An Improved Binder or File for Unbound Books, Manuscripts, Music, and other similar Documents.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Dec., 1897-Accepted, 15th Jan., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Binder or File for Unbound Books, Manuscripts, Music,
and other similar Documents.
We, GEORGE BAIRD and GEORGE FREDERICK BAIRD, both of 17, Favart Road,
Fulham, in the County of London, Gentlemen, 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 binder or file for temporary binding
books manuscript music or weekly or monthly parts of periodicals and such like
and has for its object to keep the said documents or papers in good preservation
and in proper order for reading or reference.
For this purpose we provide two strips or boards formed of wood or other
stiff material one of which is secured to a cover or may form a part of such cover
and the other is provided with a series of elastic cords for insertion between the
leaves of periodicals or other papers for securing them to the said strip or board.
The first named or back strip or board is provided with two or more holes for
the insertion of pins which likewise engage with slots formed in the other strip
or board the said pins being provided with a head and with a tongue or tongues
for securing the two strips or boards firmly together. The second or front strip
or board is provided at its back at the top and bottom with racks or teeth for
holding and retaining metal cross-pins to which the aforesaid elastic cords are
attached.
Any required number of these cords may be employed according to the width
of the strip or board or the number of the documents to be filed and they are
connected together at each end in pairs an eye being formed at the said ends
through which the cross-pins are threaded. The cords pass over the ends of the
strip or board and run down in parallel lines the front face of the same each one
forming a connection for holding the documents or papers in position.
And in order to clearly understand our invention we will describe the same
with reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings in which Fig. 1 is a front
view of the front strip or board Fig. 2 is a back view of the same and Fig. 3 is
a central vertical cross section of the two strips or boards joined together Figs. 4
and 5 are back and side views of a modification and Fig. 6 is a general view of
the binder with the papers and cover attached.
is the front strip or board formed with the slots and provided at its top
and bottom ends with the racks or teeth b, b¹ clipped or otherwise secured to the
back thereof c is the back strip or board provided with holes through which are
passed the pins d formed with the tongues d' the said pins being also passed
through the slots a¹ and connecting the strips or boards a and c together by
turning the tongues d' across the slots. The elastic cords e are attached to the
strip or board a by means of the cross-pins f, f¹ a pair of them being connected
together at each end where an eye e¹ is formed through which the said pins are
threaded.
The said cords are first attached to the upper rack b by the pins f and are

page_text: then brought over the top edge and stretched down the front face of a when they
are turned up and connected to the lower rack 61 by the pins f¹. The first cord
is then raised for insertion between the leaves of the book or papers to be filed
the second cord being similarly inserted in the next part of the book or other
papers and so on to the last cord as shewn in Fig. 6.
The whole of the books or papers filed may be removed together from the
cover c by simply turning the tongues d¹ of the pins d in line with the slots a¹
thus enabling the strip a being pulled away or moved from the strip c connected
to the said cover.
Any one of the papers filed may also be separately removed and replaced by
others this being especially useful in the case of music-hall artistes desiring to
change their programme and using the same cover.
Fig. 4 and 5 show a modification in which the racks b, 61 are dispensed with
the cross-pins f, f1 carrying the cords e engaging with bent-over arms g, g¹ and
bearing against one another under the tension of the said cords. The pins d are
also in this example formed with double tongues instead of a single one.
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:-
No. 1. In an improved binder or file for books papers and other documents the
combination of a strip or board furnished with elastic cords capable of removal
or adjustment and a back strip or board removeably attached thereto and fixed to
or forming part of a cover for the said documents substantially as described and
for the purposes specified.
No. 2. In temporary binders or files the combination of the strips or boards a
and c slots a¹ racks 6, 61 pins d formed with tongues d' elastic cords e provided
with eyes or loops e¹ and the cross-pins f, f¹ substantially as described and for the
purposes specified.
No. 3. The modified arrangement of binders substantially as described and
shewn in Figs. and 5 of the drawings.
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J. B. FLEURET,
5. Hatton Garden, Holborn Circus, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicants.