Year: 1888

page_text: I, WILLIAM EDWARD WEEKS of 32 Warren Street New York in the County of
New York, and State of New York, United States of America, Printer, 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 relation to temporary binders and is more especially adapted
for holding pads or tablets of writing paper within a cover, which pads or tablets
are removable and can be replaced by a new one when filled; and among the
objects of the invention are to provide a device for this purpose formed of sheet-
metal which may be easily applied to a suitable cover and which will possess in
and of itself means for retaining removably a pad or tablet of paper inserted therein.
Other objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter appear.
Referring to the drawing.
Fig. 1 is a perspective of a temporary binder constructed in accordance with my
invention; Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same; Fig. 3 is a central section of a
note-book provided with my improved binder.
Like letters of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawing.
In practicing my invention 1 take a strip of metal in sheet-form and of sufficient
resilliency, and cut the same to the size required by suitable dies and cutters, and
form near each of its longitudinal edges spring loops or tongues A¹.
At the same operation or it may be by a proceeding or subsequent operation, by
other suitable dies and punches, clips A are formed which clips are disposed in a
direction opposite the spring tongues A'.
The strip is then longitudinally bent to form a U-shape binder A, the bends
occurring equidistant from the edges of the binder and intermediate the springs A¹
and clips A
The binder as thus formed is then inserted in any suitable cover, as B, the clips A'
of said binder passing through corresponding openings formed in the cover, and
are then bent, whereby the binder is held firmly in place within said cover.

page_text: Any suitable pad or tablet of paper C is slid longitudinally within the binder A, the
springs A yielding sufficiently to permit of the passage of the tablet or pad therein-
between, and being of sufficient rigidity to maintain the tablet snugly in position.
When it becomes desirable to replace the tablet or pad by another, it is simply
necessary to withdraw the same sidewise from between the springs A¹ and insert
the substitute tablet as previously described.
In this manner more valuable covers may be employed, and this at a greatly
reduced cost, in that when the leaves of the book are consumed they may be replaced
by a new tablet or pad and thus the same cover be used over and over again
indefinitely.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The combination of a temporary binder consisting of a U-shaped strip of metal
having integral and oppositely arranged spring tongues, with a cover for the same,
and a tablet of paper inserted between said spring tongues, substantially as specified.