Bookbinding and its auxiliary branches . d or boardfrom pressing the spring-back, the board is laid one-eighth of an inch from the edge of the rod. This willpermit the rod to be forced in place in pressing. Turnthe book over, and treat the other side in the same way,then put the book in press. When a number of books arepressed, reverse the backs to obtain an even must be taken to prevent the joint rod or boardpressing the spring-back. The press should be run downfirmly, and left for from forty-five to sixty minutes. The books are then removed from the press, the rodsand zinc are
Bookbinding and its auxiliary branches . d or boardfrom pressing the spring-back, the board is laid one-eighth of an inch from the edge of the rod. This willpermit the rod to be forced in place in pressing. Turnthe book over, and treat the other side in the same way,then put the book in press. When a number of books arepressed, reverse the backs to obtain an even must be taken to prevent the joint rod or boardpressing the spring-back. The press should be run downfirmly, and left for from forty-five to sixty minutes. The books are then removed from the press, the rodsand zinc are taken out, a piece of twine is wound aroundthe joint, and the heads are gone over by pressing out 194 BOOKBINDING with the folder the imperfections caused by rub in the material close to the hubs with the rub-bing-up stick. On beveled hubs the rubbing up may beeliminated. Put the zinc back between boards and end-leaves to the twine. Remove the twine, insert the jointrods, place a pulp dryer on the pressboards on the sides,. with a weight on top. In this condition the books shiouldremain undisturbed for twenty-four hours. The nextoperation is to stand the books up to dry, and allow themto remain so for a day. Then end-leaves are pasted to theboards and the books pressed. Covering Full-bound Ends and Hubs.— The leather(flesher) is cut three inches larger than the open bookand pared on the ends, which turn in over the fore edgeof the boards. If the leather is thick, fold the length inthe center, then gather up the leather at the fold andwork the hands up and down alternately, gathering upmore leather with the left as the rubbing proceeds, untilthe right half is rendered soft and pliable; then repeatthis with the left half. To prepare for covering, see that BLANK BOOK FORWARDING 195 joint rods, pieces of zinc, paper and pressboard are withineasy reach, and the press made ready. Paste as many ofthe fleshers with a medium-thick paste as can be com-pleted in about one
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