Improvements in File Cases or Cabinets.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 16th May, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 7th Mar., 1895-Accepted, 13th Apr., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in File Cases or Cabinets.
We, JOHN HENRY HARRISON HOGGE of 32 Queen's Terrace Southampton in
the County of Hants, Shipping Agent and WILLIAM JOHN BONIFACE of
14 Anglesea Place Southampton aforesaid, Cabinet Manufacturer do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to file cases or cabinets having compartments for containing
files, file drawers or file transfer or binding boxes and the like. The object of this
invention is to construct cases or cabinets of this description in such a manner that
a cabinet for containing a given number of files and the like shall occupy less floor.
or wall space than a cabinet for containing the same number of files as heretofore
constructed.
In use for filing ordinary papers the documents at the tail end of the file are
approximately only one half the thickness of the documents at the clip end; and
we take advantage of this fact to economise space in the construction of our
file cabinet by making the compartments to taper, inwards, the file drawers,
boxes etc. being made to correspond. By thus forming the compartments of the
cabinet and the files, drawers etc. therefor of a tapering shape we are enabled to
produce cabinets of various configurations having curved exterior surfaces.
In one form of our invention we make the file cabinet in the shape of an upright.
cylinder, which can stand in the centre of a room, hall library or other place,
having radial vertical compartments for the files etc., so that the documents on the
file will stand on end and will lie in the plane containing the axis of the cylinder.
In another form we make the cabinet semi-cylindrical to rest against a wall, and in
another form in the shape of a quarter of a cylinder to fit into a right angled
recess such as the corner of a room. We do not however confine ourselves to the
cylindrical shape or to the arrangement whereby the compartments in the cabinet
are vertically disposed.
Di test 1 Mo 1901
We JOHN HENRY HARRISON HOGGE of 32 Queen's Terrace, Southampton, in
the County of Hants, Shipping Agent, and WILLIAM JOHN BONIFACE of
1 Anglesea Place, Southampton aforesaid, Cabinet Manufacturer, 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:-
This invention relates to file cases or cabinets having compartments for containing
files, file drawers or file transfer or binding boxes and the like. The object of this
invention is to construct cases or cabinets of this description in such a manner that

page_text: a cabinet for containing a given number of files and the like shall occupy less floor
or wall space than a cabinet for containing the same number of files as heretofore
constructed.
In use for filing ordinary papers the documents at the tail end of the file are
approximately only one half the thickness of the documents at the clip end; and
we take advantage of this fact to economise space in the construction of our file
cabinet by making the compartments to taper inwards, the file drawers, boxes etc.,
being made to correspond. By thus forming the compartments of the cabinet and
the files, drawers etc., therefor of a tapering shape we are enabled to produce cabinets
of various configurations having curved exterior surfaces..
In one form of our invention we make the file cabinet in the shape of an upright
cylinder such as is shewn in perspective view in Figure 1 and in plan section in
Figure 2 of the accompanying drawings. This cylindrical cabinet, which can stand
in the centre of a room, hall, library or other place, is provided with radial
vertical compartments A into which fit tapering files, file drawers, boxes etc. B, so
that the documents on the file will stand on end and will lie in the plane containing
the axis of the cylinder. This will be understood by referring to Figure 1 which
shews one of the file drawers partially withdrawn from the cabinet, C is the file
clip, D is the top paper or other document on the file, and E is the tapered end of
the file drawer or box.
Figure 3 shews a perspective view of another form made in the shape of
a quarter of a cylinder and standing upright in the corner of a room. The
arrangement of the compartments and of the files, drawers, boxes etc., therein is
the same as in the cylindrical form already described. Yet another form of our
invention could be made in the shape of a semi-cylinder to stand upright against
a wall or other partition.
For the sake of example we have shewn our invention of cylindrical contour,
but we do not confine ourselves to the cylindrical shape or to the arrangement
whereby the compartments in the cabinet are vertically disposed.
A file case or cabinet such as is herein described may be used as an indicator in
connection with a library, the radial compartments having filed therein tabs or labels
corresponding to the books or volumes on the shelves of the library so that the
case or cabinet will serve as an index to the books or volumes on the various
shelves &c. of the library. A duplicate case or cabinet may be provided into which
the tabs or labels are to be placed when the books are removed from the shelves etc.,
so that the presence of the tab or label in one or other of the cabinets will indicate
whether the book is on its shelf or whether it is out on loan or in use.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
A file case or cabinet of curved contour having compartments tapering inwards
to receive correspondingly tapered files, drawers, boxes, or the like articles,
substantially as described and for the purpose stated.
Dated this 7th day of March 1895.
F. W. GOLBY,
36, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agent for the Applicants.