US1715404A - Manifolding sales book - Google Patents

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June 4, 1929.

E. K. B OTTLE I MANIFOLDING SALES BOOK Filed Feb. 5. 1922 TOR 06614;

ATTORNEY Patented June 4, 1929. I

EDWARD KIRBY BOTTLE, OF ELMIRA, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN SALES BOOK COMPANY, LIMITED, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, cANADA A CORPORATION OF ONTARIO, CANADA.

I 1,715,404 PATENT OFFICE.

MANIFOLDI-NG SALES BOOK.

Application filed." February 8, 1922. Serial No. 533,771.

This invention relates to manifolding devices and with respect to its more specific features to manifolding books, such as manifolding salesbooks for making a multiplicity 6 of copies. 1

The object of the invention is the provision of a practical salesbook wherewith three copies may be made at one writing, wherewith the material going to make up the book 10 is conserved, the manipulation of the book facilitated and the tendency to tear the leaves largely eliminated.

Other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed out hereinafter.

The invention'accordingly consists in the features of construction, combinations of ele ments and arrangement of parts which will be exemplified in the construction hereinafter set forth, and the scope of theappli- I cation of which will be indicated in the fol- ,lowing claim.

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

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a manifolding book embodying the invention, the book being? set for inscription;

ig. 2 is aperspective view of the book partly broken away for clearer disclosure; Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view, and

F ig. 4 is a diagrammatic view showing the arrangement of the leaves of one of thepads.

Referring now more specifically to the drawing, the numerals 1 indicate the record leaves of a pad, the leaves being preferably of thin relatively opaque pa er so that an inscription upon an upper lea may, through the interposition of transfer material, be recorded in a similar form upon underlying leaves. This pad is formed from a continuous sheet folded in a zigzag manner, as clearly seen in Fig. 4, to provide'the pad of superposed record leaves. 'At the lines of 5 folding, indicated at '2, the paper may be weakened to facilitate tearing the leaves apart. 1

The numeral 3 indicates a backing,-preferably of stifl" material such as heavy pasteboard or thin metal. The backing 3 provides a support for the pad formed by the leaves 1, the pad being mounted on the support as more fully described below. The numerals 4 and 5 indicate lower and upper bon leaf, i. e. it is aleaf coated on each face with transfer material. The "clamping jaws 4 and 5 are carried by arms 8 pivoted to the backing 3, suitable means being provided to cause the lower clamp jaw 4 to resiliently press on the top. of the pad of leaves 1 and thereby retain the pad on the backing 3. In the present instance the resilient pressure is obtained by the inturned bent arms 9, which take between laminae of the backing 3. At the'same time the pressure is designed to permit the leaves 1 to be withdrawn from beneath the clamping jaw 4 as the operation of the book may demand. When one or more leaves are thus withdrawn the clamping jaw 4 nevertheless continues to press upon the succeeding underlying leaves soas to retain them on the backing 3. i

The numeral 10 indicates a clamping jaw supported by pivoted arms 11, the jaw 10 being similarly pressed against the leaves .1 as explained in connection with the jaw 4. The clamping jaw 10 may consist of a rod having straight transverse sections 11 in alignment with each other and an inwardly extending section 12, the latter sectioncontactingwith the leaves of the pad within the edge of the latter, the straight sections 11 substantially registering with the edge of the "pad at the folds.

The numeral 13 indicates a support which, in the present instance, is a stiff metallic plate or leaf hinged to the backing 3 at one end as indicated at 14. At its other end the ,support 13 extends beyond the backing 3 and has an elevated portion 15, which in the present instance is formed by bending the metallic leaf 13 so that the part 15 is in a plane elevated with respect to the main portion of the leaf 13, as illustrated. The supvated portion 15 of the support 13. In the embodiment illustrated the numerals 17 and 18 indicate clamping jaws hinged and spring-pressed together as illustrated at 19,

to grip the tissue pad. The underlying jaw I v18 may be rivetedin' place on the top of the paper, as for instance manila paper, bound to the bottom of the tissue pad and therewith clamped to the elevated portion 15 by the jaws 17 and 18. This tongue 20 extends so as to underlie the backing 3 and be pressed by the latter against the support 13 when the book is in position for inscription, thus providing a protecting and reenforcing support for the 'partsof the leaves 16 extending between their binding and the pad. The leaves 16 proceed from the clamped end of the tissue pad toward the opaque pad and are adapted to overlie and underlie the backing 3 and be interleaved with the leaves 1.

The numeral 21 indicates a cover which may be composed of the same material as the support 3, This cover is hinged to the elevated portion 15 through the instrumentality of a flexible, as leather, connection 22.

In operation, the cover 21 is thrown back, as in Fig. 2, and the uppermost leaf 1 grasped and withdrawn from beneath the clamping jaws 4 and 10. By turning this leaf on its fold line 2 the transfer sheet 7 will dispose itself on the next underlying leaf 1. Thereupon an underlying leaf, indieated at 23, of the tissue pad is drawn forward to overlie the transfer leaf 7, whereupon the uppermost leaf 1 is turned back onto the superposed tissue leaf 23. Inscription made upon the uppermost, or original, opaque leaf 1 will be duplicated upon the next underlying leaf 1 and also upon the under face of the intermediate tissue leaf 23. The backing 3 is then lifted, turning on' its hinge 1 1, and this operation will cause the inscribed tissue leaf to seat itself on the support 13. Thereupon the backing 3 with the pad of opaque leaves thereon is returned to its original position, and the underlying inscribed leaf I pulled from beneath the clamp jaw 1- and torn from the next succeeding leaf. This will leave two connected inscribed opaque leaves 1 in the hand of '-the operator, and they may be torn apart and disposed of as desired. Preliminary to a succeeding manifolding inscription the two upper leaves 1 are drawn from beneath the clamp 10.

' The disposition of the clamped end of the tissue pad on the elevated portion 15 of the support 13, and preferably substantially in alignment with the center of the thickness of the pad of leaves 1, enables a shorter length of tissue leaf to be used than if the clamped part of the tissue pad were in the same plane as the main support 13 or below the plane of the pad of leaves 1. Furthermore the inclined part 25 of the support 13 which leads to the elevated portion 15 serves as a rest for the adjacent portions of the inscribed tissue leaves and tends to prevent them from being punctured, as by the fingers .of the operator inadvertently coining strongly in contact therewith.

Thus by the above described construction are accomplished among others the objects hereinbefore referred to.

As many changes may be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention may 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. I

It is also to be understood that the language used in the followingclaims is intended to cover all of the generic and'specific features of the invention herein described, and all statements of the scope of the inven tion which, as a. matter of language, might be said to 1" all therebetwcen.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: y

A manifolding book including, in combi-. nation, a support for a zigzag pad, a pair of clamping arms mounted upon said support and adapted to bear resiliently upon the opposite ends of said pad, a backing to which one end of said supportis hinged, the

said clamping arm on the end of the support opposite to the hinge between said support and said backing being adapted to hold a carbon sheet, an extension upon said backing adapted to extend out from under said support on the end thereof opposite the hinge, and having an offset portion above the level of the support, an auxiliary pad having astub portion overlying said extension, a pair of plates hinged together to form jaws beyond'the end of said auxiliary pad and a spring for holding said plates together to clamp said auxiliary pad inplace therebetweeni In testimony whereof I afii'x my signature.

' EDWARD KIRBY BOTTLE.

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