US1436857A - Magazine binder - Google Patents

Description

W. 1. BRUCE.-

MAGAZINE BINDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 26, 1921.

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MHTTbB/V Patented Nov. 28, 1922.

WILLIAIE J. BRUCE, 0F ESGANABA, MICHIGAN.

MAGAZINE BINDER.

Application filed. March 26, 1921.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, lVILLIAM J. BRUCE, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Escanaba, in the county of Delta and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Magazine Binders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has reference to magazine binders, and is more specially designed for use in public libraries and similar places. In the use of current magazines in these places it is customary to secure the same between a pair of board covers, by means of cords or other fastening means. When thus held in place the magazine can be easily removed from its cover, and it frequently happens that copies are surreptitiously removed and carried away.

The purpose of my invention is to provide a simple and efficient means for holding the magazine in place in its cover, and which will be self-locking, so that the removal of the book will be difficult of accomplishment without the same being readily apparent to others in the vicinity thereof. Without an understanding of the method of operation of the device it would be impossible to release the same.

In the accompanying drawings: a

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a magazine cover with my invention applied thereto.

Fig. 2 is a side view of the invention, de tached, in locked position.

Fig. 3 is a similar view of the device, in unlocked position. i

1 represents a cover. in open position, ready to receive a magazine of the usual type, to the center of which is secured a flex ible strip 2, provided at one end with a pair of ears 3, united by a pin 4:, and at the other end by a pair of ears 5, united by a pin 6. Pivoted at one of its ends on the pin 4: is a rigid bar 7, fitted at its free end with a head 8, having a bayonet slot 9 for engagement with the pin 6.

When the parts are in a normal position the pin 6 is located in the inner end of the slot 9, as shown in Fig. 2, locking the bar 7 and plate 2 from separation. In order to Serial No. 455,961.

release the bar the plate 2 is pressed downwardly at a central point, operating to bring the pins 4 and 6 closer together, as shown in Fig. 3, and permitting a detachment of the head 8 from the ears 5. To place a magazine in position in the holder the bar 7 is unlocked and tipped upwardly, permitting the magazine to be placed in position on the holder. The magazine is then opened at about the middle point thereof, and the bar returned to its former position, dividing the two parts of the magazine. The end is again locked in place, preventing the removal of the magazine. It the inner edge of the bar is sufiiciently close to the plate 2, the removal or" the magazine, by slipping it beneath. the bar, is extremely difficult, but as a further preventive of the extraction of the book in this way the inner edge of the bar is provided with an extension 10, which projects inwardly between the pages at their binding, and holds the book from movement in either direction.

To remove the magazine, one of the thumbs of the operator is placed thereon at a point above the plate 2, at a point between the extension 10 and pin 6, and the bar 7 grasped by the other hand of the operator. Pressure is then exerted downwardly by the thumb, permitting the head 8 and pin 6 to be disconnected. To again 1001: the parts the same operation is gone through, except that the bar 7 is lowered into position, instead of being raised.

It will be obvious that to a person not "familiar with the secret of the operation, the removal of the magazine would be impossible, and one who did understand it, and undertook to extract the book, would have to do so in such amanner as to naturally attract attention. It is seldom that the entire binder is stolen, for the reason that it will not readily enter ones pocket, but by folding the magazine, after being separated from the holder, it can easily be secreted.

The device can be produced at a minimum of cost, as the part 2 with the ears 3 and 5 on the ends thereof, and the bar 7, can be formed from sheet metal of suitable strengjth.

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

A. device of the class described, comprising a flexible plate adapted for attachment 5 to the binder of a magazine, a rigid bar hingedly connected with said plate; and interlocking means on the free ends of said plate and bar, adapted to co-operate to hold said plate and bar in spaced apart relation, and capable of being released upon said 10 plate being sprung away from said bar at a point midway their ends.

In testimony whereof I afiiX my signature.

WILLIAM J. BRU

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