US1337612A

US1337612A - Protector for books

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Publication number: US1337612A
Application number: US307334A
Authority: US
Inventors: Arthur E Miller
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1919-06-23
Filing date: 1919-06-23
Publication date: 1920-04-20
Anticipated expiration: 1937-04-20

Description

A. E. MILLER.

PROTECTOR FOR BOOKS.

. 1,337,6 1 2 Patented Apr. 2w, 1920,

ARTHUR E. OF SACBJATEENTG, CALIFORNIA.

Application filed June 2 3,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR MILLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sacramento, in the county of Sacramen o and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pro tectors for Books, of which the following is a specification.

Tdy invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in devices for protectingthe edges of leaves, index tabs, and particularly the rers' commonly used by students and others and which markers usually protrude a short distance beyond the edges of the book and hence are often brolren or damaged when the books are carried in valises, grips and'lilre receptacles.

The object of the present invention is to provide a simple and effective means for housing and protecting the aforesaid marl:- ers, tabs, and like projecting part of a leaf or book, and the edges of the cover of t e book, against damage during transmission to thereby insure these parts and edges of the books being maintained in a neat and attractive condition and the markers suitably presented for reference purposes.

With the above and other objects in view, my invention consists of the improved boolr protector which I will hereinafter describe and claim.

In the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification and in which similar reference characters indicate like parts in the several views;

Figure 1 illustrates one embodiment of my invention showing the same applied to a book.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the protector detached.-

3 illustrates a protector of slightly modified form applied to a book.

Figs. l, 5 and 6 are modifications to be hereinafter referred to.

In carrying out my invention 1 construct the protector of some suitable material, as celluloid, sheet-metal, cloth and paper, wood, etc, and of such dimensions that it will embrace and form housing for the edges of the leaves of a heel; and the leaftabs or markers with which many books of reference are supplied, said protector be ing fashioned with a so-called top porti n, a, which may be fiat or crowning or slightly curved transversely, said top portion hav- Specification of Letters Patent Tratented Apr. 2%, 1920.

ing sides 6 two opposite parts and of alon l r lengti to enter more or cent leaves or pages; or and any of the pages or leaves. The dep o the sides 6 is suficient stab'li. the protector when it has been Jlied and o insure the formation of a .ce of ad 1 depth. to properly house 1d protect gainst rough usage in transporation the markers, tabs, or like parts proecting beyond. the ecges of the leaves.

in one form of my protector, (Fig. 3), the gener shape of the same is like an c ngated that is the sides 6 are of subntially toe same depth and these sides his passed inwardly between the cover of the book and the adjacent pages until the inner edges contact with the back of the cover. ihis holds the protector in place. with its top suitably elevated to house but without touching the projecting page markers. It is not essential that the side flanges of the protector shall be or the same depth; as a matter of fact one of the flanges may be considerablv-longer than the other, as shown at 0, in Fig. i, and both sides may be inserted just under the sides of the cover of the book, as before explained.

It is also obvious that instead of the flanges or sides being both inserted between the cover and the adjacent leaves, one or both of the flanges or sides may embrace the outside of the edge of the cover, such an arrangement being shown in Fig. 1.

In some instances 1 may prefer to use the form of device shown in Fig. 2, where the top of the protector is provided with relativelv short sides or flanges b, and where an additional and longer plate or flange c is employer and which added feature is connected with the top of the protector and is spaced a sufiicient distance from the adja cent side flange 7) to form a space or recess 7, for the proper reception of the edge of the cover. T his supplemental plate 6 may have a width substantially equal to the width of the particular volume or book it is designed to i otect and hence it will sustain the proin proper place by contact with the back of the same; or the supplemental plate or flange may be duplicated on the other side" as at q, in 5, in which case the width of the plates mav be only such as to insure the plates entering sufficient distance'between the cover and leaves of the book to cause the pressure of the same to retain the protector in place. In either of the constructions shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 5, the bottom of the recess f formed by joining the top edge of the supplemental plate to the contiguous flange or side plate of the top portion, forms a stop to limit the inward position of the protector and to insure the proper non-contact of the same with the projecting markers or like parts.

The form of protector shown in Fig. 3 may also be constructed with sufficient width between the two projecting sides to include (or embrace) two or more booksthe one side of the protector being inserted in the one book and the other side inserted in the opposite side of the companion book, 6), thus holding both (or all) books in one neat package, and serving to hold b th books in one package as well as to protect the markers in both with the one protector. Nor is it my intention to confine the other forms of protectors above indicated to the protection of one book only, as they may be utilized for two or more companion books. protecting the markers and holding the books together in one package.

From the foregoing it will be apparent that simple means are thus provided, at slight cost, for effectively protecting the markers, tabs and other reference marks of books from injury in transportation and that the device is capable of ornamentation to suit the taste of the owner, and is retained in place by the pressure of the closed book and cannot be readily accidentally displaced.

Having thus described my invention What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A book protector fashioned with a substantially U-shaped top portion at least one side of which has a length sufi'icient to enable it to be passed for a substantial distance into the book between the cover and the adjacent leaves or sheets and to be retained in place thereby.

2. A book protector fashioned with a substantially U-shaped top portion, the sides of which have a length sufiicient to enable them to be passed for a substantial distance into the book between the cover and the adj acent leaves or sheets thereof whereby the pro tector is retained in place by the book, one

' of said sides being considerably longer than the other and adapted to extend to a point contiguous to the back of the book. f

3. A book protector fashioned with a substantially U-shaped, top portion, the sides of which have a length sufiicient to enable them to be passed for a substantial distance into the book between the cover and the adjacent leaves or sheets thereof whereby the 'protector is retained in place by the book, said protector having a supplemental plate connected to said top portion and spaced from the adjacent side thereof to receive an outer edge of the book cover. 7

In testimony whereof I aiiiX my signature.

ARTHUR El MILLER.