An Improved File or Clip for Holding Papers, Samples, and such like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Nov., 1897-Accepted, 1st Jan., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved File or Clip for Holding Papers, Samples, and such like.
I, ARTHUR RICHARDSON, Merchant 24, Burdon Terrace, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 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 an improved file or clip for holding papers, samples of
textile material and the like in such manner that one or several of the said papers
or samples may be readily removed and replaced without removing the others.
For this purpose the said file or clip consists of a tubular brass or other metal
ring either split or whole with a portion of the same cut away or with the said
tube bent to a portion of a circle leaving a space between its two ends. Within
the said ring is fitted an inner bent rod or tube forming a portion of a circle and
one or both ends of which is or are pointed.
The device is opened for filing papers or samples by sliding the inner rod
within the outer ring so as to expose its point which is thrust through the papers
or samples and is closed for securing the same by pushing the pointed end back
again into the outer ring or sheath thus closing the space between the ends of the
latter.
In some cases the inner rod may be provided with a stud or pin passing through
a slot in the outer tube for operating it, and in constructing small clips the inner
rod may be made of spring steel the point of which straightens out when released
from the sheath and is re-bent for insertion into the latter.
I prefer to indent a portion of the outer ring to prevent the sliding of the inner
rod when pressing the point through the papers, the point being wedged within the
said indented portion when the device is closed thus holding the papers securely
in the clip.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings Fig 1 is a section of one of my improved
clips in its closed position, Fig 2 being a cross section on the line r, of Fig 1
and Fig 3 is a section of the clip in its open position. Fig 4 shows the clip open
with the papers being filed thereon. Fig 5 is a section of a small clip open. Fig 6
is a section of a portion of a clip fitted with a pin or stud for operating the same
and Fig 7 is a cross section thereof.
a is the outer ring or tube having a space between its two open ends a¹. b is
the inner bent rod formed with the pointed end b' and fitting within the ring a so
as to close the space between the ends a¹ and form a complete ring when the clip
is closed. The ring a is indented at a so as to grip the point b¹ of the rod when
the latter is turned as far as it will go within the said ring and which serves as a
stop to the rear end 63 of the rod when fully opened for filing the papers as shown
in Figs 3 and 4.
For the purpose of removing any one of the papers or samples c, Fig 4, the ones
adjacent to it are shifted round the ring until the one required is next the end
for removing the same, the point of the rod b being drawn out of the said end for
this purpose.

page_text: One or more of the papers or samples are threaded on to the ring by drawing
back the rod and piercing them with the point as shown in Fig 4.
When using small clips the sliding rod may be formed of spring steel so that
its point 6 when opened out springs back into the position shown in Fig 5 in order
to facilitate the threading of the papers thereon, the said point being bent back
so as to enter the open end of the ring a when closing the same.
As shown in Figs 6 and 7 the sliding rod b may be provided with a pin or stud d
which passes through a slot e in the tube a for the purpose of operating the said
rod b.
In some cases I may form the rod b with a point at each end and cause the same
to open or draw out of the outer ring for opening the clip at either end as required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is.
(1) In files or clips for papers, samples and the like constructing the same of a
portion of a tubular metal ring having open ends and within which is fitted a
sliding curved rod or tube pointed at one or both ends substantially as described
and for the purposes specified.
(2) In files or clips as above claimed the combination of an outer tubular ring
or sheath having open ends and an indented portion a², and a curved rod or
tube formed with a point or points and fitted to slide within the ring or sheath
at a so as to open or close the space between the open ends of the latter substantially
as described and for the purposes specified.
(3) The improved file or clip fitted with a spring steel sliding rod as described
with reference to Fig. 5 of the drawings.
(4) The modification as shown in and described with reference to Figs 6 and 7
of the drawings.
Dated this 27th day of November 1897
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.