Improvements in Paper and other Fasteners.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 13th Mar., 1897
[Communicated from abroad by RICHARD MONTGOMERY PANCOAST, of Camden,
County of Camden, State of New Jersey, United States of America,
Engineer.]
Improvements in Paper and other Fasteners.
I, SAMUEL LEAROYD, of Sherwood House, Huddersfield, in the County of
York, and 12, Coleman Street, in the City of London, Solicitor, 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 invention relates to paper and other fasteners and has for its object to
construct improved fasteners which shall be inexpensive and cheaply manufactured,
and at the same time efficient and very readily applied.
The improved fasteners are constructed of sheet metal cut or stamped to various
shapes and are provided with a tongue or tongues or orifices of suitable form to
receive the corners or margins of the papers which are required to be secured
together.
In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated by way of example varions
forms of paper fasteners constructed according to the invention.
Figure 1 is a view of one form of fastener.
Figure 2 is a view exhibiting one stage of the process of securing a set of papers
together by aid of the fastener shewn in Figure 1, .and
Figure 3 shews the position of the fastener when the papers are secured.
The remaining figures of the drawing shew various modified forms as will be
bereinafter explained.
Like letters of reference denote similar parts throughout the drawings.
A is the upper part, and B the lower part of the body of the fastener hereinafter
termed the upper" and "lower jaw" respectively; C is the crease dividing the
upper jaw from the lower jaw; D is the tongue; E the opening to receive the
corners or margins of the sheets of paper to be secured.
The manner of using the fasteners will be sufficiently clear from Figures 1 to 3.
The tongue D is bent outwards to permit the corners of the sheets F to be inserted
between it and the body of the fastener. The upper jaw A with the corners of the
sheets is then bent at the crease C to a position first at right angles to the lower
jaw B as shewn in Figure 2 and finally turned in the direction shewn by the arrow
in said figure until it lies on top of the lower jaw as shewn in Figure 3. The
crease C is marked by a score or scores so as to ensure bending at the proper line
and we may add further to the stiffness and rigidity of the fastener by corrugating
or otherwise embossing the metal so as to prevent bending along lines parallel with
the score or scores.
The body of the fastener may be of auy desired form elliptical, or triangular,
for example, as well as rectangular and the relative dimensions of the various parts
may be varied very considerably.
In Figure 4 is shewn a form in which the upper jaw and tongue are considerably
longer than the lower jaw, and in Figure 5 a fastener adapted for use at the margin
instead of at the corner in which a series of tongues D, D are provided in place of
one only. Any suitable number of tongues may be provided to secure the papers

page_text: at the top or margin and said tongues may be of varying sizes in width and depth..
The length of the tongue is preferably such that the free edge thereof does not
reach the crease because otherwise the thickness of the assembled sheets would'
prevent bending at the crease. Instead of shortening the tongue the corners may
be cut off so that the tongue is bluntly pointed or sharply pointed as shewn in
Figure 6. The orifice E in the fastener may be dispensed with if desired as in the
form shewn in Figures 7, 8, and 10 for example, the tongue in Figure 7 being
rectangular and in Figure 8 triangular. Figure 9 is a further modification in
which the tongue takes the form of a triangle with its apex cut off, a triangular
orifice E being made in the lower jaw of the fastener. In Figure 10 the fastener
is provided with an additional section of metal G so that in place of being folded
once only it can be folded twice as will be readily seen from Figure 11...
Figures 12 to 18 shew fasteners of the type shewn in Figure 10 with three jaws
and two creases, in Figures 12 and 13 the tongue D is dispensed with, the corners
of the assembled papers being merely placed through the orifice, and in Figure 14
a considerable portion of the body of the fastener is cut out so as to reduce the
weight of the appliance. Figure 15 shews a modification of Figures 12 and 13
adapted for marginal use and in which the orifice is dispensed with. In Figure 16
the parts A and B are made narrower than the remaining portion G of the fastener.
The fastener shewn in Figure 17 has an upper jaw consisting merely of two
parallel tongues the margin being cut off and in the modification shewn in Figure 18
both jaws A and B consist of tongues as shewn.
Figure 19 shews a fastener which is developed from Figure 1 by cutting off the
margin of the lower jaw thus leaving three tongues of unequal length. Figures 20
to 22 shew further developments in which the fastener is provided with three
tongues of unequal length a short tongue being located on either side of a single
long tongue.
In these figures the long tongue forms the body of the fastener, the upper part
marked A. being the upper jaw, and the lower part B forming the lower jaw, the
short tongues marked D, D corresponding to the tongue D in the earlier figures
being folded inside the paper. The method of using these fasteners will be
readily understood from the drawings and need not be further explained, it may be
reniarked however that, when the upper jaw is bent over, the edge of the tongue
when present forces the folds in the papers against the crease causing the fasteners
to hold them very securely.
The plates of the fasteners may be used as name plates upon which to stamp the
name of the user or dealer of any crest or monogram.
Finally I wish it understood that although I have herein described and illustrated
various specific forms of the improved paper fasteners, the invention is not restricted
to those forms inasmuch as other and different shapes may be devised which will fall
within the scope of the invention.
It will be obvious that the fasteners are equally applicable for binding together
patterns and samples of fabric and for other similar purposes as well as for binding
papers.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent I declare that what I claim is :-
1. A. paper fastener constructed of sheet metal having an opening to receive the
corners or edges of the sheets of paper and adapted to be foided with said sheets
upon itself, either with or without a previously formed score or crease upon the line
of bending and said fasteners being corrugated or embossed or not, substantially as
described.
2. A paper fastener constructed of sheet metal and provided with a tongue o
tongues the edges or corners of the sheets being introduced between the main
portion of the fastener and said tongue or tongues before the fastener is folded
over, substantially as described.

page_text: 3. Paper fasteners constructed substantially as described with reference to
Figures 1 to 11 of the accompanying drawings.
4. Paper fasteners constructed substantially as described with reference to
Figures 12 to 14 of the accompanying drawings.
5. Paper fasteners constructed substantially as described with reference to
Figures 15 to 18 of the accompanying drawings.
6. Paper fasteners constructed substantially as described with reference to
Figures 19 to 22 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 10th day of November 1896.
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
322, High Holborn, London, W.C., Patent Agents for the Applicant..