Improvements in Binding Clips.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application (in United Kingdom), 23rd May, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 23rd May, 1892-Accepted, 9th July, 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Binding Clips.
I HARLAN HOGUE BALLARD, of Pittsfield, in the County of Berkshire and
State of Massachusetts, United States of America, Inventor, 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 binding clips for holding loose papers, pamphlets,
magazines, and other articles, including covers on the same. It essentially differs
from ordinary spring clips for the purpose, which are provided with fixed handles
for opening them, arranged to project backwardly from the clips, so as to be
greatly in the way when the clips are in place on the articles they serve to bind ;
and the invention consists in a spring clip having the handles or opening levers
attached to it by a movable instead of a fixed joint, which may be a pivot, screw,
rivet, or hinge, thus enabling the handles or opening levers to be moved backwardly
from the clip when it is desired to open the clip by their use and then be moved
forward again after the clip is in place, so as to be out of the way. By means of
these clips with attached but movable handles the papers or documents held by
them can be placed on a shelf like an ordinary book, with no objectionable
protrusion from the back.
Reference is had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this Specifi-
cation, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the
figures.
Figure 1 represents in perspective a series of papers in a cover with one of my
improved clips attached to its upper portion, and the attached opening levers B
moved forward, so as to be out of the way, and another clip in process of attach-
ment, its movable levers B¹ being moved back in this case, so as to be used to
open the spring clip A.
These spring binding clips, with their attached movable opening levers, may be
made of spring steel or brass and of an approximately horseshoe or U shape, with
their sides inclining toward each other at their mouths to hold firmly and compactly
within them whatever papers or other articles may be introduced.
The dotted circle D in the opening lever, Fig. 2, indicates the location of a hole
or depression in the under side of said lever, adapted to fit over a suitable projection
rising from the surface of the clip for the purpose of holding it firmly in_position
when closed down against the sides of the clip, as in the attached clip A, Fig. 1.
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
1. A spring binding clip for papers and other articles, approximately U shaped
or approaching the cylindrical form, with its members meeting or normally inclined
toward each other at the mouth, and provided with levers so attached as to admit
of their being moved backwardly into a position to act as opening levers and then
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page_text: of being moved forward and there held by a suitable catch or spring, substantially
as described, in a position such as to obviate the awkwardness and bad effects of
protruding handles.
2. The combination, with the spring binding clip A, U-shape, with its members
meeting or normally inclined toward each other, of levers so attached as to permit
their adjustment to an open position, in which they may act as opening levers, and
also to an inactive and closed position, in which they shall be out of the way,
substantially as described.
3. The within described binding clip, consisting of the spring A and the opening
levers B, pivoted at C and provided at D with a suitable catch to hold them firmly
in position when closed, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 23rd der of Mer 1000
F. W. BARKER,
Applicant's Agent.