US1706711A - Manifolding book - Google Patents

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March 26, 1929. H. SHEETS 1,706,711 v MANIFOLDING BOOK Filed Sept. '7. 1922 0 INVENTOR v I 4 u TTORNEY pasta Mar. 26, 1929.

1' UNITED STATES HENRY E. SIEIEIFYJPS,

1,706,711 PATENT OFFICE F SHELBY, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE SHELBY SALQESBOOK COM.- PANY, OIE SHELBY, OHIO, A CORPORATION 01 OHIO.

. MANIFOLDING BOOK. 1,

- Application filed September 7, 1922. Serial No. 586.606;

The invention relates to manifolding, de-

. provision of a manifolding book wherewith two, three or more copies may be madeat one writing and wherein the transfer sheet may readily be applied and removed from operative position. 1 p

I Another object of the invention is the pro-- vision of a manifolding book of the character above referred to adapted for manipulalu tion without necessitating the grasping s of the transfer leaf in the ordinary'operations 1 record leaves of thepad 6. In the embodiof setting and manipulating the book.

Other objects will be in part obviousand in part pointedv out hereinafter. I The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction, combinations ofelements and arrangement of parts which will be exemplified in the construction hereinafter set forth, and the scope of'the application 2 of which will appear in the'appended claim.

In the accompanying drawing forming part of the specification and wherein similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a manifolding book embodying the invention;

Fig. 2 is plan view, partly broken away;

I and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a section of the backingshowing the 'relation of the transfer sheet.

Referring now more specifically to the -drawing, the numerals- 1, 2 and 3 indicate j three sections of a backing, these sections be-; ing hinged together at 4 and .-5. The sections are preferably of stiff material and may be covered with cloth, and the cloth may be utilized to provide'the hinges 4.- and 5. The numeral 6 indicates a pad removablyheld to one end of the backing section 3 by the'spring clip 7. This pad maybe composed of a plurality of similar sets of original and duplicate leaves, preferably opaque leaves of soft material, as paper,- adapted for transfer of inscription from one'to the other through the interposition of transfer material. In Fig. 1 the uppermost set of these leaves is shown with the original leaf 8 thrown back to disclosethe duplicate leaf 9.

These two leaves may be formed from an integral sheet reversely folded'on itself and weakened along the line 10, the duplicate leaf being extended to provide the usual stub portion for binding it in the pad. In addition to the sets of record leaves as 8 and 9, the pad includes a series, of tissue record leaves 11 bound to the pad above the uppermost set of:record leaves 8 and. 9. The samj staples 12 may be used to bind both kinds of record leaves and form the stub end of the pad. In Fig. 1 the tissue leaves .11 are shown as thrown back. i j i The numeral 13 indicates a transfer sheet or leaf which is. adapted to be manipulated into and out of superposed relation with the side of the backing section 3, the jaw 14 having a flange 16 riveted or otherwise fastened to the face of said backing section to hold this jaw in" place. 1 The transferleaf 13 may be coated on its opposite faceswith carbon transfer material and at its outer free edge is provided with cutaway portions, or access notches which, in the present embodiment,

I are formed by cutting off the corners of the otherwise rectangular transfer sheet 13 as indicated at 17 and 18.

To setthe book for making three copies at one writing the transfer leaf 13 is swung, or

moved, around the clamp as an axis into position lying upon the duplicate leaf 9 of the uppermost set of original and duplicate leaves. Thereupon one of the tissue leaves 11 (the uppermost leaf 11 as viewed in Fig.

1)' is moved to lie'upon the transfer leaf and thereafter the original leaf 8 of the uppermost set is folded. on the line 10'to lie upon the interposed tissue leaf. Inscription made upon the upper face of the original;

leaf will be transferred to the duplicate leaf 9jand to the underface of the triplicate tis-.

sue leaf 11 and may be read through the latter. After inscription the original triplicate and duplicate leaves of the inscribed set may be grasped at the lower right hand corner adjacent the access notch 18 in the transfer leaf, but without gripping the transfer leaf, and by a sidewise movement the duplicate leaf 9 may be torn from the stub of the pad along a weakened line adjacent the stub.

The original leaf of the next underlying set will then be disclosed underlying the transfer leaf 13, the upper free end or right hand corner of the original leaf presenting itself toward the stub and outside the margin of the adjacent access notch 17 This exgosedv portion of the original leaf may be grasped, without touching the transfer leaf, and drawn from beneath the transfer leaf, permitting the transfer leaf to rest upon the next duplicate leaf 9. Thereupon the book again may beset for inscription as above explained. 1 r v j The transfer leaf preferably includes extended transfer leaf portion 20, conveniently made integral with the transfer leaf 13 and preferably a duplicatethereof and including access notches 21 and 22 like those at 17 and 18. In the embodiment illustrated the integral transfer sheet, composedof the portions 13 and 20,is grippedat an intermediate part between the jaws '14 and so that the immediately operative portion 13,

rated and the transfer sheet removed and reversed end for end and the transfer leaf portion utilized for interleaving with the a record leaves. The clamping jaws 1 1 and 15,

as illustrated, provide wide surfaces result: ing in the effective gripping of the transfer sheet and thus there practically no tendency for the holding device to impair the hold part of this sheet, nor is the sheet weakened as it would he were it stitched or otherwise similarly fastened to the backing 3 or to the pad 6. p

In Fig. 2, the record leaves of most set are shown inposition for inscription, a tissue, or triplicate leaf 11, being heneath the original leaf 8, and lying on the transfer sheet 13, which, in turn, lies on the duplicate leaf 9, It will be seen that the upper and lower outer corners of the origi- "nal and duplicate leaves lie superposed relative to the recess notches 17 and 18, perthe uppermitting their being grasped at those corners without touching the transfer leaf.

Thus by the above described construction are accomplished among others theobjects horeinbefore referred to. 7 7

As many changes; could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope-thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted'as illustrative and not in a limiting sense. V r

Having described my invention, what I claim as'new and desire to secure by'Letters Patent isi A manifolding book including, in combination, a binding stub, a plurality of record sheets bound togetheratoneedge into said stub so as to swing therefrom, each record sheet being folded backwardly upon itself intermediate its ends to form two relatively superposed record leaves including abound leaf held withinsaid stub and a reversely dii-sposed'leaf CZLlTlK-B'Cl bythe free "end of said bound leaf and having its free end disposed toward said stub, a transfer sheet, transfer 'sheetattaching means for attaching the transfer sheet to the book, said attaching means beingrelatively positioned with reference to said binding stub so as to support the transfer sheet for swinging movement from the side of the book at an angle to the swinging movement of said record sheets into manifolding relation successively between the said leaves of the successive record sheets, said transfer sheet having cut away portions positioned atparts thereof spaced along its free edge, one of said cut-away portions, when said transfer sheet is in transfer position between the two record leaves of one of said record sheets, being adjacent the fold of said record sheet whereby a portion of the latter isexposed from overlapping relation with-said transfer sheet to present a grasping area, and

another of said cut-away portions being positioned nearer said binding stub whereby the next successivo roversely disposed leaf is exposed toward its free end through the cut-away portion from beneath the overlying transfersheet. 1 r

In testiinonywhereof I affix my signature.

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