound at one edge and trimmed at the other, or if the ply be
wide.enough it may be bound at. both edges, and cut through the centre in a line
parallel to the said edges, the continuous folds may then be cut off in suitable
-lengths.----
It is evident that alternate rolls of blotting, coloured, or other classes of paper
may be used, depending upon the style of book which it is desired to manufacture,
and also that the paper may be ruled or printed in the continuous roll previous to
being folded and bound, as herein-before described.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Philip Middleton Justice in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 1st
May 1879.
PHILIP MIDDLETON JUSTICE, of 14, Southampton Buildings, in the County
of Middlesex, Patent Agent. "AN IMPROVED PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING
BLANK OR OTHER BOOKS FROM ONE OR MORE CONTINUOUS ROLLS OF PAPER."
A communication from abroad by Robert Grimshaw, of the City of Philadelphia,
United States, Gentleman.
This Invention consists in the employment of continuous webs or rolls of paper
or other suitable or equivalent material (which may be printed or ruled when in
this continuous form), and in so disposing of or folding or operating upon said rolls
or webs as to make of them pamphlets, blank books, or "signatures," or portions of
books bound by any convenient process or left unbound. I employ at will,-
I. Simple webs or simple rolls, that is, composed of one web only, not folded on
itself. II. Multiple webs, that is, several simple webs not on the same roll, and
not folded on each other, but treated as one web.
III. Compound rolls, that is, formed of two or more webs on the same roll.
IV. Doubled webs, that is, formed of one simple web doubled on itself or of several
webs doubled on themselves; I fold these either in ✓ fashion or zig-zag
in both modes combined
I. In the case where I employ one
or
simple web I fold it either A, transversely, or B; lengthwise; A, in zig-zag crosswise
folding of the simple web, the zig-zag pile produced is divided into sections com-
posed of a convenient number of plies or folds by severing the web crosswise; B,
in zig-zag lengthwise folding of one simple web; the zig-zag fold is cut into con-
venient lengths by dividing the web crosswise, and each of these lengths may be
divided into sections by cutting them lengthwise of the web. Where folding one
simple web either lengthwise or crosswise I unite any convenient number of the
folded edges of each side of the sections mentioned, this uniting, either preceding or
following the cutting off of the sections or their subdivision, and being effected by
sewing, stitching, "stabbing," glueing, pasting, riveting, wiring, eyeletting, stapling,
tying, or any other convenient mode. To better and more clearly explain the
process I employ I refer to the annexed Drawings, in which Fig. I. shows in edge
view one simple web folded zig-zag crosswise, the folds being opened out to show
them more clearly. It may be divided on the line E, F, at or near to the centre,
and parallel to the folded edges (in which case the folded edges on sides A, B, and
C, D, may be bound, thus forming two books or sets of books), or it may be divided
or trimmed parallel to the folded edges, and at or near one of them, in which case
the other and uncut folded edges are to be bound, thus forming one book or series
of books practically the width of the ply.
I may also subdivide the sections by one or more cuts at right angles to the
folded edges.
In the above system to produce books of twenty-four pages each I divide tho
zig-zags into sections having six folds each. II. I may employ any number of
simple webs according to the result desired; thus I may employ seven simple. webs,
which I may fold.
(C) Lengthwise and in a compound V ply.
(D.) Lengthwise zig-zag in a compound zig-zag ply.
(E.) Crosswise zig-zag in a compound zig-zag ply.
If Í employ six simple webs of white paper and one of coloured properly placed,
I get books consisting of twenty-four white pages in a coloured cover. Fig. 2
shows one simple web folded zig-zag lengthwise.
Fig. 3 shows in perspective the arrangement of seven simple webs being folded
zig-zag lengthwise in a zig-zag compound fold. Fig. 4 shows in edge view seven
simple webs folded zig-zag crosswise in a zig-zag compound fold,

page_text: (G.) Lengthwise zig-zag.
(H.) Crosswise zig-zag.
Imay employ two or more compound webs as though I were using two or more
simple webs folding as in cases C, D, and E. Fig. 5 shows the lengthwise V fold
-formed from a compound web.
IV. One simple or compound web' may be folded on itself any number of times
lengthwise, forming a doubled web, and in this condition put on a roll, and other-
wise treated as in the case of one simple web being folded.
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(K.) Lengthwise in V form.
(L.) Lengthwise zig-zag.
(M.) Crosswise zig-zag.
I may also employ two webs, as, say, one coloured and the other white, the white
one being the wider of the two, and fold them lengthwise, the white one zig-zag,
and the coloured one entirely surrounding it, either V wise or so as ultimately to
form a coloured cover; this is shown in Fig. 6, where the two edges of fold should
be bound, and the sections divided at or near the centre, and in Fig. 7, where
one set of folded edges should be cut. No matter what kind of webs or rolls I use,
or how I dispose and fold them, I may unite the folded edges before or after
cutting off the sections, or before or after subdividing these sections, and I have the
same option of modes of binding as laid down in reference to the use of one
simple web.
I may divide lengthwise a web of any kind before described, and may fold either
or any part as described.
With a web of standard or odd width I may make books of any standard or
odd size or two different sizes at once, this being done by varying the manner and
plan of folding and cutting &c.
If I wish to make printed or other books of textile fabrics covered on one or
both sides with paper such as the so-called indestructible pictorial works for
children, I can print on the paper either before or after uniting it with the textile
fabric.
I may employ alternate webs of blotting paper, of coloured paper, or any desired
web for special purposes, using blank, ruled, embossed, or printed webs.
Where I wish to make ruled blank books I may rule the webs lengthwise,
crosswise, or obliquely, folding lengthwise or crosswise, according as I wish the
lines to be on the pages, either lengthwise or crosswise.
I may take the paper (or other suitable or equivalent material) direct from the
calenders or other manufacturing processes, and may rule, emboss, or anywise
-print on-them, and fold, cut, and bind them with but little manual labour.
From the same ruled webs I may make books with the pages ruled either
lengthwise or crosswise.
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Having thus described the nature of the Invention as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent,―
What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,-
The process herein-before described of manufacturing blank and other books
from one or more continuous rolls or webs of paper.
In witness whereof, I, the said Philip Middleton Justice, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this First day of May, in the year of our Lord 1879.
DOIT ID MIDDLETON JUSTICE. (LS)