US278202A - Scrap-book - Google Patents

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(Nomaden E. G. THURP.

SCRAP BOOK.

No. 278,202. Patented May 22,1883,

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 278,202, dated May 22, 1883.

` Application filed January 1l, 1883, (No niodehl Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of v Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Scrap-Books, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

In scraplbooks and tiles for letters, bills, Src., as also other books for similar purposes, while the back should be filled out and made firm, there should be also a space left between the leaves of the hook sufficient for scraps or sheets of paper to be disposed between them, and, if desired, also attached to them.

This invention relates to securing the results above stated; and to that end it consists cfa scrap or tile or other similar book having leaves separately provided at the back edge with at least two, but preferably three or more, parallel reverse folds, either integral with the leaves or attached thereto in subst-ance, so as to be continuons therewith, and the leaves at said folds interlocked or connected with each other, and secured together and to a back-binding, if so desired, all substantially as hereinafter described, whereby the leaves making the Y bok at `their back edges` are filled out and made firm, and at the same time a sufficient space left between more or less of the leaves for the reception of the scraps or sheets of paper in connection with which the book is to be used.

1n the accompanyingr plate of drawings, Figure l is a perspective view ofa leaf having parallel reverse folds at its back edge in accordance with this invention, which folds are shown as partially opened out. Figs. 2 and are transverse vertical sectional views of a series of folded leaves from their back to their front edges arranged together in accordance with this invention, but for better illustration shown as opened ont and exaggerated as to their edges or thickness of fold. Fig. t is a transverse sectional view of a book from back to front, having its leaves folded and such leaves arranged together as particularly showu in Fig. 2. ln Fig. 5 is shown a similar sectional view to Fig. 2, but with one less fold of the leaf, as will be hereinafter fully explained. Fig. 6 shows leaves folded as in Fig. 5, but arranged together as shown in Fig. 3.

leaf. The leaves U, having folds d, f, andy, are placed (see Figs. 2 and 4) with the part l of the body of each lea-f the nearer to the fold d, and the fold (l within and between the folds j' and g of the preceding leaf, and the several folds and leaves, being thus secured and bound making in substance a continuance of such together, have between the first two contiguous leaves, at the-back edges thereof, the thickness of the two folds dandf, and between the third and fourth leaves, and so on to the last leaf, the thickness of three folds, to wit.: two folds, d and j, ,of the lirst leaf in the order of number of each pair of leaves,and the fold g of the 'leaf preceding the first leaf in said order ot' Folded leaves disposed as above numbers. V described are bound together at the back and to. a back-binding, B, in anyiof the well-known modes, and when so bound, as -is plain to be seen, while the back is lled out and made iirm, there is left between any two contiguous lea-ves of the book after the first in order of the book a space, a, (see Fig. 4,) equal in substance to three thicknesses of a leaf, said three thicknesses being made up in one of its three parts by the fold g of one of said contiguous leaves, and in the other two of its three parts by the two folds d fof the other of said contiguous leaves. These spaces u, left, as aforesaid, betweenA the Vseveral leaves, afford opportunity, as is evident, for the insertion of letters, bills, or paper scraps, &c., between the leaves, and which may or may not be attached to either ofthe adjoining leaves. i

In the disposition shown in Fig. 3 the leaves are folded,and their folds of the several leaves are placed together in substantially a similar manner to that shown in Figs. 2 and 4, and which has been particularlydescribed, but with this difference, that the leaves come together in pairs, and after the first leafand between the surface of the second leaf of each succeeding roo pair, which is contiguous to the surface of the first leaf of the next pair, there is at the back edges ot'such leaves ofthe two adjoining pairs six extra thicknesses of paper, made up in each instance in four of its thicknesses of the folds d andfof the trst ot' the two pairs ot' leaves havingcontiguoussurfaces,as stated, andin the remaining two of' its thicknesses ofthe folds gg ot' the pair ot' leaves directly preceding the said lirst pair of said two pairs of leaves. In other words, this disposition of the leaves consists in placing the corresponding folds of two leaves within each other, and then placing such pair ot' leaves having` the folds of each situated in relation to the other within and between the folds j" and g of another pair of -leaves having the folds ofthe one leafl placed in the corresponding fold of the other leaf', as has been described.

Each lcaf, in accordance with the foregoing` description, has three folds-to wit, folds (Lf, and g-at its bach edge; but the fold may he dispensed with, and the leaves, with their i'olds (I and j', arranged as is shown in Fig. 5, which isin accordance with the arrangement of the folds ofthe leaves shown in Fig. 2, except with the fold g out, or as shown in Fig. (i, which is in accordance with the arrangement ot' the foldsof the leaves shown in Fig. 3, with the same fold, g, out, as above stated.

In dispensing with the one fold g of the leaves it is plain a substantially similar result is obtained 5 but, as is obvious, in such case greater care would be required to arrange the leaves together than would be the case were the leaves provided with the fold g, and therefore, in view of this, it is not intended to limit this invention to three folds of the leaves, although such number is preferable to any lesser number, and also to a greater, for apparent reasons. i

The widths of the leaf-folds can be varied to suit different thicknesses of paper used for the leaves, and to have their back edges even, for their better binding or being secured in the covers.

Having thus described my invention, what In EDWIN W. BROWN, WM. S. BELLoWs.

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