US79269A

US79269A - William smith

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Publication number: US79269A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1868-06-23
Anticipated expiration: 1885-06-23

Description

W LLIAM SMITH, or NHV YORK, N, Y.

Letters Patent No. 79,269, dated June 23, 1868 IMPROVEMENT IN BOOK-BINDING.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: v

Be it. known that I, WILLIAM SMITH, of the city, county, and State of New Yorl ,'have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Binding of Books? and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

The present invention relates to that class of binding for books in which, at suitable points of the length of the books, a. tape or strip of cloth or other suitable material is passed through the several leaves of the hook, and then such tapes, by their loose ends, secured to the outer side of the board covers to the book. v

And this invention consists in securing the loose ends of the tapes, the one to the inner, and the otherv to the outer side of the book board covers, thus confining the board covers between the two or the several tapes, and producing a most perfect, strdng, secure, firm, and rigid attachment of the'covers to the leaves, and one which, for school-books more especially, will be of the utmost advantage and importance.

In the accompanying plate of drawings, my improvement in the binding of books is illustrated- Figure 1 being an outside'view of the front cover to a book bound according thereto, and

Figure 2 a transverse section, taken in the plane of the line a: :v, fig. 1. I v

A A, in the drawings, represent the several leaves to a. book, which, for being bound, are first prepared as is the practice now in thc binding of books,- and in addition thereto, in the present instance, punched at or near their back edge, B, with two holes or slits, C, of a widthpr length suitable to receive tapes D, which may he of cloth, leather, or any other material suitable.

Through each slit 0 two of the tapes D are passed, and then between their loose ends, on each side of the leaves, the cover-boards E are placed, and to them'th e ends of the tapes are secured; thus, as one is upon the outer, and the other upon the inner side of the covers, the covers are confined and held between them, after which the backing, F, is applied in the ordinary manner.

By confining the cover within and between the tapes D, as above described, it is obvious that thus a inore perfect, sti'o'ng, durable, and reliable attachment of the covers to the leaves is obtained than when the covers are simply held by tapes that are applied only to one of the sides of the covers.

In lieu of passing two tapes through each hole or slit of the deaves, a separate slit may be made foreach tape, and tapes of a greater or less width'tnay be employed, and therefore, in the present invention, I do not;

intend to limit myself to any particular number of tapcsused, nor to any particular width of the sanie,;the invention consisting only in the securing the tapes to the covers, uponboth sides thereof, as has been hereinabove described. 1

Having thus described my improvement, what I claim, is-

A book, when it has its covers secured to its leaves by'ta-pcs, or their equivalents, that are. passed through the leaves, and then their loose ends fastcnezl'to both the outer and inner sides of the covers, substantially as described.

W. SMITH.

Witnesses:

ALBERT W. Buowx, H. L. WATTENBERG.