US758871A - Binding-press. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTBD MAY 3, 1904.

W. STRINGER.

BINDING PRESS.

APPLICATION TILED APR. 15, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

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Ba iffjjzy%v:ijrmjea m/d wwwmawwm No. 758,871. Patented May 3, 1904;.

IINiTED STATES PATENT OEEicE.

IVESLEY STRING'ER, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO CARLOS F. HATCH, OF MINNEAPOLIS, B'IINNESOTA.

BINDING-PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 758,871, dated May 3, 1904.

Application filed April 15, 1903. Serial No. 152,815. (No model.)

it y 007L667? material is applied in a manner already indi- 5 Be it known that I, IVEsLEY STRINGER, a cated,but which willbe hereinafter more fully citizen of the United States, residing at Mindescribed.

neapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State The invention is illustrated in the accomof Minnesota, have invented anew and useful panying drawings, wherein like characters in- Machine for the Binding of a Flat-Opening dicate like parts t-houghout the several views. 55 Book, which I have named a Bookbinding- Figure l is a side elevation of the complete Press, of which the following is a speciticadevice. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the said tion. device with some parts broken away and IQ My invention has for its object to provide showing the supporting-frame turned into a an improvedbookbinding-press by the use of vertical position. Fig. 3 is a section on the 60 which the leaves of books may be clamped line 41+ :r" of Fig. 2. Fig. A is a similar view together in proper position for binding with to Fig. 3, but shows the supporting-frame those edges of the leaves which are to receive turned upside down and with the aliningthe glue or adhesive material free to be board thereof removed; and Fig. 5 is a detail slightly separated, so that such adhesive main side elevation of one of the latch-hooks of 5 tcrial may be run in between them a short the device removed from working position. distance, thereby enabling the binding to- The numeral 1 indicates a supporting-pod gether of the leaves of the book by the adhcestal made up of side brackets rigidly tied tosive material in such manner that a Hatgether by transverse bars. The oscillating opening book is provided. supporting-frame 2, which, as shown, is rec- 7 To the above ends the invention consists of tangular, has trunnions 3, which are loosely the novel devices and combinations of devices journaled in the upper side portions of the hereinafter described, and defined in the pedestal 1, one of said trunnions having at its claims. projecting end a peripherally-notched wheel In the accomplishment of the object of my or gear at. A vcrtically-movable lock-plunger invention I employ an oscillating frame or 5, which is mounted in guides 6 on one side holder which is provided with cooperating of the pedestal .1, is yieldingly held upward clamping-heads having hinged supplemental by a spring '7 applied thereto and to the said 0 sections which when in operative positions pedestal. The upper endof this lock-plunger lirinly clamp together those edges of the 5 engages with the notches of the gear 4 to leaves that are to be secured by the glue or hold the supporting-frame 2 in whatever poadhesive material, but which supplemental sition it may be set. At its lower end the sections when turned into inoperative posilock-plunger 5 is provided with a laterally- 3 5 tions permit the said edges of the leaves to be projecting foot-piece 8, which when stepped slightly separated, so that the adhesive maupon releases it from the gear 4 and permits 5 tcrial may be worked in a short distance bethe supporting-frame 2 to be freely turned tween the said leaf edges. The oscillating into any position desired. supporting frame or holder is provided with The detachable alining board or bottom 9,

40 a detachable alining board or bottom against which is adapted to close the bottom of the which the edges of the leaves which are to resaid frame 2, is, as shown, detachably held in 9 ceive the adhesive material are placed while working position by angular brackets 10 on the said frame is turned with the said alining the upper portion of said frame and by ahook board or bottom downward. ith this con- 11 on the lower portion of said frame, which 45 struction after the leaves are properly alined hook is adapted to engage with a projecting by the said alining-board they are securely end of a strap 12 on the adjacent ed e of the clamped together by the clamping-heads, and said alining-board. The so-called detachthe frame is then turned upside down, thealinable alining-board is movable to and from ing-board is then removed, and the adhesive an operative position, and the expression detending longitudinally from end to end there of. The clamping-heads 13 and 14: at those edges that terminate short of but close to the alining-board 9 when the latter is in working position are provided with hinged supplemental sections or cleats 17, that are adapted to be turned into positions in which they diverge from each other, as shown in Fig. L. Each hinged supplemental section 17 is provided with a rigidly-secured operating-bar 18.

2 The free ends of these operating-bars 18 project in opposite directions and each follows quite closely one side of the oscillating supporting-frame 2 and cooperates with a camnosed spring latch-hook 19, secured at one end to the adjacent side of the said frame 2. When the operating-bars 18 are forced toward the side of the frame 2 far enough to bring the supplemental sections 17 into a straight line with their respective clamping-heads, the spring latch-hooks 19 engage said bars and lock said supplemental sections in operative positions. The movable clamping-head 14: is moved by a screw-rod 20, which works through the upper transverse portion of the frame 2 and is swiveled at its lower end to a bearing 21 on said head. At its outer end said screwrod is provided with a hand-wheel 22, by means of which it may be readily turned.

Operation: The operation of the device may be briefly stated as follows: While the alining-board 9 is held in operative position on the frame 2 and the said frame is turned substantially in the position indicated in Fig. 3, the leaves of the book are placed within the frame between the clamping-heads and against the said alining board. Then the movable clamping-head 14: is tightly pressed against the leaves, so that the said leaves are firmly held between the two clamping-heads.

Then the frame 2 is turned upside down or substantially into the position indicated in Fig. L, and the alining-board is removed from the frame. When the spring-hooks 19 are sprung outward, the supplemental sections of the clamping-head are released and may then be moved into inoperative positions, as shown in Fig. 4. Then the glue or adhesive material is applied to the upper edges of the leaves and is worked in between the leaves by running the finger or a tool up and down over the released edges of the leaves. Then after the adhesive material has been worked in between the edges of the leaves the supplemental 'erative positions, so as to squeeze out from between the edges of the leaves all surplus adhesive material, and thereby press the stuck edges of the leaves within the same space occupied by the loose portions of the leaves. The said supplemental sections should of course be left locked in their operative positions long enough to permit the glue or adhesive material to set. While the leaves are still clamped by the supplemental sections 17 the cloth backing or binder should of course be applied to the adhered edges of the leaves.

The utility and convenience of the device above described will be apparent to all persons familiar with bookbinding, and it will also be understood that the said device makes it possible to do better bookbinding by the use of adhesive material without stitching or sewing than has hitherto been possible or at least practicable. In short, as already indicated, by the use of the above-described device books may be bound by the use of adhesive material and without stitching or sewing which are capable of being opened flat without breaking the back of the bookthat is, without splitting apart the bound edges of the leaves.

From what has been said it will of course be understood that the device described is ca-.

pable of many modifications within the scope of my invention as herein set forth and claimed.

It will of course be understood that the bookbinding-press herein disclosed is capable books, pamphlets and magazines, catalogues, &c., as well as larger books.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows:

1. Abookbinding-press comprising a supporting-frame, having cooperating clampingheads, movable one with respect to the other, to clamp the leaves of books of different thickness, at least one of said clamping-heads being formed with a supplemental section, movable to and from an operative position respectively to clamp and release those edges of the leaves to which the adhesive material is to be applied, the said frame being open to permit of such application of the adhesive material, and means for locking or holding the said supplemental clamping-section in working position, and whereby when said supplemental section is in inoperative position, the adhesive material may be worked in between the edges of the leaves.

2. A bookbinding-press, comprising a reversible supporting-frame, having a detachable alining-board, and a pair of clampingheads, at least one of which clamping-heads is formed with a hinged supplemental section adjacent to said detachable alining board, which supplemental section is movable to and from operative position respectively to clamp and release those edges of the leaves to which the adhesive material is to be applied.

3. A bookbinding-press comprising an 0scillating supporting-frame, having a detachable alining-board, and a pair of clampingheads, one of which clamping-heads is movable with respect to the other, and both of which clampingheads are provided with hinged supplemental sections for clamping and releasing those edges of the leaves to which the adhesive material is to be applied, substantiallv as described.

4. A bookbinding-press, comprising a supporting-pedestal, an oscillating frame supported thereby, and provided with a pair of clamping-heads having hinged supplemental clamping-sections, means for locking said supplemental sections in operative positions and for releasing them, a screw-rod for moving one of said clamping-heads, and a detachable alining-board, applicable to said oscillating frame in a position adjacent to the supplemental sections of said clamping-heads, substantially as described.

5. In a bookbindingpress, the combination with a supporting-pedestal, and an oscillating supporting-frame supported thereby, of means for locking said frame in different positions with respect to said pedestal, a pair of clamping-heads carried by said supporting-frame, one thereof being fixed and the other movable with respect thereto, said clampingheads having hinged supplemental clamping-sections, spring-latch devices for holding said supplemental sections in operative positions and for releasing them, and a screw-rod for adjusting the movable clamping-head, said screwrod reacting on said oscillating supportingframe, and a detachable aliningboard applicable to said oscillating frame adjacent to the supplemental sections of said clampingheads, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 31st day of March,

\VESLEY STRINGER. \Vitnesses:

ELVA HATCH, LoUIs A. HUBAonEK.

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