US576236A - Book-cover - Google Patents

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NITED STATES .wEORGE IV. SUES, OF

OMAHA, NEBRASKA.

BOOK-COVER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 576,236, dated February 2, 1897.

Application filed March 23, 1896.

To all whom it max/1 concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE \V. SUES, residing at Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska, have invented certain useful Improvements in Book-Covers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention has relation to a novel improvement in covers for books and pamphlets.

The object of my invention is to provide a book, pamphlet, or magazine cover that shall serve a double purpose, as will be described more fully hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows a front view of a cover-blank as is used in my invention. Fig. 2 shows a front view of a cover as ordinarily constructed. Fig. 3 shows an end view of a book provided with my improved cover. Fig. 4 shows a side elevation of a book about to be provided with my improved cover. Fig. 5 shows a series of my improved covers as laid out and pasted to receive the book. Fig. 6 shows a perspective view of one of my endless covers as finished and shown independent of the book to which it is to be connected. Fig. 7 shows a side elevation of a simple holder I use in holding the books when they are to receive a cover, while Fig. 8 shows an end view thereof.

My invention comprises, essentially, an endless leaf of flexible material, such as paper, fabrics, parchment, pulpboard, and the like, which completely surrounds the book to which it is secured, and which cover must be severed before the book can be opened. By this means I provide a cover admirably adapted as a mailing-jacket, and I further strengthen the book at its weakest point, the back, without materially increasing the cost of the same.

In the art it is usual in providing a cover to divide the same into three divisions, which when the outer page of the cover is printed begins with the outer last page of the cover, then being followed by the back proper of the cover, and ending in the outer front cover,

as is shown in Fig. 2, wherein D, O, and B $erial No. 584,534. (No model.)

represent the three divisions referred to. To secure such a cover to a book, the back of the book or the inner side of the cover 0, orboth, are'pasted when the cover is secured in connecting the same to the back of the book.

In my invention. I change the printers forms in reversing them, in that the front outer page of the cover is made to appear first on the impression and the last outer page of the coverappearing last, which is an exact reversal of the usual method. In my method the part serving as the back of the book does not appear between the two pages, as in the usual method, but follows the last page. In referring to Fig. 1 an open leaf such as I employ is shown before it is made into an endless cover, the leaf in this view, however, being shown extended and comprising the section A, which forms an inner back, the first page B, the intermediate portion O, which is always of a width corresponding to the thickness of the book to be covered, followed by the last cover D and ending in the out-er back E.

It will be noticed that the backs A and E are subdivided into the portions 1 4, respectively. This is desirable, in that the hinge portion of the two covers is given a double thickness, as is shown in Fig. 3. The portions 2, O, and 3 are of a width equal to the thickness of the book, while the divisions B and D are of a width corresponding to the width of the page, the whole leaf being of a width suited to that of the book to be covered. In attaching my cover one or two operations may be made of it. In the first I spread the covers as if a series of wrappers were to be pasted, as is shown in Fig. 5, and in which instance all the inner faces E, which represent the backs of the portions E, are pasted. Then I dip the book to be provided with my cover into a shallow glue-bath or other adhesive composition, so as to moisten the back of the book, as well as the narrow portion 5 on each side, as is shown in Fig. 4, which distance represents, approximately, the length of the distance 1 and 4 and promptly forces the back 5 of the pamphletF upon the inner back A, which represents the rear side of the division A, so that this portion A sticks to the back of the pamphlet, the pamphlet then being turned so that the covers wind about the same until the pasted end E rides'upon the pasted end A when the outer back is smoothed, the book with a proper address then being ready to be mailed. By this means an endless cover is provided which prevents the book being perused until the strip 0 is severed, which is preferably done in the center of the same upon the line 00 or. After the book is open a cover is provided which has a double back, and the hinge portion of the cover is also double. The only additional eX- pense added to the cover is the cost of the extra paper, comprising the end portions A and E and the cost of the adhesive composition necessary to cover one of these strips. The book when provided with my cover packs easily, can be nicely shelved, the pages are kept clean until the book is to be perused, the cost of an envelop or wrapper is saved, the neatness of the book is increased, while the life of the same is extended in being provided with a double back and a double hinge for the outer leaves.

If desired, the endless cover may be first made over a dummy the size of the book to be covered to form my endless cover, as is shown in Fig. 6, requiring in this instance but one pasting, that necessary in securing the outer back E to the inner A, as is shown in Fig. 6. The periodical, book, or pamphlet to be covered is then doubled and placed within the. holder 11, preferably of sheet metal, as is shown in Figs. 8 and 9, so that the back of the book extends upward, so that the adhesive composition can be readily applied to the back 5. The cover is then formed, ap-

proximately, into an oval and carried over the holder H, so that the back E comes squarely over the back 5 when the double-back cover is securely pasted to the book, which in being withdrawn from the holder readily adjusts itself within the endless cover.

If desired, of course the back F can be carried into the endless cover, when the whole can be bowed, so that, if desired, the back can be stitched to the periodical. So, also, could but one back be provided, half of the strip A and half of the strip E being made to form a side portion, though no advantage is to be gained in this.

Then a book is to be doubly protected, these endless covers may be used in pairs of two or even more, in which case the outer cover, which is to serve as a mailing-wrapper, has its double back pasted against the portion 0 of the back proper, from which, after the cover is severed, the wrapper can be readily removed.

Now, having thus described my said invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent, is-- 1. The combination with a book, of an endless cover comprising a back adapted to lap over the back of the book then continuing to form an outer cover continuing to form a central strip of a width corresponding to the thickness of the book, then extending to form the second cover of the book, then extending to form a double outer back adapted to lap over so that the cover will embody a double back and provide a double thickness at the hinge-points of the covers substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination with a book of a cover, the said cover having its ends united and overlapped to form an open-ended continuous cover, said cover being secured at or near its overlapped portions to the back of said book, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I atfix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE W. SUES. \Vitnesses:

O. L. THOMAS, A. ELKJER.

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