Untitled record

(Application filed July 17, 1897.)

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THE NORRIS PETERS CO., PHOTO-LITHO., WASHINGTON. D. C.

United States Patent Office.

WILLIAM HENRY BURLAND, OF PUNTA GORDA, FLORIDA.

NEWSPAPER OR BOOK PROTECTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 607,339, dated July 12, 1898.

Application filed July 17,1897. Serial Ko, 644,941. (Ko model.)

To all τυΐνοτη it may concern:

Be it known that I, William Henry Burland, of Punta Gorda, in the county of De Soto and State of Florida, have invented anew 5 and Improved Newspaper or Book Protector, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a newspaper-protector or a protector for books to which when applied to a book or a magazine may be made to protect those portions of the leaves which are ordinarily exposed and which when applied to a newspaper may be made to protect either an end or a side edge, :5 or both, or all the open edges.

A further object of the invention is to provide a means of preventing the fraudulent return of newspapers, periodicals, or books to the publishers as unread and unused articles. 2o A further object of the invention is to so form the protector that all the leaves of* the book or newspaper may be prevented from being disclosed or the book or paper opened without mutilating the protector or wherein 25 any desired number of leaves may be protected and sealed, the others being left free to be viewed.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several 30 parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indi35 cate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a book to which the improvement is applied. Fig. 2 is section through the book shown in Fig. T, illustrating the protector as closed. Fig. 3 is 40 a perspective view of a book to which the protector is applied, illustrating a slightly-different manner of securing the ends of the protector. Fig. 4 is a section through the book shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a perspective view 45 of the outside or wrapper sheet of a newspaper to which the invention is applied. Fig. 6 is a view illustrating the folding of the wrapper-sheet shown in Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a vertical section through the folded sheet shown in 50 Figs. 5 and 6. Fig. 8 is a perspective view of a folded wrapper-sheet slightly modified in its construction, and Fig.· 9 is a plan view of the wrapper-sheet shown in Fig. 8 folded out.

When the invention is applied to a book

A, sundry of the leaves 10, preferably two of 55 them, are made considerably wider at their unbound edges than the other leaves of the book, providing outwardly-extending marginal sections 11, and the projecting marginal sections 11 are separated from the body or 60 main portion of the leaves by lines of serrations 13, or . instead of serrations score-lines may be employed. The score-lines or serrations are so placed on the larger leaves that when the extended marginal portions are torn 65 off said leaves will then be of practically the same dimensions as the other leaves of the book. The opposing faces of the marginal portions 11 of one or of both of the leaves are given a coating 1 l^a of an adhesive compound— 70 as, for example, mucilage. When the book is comparatively thin, the projecting marginal portions 11 of the larger leaves will be brought together and united by means of the aforesaid adhesive coating, as shown in Fig. 75 2. When, however, the book is quite thick, the projecting marginal portions of the larger leaves are carried over one another and over the edges of the ordinary leaves between the larger ones, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, and 80 the marginal portions 11 of the larger leaves are then secured together.

In order to facilitate the introduction of a knife or other implement between the edges of the ordinary leaves and the connected 85 margins 11 of the larger leaves, a space 14 is left at the two front corners of the said larger leaves, as is also shown in Fig. 3.

When the invention is applied to a newspaper B or like periodical, the outside or 90 wrapping sheet, as shown in Figs. 8 and 9, may be provided with an extended continuous margin 15, separated from the true margin by perforations 16 or their equivalents, the inner faces of the extended margins be- 95 ing coated with an adhesive material 17. Under this construction after the inside sheets have been placed within the outside sheet and the two leaves of said sheet have been carried one over on the other the faces of the 100

607,339 extended margins of the wrapper-sheet having the adhesive material applied will be brought together and will adhere to each other, rendering it impossible to gain access 5 to the inclosed sheets until the extended margin of said sheets has been torn off. Under such a construction the outside wrapper-sheet serves as an envelop. Instead of providing a continuous extended margin for the wrapio per-sheet, as above set forth, the wrappersheet may be provided with an interrupted extended margin 18, which extended margin is formed, for example, at the upper edge of both of the leaves 21 and 22 of the outside 15 wrapper-sheet and at one side and at the bottom of the leaf 21, as shown particularly in Fig. 5. The extended margin 18 is separated from the true margin by perforations 19, and the inner faces 20 of the extended 20 margin are covered with an adhesive material.

Under this formation of wrapper-sheet when the inner sheets have been placed in position the wrapper-sheet 22 is carried over upon the wrapper-sheet 21 and the extended margins 25 at the top of each of these leaves are united by adhesion. The wrapper-sheet is then folded transversely, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7, and the said extended margin, which will then be bent upon itself, will have its muci30 laged surfaces brought in engagement and may be thus united, while what was the bottom extended margin 18 will be brought in engagement with the connected margin of the two leaves at the top and may be caused to 35 adhere thereto. Under such a construction it is evident that persons having no intention of purchasing cannot look over books or newspapers, preventing such articles from becoming soiled or torn before being disposed of, 40 and, further, unless the extended margins are intact or closed together when the books or papers are returned to the publisher the publisher need not accept the articles, since it is fair to presume that they have been read.