Improvements in Files for Letters, Bills, or other Papers or Documents.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 16th May, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 7th Mar., 1895-Accepted, 13th Apr., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Files for Letters, Bills, or other Papers or
Documents.
We JOHN HENRY HARRISON HOGGE of 32 Queens Terrace, Southampton, in
the County of Hants, Shipping Agent, and WILLIAM JOHN BONIFACE of
1 Anglesea Place, Southampton aforesaid, Cabinet Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention which relates to files for letters, bills, or other papers or documents
has for its object to provide means whereby when the file is full the whole of the
papers or other documents thereon can be rapidly transferred from the file to a box
or binding case without disturbing said papers.
We construct the file clip in such a manner that the filing or receiving tube or
tubes or wire or wires can be bodily removed from the clip, the reference tubes or
wires having previously been withdrawn from contact with the said filing
or receiving tubes or wires. The filing or receiving tubes or wires we secure to
or form in one with a base which engages with a projection or with grooves
formed or secured on or to the bottom of the file clip, the two parts making a slide
joint. When removed, the filing tubes or wires with the papers or documents
thereon may be stored in a box or binding case, and new filing tubes or wires fixed
into the bottom of the filing clip.
Dated this 16th day of May 1894.
F. W. GOLBY,
36, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agent for the Applicants.
Improvements in Files for Letters, Bills, or other Papers or
Documents.
We JOHN HENRY HARRISON HOGGE of 32 Queens Terrace, Southampton, in
the County of Hants, Shipping Agent, and WILLIAM JOHN BONIFACE of
14 Anglesea Place, Southampton aforesaid, Cabinet 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:-
This invention which relates to files for letters, bills, or other papers or documents
has for its object to provide means whereby when the file is full the whole of the
papers or other documents thereon can be rapidly transferred from the file to a box
or binding case without disturbing said papers.
We construct the file clip in such a manner that the filing or receiving tube or
tubes or wire or wires can be bodily removed from the clip, the reference tubes
or wires having previously been withdrawn from contact with the said filing or
receiving tubes or wires. The filing or receiving tubes or wires we secure to or
form in one with a base which engages with a projection or with grooves formed
or secured on or to the bottom of the file clip, the two parts making a slide joint.

page_text: When removed, the filing tubes.or wires with the papers or documents thereon may
be stored in a box or binding case, and new filing tubes or wires fixed into the bottom
of the filing clip.
The accompanying drawings shew a twin wire file clip constructed in accordance
with our invention.
Figure 1 is a plan and Figure 2 a front elevation of the file clip; Figures 3
and 4 are similar views shewing the sliding base carrying the two filing or receiving
tubes in the act of being withdrawn from the clip, and Figure 5 is a part section
taken on the line of Figure 1.
The same letters of reference are used to indicate the same parts in all the
figures.
A A are the arched reference tubes or wires which are spring hinged to the
bottom. B of the clip. CC are grooves formed on or attached to the bottom B of
the clip and of sufficient size to allow the base D to fit thereinto. The filing or
receiving tubes or wires E are rigidly secured to or formed integrally with the
sliding base D. An extension wire or piece F is secured to or formed on the
base D and furnished with a hook or ring G at its extremity or an equivalent
device may be provided to afford a grip or purchase whereby the sliding base D
can be withdrawn from or be passed into the grooves C C in the bottom B of
the clip.
Although we have shewn the invention as applied to a twin wire file clip we wish
it to be understood that our invention is equally applicable to file clips having one
or other number of filing and reference devices and whether such devices are tubes
or wires. It will also be understood that our invention is not confined to the
particular form of file clip shewn in the drawings, nor to the direction of the sliding
of the removable base carrying the filing wires or tubes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
In a file for letters, bills, or other papers or documents, a file clip in which
the filing or receiving tube or tubes or wire or wires is or are secured to a base
removably attached to the bottom of the clip by means of a slide joint said sliding
base being furnished with an extension piece or handle whereby it may be readily
withdrawn from or be passed into the grooves in the bottom of the clip substantially
as described and illustrated and for the purpose stated.
Dated this 7th day of March 1895
F. W. GOLBY,
36, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agent for the Applicants.