A NEW OR IMPROVED MEANS OF SECURING OR FASTENING THE LEAVES IN MUSIC, PERIODICALS, AND BOOKS, APPLICABLE FOR SECURING TOGETHER PAPERS OF VARIOUS KINDS. AND SAMPLES AND PATTERNS
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Franklin Hocking, of No. 15, Broad Street,
Ratcliff, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer, for the Invention of
"A NEW OR IMPROVED MEANS OF SECURING OR FASTENING THE LEAVES IN
MUSIC, PERIODICALS, AND BOOKS, APPLICABLE FOR SECURING TOGETHER PAPERS
OF VARIOUS KINDS. AND SAMPLES AND PATTERNS."
Sealed the 17th May 1870, and dated the 21st January 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Franklin Hocking at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 21st January 1870.
I, FRANKLIN HOCKING, of No. 15, Broad Street, Ratcliff, in the
5 County of Middlesex, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED MEANS OF SECURING OR FASTENING THE
LEAVES IN MUSIC, PERIODICALS, AND BOOKS, APPLICABLE FOR SECURING TOGETHER
PAPERS OF VARIOUS KINDS, AND SAMPLES AND PATTERNS," to be as follows :-
My Invention relates to a means of fastening or securing together a
O number of leaves of printed, manuscript, or blank paper, samples of
cloths, and other such like articles.

page_text: My Invention consists in the use of a tube split or slotted for its entire
length and a rod or wire, which rod or wire is passed through the centre
portion of the folded leaves to be united together, and the rod or wire
is then entered into the tube, by which means the leaves are securely
held together. The binding or releasing of the leaves may be effected
almost instantaneously. The exact shape of the tube I do not confine
myself to; it may be round, oval, octagonal, hexagonal, or of any
prismatic shape. Two or more rods or wires may be used with one
tube, and a number of tubes may if found desirable be united together.
In some cases I propose to use a cord instead of the rod or wire; or I
may substitute for the rod or wire a centre piece of bone, whalebone,
wood, or any such suitable substance.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Franklin Hocking in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 20th July 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANKLIN
HOCKING, of No. 15, Broad Street, Ratcliff, in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the
thirty-third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Franklin Hocking, Her special licence
that I, the said Franklin Hocking, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Franklin Hocking, 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 "A NEW OR IMPROVED Means of
SECURING OR FASTENING THE LEAVES IN MUSIC, PERIODICALS, AND BOOKS, APPLICABLE
FOR SECURING. TOGETHER PAPERS OF VARIOUS KINDS, AND SAMPLES AND PATTERNS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Franklin Hocking,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my,
or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and

page_text: 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 Franklin Hocking, 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 :--
My Invention relates to a means of fastening or securing together a
number of leaves of printed, manuscript, or blank paper, or samples of
cloth, and other such like detached pieces of material which it may be.
desired for some purpose to unite together.
My Invention consists in the use of a tube split or slotted for its entirė
length, and a rod or wire or other centre piece, which is passed through
the loop formed by folding the leaves or pieces to be united together,
such slotted tube enclosing the centre rod or wire and the loop through
which the rod or wire has been previously passed, and thereby holding
the leaves or pieces securely together.
In some cases the centre rod or wire is detached and first inserted in
the fold or loop, and then drawn its entire length into or up the tube.
And in other cases the internal rod or wire may be fixed rigidly by
screwing, soldering, or otherwise at one end of the tube, and may extend
through and beyond the other end, and then at the part where it thus
protrudes it is entered into the loop or centre fold of the leaves or pieces
to be united, the tube at the same time passing over the outside or back
of the loop or fold. The leaves or pieces are then drawn up to the
required distance. The binding or releasing of the leaves may each be
effected almost instantaneously.
Although I have for the purpose of clearly shewing the nature of my
Invention described the receptacle or channel for the rod or wire as a
tube I do not confine myself to the use of a tube simple, but consider as
my Invention and purpose using the rod or wire or other centre piece in
recesses, receptacles, or channels of a round, oval, octagonal, hexagonal,
or of any similar suitable form.
In some cases I propose to use a cord instead of the rod or wire, or
I may substitute for the rod or wire or cord a centre piece of bone,
whalebone, wood, or any such suitable substance. Two or more rods,

page_text: wires, cords, or other centre pieces may be used with one tube or channel,
and a number of tubes may, if found desirable, be formed or united'
together. Also when the slot of the tube is wider than the diameter
of the centre rod I adapt and apply a sliding guide or holder to retain
the rod in its position, which guide may be suitably formed to retain
either one or more rods.
In order that the nature of my Invention, and the manner in which
the same is effected, may be particularly described and ascertained, I
append to this Specification a Sheet of Drawings having figures and
letters of reference marked thereupon, the like letter being used to
denote a similar or corresponding part in each Figure.
In these Drawings Figures 1 and 2 represent a tube t with internal
rod shewing the relative positions of the same, Figure 1 `shewing
clearly the slot's; Figures 3 and 4 are cross sections of the tube and
rod; Figure 5 is a cross section of a tube in which two rods or wires are
used, so that two sheets or sets of folded leaves may be placed in the
one tube. The guide herein-before referred to is marked g in Figures 1
and 3. When it is desired to bind or unite several sheets or numbers of
periodicals or pieces of music together the tube or receptacle may be of
the section shewn in Figure 6, in which several rods, wires, or cords r
can be used. In this case the slot, which may be extended to any
required width, is crossed at intervals by bars 6, by preference in the
shape of a segment of a circle, as shewn, and the rods or wires » passed
through the folded sheets are held in position by means of these cross
bars b, and the sheets are each notched with a number of notches cor-
responding with the number of cross bars. These cross bars 6 pass
through the notches in sheets marked p in Figure 6, and into the centro
of interior of the fold of the same, and the rods or wires or cords are
passed between or under the cross bars and the sheets to be held in
position, thus securely binding or uniting the whole together.
Figure 7 is an inside view or plan, and Figure 8 is a side view of this
arrangement. The tube may be of wood, brass, or other suitable material
or metal, and may be made with or without covers.
Figure 9 represents the manner in which the folded leaves or sheets
are notched, so that the fold may pass the cross bars 6 and receive the
rod, wire, cord, or other centre piece. The notches are marked n.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is effected, I wish

page_text: it to be distinctly understood that I do not in any way rely upon the
elasticity of the material of which the tube or tubes, channel or channels
are composed as the means by which the leaves, sheets, or pieces are
held together; such material may be either elastic or non-elastic, but I
prefer that it should be non-elastic, as in drawing the folded pieces into
their position much depends upon the firmness of the tube in keeping
the rod or centre piece from passing out of the tube through the slot,
and I claim the use of the centre piece or pieces made either of rod,
wire, wood, bone, cord, or other such like material in combination with
the tubes or channels formed in the manner in this Specification
described, or in the accompanying Drawings illustrated, as the means
of readily and securely holding together or binding or uniting leaves,
sheets, pieces, or samples in such manner that such leaves, sheets, or
samples can with facility be detached when required.
In witness whereof, I, the said Franklin Hocking, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.`
FRANKLIN HOCKING. (L.s.)