US Patent: 5,605X
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| Book Binding
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Patentee:
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| Jesse Torrey, Jr. (exact or similar names) - Germantown, Philadelphia County, PA |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Aug. 08, 1829 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the Dec. 1836 fire. Only about 2,000 of the almost 10,000 documents were recovered. Little is known about this patent. Only the patent drawing is available. This patent is in the database for reference only.
“For an improvement in Book-binding; Jesse Torry, Germantown, Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania, August 8.
The book is to be sewed to cords or bands, in the usual manner, with the omission of kettle stitches; the bands are not to be inserted in a sawed groove. The book, after being partially sewed, is to be placed in a press, and a strip of leather, from three to five inches in length, glued across the back near to each end, so as just to escape the trimming. A piece of cloth is then to be glued upon the back, sufficiently wide to lap an inch or two upon the lids.
When dry, the book is to be trimmed, and again sewed by passing the needle through each signature, near each end, and drawing the thread round the cloth and strip of leather, and over the ends of the leaves, so as to secure them firmly.
The boards are to be protected at the corners and edges by strips of tinned iron, soldered at the corners, and placed either above or under the leather. The leather over the back is left loose, so as to open from the back of the cloth. The binding is to be defended from the attacks of insects, by the mixing of a decoction of tobacco and red cedar, with alum, in the paste.
The claim is to the method of gluing cloth and calf skin upon the back; to the sewing the leaves afterwards to them, so that the thread is passed round on the ends of each leaf; to the attaching the cloth and strips, so glued, to the boards; to the securing the boards by strips of tinned iron; and to the materials mixed with the paste, to protect the binding from insects.
We are not sure that tinned iron has been employed for the purpose proposed; but who has not seen the Bibles, Missals, and other books bound in Germany, double fortified with brass, and sometimes with silver? But, as the present claim is to tin only, brass and silver, we are to conclude, will not interfere. Alum is commonly put into paste, and different materials have been added as a protection against insects; we do not know that the two, above named, have ever been employed, nor are we certain that they are the best which can be found.”
Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 8, Nov. 1829 pg. 331
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