USRE8039E - Improvement in book-binding - Google Patents

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IRA REYNOLDS, OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND LUOIUS D v UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

REYNOLDS, OF, PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT. IN BOOK-BINDING.

Specificatioinforming part of Letters Patentv No. 98,191, dated December 21, 1869; Reissue No. 8,039,- dated January 15,1878; application filed December 18, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, IRA REYNoLDs, of Da ton, in the countyof Montgomery, in the State of Ohio, have invented certain Improvements. in Book-Binding and in Account-Books; and I do hereby declare that the following, taken in connection with the drawings which accompany and form part of this specification, is a descriptionof my invention sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to practice it.

Some of the improvements are adapted for note or memorandum books generally, and, in deed, for books of any kind where it may be desirable to remove from the cover the body of the book after the latter has served its purpose, and to supply the cover with a new book and they consist in a special construction of a removable cover, in a special construction of the back of a stitched book, adapting it to be readily applied to, be held by, and removed from, such a cover, and in other particulars hereinafter described.

Other parts of myimprovements relate more especially to books suitable for salesmen and book-keepers, and are designed not only to facilitate and economize their labors, but also to serve as a check upon both, and a protection of their employer and his customers.

I have illustrated and shall describe my invention as applied to books appropriate for salesmen in mercantile houses.

Figure 1 represents abook partially slipped from its cover, and showing my invention in part. Fig. 2 is an endview, showing thenovel construction of the back of the book and its cover. Fig. 3 shows a modification in the construction of these backs. Fig. 4. shows the inside of one of my improved books, and Fig. 5 the metal back which I use in the back of the cover.

A indicates the book proper B, its cover 0, its back; and D, the metallic piece, which serves to form the body of the back prior to its being covered with its covering of leather or other material, which connects it with the wings or flaps of the cover. This metallic piece, it will be seen, is so bent that its two edges turn somewhat inward, so that it may embrace and clasp the back of the bookwheninserted therein. Theback of the book itself is also so formed by compression in anappropriate press or removed, and another blank or unwritten book be substituted for it, the same cover answering for scores of books.

The back of the book itself, as seen in this figure, I print somewhat as shown, in order to give a serial number to the book, and the back may also, if preferred, be printed in blank, for the reception of dates at which the entries therein begin and at which they end. 7

The salesman or merchant keeping'possession of and filing away this little book when filled, each entry on his journal-book having a reference to such book by its number, there is no necessity, in such case, of his keeping a day-book, nor of entering anywhere else the items of each bill, for, not only does the little book give all the items whenever wanted, but it is sure, also, to contain a facsimile, as to the items, of the bill rendered to the purchaser, and which shall have been torn from the book at the time of the purchase.

Instead of forming the backs of the cover and of the book as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, I find that, without any more expense, but by simply giving them adiiferent shape by means of a different former, so as to produce a central longitudinal groove in each, as shown'at 3 3 in Fig. 3, a chamber may be formed to receive a pencil.

This mode of forming the chamber not only dispenses withthe cost and labor of appending leather loops for the pencil, as customary upon memorandum books, but it actually strengthens still more the metal back.

Instead of sliding the book into the cover, it may be sprung in edgewise just as readily, if the rigid back of the cover be not made too rigid, and has a little yielding or springing quality.

In the book shown open in Fig. 4, both the leaves on which is the bill-heading and also the blank leaves (the two alternating with each other throughout the book) are perforated, as shown at 4 4, so that the leaves may be readily torn from the book' after the bill has been made out, the bill being delivered to. the customer, the letter-press duplicate thereof delivered to the book-keeper, from which to make his entries, and the marginal stub of the bill remaining permanently in the book, each serving, at any future period, as a check against fraud on the part of any of the parties concerned.

In the book shown-in Fig. 1 there is no marginal stub, as none is needed, because the full duplicate of the items of the original bill as delivered is retained in the book itself, and those leaves only are perforated on which the original'bill is made out, because it aloneneeds to be torn out, the copy remaining.

I olaim 1. Aremovablebook-cover theback of which is made of metal, and shapedto span and grasp the back of a book, substantially as shown and described.

2, A- removable, bound, stitched book, provided with compressed and hardened longitudinal ribs 1 upon its back, adapting it to be slipped into or out of, and firmly held by, a removable cover, the back of which is shaped to span and grasp the same, substantially as shown and described.

3. A book-cover the metal back of which forms an integral part thereof, and supports the two lids of the-cover, and is shaped to span and grasp the back of a removable book, sub- December, 1877.

1 IRA REYNOLDS.

Witnesses:

J As. H. GRIDLEY, 'PE'NNINGTON HALSTED.

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