Improvement in Paper-Files with Receiving-Wires
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Nov., 1887
Complete Left, 12th Dec., 1887
Complete Accepted, 13th Jan., 1888
I, AISICK SCHAPIRO of No. 20, Jueden Str., Berlin, Germany, Manufacturr, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists in an "Improvement in Paper-Files with Receiving-Wires "
that may be opened for filing a sheet by simply pressing on a yielding traverse bridge
which is connected to the locking tubes of the receiving device; or by pressing on
the letters, bills &c. already filed.
Each of the receiving wires of which I may arrange two or three on one board
consists of a hinge like bent needle or pin and of a locking tube gliding on and
being guided by a straight wire secured also to the back plate of the file.
The locking tubes are connected with each other at their lower onds by a traverse
plate or bridge on which the papers rest when filed. This bridge is made to yield
when being pressed upon from above by arranging one or more springs below it on
the back plate of the file, which springs have the tendency to raise the bridge, in
consequence whereof the tubes connected to the latter will be locked into the
bent pins.
Thus it is made possible to open the receiving wires by a simple pressure on the
papers which have already been put on file, or when this is not the case by a pressure
on the bridge itself, and the receiving wires are locked again by releasing the bridge
or traverse from pressure.
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page_text: I, AISIK SCHAPIRO of No. 20, Jueden Str., Berlin, Germany, Manufacturer, 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 is an "Improvement in Papor-Files with Receiving-Wires" and has
for its purpose to simplify the filing which is effectuated by pressing on a yielding
bridge or traverse or by pressing on the letters already filed, thus opening the wires
for filing now sheets.
The manner in which I preferably execute my invention is shown in the accompanying
drawing which makes part of this invention, and in which:
Figures Land 2 are transverse sectional views taken on line 2 of fig. 3, and
showing the wires when closed or locked and when opened.
Figure 3 is a plan view of this apparatus and
Figure 4 shows the same when applied to a cover.
Similar letters of reference indicate similar parts in all figures.
nn are two bent wires being pointed at their ends and secured to a base-plate g as
in most files of similar construction. ii are two thinner wires being also secured
to plato g; over said wires tubes r are shoved and guided by them so as to engage
with the pointed ends of wires nn. These tubes are firmly connected to a common
bridge or traverse b resting upon one or more springs ff suitably bent and screwed
to base-plate g.
When filing a sheet it is only necessary to press on bridge b which projects over
base-plate g, whereby tubes being connected to said bridge b, will recodo from
wires n n as is shown in figure 2 thus enabling a letter or bill to be filed which has
been previously provided with corresponding holes by any of the well known punching
apparatus. By releasing the bridge from pressure, tuber will again be locked to
the pointed ends of receiving wires n n. When there have been filed already some
sheets, these will have to be pressed upon, which is made possible by the arrangement
of bridge band springs ff outside or above the base-plate.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :
1) A paper file with receiving wires being constructed and made to be unlocked
by a yielding piece b which is connected to the movable parts r of the receiving
device and upon which the sheets will rest when filed, substantially as described.
2) A paper file consisting of a base-plate g, bent wires n n and the upright wires i i

page_text: secured to said base plate, of tubes rr being shoved over said wires ii and arranged
to engage with the pointed ends of wires n n of a traverse b, connecting tubes rr and
of a spring ƒ actuating upon said traverse and tubes rr, all substantially in the manner
and for the purpose as described.
3) In combination with a book lid or cover a paper file having receiving tubes rr
and being constructed to be unlocked by a yielding piece b which is connected to the
afore said tubes and upon which the sheets will rest when filed, substantially in the
manner and for the purposo as described.