Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application 6th May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 6th Feb, 1826-Arcepted, 11th Apr,
1896
I, REDRICK WHARTON MARRIOTT of No 1 Trafalgar Buildings
Northumberland Avenue Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows
The invention consists of a tablet or frame of any suitable size upon which studs
or the like are fastened and rubber bands passed round or over them so as to hold
letters or papers
What I claim as novel in this invention is the arrangement of the studs and
bands, which secures the papers without the need of any piercing or clamping, and
at the same time admits of the extraction of any paper from the file without
disturbing the rest of the papers
F W MARRIOTT
I, FREDERICK WHARTON MARRIOTT of 1, Trafalgar Buildings, Northumber-
land Avenue, London Gentleman, 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
The object of in invention is to avoid the objections incidental to ordinary
letter and paper files of the cheaper kind and to provide an article as efficient as
the best class of letter-file at present made at a cost not greater, and even less,
than that of the cheapest in the mailet
The objections to most letter-files, apart from expense, are the mutilation of the
papers in the act of filing them and the difficulty of referring to any one of a
number of filed papers without disturbing the remainder
Now my file permits of the underneath letters or documents being readily
referred to without removing the superposed papers, etc, and it is equally well
adapted to retain a very small number of papers or to receive a large number, its
adaptability and receptive capacity being very great The file is durable and very
cheap and it admits of the papers being feried to while the file is suspended
against a wall, desh, or other support without liability of the papers falling out as
15 liable to happen when the papers are merely clipped without being impaled on a
spike in which case the file must be removed from its support and laid flat on the
table before the cl₁ which holds the papers is temporarily released
I will describe my invention with reference to the accompanying drawing which
shews the file in perspective in Figure 1
The file consists of a foundation board a of a size suited to the papers to be
held (say of the standard quarto size for letters and of foolscap size for commercial
documents) from the face of which project four studs or hooks 6 respectively fixed
thereto at about the middle of the length of each of the four sides of the board
around which studs an endless india-rubber band c is stretched, the position of the

page_text: stud causing the band to assume the form of a diamond whose major and minoi
diameters are slightly greater than the length and breadth of the papers to be held
in the file so that the papers will lie flat within the area bounded by the studs and
the four parts of the rubber band will lie acros the corners of the papers, as
shewn in the diawing, and hold them flat against the board, the studs preventing
the escape of the papers The studs would have knob heads or hooks or be other-
wise adapted to prevent the rubber band being forced off, even when a bulk of
papers greater in thickness than the height of the studs is placed beneath the
band
The stems of the studs would preferably be of the taper form shewn in Figure 2
to prevent the band c from riding up and cause it to constantly press on the papers
beneath it
In order to search the contents of the file to find and remove a letter without
disturbing the remainder, it is only necessary to spring the rubber band off tne
uppermost stud and allow it to lie straight across the papers, as shewn in dotted
lines in Figure 1, to admit of the whole bulk of papers being turned forward and
passed rapidly in review
Although I have described my invention as a file for letters and other documents,
I would have it understood that I do not limit myself in this respect and that it
may be employed to advantage for other articles which it is desired to retain in
position without undue pressure and liability of shifting
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
The herein described paper-file or holder for letters, documents, and other
articles, consisting of a foundation board häving studs standing up from its face in
combination with a rubber band stretched around the studs, substantially as
specified
Dated
A M & WM CLARK,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents