Improvements in Newspaper Files.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Feb., 1897-Accepted, 3rd Apr., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Newspaper Files.
1, WAKE WHITNEY of 292 Market Street, in the City of Paterson, County
of Passaic and State of New Jersey, U.S.A., Wine Merchant, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
The object of this invention is to provide a file for newspapers or periodicals,
of simple, strong and durable construction, easily handled, and which file prevents
the tearing of the papers and allows a quick re-adjustment and re-arrangement of
the same.
The invention consists in the improved file for newspapers and periodicals,
its removable and interchangeable spring wire holders or ribs, and in the
combination and arrangement of the various parts thereof, substantially as will
be hereinafter more fully described and finally embodied in the clauses of the
claims.
In the accompanying drawing, in which like letters of reference indicate
corresponding parts in each of the several figures:
Fig. 1, is a side elevation, partly in section, of my improved newspaper file;
Fig. 2, a front elevation of the same;
Fig. 3, a detail side elevation of one of the spring wire holders or ribs, and
Fig. 4, an enlarged sectional view on the line - of Fig. 1.
In said drawings, a represents a frame, terminating at one end into a handle e of
any convenient shape and having at its other end a loop or eye h for hanging up
the frame. Said frame is provided with an elongated groove or channel b,
preferably rectangular in cross section, and penetrated near each of its ends by
the transverse pins or rods c and d respectively. On the pin or rod care
removably arranged, by means of their hooked end portions fl, a series of
curved spring wires or ribs f, the free ends f2 of which are adapted to be
forced behind the pin or rod d, by which latter pin, they are held in position
for the purpose hereinafter described. The curve of each spring wire f, when in
normal position, is greater than the depth of the groove or channel b, as clearly
shown in Fig. 3.
The newspaper or periodical g, after the respective spring wire f has been swung
outward on the pin or rod c, is placed with its fold in the groove or channel band
the wire pressed against said fold, and its free end / 2 forced behind the pin d. This
position is clearly illustrated in Figs. 1 and 4; the spring wire f bearing with almost
its entire length on and against the fold of the periodical g.
The file can be constructed for any number of periodicals, and as the spring
wires are loosely arranged on the pin or rod c and can be independently operated,
any or all of the said periodicals can be conveniently removed or re-arranged at
any time.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manuer the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
1. A file for newspapers or other periodicals, consisting of a frame, a pin on
ourwed spring wires

page_text: removably secured on said pin, and means for securing said spring wires to
the frame when in operative position, substantially as and for the purposes
.described.
2. A file for newspapers or periodicals, consisting of a frame provided with an
elongated groove or channel, a pin secured at one end of said groove or channel and
traversing the same, a series of curved spring wires removably secured on said pin,
and means for holding said spring wires under tension, when in operative position,
substantially as described.
3. A file for newspapers or periodicals, consisting of a frame provided with an
elongated groove or channel, a transverse pin arranged at each end of said channel,
and a series of curved spring wires removably arranged with their hooked ends on
one of said pins, and adapted to engage with their free ends beyond the other pin,
substantially as and for the purposes described.
Dated this 1st day of February 1897.
J. P. BAYLY,
18 Fulham Place, London, W., Agent for the Applicant.