US627076A - Binder for magazines - Google Patents

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BINDER FOR MAGAZINES, 84,0.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Batent No. 627,076, dated June 13, 1899.

l Application filed September l2, 1898. Serial No. 690,745. (N0 model.)

To lf/ZZ whom, zit ina/y concern.-

Be it known that I, ELI S. GLOVER, a citizen of the United States,lresiding at San Francisco, county of San Francisco, and VState of California, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Binders for Magazines and the Like, of which the following is aspecification. l

My invention relates to a new and useful improvement in binders lfor magazines and the like, and has for its object to provide an exceedingly simple and effective device of this description which will render the attachment of a magazvine or like volume between the backs of the binder an easy matter,which may be accomplished by a person with little or no skill, and when the magazine is thus placed it will be securely held without increasing its bulk or in any wise interfering with its use and at the same time affording a neat and substantial binding which will protect the magazine from injury.

With these ends in View this invention con sists in thedetails of construction and combination of elements hereinafter set forth, and then specifically designated by the claims.

In order that those skilled in the art to which this invention appertains may understand how to make and use the same, the construction and operation will now be described in detail, referring to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure I shows my improved binder open, having a magazine or like volume securedtherein; Fig. 2, a cross-section of the binder, showing the magazine therein; Fig. 3, an enlarged detail of the wedge-shaped key; Fig. 4, a perspective of the guard, and Fig. 5 a similar view of the binding-strip carrying the bindingdoop.

In carrying out my invention as here embodied, A represents the covers of the binder connectedtogetherin the usual manner by the flexible section B, in which is rigidly secured the binding-strip C, the latter being preferably composed of wood and of a shape which Will give to the completed binder the general appearance of a book, and this binding-strip l in practice is usually glued within the flexible section. The binding strip has secured therein a loop D, composed of metal or other Erepresents the guard, which is of sheet metal, so bent as to be V-shaped in crosssection and having an opening F formed in the center thereof, as clearly shown in Fig. 4. This opening should be of a size to readily pass over the loop D, and said loop should be of a length to extend to the upper edge of the guard, and when this is 'the case the Wedgeshaped key G may be easily inserted Within the loop and forced forward while riding in the channel of the guard.

In securing a magazine or other volume within the binder said Volume is opened at its center and the signatures separated with a paper-knife or similar implement from the inside outward, and to facilitate the insertion of the loop in this opening the signatures should be pressed Well apart by turning the knife edgewise. The binding-loop is then passed through the opening thus formed, care being taken not to tear the signatures, after which the guard is placed between the folios, the opening therein passing over the loop when the. wedgeshaped key is inserted in the loop and pressed firmly home.

For convenience in withdrawing the Wedge should it be desired to remove the magazine from the binding a notch I-I is formed in the key, so that a paper-knife or the like may be used to withdraw the wed ge-shaped key by engagement with said notch.

After the magazine has been secured in place the guard is pressed together as much as possible in order that the bulk of the mag- -azine will not be materially increase'dat this point.-

My invention is exceedingly simple, and the cost thereof is small, while it is advantageous for binding all classes of magazines and the like, and it may be readily used by persons having little or no skill, and a magazine may be either secured within the binder or removed therefrom without injury, and when in place it will be as securely bound as an ordinary book.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful isl. -As a new article of manufacture, a binder for magazines and the like consisting of the IOO 2 amore covers secured together by a flexible section section connecting said covers, abinding-strip or back, a binding-strip secured to the lieXisecured between the covers and to the iexizo ble section, a binding-loop projecting from ble section', a loop projecting from the bindthe strip, a guard having an opening therein ing-strip, a guard having an opening in its 5 for passing over the loop, and a Wedge-shaped center for passage over the loop after the latkey for insertion within the loop, as specified. ter has been passed through the magazine,

2. In combination with the covers of a landawedge-shaped keyhavinganotch there- 251- binder, abinding-strip secured therebetween, in, said key being adapted to slide within the a loop projecting from the strip at the center guard and be inserted within a loop, as shown 1o thereof, over which the magazine may be and for the purpose set forth.

placed by forming an opening therethrough, In testimony whereof I have hereunto afa guard, V-shaped in cross-section, having an fixed my signature in the presence of two sub- 3o opening in the center thereof for passage over scribin g witnesses;`

, the loop, and a Wedge-shaped key adapted to 15 slide in the guard and be-inserted in the loop y ELI s GLOVER for holding the part in place, as shown and Witnessesi described. NnLsoN ELDRED,

3. In combination, two covers, a flexible F. A. ALLWARDT.

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