Emil Lumbeck

Emil Lumbeck (born February 22, 1886 in Remscheid , † August 8, 1979 in Wuppertal ) is the inventor of the cold adhesive binding , which is still called "Lumbecken" after him.

Life

Emil Lumbeck first learned the trade of iron and steel merchant. From 1919/1920 to 1934 he held a managerial position at the metal goods factory Stocko in Wuppertal-Sonnborn , which specialized in locking technology and a. Manufactured snaps, hooks, eyes and buckles for shoes and belts. Some of the metal components of the closures were sealed with a protective varnish, but this often became brittle and peeled off. A foreman from the Stocko company found a solution to make the paint layer more elastic, namely the addition of urea . This aroused Lumbeck's interest in questions of adhesive technology .

After the National Socialist seizure of power in 1934, Lumbeck took over the management of the Otto Voss company in Bochum, which subsequently became solely responsible for the delivery of books and magazines for the central publishing house of the NSDAP in Westphalia. In 1936, based on experiments with nitrocellulose, which he had got to know at Stocko, he began to look for a solution to provide worn books with a new, durable binding. He cut off the spine and glued the spine of the book block with a kind of varnish. For this he was granted several patents between 1937 and 1939 . However, his developments only became a real success when he began to use a synthetic resin adhesive instead of the varnish to firmly bond the individual sheets of the book block together. In 1942 he made his first appearance in front of the specialist public.

Emil Lumbeck died at the age of 93 in Wuppertal.

The lumbar basin

The process discovered by Emil Lumbeck was subsequently largely adopted by industry and continuously improved through the invention of numerous machines. Regardless of this, the lum basin is still one of the indispensable techniques for bookbinders who work by hand.

literature

Werner Jütte: Lumbeck, Emil. In: Severin Corsten (Ed.): Lexicon of the entire book system. Vol. 4. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-7772-9501-9 , p. 624.
Gerhard Brinkhus: The technical history of the book and the brochure from the 16th to the 20th century , in: Media Studies. A handbook for the development of media and forms of communication Part 1 (Handbooks for Linguistics and Communication Studies Vol. 15), ed. by Joachim-Felix Leonhard , Hans-Werner Ludwig , Dietrich Schwarze and Erich Straßner , de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1999, ISBN 978-3-11-013961-7 , pp. 450–457, here p. 457; limited preview in Google Book search.

Web links

Inventions: Who wants lumbecken , Der Spiegel , November 24, 1949

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Heinz Schmidt-Bachem : From paper. A cultural and economic history of the paper processing industry in Germany . De Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023607-1 , pp. 417f, 421, 434.

personal data
SURNAME	Lumbeck, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German bookseller
DATE OF BIRTH	February 22, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH	Remscheid
DATE OF DEATH	August 8, 1979
Place of death	Wuppertal

[gruy-1] Heinz Schmidt-Bachem : From paper. A cultural and economic history of the paper processing industry in Germany . De Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023607-1 , pp. 417f, 421, 434.