Improvements in the Construction of Temporary Binders for Periodicals, Prints, Photographs, and analogous Articles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Jan., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 25th Sept., 1894-Accepted, 3rd Nov., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Temporary Binders for
Periodicals, Prints, Photographs, and analogous Articles.
1, CYRUS EUGENE MOREHOUSE, of Number 88 Mason Street, in the City and
County of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, United States of America,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists, primarily, in a temporary binder comprising two
independent covers, each consisting of two flexibly united stiff sections, the rear
sections having stiff inturned flanges, one overlapping the other, forming the back
of the device, the said covers being united, between the said back flanges and the
said flexible portions by suitable posts or pins, those on one cover being preferably
tubular to receive the pins on the other cover, the interior of the tubes and exterior
of the pins being preferably screw-threaded, and secondly, in the combination with
these posts or pins of a series of binder stubs, each comprising rigidly united
flexible and non-flexible strips, the former being of such width as to have a free
portion that folds on the other, and said strips having openings which register
when folded, to receive the said posts or pins, the periodicals or supports for the
prints or photographs, being attached by stitching or metallic clips to the folded
edge of the said flexible strips of the binder stubs.
Dated this 23rd day of November 1893.
CYRUS EUGENE MOREHOUSE.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Temporary Binders for
Periodicals, Prints, Photographs, and analogous Articles.
1, CYRUS EUGENE MOREHOUSE, of Number 88, Mason Street, in the City
and County of Milwaukee, and State of Wisconsin, United States of America,
Manufacturer, 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 has for its object the construction of a temporary binder suitable
for the preservation and display of periodicals without concealing any portions
thereof, and notably without interfering with the full display of the central double-
page illustrations which form features of many of them, as well as for the convenient
exhibition of prints, photographs and analogous articles, and to that end the said
invention consists, primarily, in a temporary binder comprising two independent
covers, each consisting of two flexibly united stiff sections, the rear sections having
stiff inturned flanges, one overlapping the other, forming the back of the device,
the said covers being united, between the said back flanges and the said flexible
portions, by suitable posts or pins, those on one cover being preferably tubular to
receive the pins on the other cover, the interior of the tubes and exterior of the pins
being preferably screw-threaded, and secondly, in the combination with these posts
or pins of a series of binder stubs, each comprising rigidly united flexible and non-
flexible strips, the former being of such width as to have a free portion that folds
on the other, and said strips having openings which register when folded, to receive
the said posts or pins, the periodicals, or supports for the prints or photographs,

page_text: being attached by stitching, or by metallic clips, to the folded edge of the said
flexible strips of the binder stubs, all as hereinafter described with reference to the
accompanying drawings, and subsequently claimed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure represents a sectional view of a temporary binder embodying my
improvements.
Figures 2 and 3 represent detail sectional views of one of the stubs in connection
with a periodical.
Figure 4 represents a detail prospective view of a portion of the stub.
Referring by letter to the drawings, A. represents the top and B the under cover
of the binder, each of these covers being provided with a flexible joint b to permit
of their being laid back in the ordinary manner. Upset in the rear portion of the
cover B or otherwise rigidly connected thereto is an interiorly screw-threaded
tube C, two or more of the latter being employed in practice and arranged on the
same line at a suitable distance apart. Loose on each tube is a sleeve D, and
engaging the interior of said tube is a screw-threaded pin E, the latter being
passed through a perforation in the top cover A and provided with a suitable
head.
As one of the novel features of the present invention I make the rear portion of
each cover from stiff material, preferably metal, having an approximately right-
angle contour, whereby I provide inwardly extending flanges c, d, one of which
overlaps the other, leather or other flexible material e being employed to unite the
two sections of each cover and thereby form the joint above specified, as well as to
conceal certain details of construction. By means of the rear portions of the
cover I obtain a stiff back for the binder and prevent torsional play of the
contents.
Another novel feature of the present invention is the peculiar stubs for connecting
the binder and contents. Each stub comprises a spacing-strip F of card-board or
other suitable stiff material and another strip G of flexible material pasted or
otherwise rigidly secured to the former. The flexible strip is of sufficient width to
have a free portion fold over the stiff strip and both are punched out to form
registering openings for the passage of the binder posts. Periodicals or other
matter are united at the fold f of the flexible strip G by stitching or metallic
clips 9,
the latter being preferred inasmuch as they are neat, cheap and easily
applied. The connection having been made, the free portion of the flexible strip
is laid down on the Bon-flexible strip to which it is attached and the stub formed
by these two strips slipped onto the posts in the binder. By the employment of
the stubs above specified it will be seen that the bound matter is not mutilated,
and this is of especial advantage in connection with periodicals. It will also be
observed that the employment of said stubs permits of periodicals being laid
flat open leaf by leaf, a result of material importance when two-page illustrations
occur.
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 :
1. A temporary binder having the rear portion of each cover provided with a
stiff inturned flange.
2. A temporary binder each cover of which comprises two flexibly united stiff
sections, the rear one of which is of an approximate right-angle contour.
3. A temporary binder stub comprising rigidly united flexible and non-flexible
strips, the former of these strips being of such width as to have a free portion that
folds on the other.
4. A temporary binder stub comprising rigidly united flexible and non-flexible
strips, the former of these strips being of such width as to have a free portion that

page_text: folds on the other, the fold and united portions of the strips being provided with
registering openings at suitable intervals.
5. A temporary binder comprising a pair of covers having stiff inturned and
overlapping back flanges, suitable posts intermediate of the covers, and perforated
stubs engaging the posts, each stub having a folding portion attachable to contents
of said binder.
Dated this 15th day of September 1894.
CYRUS EUGENE MOREHOUSE.