US811360A - Temporary binder. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED JAN. 30, 1906.

- J. B. BARLOW.

- TEMPORARY BINDER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 29, 1906.

Witnesses UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TEMPORARY BINDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 30, 1906.

Application filed July 29, 1905; Serial No. 271,818.

To all whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, JOHN B. BARLOW, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Temporary Binders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to temporary binders adapted to hold and control records, memoranda, or papers that would otherwise be liable to scattering and loss; and its object is to provide such a binder of especially convenient and economical form. This obj eat I acoomplish by the construction shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the binder, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same.

1 is the bottom board of any desired shape and size, but ordinarily rectangular.

2 represents a metal strip lying under neath the bottom board and into which the binding posts 3 3 are inserted to insure greater strength.

4 is intended to represent the body of leaves or papers which are to be bound, and these leaves or papers must before binding be punched in any usual manner with holes through which the binding-posts 3 3 can pass.

5 is the top cover, and 5 is a binding-strip made of such material, preferably wood, as to be comparatively firm and rigid, and punched with holes registering with the binding-posts, whereby it is permitted to rest upon and bind down the front edge of the cover 5. This cover 5 is preferably made hinged or flexible at or near the point where it passes under the binding-strip 5.

6 6 7 are slots sawed or out vertically into the ends of the binding-stri There may be one or two in each or in eit er end, or one or more of them may be provided at its inner end with a hole piercing the binding-strip and of larger diameter than the slot and having a countersunk depression upon the upper edge of the binding-strip, as indicated by 8.

9 is the binding-cord, and 10 indicates a portion of the bottom board rabbeted or out out in any suitable manner. The rabbet 10 should be of a depth as great as the diameter of the binding-cord, while the slots 6 6 7, or at least one of them, should be of a width slightly less than such diameter. If these slots are cut in a wooden strip, the sides thereof will have a slight spring binding ac tion upon the cord, or if metal is used this binding action can be provided in any other suitable manner.

To make use of my device, I remove the binding-cord, binding-strip, and cover. I then insert upon the binding-posts the leaves or papers to be bound and replace the cover and the binding strip. I then take the binding-cord and as one convenient means of making it fast at one end of the binding strip I tie a knot in the end of the cord and pass v the cordfrom above through the slot 7 into hole 8. The knot will prevent the cord from passing down through and the countersunk depression will receive the knot, leaving a smooth surface. The spring action of the slot 7 permits the easy insertion of the cord through the slot, but prevents its accidental withdrawal or displacement. I then carry the cord down under the bottom board, pass ing the same between the metal strip 2 and the edge of the rabbet or groove 10 and bringing the cord up on the other side of the binder and pass it through the rear slot 6, around the binding-post, down through the forward slot 6, under the bottomboard on the other side of the metal strip, and up to the other side of the binder, catching the free end in the spring-slot 7. The binding-strip and the cover are thereby held firmly in pos1- tion and yet are very easily removed, if desired.

Evidently one binding-slot would be sufficient to make the device operative, though I find it more convenient and efficient to provide at least one slot on each end of the binding-strip, and usually to provide two slots upon one. end. The binding-post upon the end where the cord is to be returned forms a as preferred. If made integrally, some time will be saved in the operation of placing and replacing.

I have shown binding-posts and a bindingstrip provided with holes through which the posts may pass, thus permitting a sliding engagement between the binding-strip and the posts. Obviously this sliding engagement could be accomplished in other ways, the important point being that the binding-strip should be adjustable to and from the bottom and should be held against lateral motion in any direction.

I have shown the hole and countersunk depression 8 in the upper surface of the binding-strip and the binding-cord passing down therethrough. If it should be desired to conceal the knot entirely from view, the binding strip could be reversed, so that the upper surface, as shown, would become the under surface.

It is apparent that the office of the binding-cord is to unite the bottom and the binding-strip but by detachable connection and with any construction which permitted the binding-cord to be attached to one of these members and to be detachably connected by a slot to the other member the same result would be accomplished.

I have spoken of the sides of the slot as having a spring binding action. .There is, however, a certain elasticity or adaptability in such cord as would be used for bindingcord, and the yielding when the cord was inserted in the slot would be partly in the cord and partly in the slot or wholly in either, as the case might be. I have spoken of the front and rear of thedevice as the same appears in Fig. 1, in which the binding edge is nearer to the observer, and I have therefore spoken of this edge as the front of the binder, although it might be more accurate to speak of the free edge as the front and the binding edge as the rear.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim to have invented, and desire to secure I by Letters Patent, is

1. In a temporary binder a bottom member, a binding-strip member adjustable to and from the bottom, means for sliding enengagement between said two members permitting such adjustability, a binding-cord passing below said bottom member, and said binding-strip member provided with means for attaching one end of said binding-cord and for clamping the free end of said bindingcord thereto.

2. In a temporary binder, a bottom member, a binding-post rising therefrom, a binding-strip member provided with means for obtaining a sliding engagement between it and said binding-post, a binding-cord extending beneath said bottom member, and said binding-strip member provided with means at one end for attaching one end of the binding-cord thereto and provided at its other end with a binding-slot for clamping the free end of said cord thereto.

3. In a temporary binder a bottom, a binding-post rising therefrom, a binding-strip, means for sliding engagement between the binding-post and the binding-strip, a slot in one end of said binding-strip, through which slot one end of the binding-cord may be inserted, a binding-cord, and a slot in the other end of said binding-strip through which the binding-cord may pass.

4. In a temporary binder a bottom, a binding-post rising therefrom, a binding-strip, means for sliding engagement between the binding-post and the binding-strip, a' bindingcord, means for attaching one end of the cord to the binding-strip near one end of the strip, and two slots in the binding-strip at the other end thereof through which the bindingcord may pass and repass, said slots being of a width less than the diameter of the cord.

5. In a temporary binder a bottom, a binding-post rising therefrom, a binding-strip, means for sliding engagement between the binding-strip and the binding-post, a binding-cord, means for attaching one end of the binding-cord to the binding-strip, means for detachably fastening the binding-cord to the binding-strip near one end thereof, and a rabbet from the under surface of the bottom board whereby the binding-cord can be passed beneath the bottom board without lifting the same from the table.

6. A temporary binder comprising a base, a binding-strip member vertically adjustable thereon, and a binding-cord attached at one end to said member and having its other end clamped to saidmember, said cord passing below said base.

7. In a temporary binder, a bottom mem ber, a binding-strip member adjustable to and from said bottom member, means car ried by one of said members and extending through the other of said members for forming the sliding engagement between the two members, and a binding-cord attached to one side of one of said members and having the other end thereof detachably clamped to the other side of said member.

8. In a temporary binder, a bottom member, a binding-strip member adjustable to and from said bottom member, means for sliding engagement between said two members permitting of the adjustability of said binding-strip member, and a binding-cord for a portion of its length extending parallel with one of said members and having one end attached and its free end clamped to the other of said members.

9. In a temporary binder, a bottom member, a binding-post rising therefrom, a binding-strip member, means for sliding engagement between the binding-post and the binding-strip, a binding-cord, means for attaching one end of the binding-cord to one of said my hand in presence of two subscribing 'Wi vmembersd,l and one of said mem$e1is hiving a]; nesses. o en-en ed bindin -s 0t sai s 0t ein 0 le s Width than the diameter of the binding- JOHN BARLOW 5 cord, whereby said slot will bind and grip the Witnesses: free end of said cord. A. C. DENISON,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set CLARA G. HAMILTON.

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