US1870183A - Pamphlet and book cover - Google Patents

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B. E. STEPHENS 1,870,183

PAMPHLET AND BOOK COVER Aug. 2, 1932.

Filed Dec. 51, 1930 Patented Aug. 2, 1932 UNITE STATES PATENT GFFSCE PAMPHLET AND BOOK COVER Application filed December 31, 1930.

This invention relates to covers for newspapers, pamphlets or other sheets, and has for its principal object the provision of a simple and inexpensive protective cover i which may be made of heavy paper or other flexible sheet material and which is adapted to fold about and enclose the newspaper to furnish a neat and compact, book-like file or folder. More specific features of the invention will be apparent from the following description and will be pointed out in the appended claims.

A recommended embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying draw- 5 ing, in which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the folded cover applied to a newspaper section;

Fig. 2 is an edge view of the partially opened cover, showing the top or more remote end of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a detail view in perspective illustrating the mode of affixing the newspaper to the cover;

Fig. 4 is a plan view of the opened cover; and

Fig. 5 is a plan view of the blank from which the cover is made.

The improved cover may be made from a sheet of heavy paper or the like of generally rectangular shape, which is preferably out and scored to provide the weaken ed fold lines indicated in Fig. 5. These weakened lines divide the blank into four main rectangular sections including the front and back outer or cover sections 11 and 12 respectively, and inwardly foldable center sections 13 and 14 of the completed and closed cover or folder. The parallel fold lines 15 define the back 16 of the folder which connects the cover sections 11 and 12 and the weakened lines 17 provide a bellows fold 18 intermediate the center sections 13 and 14. The fold 18 is preferably separated from the back panel 16 by an opening 19 cut in the center of the blank and relieving the sheet from the strain and wear of a four-way fold at this point.

Upper edge panels 20 and 21 are defined by the corresponding fold lines 22 and 23, and these panels separate sections 11 and 12 from sections 13 and 14 respectively, and con- Serial No. 505,682.

stitute the primary fold of the cover. Aligned binding strips 24 and 25 foldable on lines 26 and 27 relative to sections 11 and 13 respectively, extend along one side of the blank and are separated by a notch 28 located at the primary fold. The marginal strips are folded inwardly toward the sections 11 and 13 and the newspaper 29 is preferably attached to their outer sides by stitch- :ing 30 in the manner shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

page of the paper is displayed uppermost.

The ultimate fold lines of the newspaper and cover are indicated at 31 and 32 in Fig. 4, line 31 defining the primary fold and line 32 the secondary or double fold.

Accordingly, to close the folder, the cover and newspaper are folded together first along the transverse axis 31 and the doubled portions are then folded on their longitudinal axes 32 so that the quarter sections 11, 12, 13 and 14 are ultimately disposed in superposed relation with the center sections 13 and 14 juxtaposed and the web or bellows 18 folding inwardly therebetween. The panel 16 lies along the back of the folder and the webs 20 and 21 enclose the newspaper at one end thereof, the paper being neatly folded to onefourth of its original size and being adequately protected from tearing, soilage or other 1n ury.

The folder may conveniently be held in this condition by means of an elastic band 33 which may be stitched to the back 16 at 34, and it will be apparent that the compact and handy package may be deposited in a stack or file or stood upright upon a shelf in the manner of a book. The back and front cover of the folder may be labeled with the title of the newspaper or pamphlet which it contains, and it is obvious that any desired sheet or article may be suitably formed in the cover.

It will also be understood that the form or structural details of the improved cover or folder may be varied to suit particular purposes without departing from the essence of this invention as defined in the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A foldable cover of the class described, comprising a substantiallly rectangular sheet of flexible material having intersecting, primary and secondary foldlinesdividin it into four sections, a pair of separated inding strips pivotably connected to two of said'sec tions along one edge of said sheet, for the attachment of a newspaper to -the cover, the

sheet having an opening at the intersection of said fold lines, so that the cover andnewspaper may be folded along the axis of the primary fold line and then along the axis of the secondary fold line to produce a compact structure in Which two of said sections constitute outer covers and the other two sections are juxtaposed at the center of the folded article.

2. An article of the class described, comprising a substantially rectangular cover sheet of flexible material having intersecting, primary and secondary fold lines dividing it into four rectangular sections, andan opening'at the intersection of said fold lines, the marginal portions of two adjacent sections being foldable inwardly to provide spaced binding strips at one edge of thesheet, and asecond sheet superposed upon the opened cover sheet andattached at one margin tothe respective binding strips, so that both sheets may be folded along the primary fold line and then along, the secondary fold line-substantially to enclose the second sheet within the folded cover.

In testimony whereofI afli'xmy signature.

BRADFORD E. STEPHENS;

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