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Description

(o Model.)

D. L. GO-PF.

SAMPLE BooK EOE TEXTILE EABEIGS.

No. 895,048. Patented Deo. 25, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DARIIIS Il. GOFF, OF PAIVTUOKET, RHODE ISLAND.

SAMPLE-BOOK FOR TEXTILE FABRICS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,048, dated December 25, 1888.

Application tiled October 13, 1888. Serial No. 288,007. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

-Be it known that I, DARIUs Il. GOEE, of Pawtucket, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Sample- Books for Textile Fabiics and other Goods in Sheet Form; and I do hereby declare that the following' specification, taken in connection with the drawings furnished and forming a part of the same, is a clear, true, and complete description of my invention.

Hy improved sample-books have been specially devised for use in connection with valuable pile fabrics of considerable thicknesssuch as plushes and velvets-but they can be used with equally good results with other delicately-surfaced goods.

So far as my knowledge extends, all sample-books of this general class have involved either the through-and-through stitching or wiring at the edges of a stock of samples, or the pasting or gluing of one or more samples of fabric upon or to separate leaves of card-board or paper bound in book form. This latter system is obviously not well suited for heavy fabrics, and the stitching or wiringI of plush or velvet samples results in defacin g the fabric, if tightly stitched with a view to obtaining a neat and symmetrical book, and if loosely stitched, to avoid this liability of defacement, the book will be loose jointed and unattractive in appearance. In stitching samples together to form a book the pieces of fabric must be uniform in size, and the interior leaves a-re imperfectly accessible, except on straining the stitching or wiring.

The object of my invention is to economically provide a sample-book for sheeted fabrics, which will maintain its neatness and symmetry throughout an y reason able time and under proper usage, and obviate defacement of samples-as by undue compressionand enable each piece of fabric to be wholly displayed on its finished surface, and to economize in area of samples as compared with such as are deemed requisite iu stitched sample-books. I accomplish these ends by the employment of what I will term a novel binding-block, to which suitable covers are hinged, and which is rigid as against bending or breaking under ordinary usage, and is stepthe bindi 11g-block detached.

like `in form, and to the several step-like surfaces or progressively-arranged ledges the fabric-samples are secured at one edge-as by glue, paste, or wire staples, The sample-piece of fabric attached to the top step will be of greater area than the bottom sample, according to the number of intervening steps or ledges, the samples varying in length to a degree corresponding to the width of the step like surfaces or ledges in the binding-block.

To more particularly describe my invention, I will refer to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l illustrates one of my sample-books complete. Fig. 2, in perspective, illustrates Fig. 3 illustrates a modification of the binding-block with flyleaves at eachstep for separating the samples of fabric and for the reception of inscriptions relative to the next underlying samples.

The binding-block A maybe variously constructed, so long as it is in step-like form, as shown, and has the ledges or surfaces d in progressive order for the reception of samples l). As shown in Fig. 2, the binding-block is composed of wood and in one piece, this being one of the cheapest forms and well suited for most purposes. In Fig. the binding-block shown may be composed of strips of wood or cardboard, of the different widths necessary for aifordin g the proper ledge-surfaces a, and the parting-leaves c maybe either interposed between the strips prior to Itheir being glued or otherwise united, or said leaves maybe glued or pasted to the ledges. The spaces between said leaves are then filled with samples, and in the case of thin delicate goods several pieces of fabric may be inserted', all being Connected at one end and glued or Otherwise secured to a ledge, and notes pertaining there to may be written or previously printed on the parting-leaves, which serve also as protectors to the fabrics. In Fig. l. five samples, l), are shown, each being` quite thick-as is usual with plushes, for instanceand each of four of the samples has its own step or ledge a, but the lower sample is secured to the inner surface of the back cover, closely adjacent to the front edge of the loweststep; and it will be seen that the height of each step corresponds with the thickness of the goods,

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and illerei'ol-e nolle oi.' ille salllples will be exposed to undue eonlpression, and ealell eau be 'i'ully displayed wiillouiA ille disi'oriion of any of iflle oi'lhers. leaillelf llaelcllnge, wlliell I sollleiillles glue io ille llaek end of. ialle bindingllloek, alld y ples d lfivell into izllebinding-block, the lnouniisolneizinles l uniiie illelll hv lllealls ol' taeks ol.'

nails; llui` it is always advisable illai; i'llel'lasej surface o1 ille binding-bleek should be seeured io ille inller surfaee oli' ille llaek eovel, so that lluiioll ill ille lnails.

illai ille alg'gri'rgaie area olf a seiY oi samples illus lnouni'ed is nluell less i'hall would lle i-lle ease il' they were si'ii'ehed io Yi'orln a hook of ille saline size, and illlli no one saflllple will, lle (llbsi'rueteifl lrolll view hy a preceding` salllple l when thrown llaell'wllrd, illus enablingr a` fille li` will lle seen 1 display to be lnade with a nlininlulll quantity of fabric, wlliell `is a nlaliater of material consequenee in connection with eosily goods ill view ol ille large quantity oli' Sample -books lVlleizllel: the samples lle seeured hy `glue or paste, or evell wire staingI operation involves but little skill. and labor, and the i'llllness and strength of the hooks render illleln. well adalpied i'or diisiiril'lavi n illus i'hsel'ill'ed 1n y ill vention, I elainl as new alld desire to seeure 'hy Leiters Patent .llle salllple-llook `l'or Textile lallries, consist:- illg olf lille eolllllillaivioll oi suiialllle Covers wiilll a Iirlll or rigid l'lillding-ll'loelg si3ep-like ill Eolnl7 and .lli'iordillg a progressive series of ledges upon orio wlliell salnplesof fabric may lle secured ai` one edge, sulilsi'ani'ially as desel-iberi.

Illllli's L. GOFF. VWiillessi'ls:

JAMES A. lllllllv, M. W. SPENCER.

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