US1148123A

US1148123A - Bookbinding.

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Publication number: US1148123A
Application number: US63495611A
Authority: US
Inventors: Edward K Robinson
Original assignee: C H THURBER; DANA W HALL; E A DE WITT; F C HODGDON; G A PLIMPTON; Ginn & Co; HENRY H HILTON; L B ROBESON; LEWIS PARKHURST; O J LAYLANDER; RICHARD S THOMAS; SELDEN C SMITH; T B LAWLER
Current assignee: DANA W HALL; HENRY H HILTON; L B ROBESON; LEWIS PARKHURST; RICHARD S THOMAS; C H THURBER; E A DE WITT; F C HODGDON; G A PLIMPTON; Ginn & Co; O J LAYLANDER; SELDEN C SMITH; T B LAWLER
Priority date: 1911-06-23
Filing date: 1911-06-23
Publication date: 1915-07-27
Anticipated expiration: 1932-07-27

Description

E. K. ROBINSON.

BOOKBINDING. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 23. mm.

Patented July 27, 1915.

3 SHEETS-SHEET 2- Witnesses Invenlor E. K. ROBINSON.

BOOKBINDING.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 2-3. 1911.

Patented July 27, 1915.

3 SHEETS-SHEET 3.

v Inventor II. TED STATES PATENT OFFICE-I EDWARD K. ROBINSON, or BELMONT, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR To G. A. PLIMPTON, RICHARD S. THOMAS, T LAWLER, AND F. C. HODGDON, ALL OF NEW .YORK, N. Y.,

HENRY H. HILTON, DANA W. HALL, AND O. J. LAYLANDER, NOIS, LEWIS PARKHURST, OF WINCHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS,

ALL OF CHICAGO, ILLI- C. H. THURBER, 0F

FRAMINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, ELDEN C. SMITH, or BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA,

E. A. DE WIT'I, OF DALLAS, TEX'AS,,AND L. B. ROBESON, OF COPARTNERS DOING BUSINESS AT BOST NAME OF GINN & COMPANY.

ATLANTA, GEORGIA,

0N, MASSACHUSETTS, UNDER THE FIRM- EooKBINnING.

1 Application filed June 23, 1911. Serial No. 634,956.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD K. ROBINSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Belmont, in the county of Middlesexand State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bookbinding or Book-Covers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to the binding of books, pamphlets, catalogues, or other similar material in such a manner that-the cover or binder is permanently attached to the initial contents (whether it be book, pamphlet, or catalogue, etc), but permits of the inclusion of additional material-a pamphlet, a notebook, blank leaves, or any other similar materialin the form of a supple-' ment to the initial contents within the Same.

cover or binder The purpose of my invention is to make it possible to place additional material of Such nature inside of the same covers and with the original contents of a book, without breaking or tearing the binding. With the extra leaves or a pamphlet placed within the covers will ordinarily cause the binding to weaken and break.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an end view of a book bound in the manner herein described, before the insertion of any supplemental matter. Fig. 2 represents a book similarly bound, to which a supplement has been added. Fig. .3 is another View of a book bound according to my invention, to which a supplement has been added. Figs. 4 and 5 show books bound in accordance with my invention, to which the supplements have been attached by means of cords or wires. 6 is a detail illustrat-- ing one mode of attachment of the permanent part of the book to the cover.

In the figures, a represents the leaves of the book, bound" together by sewing or by any of the methods commonly used by bookbinders, and attached to the back strip 1) either'by being glued to the whole surface I of the back strip 6 or by means of a strip of cloth a attached to the leaves and also glued to the side covers, 0 and d. In Fig. 6 the permanent contents of the book are shown attached to the cover in both of these manners, each of which is well known to bookbinders. The cover for the book, in cluding the sides and the'back, may be one or more pieces of cloth, leather, or other material suitable for covering books. It

Patented July 27,1915.

will preferably (but not necessarily) be reinforced withboard or other stiff material to form the sides of the book, 0, (Z.

The length of the back of the cover from the point e to the point f where it is attached to the side (Z, is sufficient to permit of the at tachment of the original contents to the cover and to providein addition a strip 9, wh ch may be of any desired breadth. This strip g forms a portion of the side of the cover in the original binding of the book, but when it is desired to place additional material within the covers it may easily be bent back so that it becomes a part of the back of the book, as represented in Fig. 2, wherein it represents the pamphlet or extra leaves that have been added.

It will be observed that I have represented the side of the cover, (Z, as projecting slightly more beyond the leaves of the book as originally bound, than the side 0. By this arrangement the projections 2', j, of the covers beyond the ends of the leaves, will be more nearly equal when the Supplement has been added. These sides 0 and d may however, be made of the same length or (Z may be made longer than 0, if such arrangement is preferred in any particular case.

The supplementary matter it may e attached to the cover (Z, to the back (7, or to the end paper In of the original contents, or to any or all' of them, by any suitable device. Such attachment can be made by gluing or pasting to the cover (Z, the back 9,

the original cover d of the book,'and in this pocket has been inserted the cover m of the supplement h. The supplement may be attached also by running a cord, wire, or other similar material between the middle leaves of it and around the back g, and securing or tying it firmly tohold the contents h in place. Such attachment can also be made by inserting eyelets in the back strip and passing a cord through the. eyelets and through the leaves of the supplement.

Fig. 4 shows a book bound according to my invention, to which a supplement has been added, said supplement being attached by a cord 91. running -between the middle leaves of the supplement and around the back of the book. Fig. 5 illustrates a book bound according to my invention, to which a supplement has been added, the supplement being attached by a cord a passing through eyelets o inserted in the back strip, and through the leaves of the supplement. Likewise, holes may be punched through the side of the book and fasteners inserted corresponding places in the supplement h.

through them and through holes punched in The attachment maybe made in various other ways without departing from my invention.

The arrangement of the book cover herein described may be applied to both sides of a book; that is, the side 0, can be made like the side 01, which would permit the addition of extra material at both the front and the back of the book.

:What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent'is:

1. A permanently bound book having the permanent contents thereof attached to both of the side covers, a back for the permanent contents of the book, and a strip of material connected flexibly to the back and one side cover, said strip'being adapted to serve normally as a part of the side cover, and when a supplement is added to the book, as a back for such supplement.

2. A permanently bound book having a back to which the permanent contents of the book are bound, and side covers,-one of which is connected to the back by a strip of material adapted to serve as part of the side cover until a supplementis added to the book and then to serve as a back for such supplement.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name this 22d day of June, 1911.

EDWARD K. ROBINSON.

Witnesses:

C. H. LINGHAM, LE ROY PHILLIPS.