US623487A - Adolph meier - Google Patents

Description

No. 623,487. Patented Apr. 18, I899.

- A. MEIER.

BINDER FOR PAMPHLETS OR THE LIKE.

(Application filed Dec. 30, 1897.)

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ADOLPl-I MEIER, OF VIENNA, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

BlNDER FOR PAMPHLETS OR THE LIKE.

SPECIFICATXON forming part of Letters Patent No. 623,487; dated April 18, 1899.

Application filed December 80, 1897- $arial No. 664,541. (No model.)

To aZl whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ADOLPH MEIER, a citizen of the Republic of France, residing at Vienna, in the Province of Lower Austria, in the Empire of AustriaI-Iungary, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Binders for Pamphlets or the Like; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification, and which has been patented in Belgium, by Patent No. 126,814, dated March 31, 1897; in Austria, by Patent No. l7/1,374, dated April 19, 1897, andin France, by Patent No. 264,766, dated June 15, 1897.

This invention has for its object to provide a new and improved binder for filing newspapers, pamphlets, and the like; and to accomplish this object my invention consists in the'construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows the binder open. a section along 00 m, Fig. 1. View of the binder-covers. Fig. 4: is a view like Fig. 8, showing the device released for the removal or addition of pamphlets. Fig. 5 shows a modified form of binder. Fig. 6 is a section along 11 y, Fig. 5.

The binder is shown comprising the covers a with back d. The back is provided with eyes or hinge portions 19 for the support of the hinge-rod a, carrying bars I). An intermediate bar b is shown in Fig. 1; but this can be omitted, as seen in Fig. 5, where only end bars I) are shown. These swinging bars 17, as seen in Fig. at, lie back of the pamphlet 0 or outside the latter, so as not to pierce or puncture the same. Into the crease of the paper or pamphlet 0 is placed a fastening which, being connected to the bars, secures the pamphlet and bars together. This fastening can consist of a flexible strand, such as a cord or thread 6, Fig. 1, which has one end securely tied'or fastened to a bar I), and which thread is then run from one end bar I) through Fig. 2 is Fig. 3 is an edge the crease of pamphlet o to the other end bar I), and being looped or secured to such bars holds the pamphlet in place. In case of an intermediate bar I) the thread by needlefis passed through the back of the pamphlet about the intermediate bar and. .returned through such back into the crease and run to the next bar I). The pamphlet having been connected with the bars I) at the ends of the hinge-rod a, the extremities of the bars 1) are engaged with engaging or holding devices, such as catches IL connected with the cover 0.

In place of thread 6 a wire h, Fig. 5, can be laid into the crease of the pamphlet, the eyes 2, Fig. 6, of this wire being slipped over the bars 1), whose free ends are then locked by the catches a, asstated. The wire 71 is shown in Figs. 5 and 6 with loops Z, which pierce or project through the crease and have a fastening, such as a thread or wire m, slipped therethrough; but these loops Z can be omitted. By this arrangement the pamphlet can be opened out flat, as seen in Figs. 1, 8 and 5, so as to be fully exposed or have its interior readily inspected.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A binder for pamphlets and the like, consistin g of two fiat covers connected by a back, journal-eyes secured to one side of the back, a rectilinear hing-rod journaled in said eyes and bent at right angles at its opposite ends to provide arms which swing when the hingerod is turned axially in the journal-eyes, catches secured to the side of the back opposite the'side to which the journal-eyes are secured and arranged to detachably engage and hold the extremities of said swinging arms, and a fastening passing through the crease of the pamphlet'at different points and looped at its end portions around the swinging arms, substantially as described.

2. A binder for pamphlets and the like, consisting of two flat covers connected by a back, journal-eyes secured to one side of the back, -a rectilinear hinge-rod journaled in said eyes and bent at right angles at its opposite ends to provide arms which swing when the hinge-rod is turned axially in the journal-eyes, catches secured to the side of the back opposite the side to which the journal-eyes are secured and arranged to de- In testimony whereof I affix my signature taehztbly engage and hold the extremities of in presence of two witnesses.

said swinging arms, and a flexible strand 7 1 passing through the crease of the pamphlet ADOLPH I at different points and looped at its end por- Vitnesses: tionsaroundtheswingingarms,substantially HENRY C. CARPENTER,

as described. CHAS. E. CARPENTER.

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