US234150A - Binder for sheet-music - Google Patents

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J. S. SHANNON. Binder for Sheet Music.

No. 234,150. Patented Nov. 9,1880.

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UNITE STATES JAMES S. SHANNON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BIND-ER FOR SHEET-MUSIC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 234,150, dated November 9, 1880.

Application filed October 28, 1879.

lb all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMns S. SHANNON, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Devices for Binding Together the Separate Sheets of Music and Similar Folded Leaves; and 1 do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had. to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to a device for cheaply securing together the separate sheetsforming a piece of sheet-music in such manner that they will open at the fold and lie flat upon the piano, as heretofore when unbound.

It consists in a piece of manila, or preferably of linen-backed, paper having the general form and adapted to be applied to the separate sheets to unite them, as will be hereinafter explained by reference to the drawings forming part of this specification.

Figure 1 shows the outline of the binder. Fig. 2 illustrates the manner of its application. Fig. 3 shows, in transverse section, how the binder is applied to hold a single leaf or sheet within one or more folded sheets; and Fig. 4. shows a double hinder, or two binders formed in a single piece and adapted to hold the music-sheets at two points.

The binder consists of a piece which, as a whole, I will designate by the letter A, and which in its single form is shown in Fig. 1. The piece A, of tough flexible material, preferably linen-backed paper, has the elongated straight portion or body 0 and the shorter centrally-projecting' portion 'E joined by the relatively narrow neck a. This piece is applied to unite or bind two or more folded sheets by making a slit through the sheets to be joined in the folds thereof of the width of the neck a, or slightly wider, then passing the part E of the binder A, folded upon itself, as shown in Fig. 2, outwardly through the slit, and thereafter unfolding the part E to its original form.

To unite a single sheet within one or more folded sheets, as shown in Fig. 3, the body a of the binder A is gummed to the edge of the single sheet, and then the part E is passed through a slit in the folded sheet or sheets, and is expanded, as already described.

To properly hold the united sheets two fastenings are necessary, placed, say, half the height of the sheet from each other. These may be separate, as shown in Fig. 1, or united in a single piece, as shown in Fig. 4.

In the manufacture of the fastening or binding pieces A the gum is applied to the body 0, so that it may be readily secured either by the publisher or purchaser of the music.

The fastening described is intended to also serve as a means of securing the music thus connected in a general music-hinder, which forms the subject of another application for patent, (in which I am one ofjoint inventors,) and for this purpose is provided with the aperture 1'; hut this is not essential to the complete invention as herein set forth and claimed.

When no reference is had to the subsequent binding of several sheets of music in a single volume, the projecting portion E may he also gummed on one face, and thereby fastened to the outer surface of the outer sheet, thus operating somewhat independently of the shoulders at the neck a. If thus gummed and secured, or only gum med on the body 0, I prefer the elongated form of the parts E and e, in order that a narrower slit need be in that case made in the sheets in connection with large and secure attachment. It is better to actually gum the part c to the inner sheet, if it be double, both to hold the said part more permanently flat and in place and to prevent tearing of the slit in the inner sheet by careless handling. An elongated attachment to the free edge of a single sheet obviously lessens the tendency of such edge to tear at the point of fastening.

The binding-piece A thus applied forms a hinge acting in the immediate fold of the sheets united, and therefore permitting them to be opened out perfectly flat, as though wholly disunited, as heretofore.

Having thus described my invention, I claim-- 1. A fastening for sheet-music or similar folded sheets requiring to be opened in the fold, which consists of a flexible flat piece, e, provided with the parts E and connectingneck 11, passing through the sheets in their i ti-al single sheet with folded sheets, or folded fold, and held l its outer and inner projeo sheets alone, substantially in the manner and tions, so as to l'oi'ni it tlexihle hinge. securing i for the purpose set forth.

the sheets togethernnd zit-ting: innnedintely in In testimony that I claim the foregoing as 5 the fold, substantially as described. 1 my invention I aflix my signature in presence 15 2. The flexible fastening for sheet-innsie or i of two witnesses. Similar folded sheets, \Vilit'il consists of the JAMES S. SHANNON. parts E and c joined by the narrower not or Witnesses: neck n, and having the part 0 "lllllllltt] on one M. 1' DAYTON,

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