Improvements in and connected with the Protection of the Orna- mentation or Decoration of Books, Writing Cases, or on other Articles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Nov., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 10th Aug., 1898-Accepted, 24th Sept.,
1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with the Protection of the Orna-
mentation or Decoration of Books, Writing Cases, or on other
Articles.
I, CEDRIC CHIVERS, of 10, Bloomsbury Street, County of Middlesex, Bookbinder,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The nature of this invention may be readily understood from a description of
its application in book-binding. Heretofore vellum or parchment has frequently
been used as an outer covering or casing. This has been externally stamped,
colored, and had more or less ornamentation applied thereto in other ways.
According to this invention it is proposed to use transparent vellum or parch-
ment and to have the coloring or ornamentation almost entirely beneath or on
the underside of the cover. Such ornamentation may cither be on a sheet of
paper or other material placed beneath the vellum, or may be on the vellum
itself, and if necessary may be protected by a varnish coating, so as to enable the
gluten or paste employed to cause the cover to adhere applied without injury to
the ornamentation.
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Improvements in and connected with the Protection of the Orna-
mentation or Decoration of Books, Writing Cases, or on other
Articles.
I, CEDRIC CHIVERS, of 10, Bloomsbury Street, County of Middlesex, 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:-
My invention relates to certain improvements in and connected with the pro-
tection of the ornamentation or decoration of books, writing cases, or other
articles.

page_text: My invention may be readily understood from a description of its application
in bookbinding. Heretofore vellum or parchment has frequently been used as an
outer covering or casing. This has been externally stamped, colored, and had
more or less ornamentation applied thereto in other ways.
According to my invention I use transparent vellum or parchment, or it may
be a treated transparent paper of sufficiently stout quality such as that known as
vegetable parchment" which I include under the term parchment, and have the
coloring, gilding, silvering or ornamentation almost entirely beneath or on the
underside of the covering. Such ornamentation may either be on a sheet of
paper or other material placed beneath the vellum, or may be on the reverse side
of the vellum itself, and if necessary may be protected by a varnish coating so
as to enable the gluten or paste employed to cause the cover to adhere, to be
applied without injury to the ornamentation. A cover so formed presents an
agreeable appearance, and the ornamentation or decoration of same while visible
is yet entirely protected.
11.
It will be understood that writing cases, covers, portfolios, and the like can be
produced or treated in the same way.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
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1. For the protection of the ornamentation or decoration of books and the like
a transparent vellum or parchment covering secured thereon, substantially as
described.
2. A binding for books and the like consisting of transparent vellum or parch-
ment having the ornamentation, decoration, or coloring on the under side of same,
substantially as described.
ced the 10th day of August 1898.
PHILIP M. JUSTICE,
55 and 56, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agent,
For the Applicant.