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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
LAWRENCE C. LEITH, OF GALVESTON, TEXAS.
BOOK CARRIAGE AND PROTECTOR.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,759, dated iVarch 19, 18.89.
Application filed July 25, 1888. Serial No. 280,979, (No model.)To all whom7 a it n71,ay coozcrl:
Be it known tlfat I, LAWRENCE C. LEITH, of
Galveston city, in the county of Galveston
and State of Texas, have invented a new and
5 Improved Book Carriage and Protector, of
which the following is a full, clear, and exact
description.
This invention consists in a book carriage or
frame, substantially as hereinafter described,
to and pointed out in the claims, to facilitate the
separate drawing out of books from shelves
or cases on or in which they are usually ar-
ranged in rows; also facilitating the putting
of the books back to their places, and. to protect
15 the leaves and cover or binding of shelved
books from injury, as hereinafter set forth.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying
drawings, forming a part of this specification,
in which similar letters of reference indicate
20 corresponding parts in all the figures.
Figure 1 represents a top or plan view of a
book carriage and protector embodying my
invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal
section of the same upon the line x x in Fig. 1.
25 Fig. 3 is a rear end view with a book in its
place upon the carriage. Fig. 4is a front end
view of the carriage, and Fig. 5 is a transverse
section thereof upon the line y y in Fig. I.
A is the base-piece of the carriage, of a flat
30 oblong construction corresponding in length
to the width of the book it is designed to carry,
or thereabout, and in its width to the thick-
ness of the book, or thereabout, also being
faced on its upper surface with a raised table-
35 piece, b, of less width; also shorter in front
than the main or under portion of the base A,
thereby leaving a grooved or depressed-ledge
portion, h, outside of the table-piece b for the
lower end of the cover or binding of the book
40 to rest upon, while the table-piece b serves to
support the bottom edges of the leaves of the
book, as shown in Fig. 3. This construction
constitutes an irregular-faced platform, and
has fitted or inserted within it from beneath
45 transverse rollers c c, arranged to project
slightly below its under surface, and whereby
it is supported or run in -and out on the book-
shelf, and it is provided at its front end with
a pull-piece, d, of any suitable material and
50 construction, but preferably bent or turned
up at its outer end, as shown, and whereby
it. not only serves as a convenient means formanipulating the book-supporting carriage,
but as an indicating device of the name of
the book or number of the volume of the book 55
the carriage is used to support and protect, as
shown in Fig. 4.
The main portion of the carriage may be
made of any suitable material or materials,
including wood and metal, and the rollers 60o
either of the same or different materials-such
as hard rubber or hard wood, for instance.
These irregular-faced roller-carriages, which
will be noiseless in their action, may be made
in any number of sets of different sizes to 65
adapt them to various-sized books.
It will be readily seen that if a book, B, be
seated on this carriage, with the lower end of
its cover or binding g resting on the depressed
ledge portion h1 of the carriage outside of the 70
table-piece b, and with its leaves s resting by
their lower edges upon said table-piece, not
only nmaythe book, by drawing upon the pull-
piece d of the carriage, be readily removed
from its place on a book-shelf, but it will 75
be protected and supported while in its place
on the slielf. Thus the leaves of the book rest-
in g upon the raised portion or table-piece b will
be prevented from settling down to a level
with the lower part of the cover of the book, 80o
as they are apt to do when unsupported, and
which by pulling forward on the top part of
the back causes the binding to become loose
or disjointed. Thelower part of the cover or
binding of the book will also be protected from 85
wear, especially when drawing the book out
from the shelf, the roller platform-carriage
taking the wear, and the book may be readily
set onto or lifted from the carriage, as re-
quired. 90
This roller-platform-carriage device essen-
tially differs from a mere book-cover protector
composed of a metallic covering of the lower
front and rear corners and the intervening
edge of heavy books to protect said parts, and 95
fitted with lower rollers to facilitate manipu-
lation, such as have before been used.
I am aware that stationary stands or sup-
ports for books-such as easels-have been
provided with or had mounted on them spe- ioo
cial or extra supports for the leaves of the
book, and whereby the stand was made to
form both a cover and leaf support, the cover-
support being below the leaf-support. These
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Leith, Lawrence C. Book Carriage and Protector., patent, March 19, 1889; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth171993/m1/2/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.