An Improved Binding or Holding Device, or File, for Magazines, Periodicals, Music, and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Mar., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 6th Nov., 1895-Accepted, 7th Dec., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Binding or Holding Device, or File, for Magazines,
Periodicals, Music, and the like.
I ALEXANDER SLADE of 169 Great Portland Street, London, W., Madu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The present invention has reference to covers or portfolios for holding and
binding together separate journals, pamphlets, pieces of music, and various other
publications and papers which it is desired to file for safe keeping and ready
reference.
Such covers or portfolios are usually provided within, at the hinge or back, with
a number of strings or elastic cords, beneath which the papers to be filed are
slipped, and held by the cord lying within them at the point of folding.
The object of my present invention is to provide an improved form of wire or
equivalent retainer, and means for attaching the same to the cover.
I may here remark that the covers to which my improvements are preferably
applied, are those that are provided with an expanding back, which can be adjusted
to suit the bulk or thickness of the contents; my invention may, however, he
applied to non-expanding covers.
In carrying out my invention, I make the retainers of special form, as follows:-
I take a straight piece of wire, or its equivalent, of suitable length and strength,
and I bend it, near the ends, at right angles to the main portion, the bent ends
being parallel to each other on the same side of the main portion. The end pieces
are then turned back or under upon themselves, to form flattened loops, which
stand away a little from the main portion.
These loops aro intended to receive strips of leather or similar flexible material,
which are attached to the cover by their ends, one near the top, and one near the
bottom.
The loops of the wires are threaded on the leather strips, so that the said wires
stand out somewhat from the back of the cover, and allow plenty of room for the
insertion of papers beneath them, throughout their length, from top to bottom,
without pinching or cutting the edges of the papers at their folds.
The sliding sideway movement of the wires along the leather strips provides
for the accommodation, between the wires, of different thicknesses of pamphlets
being held, irrespective of the expanding back before referred to.
The width of the leather strips should be such as to prevent sagging in a
lateral direction, which would cause the filed papers to project from the top or
the bottom of the cover.
Dated this 6th day of March 1895.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: An Improved Binding or Holding Device, or File, for Magazines,
Periodicals, Music, and the like.
I ALEXANDER SLADE of 169 Great Portland Street, London, W., Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the samo is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
The present invention relates to covers or portfolios for holding and binding
together separate journals, pamphlets, pieces of music, and various other publications
and papere, which it is desired to file for safe keeping and ready reference.
The object of my invention is to provide means for retaining the papers within
the cover, which means will form a safe and easy engagement for the said papers,
not likely to cut or damage the latter, and capable of affording the maximum
accommodation in proportion to the dimensions of the portfolio.
In the accompanying drawing, I have shewn a portfolio provided with my
improvemente.
Fig. 1 shows the portfolio open, in plan view, and
Fig. 2 in cross section, on line r., Fig. 1.
Figs, 3 and 4 are side views of two patterns of the retaining wires presently to
be described.
According to my invention, the cover or portfolio, A, is provided at the flexible
back part, or binge, with flexible strips BB', the ends of the said strips being
attached to, or near, the boards a and a¹ of the cover, so that the middle portions
of the strips B B' extend loosely across the flexible back portion of the cover A,
near the top and bottom thereof.
These strips are preferably of flat leather, which, although flexible, has little
tendency to bend laterally.
C are retaining wires, bent into loops c at their ends, so as to be capable of
embracing the strips B B'. The said loops c are made to conform approximately
to the shape of the strip employed, and are furnished with short necks c', which
will hold the wires C a little away from the back of the cover A, so as to provide
ample space for the insertion of the periodicals &c., when the loops are threaded
upon the strips B B', and the wires C are in position to receive papers for filing.
Figs. 3 and 4 shew, detached, wires with flattened, and also circular, loops, the
latter being intended for use with round strips, which, however, are not so suitable
as flat strips, because of the tendency to Interal displacement.
Any suitable number of wire retainers C are threaded onto the strips B B', in
the manner shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawing. Under these wires, the leaves
of the papers to be filed are very easily slipped. d are journals shewn in position
at Fig. 2. It will be seen that the wires hold them evenly from end to end, and
have no tendency to cut them, after the manner of the retaining strings or wires
commonly provided in covers of a similar character. The wires are movable along
tho strips BB', so that periodicals of various thicknesses can be accommodated.
I prefer to adapt the retaining wires in combination with an expanding cover of
the kind illustrated in the drawings. In this arrangement, the board a of the
cover A is provided with a sheath, as at a, into which is inserted the flexible
back portion of the cover. A strap and buckle, as at e, is provided, by means of
which the back portion may be drawn up within the sheath, and permitted,
when required, to be withdrawn, to contract or widen the capacity of the holder.
It may be remarked that, as here shown, the ends of the strips B B' are not
secured to the board a' of the cover itself, but to the stiffened edge of the flexible

page_text: back portion, which is inserted within the sheath before mentioned, so that the
available length of the said strips may be varied as required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
The improved binding device or file for magazines, periodicals, music, and other
papers, comprising a cover, expanding or otherwise, and beut and looped retaining
wires arranged and mounted therein, in the manner herein before shewn and
described.
Dated this 6th der of Narambar 1905
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.