US645191A - Scrap-book. - Google Patents

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No. 645,l9l. v Patented Mar. I3, |900. C. E. SCHWARTZ.

S C R A P B 0 0 K \App1ication led Aug` 8. 1899. y1

(No Model.)

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CHARLES ERNEST ScHWAETz, ou CAETIIAGEMISSOUEI'.

'SCRAP-SOCK.

SPEGIFICATTON forming part of Letters Patent No. 645,191, dated Maren/13, 190e. Application filed August 8, 1899. Serial No. 726,559. (No model.)

T0 all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES ERNEST SCHWARTZ, a citizen of the United States, re'- siding at Carthage, in the county of Jasper and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful' Scrap-Book, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in scrap-books and indexes and the object of the same is to provide a book of this character which when used as a scrap-book will dispense with the time and labor involved in pasting clippings therein and permit the latter to be read from both sides or to be reclassified or 'changed at any time desired and wherein a greater number of the clippings can be placed on each page than is possible in the ordinary scrap-book further, to use the same device for applying clippings to Single sheets or portfolios of paper which may be led in boxes and from which the clippings may be removed at any time to scrap-books; further-- more, to arrange for a series of indexes by the use of the same holding device that is employed to retain the clippings in place or to employ7 said holding devices alone as indexslips which are capable of quick change and readjustment and easily brought up to date, all of which may be acquired without defacing the scrap-book, even if the said holding devices are entirely removed subsequent to their use in the book; furthermore, to use the holding devices forthe clippings as means to contain titles and also to immediately retain the clippings of a length greater than that of the page or leaf to which they are applied.

With this end in View the invention consists of stiff paper leaves either bound in a free of adhesive materia'kand likewise ar ranged in the holes in succession in accord with the alphabetical arrangement of the name or other matter and susceptible of removal or rearrangement.

The invention further consists in the details of construction and arrangement of the several parts, which will be morepfully hereinafter described and claimed.

ln the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a perspective View of a scrap-book embodying the invention and shown open. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical Section of one of the scrap-book leaves. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section of one 0f the leaves. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective View of one of the holders. Fig. 5 is a similar view of one of the holders without the adhesive or gummed surface and adapted for indexing or simple holding service.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to indicate corresponding parts in the several views.

The numeral l designates a book-back of any preferred dimension and ornamentation and having bound therein a series of leaves 2, which will depend as to number upon the size of the book and have considerable space between them to compensate for the thickness of the clippings that may be applied thereto. Each leaf has a series of openings or apertures 3 cut therethrough and arranged in longitudinal alinement, being a distance apart about equal to or approximating the width of a newspaper or periodical column. This dimension, however, may be changed at will, and the number of openings or apertures 3 varied in accordance with the nature of the clippings or the matterto be stored in the book. As Shown, the parallel lines of openings or apertures 3 are intended to accommodate three newspaper or periodical columns, and in transverse direction the said openings or apertures are also in alinement and convenientforastraight arrangement of the clippings. The clippings are held in the book and on the page or leaf by means of holders 4, consisting, preferably, of strips of cardboard cut with projecting reduced ends 5, which are introduced into the openings or apertures 3. The opposite reduced ends 5 of the holders IOO l is equal to the interval in a transverse direction between the openings or apertures 3 on opposite sides of a space leaf approximating the width of a newspaper or periodical column. Of course when these openingsor apertures 3 are arranged at a greater distance apart to accommodate larger clippings or scraps the holders will be similarly elongated and otherwise properly proportioned. WVhen the holders are used to attach clippings, they have a layer or covering of gum or adhesive material 7 applied on one side near what is to serve as the bottom edge,.the surface 8 of the holder immediately above the said gummed surface being left clear for the application of a date, name, or title, or such information as can be applied thereto and desired to be written in connection with the cli pping.

The clipping is fastened to the holder by the layer or covering of gum or adhesive substance and is permitted to drop down over the page after the reduced ends 5 are inserted in two of the openings or apertures 3. It will be observed that by this means both sides of the clipping or other matter are left free for ready inspection, and the holders bearing the clippings are arranged, in succession regularly in the same manner toward the bottom or foot of the page.

In arranging the holders in the pages, as stated, the clippings from the upper end toward the foot of-each page rest successively on top of each other, so that they may be easily turned up to read others that may be under the same. W hen a clipping is extraordinarily long or of greater length than the vvdistance between the point of application of the holder carrying the same and the bottom or foot of the page, such clipping is tucked up or folded, as shown by Fig. l, at 99, and the tucked-up part is retained by a holder similar to that shown by Fig. 5 and without the adhesive material thereon. This will provide for a compact arrangement of the clippings and also avoid the projection of the ends of the same at the bottom edge of the 'pasef The pages will be numbered successively, and at the front of the book an indexl can be vconveniently arranged bythe use of the hold- 'ers illustrated `by Fig. 5 and have written or imprinted thereupon classification titles .or headings or similar matter and the page in the book where they are located. vThese indexholders will be arranged in regular order and preferably in alphabetical sequence, and at any time desired a rearrangement, replacement, or entire withdrawalmay ensue in accord vwith the removal from the application to the book of the clippings. These holders lmay also serve alone as index mediums for general purposes and overcome the necessity of redisposition of long complex indexes by the addition thereto or subtraction therefrom and a recast on the same as is now ordinarily carried on.

The present form of the scrap-book avoids the inconvenience arising from the methods now commonly in vogue of applyingclippings or other matter to a scrap-book and also permits the clippings to be removed without destroying the same or marring the book. This makes possible the elimination of dead material and an easy means of reclassifying the clippings by removing any single one or a number from one page to another. ,i s

The improved :manner ofy applying the clipping will be vfound veryy convenient in what are known as the clipping-bureaus, :and instead of applying the clippings to slips of paper showing the name and date of the newspaper or periodical from which each one was clipped, as is now done by the bureaus, they may be applied ldirectly to 4,the cardboard holders of a character illustrated by Fig. 4, the upper part of the holder being used to bear the same information which is now written or stamped onthe aforesaid paper slips and sent to the 'subscribers in this condition. In this case the holders maybe placed by the subscriber at will in, his scrap-book or clipping-ille, and he would be saved the timevand labor which are now required to paste these clippings in scrap-boks or on vsheets of .paper and to write under each one its source of publication.V p

innumerable other uses and advantages Awill appear from time to time. The adaptability of the improved arrangement is general, and it will facilitate thecollectionand storage or rearrangement of the clippingsor other matter adapted to be retained in regular order.

Changes in the `propjorti'omsize, form, and minor details of constructiony may be resorted to withoutl in the least departing from the spirit of theE invention or sacriiicing any of the advantagesthereof.

Having thus ldescribed the invention, what is claimed as new isy i l. yin a book, the combination of a'number of leaves, having parallel lines of openings therein, andholders adapted ,to contain reference matter, 'having reduced ends removably inserted in the said openings. Y, 2. In a book, the combinaticn'of a number of leaves having a series of klines of openings therethrough, arranged in parallelrelation and holders having opposite ends removably fitted in the said openings, to which clippings are fastened, whereby the saidclippin'gs may be removedand withdrawn or their positions changed withinthe book- 3. The combination with a book having the leaves with a series of openings therein, ar-

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ranged in parallel lines, of holders having opposite reduced ends to removably engage the said openings, the length of the holders longitudinally between the points of conjunction of the reduced ends therewith being equal to the distance between the openings. Y

4. The combination With a book having a series of leaves with openings therethrough, arranged in parallel lines, of a holder having opposite reduced ends to removably engage a part of said openings and also provided with an adhesive substance on a portion thereof, to which is secured a clipping or other matter and another holder similarly mounted in other openings and adapted to hold a folded or vtucked up portion of the clipping carried by

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