DE1867868U - SHIPPING AND DISPLAY PACKING FOR BOOKS. - Google Patents

Description

The dust jacket used to be the wrapping paper with which the bookbinder wrapped the finished book and on which the bookstore assortment noted the title, price, date of receipt, etc. in pencil. At the end of the nineteenth century, some publishers began to print titles, prices and advertisements on this wrapping paper. This fashion became general, the dust jacket is now part of the book. So that the dust jacket with its important information about the subject and content of the book, its author, etc. could be preserved, the book was no longer wrapped in it, but rather placed around ¹ , ie a rectangular piece of paper was placed over the front and back covers of the book beaten so that one could open the book with the dust jacket and look inside. Of course, this nowhere attached paper slips easily, becomes torn and quickly becomes unsightly. For about 30 years now, the dust jacket has not only had to advertise the book, author and publisher in text, but also fulfill the function of a poster, ie serve as an eye-catcher. The artistic and promotional design of the dust jacket is for most books today. of decisive importance and after it has been given such great weight by the book trade (the expenses for the dust jacket can amount to up to 10% of the production costs), the buyer demands ^{to receive this independent work of art 'flawless 1} and' undamaged '. However, as soon as a book is taken five times off the shelves of the general store and leafed through, as is the rule, the dust jacket no longer remains 'flawless'. A new 'protective' envelope has to be obtained in a cumbersome and costly manner or a price discount has to be granted. In even more lalls, the customer waives at all, especially if the book is to be used for viewing purposes, the 'no longer faultless copy ¹ . Because if the dust jacket cannot remain flawless for a long time, the increased sooting of the air in all large cities and industrial areas means that after about half a year the upper cut and the lower edges are also soiled.

As things stand now, a book is in the bindery wrapped in the dust jacket and then wrapped in cellophane again, if the cover is not already

was wrapped in cellophane. Then, in the second or third step, the book is wrapped again in transparent or opaque paper. Then it comes to the publisher, who - since the corners are not protected - packs it again in corrugated cardboard, tar card and wrapping paper or in prefabricated cardboard boxes in the third or fourth step and sends it to the book wholesaler or book retailer. The book retailer unpacks all packaging except for the dust jacket in the fourth or fifth operation and then stores the books on their shelves in order to repack them for the customer when they are sold in the fifth or sixth operation, provided they are still 'perfect ^1' .

With ¹ SICHT-PACK 'the book is packed correctly once instead of five or six times inadequately. For single dispatch, 'SICHT-PACK' is tapped with two stripes from AÄ ^ iiJ ^ (ie postally 'open' when dispatched as printed matter at a reduced fee, since the TESAi ¹ ILlI can be opened and closed again effortlessly).

SICHT-PACK made possible by sliding his Bowls with elastic closures are an efficient way of manufacturing, since it produced around 40,000 annually in the Federal Republic of Germany .books have different sizes (thicknesses), but not thirty different formats, of which about eight dominate. By the fact that SICHT-PACK the state! Strength of the As book blocks are used and can be accommodated in a variety of thicknesses, the greater the use, it becomes a significant reduction the packaging costs for books and thus the book prices.

Claims (20)

Attachment (description and drawing) to the utility model registration "SICHT-PACK" by Dr, Ernst Friedrich Battenberg, Marbach, November 9, 1962: In accordance with Section 2 of the Utility Model Act, I apply for utility model protection for a new type of book packaging that can be used as a Shipping pack, which can also be used as a display pack. _1. The new "SICHI-PACK" book packaging is characterized by that 2 telescope boxes made of water-clear, impact-resistant and break-proof plastic (polyvinyl chloride, cellulose derivatives, Polycarbonates, polyformaldehyde, polystyrene, acetobutyrates and various copolymers) the book in normal shipping against the effects of moisture, dust, shock and pressure protect, enable unlimited storage and at the same time show the format, scope, author and title of the book at all times, so that it is no longer possible to mix up books packed in this way. (First right to protection). 2. The transparent telescope boxes are closed by jctefeefolien 4MBMMlM ^ so that the pack can be opened several times and the contents of the book can be viewed. This saves four to five times packing and unpacking, ie packing material, working time and price labeling, at the usual trading stations that a book passes through. (Protection claim 2). 3. The high-gloss, transparent, hygienic packaging increases the incentive to buy books packed in this way. Because the "SICHT-PACK" packaging is no longer to be regarded as lost packaging, but becomes part of the book, such as the so-called dust jacket, it increases the value of the books packed with it accordingly. (Protection claim 5). The shape of the packaging shown uses the special for the first time static conditions of the book and thus enables the use of one and the same packaging for books different circumference (, thickness). This is of great importance since the number of usual book formats is limited, however, each individual book has a different thickness or size having. The two plastic shells can be moved against each other, so that you can hold a book 2 cm thick as well as one 2.5, 3 or 3.5 cm thick. (Protection claim 4). To explain the meaning of this pattern of usage, be me allows a general explanation of the book and its packaging to be added to the technical description: On the one hand, the book, one of the oldest cultural products of mankind, exceeds the majority of other cultural monuments in terms of durability, even if they use apparently more durable materials such as wood, stone or metal. On the other hand, required and Keeping written records always requires special protection, special packaging. In ancient times For this purpose, rolls and boxes made of wood, leather and clay jugs were used, which were initially used for storing and shipping Roll-shaped books made of papyrus or parchment were used. After the advent of page-by-page books in the West The new bookbinder technology took over some of the protective functions of the containers mentioned above. Until the 18th In the 20th century, most books were bound in leather-covered wooden panels and fitted with clasps, and they were made on top of that still in - depending on the richly decorated - cases . With the spread of secular literature in broad Social classes at the end of the 18th At the beginning of the 20th century, the binding came into use at all (Brosehur) or it became light Covers made of cardboard or cardboard covered with linen. These easily damaged books didn't last very long Durable, but as serial products correspondingly cheap and if they were sent, they had to be taken along in the most cumbersome way each new cover to be made of several layers of paper, cardboard, etc. are provided. This is still to this day, in the second half of the 20th century the lall. It is true that at the beginning of our century, it was on hats like that O.tJ. Bierbaums, E.A. Schröders and others remembered a renaissance the book culture, which besides the typography also above all Concerned the book cover, but there was also another circumstance, the vulnerability, which has increased many times over since the baroque era the books increased again, the dust jacket. - 3 -