US251065A

US251065A - Leather-faced fabric for use in bookbinding

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Publication number: US251065A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1881-12-20
Anticipated expiration: 1898-12-20

Description

UNITED STATES PAT NT OFFICE.

WVILLIAM PYLE, OF YVILMINGTON, DELAWARE.

LEATHER-FACED FABRIC FOR USE IN BOO'KBINDING, 800.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 251,065, dated December 20, 1881. Application filed July 27, 1881. (No specimens.)

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM PYLE, a citizen of the United States, residing atWilmington,in the county of New Castle and State of Delaware, have invented a new and useful Fabric for use in Binding Books and other purposes, of which the following is a specification.

The nature of this invention will fullyappear "from the following description.

It is well known to leather manufacturers, particularly to manufacturersof pat ent leather, that the outer or grain side of hide-leather has been shaved off by means of the curriers knife; but that within a few years past the splitting or skiving machines have been so improved that this outer grain is accurately split off in a continuous thin sheet, and this is known in the trade as buffing. Itpossesses, however, comparatively little strength, and has but limited use or demand in bookbinding, or ftr imilar purposes.

The object of my invention is to extend the use of such buffing bycombining and manipulating the same as hereinafter described. To this end I take the piece or sheet of thin butt ing as it comes from the splitting-machine and cement to the out side thereof a sheet of cotton cloth by means ot'a flexible adhesive pastesuch,forexample,asindia-rubber cement. Any other cheap material sufficiently pliable and otherwise adapted for the purpose in view may be employed in lieu of cotton cloth, and it may be ofany desired qualityor thickness. This, as well as the cement, to some extent,lends strength and body to the buffing. Thecement having been applied between the contiguous surfaces of cloth and bailing, I compress the united sheets between rollers,or other\vise,so as to cause as close and perfect adhesion as possible. I prefer to use india-rubbercement,

for the reason that, while it is soft and pliable, it is at the same time water-proof, thus preventing the separation of [he butting from the cloth, which would otherwise be apt to occur to a greater or less extent when the fabric is applied with glue or paste containing water to the back of the book or other article in process of binding.

It is usually desirable to produce a grained or pebbled appearance ofthe buffing, and it is also sometimes important to have as large or prominent a pebbling as maybe. This I attain in the usual Way, or by rollingthe fabric upon itself after the sheetshave been firmly joined together and the cementhas set; t'oril'the pebblingwere done before, the rolling or other pressure to which the stufi'is subjected in order to cau e the sheets the better to adheretogether would more or less smooth out and injure the appearance of the pebbling. Besides, it is obvious to those skilled in the art that aniuch morepronounced orlargergraining results(becauseol'the greater body or thickness of the combined fabric as compared with the butting) than would be the case if the butting be separately pebbled by rolling it upon itself. The material being thus prepared, it is supplied to the trade and the eonsumerin sheets of suitable size, readyto be cut up and applied as an outer covering in bookbinding or other purpose by pasting it, on in the usual way. The fabric has the quality and appearance of good leather, and is muci more economical.

Having thus desrribed my invention, I claim- 1. As a new article of iminufacture, a fabric constructed of a sheet of batting and a sheet of cotton cloth, or its equivalent, cemented together, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a fabric composed of leather buffing and cloth, or its equivalent, united by atlexible \vater-proofcement,substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. As a new and improved article of manufacture, the pebbled fabric made as and for the purpose llGIQlllbtfuIU specified.

4. Thedescribed method of mak ng fabrics for use in binding books, which consists in ('cmenting together a sheet of leather butting and a sheet of cotton cloth, or its equivalent, and subsequently pebbling the butting, as and tor the purpose set forth.

XVILLIAM PYLE.

Witnesses:

JOSHUA E. SMITH, R. P. GIBnoNs.