US554114A - Binding for books - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

C.A.EVERTZ.' BINDING FOR- BOOKS.

I Patented Feb. 4, 1896.

INVENTOI? ATTORNEYS.

ANDREW B.GRA |AM. PNOTO-LITHQWASHINGTON. 0 C,

NlTED STATES PATENT FFIoE.

CARL A. EVERTZ, OF BROOKLYN, NE\V YORK.

BINDING FOR BOOKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 554,114, dated February 4, 1896.

Application filed October 19, 1895. Serial No. 566,180. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL A. EVERTZ, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bindings for Books, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to certain improvements in bindings for the leaves of books and the like, and has for its object to provide a binding of a simple, durable and inexpensive construction which shall be especially adapted for binding together heavy sheets or leaves such, for example, as the thickened leaves of sample-books, albums, scrap-books and the like.

The invention consists in a binding wherein the leaves are provided at the bound edge with a reinforce or hinge strip preferably formed of cloth or similar material, said reinforce or hinge strip being attached to the next adjacent leaf or sheet so as to dispense with the sewing or kerfing of the sheets employed in the ordinary forms of binding.

The invention also contemplates certain novel features of the construction and arrangement of the improved binding, whereby certain important advantages are attained and the device is made simpler, cheaper and otherwise better adapted for use in binding heavy leaves or sheets, all as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

The novel features of the invention will be carefully defined in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a book made according to my invention in an open position. Fig. 2 is a sectional view showing one of the leaves detached; and Fig. 3 is a view somewhat similar to Fig. 2, but showing the means for binding the leaves or sheets together.

In the views, 1 and 2 represent the covers of the book, which may be of any material, connected by a flexible back 3.

4 4 represent the several leaves or sheets of the book, each being independent of the other instead of connected to or formed integrall y with another leaf by foldin g in the usual manner.

As herein shown the leaves 4 of the book are of thick material, such as is commonly used in making up sample-books, scrap-books and the like, and to permit of attaching samples or other articles to the several leaves or sheets said leaves are spaced apart by means of checks 5, so that the book when filled with samples, 850., will not bulge at its edges but will close properly.

Each check 5 consists of a strip 6, of cardboard or the like, attached to one of the sheets or leaves 4 by means of a flexible strip '7 of muslin or other suitable fabric, the edges 8 8 of said strip being arranged to project beyond the edges of the check and being pasted down on the opposite sides of that leaf 4 to which the check is secured, the adjacent edges of each leaf 4 and its connected check 5 being separated by a space, as seen in Fig. 2, across which space the sides 9 of the strip 7 extend to form a sort of hinge or flexible connection, as will be readily understood by reference to the drawings.

In assembling or binding the various sheets or leaves 4 the several checks 5 are each bent over on the connected leaf, as clearly seen in Fig. 3, so that one check stands between each two leaves, after which the check of each sheet 4 is pasted down, as seen at 10, on the edge 8 of the strip 7 of the next adjacent sheet 4, being left attached by its flexible connection 9 only to the sheet 4, to which it is united by said strip 7.

The sheets, when bound, are backed by a piece or strip 11 of binders cloth, which is bound at its edges in the covers 1 and 2 and serves to prevent the entire strain bearing on the connection between any two leaves or sheets 4, and said strip 11 is arranged to proj ect beyond the upper and lower edges of the sheets 4, as shown in Fig. 1, so as to afiord means for attaching a reinforce 12.

The binding, as above described, is extremely simple and inexpensive, and is well adapted for use in sample and scrap books and the like, the leaves of which are usually composed of heavy paper, which it would be impossible to bind in the ordinary manner. Furthermore, books bound in accordance with my invention lie flat when opened, as shown in Fig. 1, sufficient freedom of movement being given by the flexible portions 5) of the hinging-strips 7 to permit the leaves to separate in opening.

It will be obvious from the above description of my invention that the device is susceptible of considerable modification without material departure from the principles and spirit of my invention, and for this reason I do not Wish to be understood as limiting myself to the precise form of the binding herein set forth.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a binding for books and the like, the combination of the leaves or sheets to be bound, a flexible hinging-strip for each sheet, said strips being bent at their central portions and having their edges secured to opposite sides of the respective sheets, and checks secured to the central portions of the respective hinging-strips, whereby said checks have a flexible connection with the sheet to the hinging-strip of which they are secured, said checks being each secured to a leaf or sheet adjacent to that to which they are flexi bly connected by means of the respective hinging-strips, substantially as set forth.

2. In a binding for books and the like, the

combination of the leaves or sheets to be bound, a hinging-strip for each sheet, said hinging-strips being bent at their central portions, checks held between the opposite sides of the hiuging-strips at their central portions, the edges of the said strips being arranged to project beyond the checks and being secured to opposite sides of the respective sheets to form a flexible connection between each check and its respective sheet, said checks being each secured to a sheet adjacent to that to Which it is flexibly connected by means of its respective hingingstrip, substantially as set forth.

3. In a binding for books or the like, the combination of the leaves or sheets to be bound, and a hinging-strip of flexible material for each sheet, said hinging-strips being bent at their central portions and each at tached at its central portion to one sheet, said strips having their free edges projecting beyond the sheet to which they are secured at their central portions, and secured to opposite sides of an adjacent sheet, whereby the several sheets are flexibly connected, substantially as set forth.

CARL A. EVERTZ.

\Vitnesses:

CLINTON GARDNER, THEODOR KILSPERGER.

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