US737969A - Book-cover. - Google Patents

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NQQ 737,969. PATENTED SEPT. 1, 1903.

B. E. SOHRBNK,

BOOK COVER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 12, 1903. 7

N0 MODEL.

Y UNITED STATES Patented September 1, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

BOOK-COVER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 737,969, dated September 1, 1903.

Application filed June 12,1903. Serial No. 161,176. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BARBARA E. SCHRENK, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Book-Covers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of a book-cover which I denominate a slip-cover, the same being adapted to be readily applied to and removed from the covers of a book, the construction of the same being hereinafter set forth.

It also consists in providing a cover of the character stated'fwith means for holding a marker, pencil-carrier, &c., therein.

Figure 1 represents a perspective View of a book-cover embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a perspective View showing the cover in position on a book. Fig. 3 represents a rear view of the cover in position. Fig. i represents a section on linear :0, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a book-cover composed of the pockets B and 0, adapted to receive the covers of a book, and the back D, which connects said pockets and is adapted to rest against the back of the book. In practice said parts B, G, and D are formed of a continuous piece of fabric or material, properly shaped, producing the exterior walls E E and interior walls F F of said pockets 1% C on opposite sides of said back D, said walls being united along the lines of stitches G G so as to close the tops, bottoms, and outer sides of said pockets, leaving the inner sides H open, so that when the covers of the books are pressed rearwardly or otherwise properlymanipulated they may be presented to the open sides 11 of the pockets, and so pushed or slipped into the latter, whereby both the outside and inside of said covers may be fully enveloped by said pockets, thus preserving the book and serving to keep both faces of each of its covers and the exteriors of its back clean, with other advantages resulting i'rom the use of the article. hen removal of the cover is desired, the

pockets may be readily slipped from the book, leaving the cover intact for further and repeated use.

The back D has a piece of material attached thereto extending in the longitudinal direction of said back and partly separated therefrom, thus channeling said back. A line K of stitches is then passed through the two thicknesses of material producing separate channels or compartments J, into each of which is placed a book-marker, pencil-carrier, &c., as at L, it being noticed that in the present case the markers or carriers are composed of a doubled piece of ribbon or other material, each length-of which occupies one of said pockets, the bend M of said piece being adapted to be drawn against and engage the adjacent end of the stitch-line K as a stop, whereby the markers, &c., cannot be withdrawn or improperly displaced while the portion of the markers, &c., outside of the channels are introduced between and occupy the leaves of the book, said markers, 850., being readily removable when so required by properly pulling. them through and from the channels.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A slip book-cover formed of pockets to receive the cover of a book and a back connecting said pockets, said back having a channel therein adapted to receive a bookmarker, &c.

2. A slip book-cover of the character stated formed of pockets to receive the coverof a book, and a back connecting said pockets, said back having a channel therein adapted to receive a book-marker, (to.

3. A slip book-cover consisting of pockets and a back uniting the same, said pockets being composed of exterior and interior Walls which are closed at top, bottom and outer sides and open at their inner sides, said parts being formed of a continuous piece of material and a supplemental piece connected with said back forming a channel adapted to receive a book-marker, &7C.

4. A slip book-cover formed of pockets to b 0k-1narker,&c., the end of said stitches receive the cover of a book, a back connectacting as a stop for the bend of said lengths. ing said pockets, a piece connected with said i i 7 back forming a channel therewith and a line BARBARA SOHRENIX' 5 of stitches intermediate of the sides thereof Witnesses:

forming a plurality of channels in said back JOHN A. \VIEDERSHEIM, adapted to receive different lengths of a S. R. CARR.

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