Improvements in Covers or Holders for Books, Journals, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Mar., 1894-Accepted, 5th May, 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Covers or Holders for Books, Journals, and
the like.
We, JOHN HENRY STEWART Engineer and JOE STEWART Clerk both of
53 Warley Road, North Shore, Blackpool, in the County of Lancaster, 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 covers or holders for retaining periodicals within
one case or reading cover, the object of the invention being to provide a protecting
cover or case in which a number of periodicals or journals, papers or the like can
be secured independently without the necessity of stitching or binding them
together in one convenient form of holder, suitable for placing in public libraries,
restaurants and other places where such periodicals or papers would be frequently
handled.
In carrying our invention into effect we construct our cover in various sizes and
shapes to suit the particular periodicals, papers or journals that it is desired to
temporarily bind or fasten together in one case, and we make the width or depth
of the cover to suit the thicknesses of the combined papers which are to be thus
joined. We make the cover out of paper, papier maché leather, linen or other
suitable material which we ornament, emboss, decorate or letter to suit any
particular requirement. The back portion of our cover upon which the sides turn
or hinge in the ordinary manner we make stiff, and we secure to the bottom or one
end of the same a binding clip preferably of metal, having a number of rods, tapes
or wires passing from it to a corresponding detachable clip which we place at the
opposite end of the back of the cover, these wires or tapes being arranged for the
purpose of enabling the paper or journal to be threaded on to them.
In the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings,
Figure 1 is a front elevation of our improved cover when opened for enabling
the journal to be read.
Figure 2 is a part side elevation of our cover showing the hinge binders in
position when the periodicals are in their normal position, and showing them also
in dotted outline when the clip B is unfastened for enabling the periodicals or
journals to be removed from their binding wires or tapes, D.
Figure 3 is a detailed front elevation of our detachable hinge clip B showing
the wires D in position for securing the papers.
Figure 4 is a side elevation of the same, but showing the manipulating clip
lever B' in dotted outline when the papers are to be removed.
Figure 5 is a back elevation showing the same detachable clip with its lever
plate B in position, as when placed upon the cover.
Figure 6 is a detailed front elevation of the bottom binding clip C, and Figure 7
is a corresponding back elevation of the same clip showing the portion C₁ which
engages with the material of the cover by its bent over edge or serrated tooth like
surfaces C²
Figure 8 is a side elevation of the same bottom clip showing the two plates C C'
with the serrated or projecting edges C2 C³ for engaging with or fastening on to
the material of the cover, the two plates C, C', being hinged or pivoted together
by the pivot F.
We attach the wires D or tapes to the two clipping plates B, C, the wires being
soldered, riveted or otherwise secured to them and being placed at intervals apart
sufficient for enabling the periodicals to be threaded or inserted between the wires.

page_text: Instead of making the binding bars out of separate plates, we sometimes form the
bars by piercing a metal plate having the two ends left as blanks for making the
clipping plates B and C thereupon. We form the top plate B, with its manipulating
finger plate or clip B' mounted upon a hinge plate, or pivot E which enables the
ends of the manipulating plate B¹ to engage with the material of the back of
the cover so as to clip it between the plate B' and the hinge piece B, when it is
pressed down as shown in Figure 2. We make the hinge plate B' with a pro-
jecting tooth piece or piercing lip b¹, as shown in Figure 4 and in Figure 2 for
pressing on to or biting the material of the cover.
We vary the form of the hinge plate B' sometimes making it with a double
manipulating piece for giving greater pressure to the material of the cover.
Similarly we modify the bottom clip plate C by making it, that when desired to be
detachable by means of a finger piece instead of making it to hinge upon the pin F.
We place any desired number of wires or bars to suit the number of papers or
periodicals that it is desired to bind together and we modify the shape and con-
figuration of the top and bottom clip plates to suit the cover that they are to be
secured to, making the bars or tapes to be attached to each one for the purpose of
enabling ready insertion or withdrawal of papers from the covers A, A', as herein-
before described.
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. The construction of a holder or cover with retaining bars or tapes for
enclosing and protecting a periodical, or periodicals or the like, substantially as
and for the purposes hereinbefore described.
2. In a reading cover or holder, the construction and arrangement of a holder
clip such as B with a bottom clip such as C for carrying the binding wires such
as D, substantially as hereinbefore described, and as illustrated in the accom-
panying drawings.
3. The construction of clips for attachment to binding covers for holding
periodicals, papers or the like; having the manipulating finger piece or lever
plate which permits of the holder of the papers being readily detached or renewed
within the covers, substantially as hereinbefore described, and as illustrated in
the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 22nd day of March 1894
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
and 13, Temple Street, Birmingham,
Agents for the Applicants.