Year: 1886

page_text: I THOMAS HENRY HICKS of 128 Chatsworth Road, Clapton Park, in the
County of Middlesex, Wholesale Stationer do hereby declare the nature of my
said Invention to be as follows:-
The sections of the Book are sewn separately in waterproof Fabric which Fabric
continues from end to end of the Book in: an entire piece thus rendering to each
section of the Book an independent waterproof protection.
The Book can, & is intended to be, bound either with or without one water-
proof leaf, forming part of the said entire piece of Waterproof Fabric, at each end.
of the Book, making the whole of the same impervious to moisture & strengthening
it in all its separate parts.

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Improvements in Letter Copying Books.
I, THOMAS HENRY HICKS, of 128, Chatsworth Road, Clapton Park, in the
County of Middlesex, Wholesale Stationer, do hereby declare the nature of my
said 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 relates to improvements in letter copying books, the especial
object of the Invention being to isolate the adjacent sections or the different parts
of such books from each other at their bound edges and parts adjacent thereto or
for any desired extent as regards the width of such sections or parts, preferably for
the whole of their length, in such a manner as to prevent the saturation of such
protected parts with the superfluous water squeezed out during the process of
copying any manuscript in any section of such book, and to prevent the access of
such water to the usual binding and to the covers of the books, and to the index,
or to such part or parts of such book as may be required.
The Invention is illustrated on the accompanying drawings in the several
Figures which will be hereinafter more particularly referred to.
In carrying the Invention into effect, the inner edges of the sections, 1, of the
book are sewn or otherwise secured in any usual manner in a binding, 2, of any
suitable waterproof fabric, which, as aforesaid, may extend from such bound edge
to any desired extent as regards the width of the section, preferably extending for
the whole of its length from top to bottom of the book, each section being
separately bound in such material in such a manner as, that an intervening strip
or fold thereof is left between the adjacent sections or parts.
The material, 2, may consist of a single piece of material doubled round and
between the said edges of the adjacent sections or parts of the book, and extending
from end to end thereof, rendering to each section an independent waterproof
binding and protection from wet; or each section or part of the book may be
separately bound in a separate piece of such material, 2, the adjacent strips of the
material being cemented with waterproof cement or otherwise united so as to
make the waterproof protection practically continuous.
On the accompanying Drawings, Fig. 1, represents a top edge view of a copying
book consisting of sections of copying sheets, 1, and an index, 3, bound within
covers, 4; and represents the material, 2, as extending between the index at the
one end of the book and the adjacent section, 1; between all the successive
sections, 1, at the parts adjacent to the bound edges thereof; and between the last
section, 1, and the adjacent cover at the other end of the book.
In Fig. 2, the covers and index are shown as removed, the material, 2, enclosing
the copying sections, and intervening between the bound edges of all of them.
5, reprosents the usual backing.
In Figure, 3, it is more clearly shown that the sections, 1, and binding material, 2,
are only intended to be united at the bound edges, and that the material, 2, is free
from the sections, 1, at such parts thereof where it intervenes between them.
It will thus be seen that the waterproof material may be so adapted as to isolate
the copying sections only of the book at their adjacent edges and for any desired

page_text: part of their width; or it may be continued so as to isolate the index from the
copying sections, or so as to completely isolate the covers from the inside portions
of the copying book.
The waterproof binding thus renders the whole or such part or parts of the book
as desired impervious to moisture, and prevents damage to the binding from the
continual access of the superfluous moisture squeezed into it in the process of
copying, and greatly strengthens the binding in all its parts.
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;-
The isolation of the adjacent sections or the different parts of copying books
from each other at their bound edges or for any desired extent by binding the.
same in any suitable waterproof material substantially as and for the purposes
herein before described.