Apparatus for Classing and for Binding Together Letters, Invoices, and the like, Suitable also for Containing Patterns such as those of Stuffs and Paper.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Sept., 1889-Accepted, 14th Dec., 1889
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus for Classing and for Binding Together Letters, Invoices,
and the like, Suitable also for Containing Patterns such as those
of Stuffs and Paper.
We, COMTE DE LA SALLE DE ROCHEMAURE, of 39 Rue du Bellay, Angers, France,
General Insurance Agent, and EMILE LATTE, of 23 Rue du Canal, Angers aforesaid,
Merchant, 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 :-
Our improved apparatus consists of two parts; viz., one, illustrated in Figs. 1 2
and 3, sheet 1, that serves to class letters, invoices, &c., according to requirement
and is hereinafter called the classing apparatus and the other, illustrated in Figs. 4,
5, 6, 7 and 8, sheet 2, that serves for binding a definite number of letters invoices
&c. after they have been classed and is hereinafter called the binding apparatus.
The classing apparatus consists principally of an ordinary covering of several
pieces a b c of cardboard or other suitable material capable of being opened as shewn
in Fig. 1 (which is a section of Fig. 2 on the line 1, 1) and of being folded together
as shown in Fig. 3. The sheets of paper or the patterns etc., which it is required
to place in the classing apparatus are pressed between two flat clamping bars de
of metal each provided on its front with a projecting rim in the shape of a claw.
The bar d is in one with a box f of sheet or other metal which serves as a framing
to the whole apparatus. This box of sheet or other metal is fixed by any suitable
it may be by screws or nails, upon a framing g of wood that forms the back
of the "biblorlapte."
means,
"
The other bar e is in one with a nut fitted to work on a screw which is held
at its top and bottom ends in the framing and is provided at the top with a crank
handle that is jointed on a pin k as shewn in Figs. 1 and 3. The sheet metal box f
practically corresponds in height and breadth with the bottom of the "biblorhapte
while serving to partly enclose the bars de and screw i and impart great solidity to
the apparatus. The box f also serves to guide the edges of the papers which are
placed against the same.
In order to move nearer to or further away from one another the bars de between
which are held the sheets of paper, the crank handle j and screw i are rotated and
the nut h is consequently moved up or down according to the direction of rotation.
The screw i might have a right handed screw thread, but it advantageous that the
thread should be left handed, so that when the crank handle is turned, the movement
of rotation may correspond to the operations of screwing up and unscrewing. When
the letters or other papers have been classed, and it is desired to close the apparatus,
the crank handle j is folded down as shewn in Fig. 3 and the cardboard cover c is
then also folded over as shewn.
The binding apparatus which is shewn open in Figs. 4 and 5 and closed in Fig. 6,
consists of a principal covering formed of two pieces 1, 2, of cardboard connected
by a back 3. The back 3 is covered by an envelope 4, (Fig. 7,) of sheet metal
which forms a movable back of flat or rounded form, designed to be placed over the
ordinary back 3, when the principal covering is full; for this purpose it is merely
necessary to slip this metal envelope endwise over the back 3.
In the hollow internal portion of the back is fixed a case 5× of suitable material
such as paper, parchinent or canvas, in which is inserted a wooden pin 5, Fig. 8.
This pin has a pointed end, and is inserted into the case 5* after the sheets of paper
have been placed in the apparatus. The pin has for its object to force apart the
sheets of paper or other material, as shewn in Fig. 4 the outward pressure being
received by the envelope 4. To remove the sheets, the pin is pushed back by any

page_text: suitable means such as a ruler, or a penholder, and is then entirely withdrawn and the
metal envelope 4 is also removed when the papers will be free.
It will be obvious that the form and size of each apparatus, as well as the materials
of which it is made may he variously modified to suit varying circumstances.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is:
1. The classing apparatus illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 of the drawings annexed,
and comprising essentially a covering a bc, two bars de, a sheet metal framing f, a
screw with a nut h, and a crank handle jointed at k.
2. The binding apparatus illustrated in Figs. 4 to 8 inclusive of the drawings
annexed and comprising essentially a covering 1, 2 with back 3, an envelope 4, and
a case 5 enclosing a pin 5 designed to force outward parts of the sheets of paper in
the binder and so to secure them therein.
Dated this 12th day of September 1889
W. LLOYD WISE,
Per J. F. Brougham,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicants.