An Improved File for Bills, Receipts, Invoices, and the like, applicable also as an Advertising Medium.
Year: 1899

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved File for Bills, Receipts, Invoices, and the like, applicable
also as an Advertising Medium.
I, JOHN ROE, of Whitchurch, in the County of Hampshire, Maltster, do hereby
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 for bills, receipts, invoices and the
like, applicable also as an advertising medium, and the object of such invention
is the provision of a simple, handy and inexpensive filing device, which will allow
of documents being easily filed and as readily removed or displaced for reference
or docketing purposes, while at the same time, such filing device will form a highly
attractive advertising medium.
And in order that this my said invention may be the more readily understood and
carried into practical effect, reference is hereby made to the accompanying sheet
of illustrative drawings, wherein :-
Fig. 1, is a perspective view of the complete file, and Figs. 2, 3, and 4, views
of details of the invention, while, Fig. 5, is a view of a modification thereof.
Referring to the drawings wherein like letters of reference indicate corresponding
parts throughout the various figures, a is a cardboard or other stiff back to the
upper part of which is or are attached a ring or rings or their equivalent for
suspending purposes. c represents a curved file proper, which may either be of
tubular or solid form. represents the usual spring extension which normally
has its lower or free end in close proximity to the free end of the file c, and upon
which extension the filed papers are pushed when reference is to be had to any
desired bill or other paper upon the said file.
When the file e proper is of solid form, the free end is provided with a socket
or recess (Fig. 2) while when said file proper is fashioned of tubular form
such free end is slit for a desired distance, longitudinally as at (Fig. 3), so
as to provide for the ready admittance of the point of a pencil, or rod, for the
purpose of removing the filed papers for docketing or similar purposes.
A front apron or cover e is provided to the board a, such apron or cover having
a slot e for the purpose of allowing the file e proper and extension d to project
through same.
In conjunction with the filing device, as before described, I employ a device
for use in removing the filed papers for docketing or analogous purposes. The
said device preferably takes the form of a small pencil f of any suitable description,
which pencil is provided at its butt or blunt end with an eye f¹ to which a string
tape or its equivalent may be attached.
In operation, the bills or other papers are filed upon the file e proper in the
ordinary manner, and when it is desired to remove them for docketing or similar
purposes, the pointed end of the pencil f is inserted into the free end of the said
file e proper, the papers slid off the latter on to the pencil and from thence onto
the string, or its equivalent at the butt end of the pencil. The said string or its

page_text: equivalent is then unfastened from the eye f¹ and the papers tied up in the usual
manner.
A sheath is provided upon the back or front of the file cover for the reception
of the pencil f. Suitable advertising matter may be displayed upon the front of
the apron e, either separately or in conjunction with a calendar, time table or the
like (not shewn). The inside faces of the back a and apron e may be covered with
plain or ruled paper, in order to serve as memorandum or note blocks, to which
.end the removing implement f is fashioned in the form of a pencil for obvious
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reasons.
Although I have only shewn one file-proper in conjunction with the cover,
employ two or more, as found desirable or convenient.
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Instead of providing the file proper c with a spring extension, I may dispense
with same and fashion such file proper of "swan-neck form as shewn by Fig. 5.
I may also, if desirable or convenient, fashion such file proper of jointed form so
as to be capable of being folded, or provide suitable means or rendering such file
proper detachable from the back and apron.
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. The improved file for bills, receipts, invoices, and the like, consisting in a
stiff back to which is flexibly hinged an apron or cover having a slot or slots
therein, and a curved or swan-necked file (or files) having an opening at its free
end to receive the point of a pencil to the rear end of which is fixed an eye, said
apron or cover having displayed upon its surface suitable advertising matter, and
the inside faces of said back and apron having surfaces adapted for memorandum
purposes, substantially as specified.
2. In files for bills, receipts, invoices, and the like, the back and apron e,
provided with memorandum and advertising spaces; in combination with a curved
file (or files) proper c and depending spring extension & projecting through a slot
in said apron, and a removing implement f in the form of a pencil f having a
rearwardly disposed eye f¹, all arranged, combined and operating substantially
as hereinbefore described, and as shewn by the accompanying drawing.
B
1000
HUGHES & YOUNG,
55 and 56, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for Applicant.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
55 and 56, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for Applicant.