An improvement of pr Filing or Holding Letters, Invoices, and Papers.
Year: 1884

page_text: An improvement of pr
Filing or Holding Letters, Invoices, and Papers.
I THOMAS WALKER of Brook Street Saint Paul's Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN FILES OR HOLDERS FOR FILING OR HOLDING
LETTERS INVOICES AND PAPERS to be as follows :-
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My invention consists in constructing files or holders for filing or holding letters
invoices and papers in the manner herein after described whereby a file or holder
simple in construction efficient in action and economical in manufacture is
produced.
The file or holder constituting my invention consists of two parts constructed
and used as follows:-One of the said parts is composed of a rod wire or closed
tube having a point at one end and a flat disc like head at the other end. This
part I will call the rod part. The other part consists of an open jointed or elastic.
tube open at one end and having at its opposite end a flat disc like head similar to
that on the first mentioned part. This part I will call the tube part. The rod
part has a diameter a little larger than the internal normal diameter of the open
jointed tube part so that when the pointed rod part is introduced into the tube
part the latter is expanded and by its elasticity and binding action upon the rod
part holds the two parts together with considerable firmness.
In using the file or holder the letters invoices or papers are first passed onto the
pointed rod part and against its disc like head. The rod part having the letters or
papers upon it is then partly introduced into the tube part when the letters or
papers on the rod part can be transferred by a sliding motion onto the tube part
and the rod part is afterwards fully pushed home into the tube part. The letters
or papers are now confined between the large flat heads of the two parts of the file
which are held firmly together as before explained.
In order to remove a letter invoice or paper from the file or holder the rod part
is partly withdrawn from the tube part and onto the rod part a portion of the
letters or papers may be transferred until the required letter or paper has been
selected when it may be removed from the file by wholly separating the two parts.
When desired the rod part of the file may be fixed to a baseboard.

page_text: Filing or Holding Letters, Invoices, and Papers.
I THOMAS WALKER of Brook Street, Saint Paul's, Birmingham in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for "AN
IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN FILES OR HOLDERS FOR FILING OR HOLDING
LETTERS INVOICES AND PAPERS "
and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
My invention consists in constructing files or holders for filing or holding letters,
invoices and papers in the manner hereinafter described whereby a file or holder
simple in construction, efficient in action and economical in manufacture is
produced.
The file or holder constituting my invention consists of two parts constructed
and used as follows:-One of the said parts is composed of a rod, wire or closed
tube having a point at one end and a flat disc like head at the other end. This
part I will call the rod part. The other part consists of an open jointed or elastic
tube open at one end and having at its opposite end a flat disc like head similar to
that on the first mentioned part. This part I will call the tube part. The rod
part has a diameter a little larger than the internal normal diameter of the open
jointed tube part so that when the pointed rod part is introduced into the tube
part the latter is expanded and by its elasticity and binding action upon the rod
part holds the two parts together with considerable firmness.
In using the file or holder the letters, invoices or papers are first passed onto the
pointed rod part and against its disc like head. The rod part having the letters
or papers upon it is then partly introduced into the tube part when the letters or
papers on the rod part can be transferred by a sliding motion onto the tube part
and the rod part is afterwards fully pushed home into the tube part. The letters
or papers are now confined between the large flat heads of the two parts of the file
which are held firmly together as before described. Or the tube part may be
pointed and the letters or papers be passed directly onto that part.
When desired the rod part of the file may be fixed to a baseboard.
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Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying Drawing represent the two parts of the file S
or holder separated and Figures 3 and 4 represent the same parts taken in a
position at right angles to that in which Figures 1 and 2 are taken; Figure 5
represents the file or holder in use the rod part being partly withdrawn from the
tube part The same letters of reference indicate the same parts; a is the rod part
of the file or holder made preferably of a tubular figure from sheet metal but it a
may be made from wire. One end of the said rod part a is pointed and the other
end has a flat disc like head b upon it; c is the other or tube part of the file or
holder. The said part c consists of an open jointed or elastic tube open at one end
the said open end being pointed at d and the opposite end of the said tube part c
has upon it a flat disc like head e. The diameter of the rod part a is such that 4
when it is introduced into the tube part o the latter is expanded and by its
elasticity and binding action upon the rod part a holds the two parts together
with considerable pressure as illustrated in Figure 5,

page_text: In using the file or holder the two parts a, c are separated as illustrated in
Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4 and the letters or papers are passed onto the pointed end of
the tube part c and from thence passed up to the head e. The rod part a is then
introduced into and pushed home in the tube part c so as to confine the letters or
papers between the large flat heads b, e of the two parts of the file, the gripping or
binding action of the elastic tube part c holding the two parts of the file firmly
together.
In order to remove a letter or paper from the file, the rod part a is partly
withdrawn as illustrated in Figure 5 and onto the said rod part a the letters or
papers are transferred until the required letter or paper has been reached when it
may be removed from the file by wholly separating the two parts a, c.
The two
Although I prefer to point the tube part of the file yet the end of the tube part
may be flat and the letters or papers be first passed onto the rod part a.
parts a, c having been engaged together the letters or papers are by a sliding
motion transferred from the rod part a onto the tube part c.
When the rod part a is made a fixture by attaching it to a baseboard or other
surface, the head b is dispensed with and the said rod part may be furnished with
a plate by which to fix it to the baseboard or other surface; or the fixed rod part
may be secured in any other convenient way.
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
Constructing files or holders for filing or holding letters, invoices and papers, of
two parts, one of the said parts consisting of a rod, wire or closed tube, with or
without a head, and the other part of an open jointed or elastic tube open at one
end and having at its opposite end a flat disc like head, the rod part being capable
of passing into and expanding the tube part for the purpose and substantially as
herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
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