US684454A - Newspaper. - Google Patents

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Pate'nted Oct. I5, l90l.

W. E. PATTISON.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFIC.

WILLIS E. PATTISON, OF SHARON, MASSAOHUSETTS.

NEWSPAPER.

S-ECIFICATON formng part OfLettet's Patent NO. 684,454, Clated October 15, 1901. Application filed January 23, 1901. Serial No. 44,431. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIs E. PAT'rIsoN, a citizen of the United States,residin g at Sharon, in the county of Norfolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Newspapers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of a form of newspaper which is neater in appearance, less awkward to handle by the reader, and enables him more readily and easily to find the contents than those heretofore in use.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my newspaper partially opened, and Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same when closed.

A is a continuous Sheet or strip constituting the entire newspaper, which is folded in one direction at o, and in a reverse directlon at Z), and so on alternately back and forth until the final fold o is reached, which is made in the same direction as the last preceding one, and the final leaf iscarried around to the opposite side of the folds to form a cover for the entire newspaper. It is obvious that the paper could be fed from a roll into a cylinder-press and would be folded in the manner described by suitable mechanism after the printing of both sides Was completed. I prefer to have the title and contents of the paper printed on the outside of the last leaf, although this is not essential to my invention.

My invention accomplishes the production of'a large newspaper in a single sheet instead of many detached sheets, which obviates the inconvenience and annoyance resulting from the accidental separation and fallin g apart of the several sheets.

The folding of my sheet may be made so as to present smaller pages than are commonly employed in a newspaper, thereby avoiding the awkward position which the reader is often forced to take in holding the same. Any portion of the paper may be referred to by merely opening it between the folds like the pages of a book.

The essential feature of the invention consists in a long sheet of material having surfaces suitable for printing and folded transversely of its length in a zigzag manner and having a plurality of folds in the same direction to form a cover for the zigzag folds. I have shown and described the folds forming the cover as located at the end of the sheet, and this arrangement I prefer and recommend; but the consecutivefolds can of course be made at other points in the length of the sheet and used for the same purpose without departing from my invention.

The object of my invention would be measurably accomplished if the last leaf of paper were less than the full size of the others and formed simply a fiap, as indicated by the dotted lines X X in Fig. 1. This would bind the other folds together and present a single edge to serve in count'ing and separating the papers.

`/Vhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A newspaper consisting of a single sheet of material suitable therefor, having smooth surfaces on both sides adapted to receive printed matter .thereon, said sheet being folded alternately in opposite directions to form zigzag folds and further folded consecutively in the same direction to form a cover for the zigzag folds, both ends of the sheet being free, so that all surfaces are readily accessible for inspection, substantially as described.

2. Anewspaper, consisting of a single sheet of material having smooth faces and folded upon itself in alternately opposite directions, and further folded at one end twice in the same direction to form a pair of leaves which WILLIS E. PATTISON.

Witnesses:

A. G. SULLIvAN, CHAs. F. PERKINs.

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