IMPROVEMENTS IN BINDING OR COVERING BOOKS AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph John Perry, of Red Lion Square, in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BINDING
OR COVERING BOOKS AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES."-A communication from
abroad by Jules Alfred Hubert, of Paris, in the Empire of France.
Scaled the 24th April 1868, and dated the 26th October 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph John Perry at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
26th October 1867.
I, JOSEPH JOHN PERRY, of Red Lion Square, in the County of Middlesex,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
BINDING OR COVERING BOOKS AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES," communicated to me
from abroad by Jules Alfred Hubert, of Paris, in the Empire of France, to
be as follows:———
The Invention has for its object improvements in binding or covering books
and other similar articles, and relates to means whereby such articles are
capable of being readily connected or disconnected with their bindings or
covers. For this purpose the binding or cover is prepared separately from
the book or other similar article, and in each side of the binding or cover a
pocket is formed, the opening of which is towards that part of the binding or
cover which is intended for the back of the book or other similar article, which
is provided with two comparatively rigid flaps or leaves, one of which enters

page_text: each of the pockets in the binding or cover. Thus by pushing the said flaps
or leaves into the pockets the book or other similar article is firmly
connected with its binding or cover and yet capable of being readily removed
therefrom.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph John Perry in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
25th April 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
JOHN PERRY, of Red Lion Square, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Joseph John Perry, Her special licence that I, the said
Joseph John Perry, my, executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Joseph John Perry, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BINDING OR COVERING BOOKS AND OTHER SIMILAR
ARTICLES," a communication to me from abroad by Jules Alfred Hubert, of
Paris, in the Empire of France, upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Joseph John Perry, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph John Perry, 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 thereof, that is to say :-
The Invention has for its object improvements in binding or covering books.

page_text: and other similar articles, and relates to means whereby such articles are
capable of being readily connected or disconnected with their bindings or covers.
For this purpose the binding or cover is prepared separately from the book or
other similar article, and in each side of the binding or cover a pocket is formed
the opening of which is towards that part of the binding or cover which is
intended for the back of the book or other similar article, which is provided
with two comparatively rigid flaps or leaves, one of which enters each of the
pockets in the binding or cover. Thus by pushing the said flaps or leaves into
the pockets the book or other similar article is firmly connected with its binding
or cover and yet capable of being readily removed therefrom.
And in order that the said Invention may be more fully understood and
readily carried into effect I will proceed, aided by the accompanying Drawings
more fully to describe the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a front view and Figure 2 is a sectional plan of a memorandum
book with a binding or cover applied thereto according to the Invention.
a, a, is the memorandum book, which is stitched together in the usual
manner, and has connected thereto two comparatively rigid flaps or leaves b, b,
as will be readily understood; and c, c, is the binding or cover which is prepared
separately from the book, and has formed in each side thereof a pocket d into
which the rigid or comparatively rigid flaps or leaves b, b, are received, as
shown by the sectional plan at Figure 2.
Figure 3 is a perspective view showing the memorandum book and its
binding or cover in the position they would assume at the moment the rigid
or comparatively rigid flaps or leaves b, b, are being placed in the pockets d, d,
or removed therefrom. By these means facility is afforded for readily
connecting and disconnecting the book from the binding or cover, and thereby
enabling the same or different books to be used with the same or different
bindings or covers.
I would have it understood that although the Invention is shown and
described as applied to the bindings or covers of memorandum books, it is
equally applicable to the bindings or covers of account and other books and
other similar articles.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and the mode
in which the same is carried into effect, I would have it understood that I do
not confine myself to the precise details herein shown and described, as such
may be varied without departing from the peculiar character of the said

page_text: Invention; but what I do claim is the improvements in binding or covering
books and other similar articles in such manner that the books and other
similar articles may be readily connected or disconnected from their bindings
or covers, in manner substantially as herein shown and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph John Perry, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eleventh day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
Witness,
B. J. B. MILLS,
Patent Agent,
35, Southampton Buildings,
Chancery Lane.
JOSEPH J. PERRY. (L.s.)