US1991662A - Bookbinding and means for binding books - Google Patents

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Feb. 19,1935.

J. cRoNE BOOKBINDING AND MEANS FOR BINDING BOOKS Filed April 19, 1934 rebinding when` the coveir has Patented Feb. 19, 1935 STATE BooKs` l EmniwJane Grone, Marathon', Iowa:r

' Apelieaton. Aprii. 1:9, 1954i, senat No. 121,343,

' eoieims. (o1. zar-12er This; invention'. relates-to `lmokbin'ding and. hasy to d'0 with. an. improved'rdevice for fasteningy the contents ofa; bookini itsiolover;l It may be used either in the originaliI binding of. a book ox', become detached Vfrom the: ciontentsa.`

The' invention: consists ofi the following and the-l methodt of:` itsA application layers of.y suitable? binding materiel with an intervening. layer: of; adhesive-frepellent maf terial arelstitchedl togethersoPthat-onelayer'of, the bindingi materiaal is adapted.'to` be adhesivelyy fastenedito" the` back and adu'acent end: paliers'` of the contents` of ai book'azid tlie:y other layer: of binding.' material isi'adaqsted;` to: be'adliesivelyY fastened to thebwckzandaadiaoentleaves of laib'oolz cover; the intervening layeziy of. adhesiveerepellent material serving to keep the binding materials from adhering te each other` when'. an adhesive is applied to.: them, andfurther serving as aconi` Venilencet in. keeping` the adhesive ronr other? undesiredrplac'es.. l f

The usuali Acfmnnercz'uazl devices nmrket'ed'v ati the present andf. wtncl; halve; for their purpose the. attaclinrxentioliA the' contents of." ar book to,Y its' cover, are mad oitV gummed suchi as A tape;.'b'ook' cloth, 'adlsivei papier; ou' similar: materi'alsf Such) materials: are not'. recommended byfpersons: tamiliar ivi-tirA the mending: o1'. original' bindings et' books;; andi who: have made; actual tests withl differentimatenialst` Experience has proved that the. 'softer andi lighter weight the: merrding fabicsthe. better fon the b'ools'andi thenoire enduring: the'. Vresults Because: gumme'd; materials are motel' quickly andi easilvl used; theyazes often applied. withoutdiscriminatiorr: and frequently.` result inf damage to the':book; Itis generally' ac ceptedthat'ung'ummedl clotli's moreadl-iesive nexibiegand alsof-lessi. expensive, thanithef gummed materia-ls commonly' ini use.'l lflovvever;A it'. has; not heretofore been practicable tomafkei such; devices from inexpensive: `ungu`xnmed`=V materials? since` when an adhesive i's` anpliedi'toisuoli' materials it penetrates them and causesitlielniateribsto adidevice J here tov each.` othenztnusidestroyingftli'e freedom sequentlye QEHCZE' the-adhesive hmdens, cracksV and del teriorates with time;- 'and-When. eventually usedin-b'ookbin ding',L the:adhesivoV does! not adhereiiirm-` tion.

VMyinventionconsists ot anovel combination`-'` of materials, described and 'a1-method.' for their" use, which is by' this specification; illustrated; by the accompanying drawing, and' 11115!A claimed here-1 ina'fter.

invention', isi ezlesigned` to make pos--` suchas ar by means,

einexpensive-,Jn tlmafrt of bookbinding' ot, a: devicey so eiec'tive and' eclonoinicelA andfamethod': so: quick and! easyI that there will no longer'- i summedmaterials;

A. brief widescriptionvof.

be any. inducement.v to? employ inferior the: accomjoanying drawing, Whichllik'e numerals of.' reference indicatelike partszinf the several: figures, follows--f Figure 1'. representsthe:` contents1 ofi a'- boolv:l

rea-d5r to' be. fastened into.i its. (fumier:i

Figure; 2: represents` a: cover' ready to: receive thecontentsfof laalbookp' Y Figure 3 represents an embodimentl ot my inventioni in employed.,AV

whchitwof parallel; lines oft stitches: are

ployedif l Various the method, off, itsruse;` butemploying? the same modificationsot mw'invention and basicprinciples,,Willbefully desevibeda'ndfclaimed hereinater; AIt isfnotdesiredf to cox-inne: th'ef invention tolthefexact forms liereini'shown and descriloedggf butltolincludevall' suchffomns as proper'- lyoomewlthinfthefsebpe4 claimed.. Y

A detailed'rdescziiption;ofc the-drawing; the elementsl of',

fbook lea-ves 27: have' been assembled inE stitched signatures withthe? exposed signatures and stitches show-ingginVv the back 281 The edges' of-' the back of, theuncove'xied` book contents*` are the. uncov representedi by 29?. Th'ef endf papers of eredf boolc contents: are: represented' by This manner of assembling the contents of a book is well known and forms no part of my invention.l The contents may be assembled in any other way, and still may be adapted for use with my improved device for binding the uncovered contents into their cover. The scope of my invention is not limited to use with the contents of a book assembled in the manner illustrated by Figurel. n 1' Y' Y Figure'2 represents a View of a well kknown form of book cover, commonly known as a made cover. in contradistinction to` a cover built upon` the book itself, as is often rdone with hand made In Figure 2,V the numeral 31 represents' books. the back of the made cover. The leaves adjacent to the back of the cover are represented by the numeral 32. Those portionsof the 'covervwhich are to serve as hinges when lthe contents 'and the made cover are joined by my invention are represented by 33. The illustration of a made cover is included for the purpose of'clarityV only, it being representative -of'r the known prior art, and

the cover forming no part of my invention. 'Ihe scope of my inventionis not limited to use with the formY of cover` shown in Figure 2, as the cover may be of any type needing to be fastened to the contents.

be adhesivelyifastened to: the made cover. The

intervening layer of adhesive-repellent material is represented in its Ventiretyl by the .numerals 24 andthe numeral 25, thewing `apsof the adhesive-repellent layerbeing represented by the numerals 24,Y and that portion YVofthe adhesive- `repellent layer :lying-.between thelparallel rows of stitches being represented by the numeral 25. The parallel rows of stitchesxare represented by the numeral 26. i 1 n ,Figure 4 represents.' an end View of a covered book, the contents of which have been boundto a made cover by the use of that embodimentof my invention in which two parallel rowsof stitches areemployed, as illustrated-in Figure 3. In Figure 4, the wingaps 24 of the interveningV layer of adhesive-repellent material (as shown in Fig-V ure 3)" have been removed, while that section of the intervening layer of adhesive-repellent mate-k rial represented by theV numeral -25,wand lying betweenfthefparallel rows of stitches; remains in its original position. There is no necessity for removingggthe ,wing flaps 24 of the. intervening layer of adhesivefrepellent material aftery the cover and contents of the book have been joined.- They may be allowed to remain if desired. v Figure 5 represents an embodiment of my invention in whichY a single row ofstitches is 'employed, in conjunction with the other elements of the invention. l'Ihenumerals in Figure 5 represent the same elements vof-the `invention asare represented by like numerals in Figure 3. v'

Thev various parts of the binder, contents, and cover being thus specified, the method of fastening the contents into the cover consists of Ytwo simple operations; namely, I .1( 1) adhesivelyY fastening the binder to the contents, and (2) adhesively fastening the contents, thus bound, .into the cover. This order of procedure need not neccontents.

essarily be followed, as the binder may well be iirst fastened to the cover, and then to the con-V tents. The former procedure is'probably the more practicable and more easily accomplished. More fully described, the operations follow: Y

When using that embodiment of my invention'v Y shown in Figure 3, a suitable adhesive is applied to the back of the book contents 28,*where it is 'Y i 26 lying along the edges 29 of the back ofthe contents, the vWidth between the parallel lines yof stitches conforming'with the width of the v:book Thus applied, the surfaces-20 and 21 ,of the binder v are adhesively bound to the' end papers 30 and theback 28 of the bookcontents.

An adhesive is now applied to the outersur- Y faces of that portion of the binder represented by 22 and 23, and by means of the adhesive these surfaces are fastened :respectively to those 1 por? tionsv of the c 'over represented by 32 and 31. l'lhe lines of stitches 26'1nowcoincide withy the hinge: portions 33 of the made coven.Y v During thefoperations'described,1the intervening layer of adhesiverepellent imaterial rep-l resentedby- 24 and 25- has servedto prevent the adhesive substancensedafrom penetrating theA respectivel layersof :binding material. and causing them .tof adhere together, andinask also acted to g prevent ltheadl'iesive from` reaching 'other unde- Y sired places. l.When the'adhesive' has dried, the

wingsurfa'ces 24 of the intervening layerof ad-VY .I

hesive-repell'ent.v material, .which canceas'ily be torn `at the stitches 26, maybe Aremoved (as shown in Figure.4), .or be kallowed toremain inV their original position, whichever may be vdec` sired.g. s In this embodiment; of my invention, thegtwo layers ofbinding material, as well as ythe 'inter-l vveninglayer of. adhesivefrepellent material, may

be of any size desired. The width;bet"ween.the parallel rows off stitches may*z likewise beof. any

width desired, such widthbeing governed by thev width of the contents ofthe particularbookto which the ybindery is being` applied.1. f z f When using thatv embodiment ofmy invention shown `in Figure :5, which is adaptedv for binding books the backs of which are comparatively thin, or for. fasteningpampletsinto their covers, or for refastening loose sections @in the .-ofontentslof' books, substantially the same operations take 'r place.y The surfaces20 ofthe binderareadhe# sively fastened Ato thev end papersof the contents of the book or pamphlet-v` being bound,.while the surfaces 22 are adhesively fastened to'the `cover offthabook or pamphlet. The., single row. Yo1.' stitches-.'26, in this embodiment ofmy'invention, lies; along the `center of `theback of the contents thus bound,` and. along the, centerf o1',l the cover. The functionv ofthe intervening `layer of adhesive-,repellent -material V24'is the same in this emg bodiment lof my Yinventionas it is in that embodiment shown inFigure 3.. 1 f y Y 3 I'have described a novel method and means by which a bookmay'beeffectively fastened in its cover throughL the use 'Y 'of ungummedv materials,

1,991,662 which is to prevent the adhesion of the separatedV surfaces at undesired places. By this I prevent much of the undesirable rigidity of the back of thecontents, which so often causes a book to break when being opened. In prior art, materials as thin as netting have commonly been glued to the back of the contents of a book, and it has often been the practice to apply on top of the netting a layer of paper which adhered to the glue that had been used when the netting was applied. The eiect of this method of preventing the cover V fromadhering to the contents has been the rigidity and liability to breakagementioned. My layer of adhesive-repellent material permanently prevents the adherence of these surfaces, even in cases where futureV dampness might otherwise lead to their adherence, and it consequently retains for the back of the book a flexibility much desired in the construction of books.

I claim:

1. As an article of manufacture, a bookbinding device consisting of two layers of binding mate-v rial and an intervening layer of adhesive-repellent material, fastened together with two parallel rows' of stitches, or the like, the stitches being so spaced that one layer of the binding material is adapted to be adhesively fastened to the back and adjacent end papers of the contents of the book and the other layer of the binding material is adapted to be adhesively fastened to the back and adjacent leaves of the cover, the intervening layer of adhesive-repellent material being utilized for the purposes of keeping the two layers of binding material from adhering to each other when the adhesive is applied to them, and of keeping the adhesive from other undesired surfaces.

2. As an article of manufacture, a bookbinding device consisting of two layers of binding material and an intervening layer of adhesive-repellent material fastened together with a single row of stitches, or the like, in such a manner that one layer of the binding material is adapted to be adhesively fastened to the back and adjacent end papers of the contents and the other layer of the binding material is adapted to be adhesively fastened to the back and adjacent leaves of the cover of a book or pamphlet which is comparatively A hering to each other when the adhesive is applied to them, and of keeping the adhesive from other undesired places.

3. In the art of bookbinding, a device` consisting of two layers of binding material and an intervening layer of adhesive-repellent material, fastened together in such a manner that one layer of the binding material is adapted to be adhesively fastened to the back and adjacent end papers of the contents of a book and the other layer of the binding material is adapted to be adhesively fastened to the back and adjacent leaves of a book cover, thusV adhesively fastening one side of the binder thus formed to the back and adjacent end papers of the contents of the book and adhesively fastening the other side of the binder to the back and adjacent leaves of the cover, the intervening layer of adhesive-repellent material serving to prevent the two layers of binding material separated by it from adhering to each other when the adhesive is applied, and to keep the adhesive from other undesired surfaces.

4. In combination with the contents of a book and the cover thereof, a layer or layers of adhesiverepellent material, stitched or otherwise fastened between the binding materials to be utilized in fastening the contents of the book into its cover through the application of an adhesive to such binding materials, such layer or layers of adhesiverepellent material being utilized for the purpose of preventing the adhesion of the cover and the contents Yof the book at any other places than those where it has been designed that the cover and the contents of the book shall be fastened together.

EMMA'JANE CRONE.

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