Year: 1889

page_text: A clerical error in the address of the Applicant in the original Specification
having been amended by the Patentee, with the consent of the Comptroller, the prin.ed
Specification will now read as shown below
:-

page_text: Date of Application, 1st July, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 27th Mar., 1890-Accepted, 3rd May, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Paper File.
1, WILLIAM HOLLAND, of 77 West View, Nettlebrook Road, near Tamworth, in the
County of Stafford, engine driver do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
My invention relates to files for filing bills, papers and similar purposes and consists
in an improved construction of said files.
My improved paper file consists of a horizontal straight or curved metal bar,
provided with an eye or hook at the top by which it can be hung up and having a
vertical leg at each end, thus forming a frame open at the bottom side. The frame
may be plain or ornamented in any usual way. One of the legs has a boss at its
lower end with a bore for a piercer or pointed steel wire to pass through, while the
other end has a boss closed at the end and by preference made conical. This boss
is lined with india-rubber. The piercer formed with a handle or its equivalent at its
end is pushed through the perforated boss of one leg, then through the papers to be
filed and into the boss of the other leg, and is held there by the friction of the india-
rubber. The file can be readily opened for the removal or insertion of papers, and
the indiarubber protects the point against damage.
Dated this 29th day of June 1889
EMMOTT & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Paper File.
I, WILLIAM HOLLAND of 77, West View, Kettlebrook Road near Tamworth in the
County of Stafford, Engine Driver, 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 :-
My invention relates to files for filing bills, papers, paper bags and similar articles,
and consists in an improved construction of said files.
On the drawing appended hereunto fig. I shows a side view and fig. 2 a sectional
end-view sectioned along line A. B. of fig. 1 of one of my improved files.
The file consists of a frame open at the bottom side, the upper part a of which
may be curved as shewn or straight or shaped in any other way, and either plain or
ornamented in any way. The sides or legs a' a² are each formed with a boss at the
lower end, one of these being drilled for a needle or piercer c to pass through,
while the other boss d is arranged to receive and hold a piece of india-rubber. For
this purpose a slot may be made through the boss d as shewn, and the india rubber e
pushed through the slot, or the boss may be bored out conically with the larger
diameter near to the closed end d' of the boss and a tubular plug of rubber pressed
into the boss. The piercer c is formed with a handle or button c¹ or its equivalent
at the end, and may be attached to the frame by a chain as shewn. The papers to
be filed being inserted into the opening of the frame, the piercer is pushed through
them into the india rubber e and is held there by the friction or pressure of the
rubber on the point, which latter is protected against damage by entering the
rubber. The frame may be arranged with a hole at the top for the insertion of a
hook for suspending the same, or the leg a' may be formed with a plate g as shewn
for the purpose of fixing the file to the side of a counter or shelf by screws or nails,
the file being more particularly intended for the use of shopkeepers for filing bags
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page_text: or papers to be torn off the file, but applicable also for filing bills and other
papers.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
Firstly. A paper file made or arranged substantially as herein before described and
illustrated by the drawings.
Secondly. A paper file consisting of a frame open at the bottom side with bosses
at the open ends in combination with a piercer passing through one of said bosses
and entering a piece of india rubber inserted into the other boss, substantially as
herein before described.
EMMOTT & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.