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Publication number: US577253A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1897-02-16
Anticipated expiration: 1914-02-16

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(No Model.)

P. HAUPT.'

BooK. No. 577,253` Patented Peb. 16, 1897.

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Nrrnn STATES' PATENT OFFICE.

PAUL HAUPT, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

Boo K.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 577,253, dated February 16, 1897.

Application filed May l, 1895. Serial Nox 547,788. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PAUL HAUPT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland,have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Books, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. l

From the earliest times it has been found necessary to mark distinctively certain portions of the text. In manuscripts it Was done by letters larger than others, or Written with a different ink, or by underscoring, and the like. Similar' expedientshave been employed since the invention of the art of printing. All these expedients, however, are objectionable in certain cases. The larger type is only serviceable where certain passages are to receive more prominence, as in headings, quotations, dac. Sometimes it is desirable to distinguish certain portions of the text without making one appear more prominent than the other. If there are but two portions to be distinguished, the use of Italic alongside of Roman type works very well; but Where it is necessary to mark a large number of different characteristics the employment of a variety of type is objectionable. The use of different type on so extensive a scale makes the page less pleasing to the eye, and, moreover, it can very easily convey the idea that the size of the type chosen indicates the relative importance of the respective passages, portions printed in larger or heavier faced type receiving undue prominence, while a smaller type will make a passage appear less important. Besides, the printing with a variety of type is costly and requires a large assortment of type, which makes it impossible for small printing establishments to employ the method, and even in the largest offices there is not an adequate assortment of types to print a Greek, or Arabic, or Hebrew, or, in fact, any oriental text with native characters in this way, or, for that matter, a transliteration of such texts by means of Roman type (or Italic) with the diacritical marks, (or accents.) The printing of certain portions in different inks would obviate all these difficulties if it were possible to find nine or ten different inks that could easily be distinguished on a printed page, especially by artificial light.

The object of my invention is to provide a variorum or other. text, so far as t-he letterpress is concerned, in black or other desired ink and block out or mark the passages of different nature or originv by means of distinctive colored backgrounds.

My invention consists in distinguishing the passages by colored portions of the paper or surface of the sheet, so that the type of the passages appear on a colored background, each passage of like nature having a background of the same color.

The portions may be colored either before or after the letter-press is printed. Inthis Way it is possible to use light transparent colors which are easily distinguished, even by artificial 1i ght,without im pairing the neatness and legibility of the printed text.

The invention is applicable to manifold type-written texts where it is not feasible to employ a variety of type or a variety of ink.

The accompanying drawing represents a portion of a page of matter printed in accordance with my invention,the various colors being indicated by different surface lining, as named in the legend on the drawing.

It is to be understood that in practice the colors themselves are used, the representations of colors by the lining or hatching on the drawing being necessarily adopted for the reason thatthe rules of the Patent Office permit only black on drawings.

The matter represented in the drawing is a portion of the Book of Genesis, chapter VI, describing the Deluge. In the account of the Deluge as contained in the said chapter there are two parallel narratives, which, though interwoven with one another, can be clearly separated. They are recognizable not only by a difference in their contents, but also by certain peculiarities of style. For example,in the one exclusively the word Lord is employed, while the other employs the word God. The uncolored portions represent the account of the Deluge7 in the so-called Priestly O0dethat is to say, the same post-exilic source to which, for example, the account of creation as contained in Genesis I belongs. This document employs the name God. The lines tinted in light blue contain the account of the Deluge taken from the older prexilic story-book, in which God is called the Lord. It is the same IOO source from which the second account of creation as contained in Genesis Il is taken. The dark blue indicates an older stratum in this second document. The light-red marks indicate changes and additions made by the compiler of the Whole Work, who interwove the diiel'ent documents. The dark red indicates late glosses and interpolations of the text.

It will of course be understood that the sheet represented in the drawing is selected merely as an illustration of my invention and that the selection of the colors and the facts which they are supposed to indicate are purely arbitrary matters.

By the use of the term booksin the title of this invention I do not Wish to be underof the same color, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 30th day of April, A. D. 1895.

PAUL HAUPT. 'Vitnesses:

CYRUs ADLER, WM. H. FINCKEL.