Improvements in Temporary Bindings or Files for Letters and other Papers.
Year: 1892

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Temporary Bindings or Files for Letters and
other Papers.
I, BENJAMIN JOSEPH BARNARD MILLS, of 23 Southampton Buildings, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion, (a communication to me from Victor Astier, of Ecully, Rhone, in the
Republic of France, Gentleman,) and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement,
reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures and letters
marked thereon :-
The object of the present invention is a temporary binding or file for arranging
letters, invoices and other papers. Its arrangement is very simple and permits of
introducing into the apparatus or of withdrawing therefrom a number, more or less,
of sheets either adjacent to each other or in the middle of other sheets already
arranged without loss of time and without disarranging the order.
The accompanying drawing represents, at Figure 1, a perspective view of the
improved temporary binding or file and, at Figure 2, a cross section of the metallic
back and covers. Figure 3 is a transverse section and Figure 4 a longitudinal
section of the apparatus. Figure 5 represents a slight modification.
The metallic back A is formed of a plate of steel or other metal bent at right
angles at a and connected by a hinge with the metallic band F, upon which the
movable cover B' is fixed by nails or rivets c; the fixed cover B is connected in
the same manner to the horizontal portion G of the back, which is strengthened by
forming therein a rib d.
At one of the ends of the back is a bent up portion D, in which superposed
openings in the form of a ladder are made; these are intended to receive one end
of the pressure rod C, whose other end is introduced into similar openings made in
a small plate E hinged to the opposite end of the back.
The pressure rod C is of steel and slightly bent along its length in order to
exert its pressure upon the middle of the sheets it is intended to hold; its ends are
reduced to enter the openings of the ladders D and E. It is placed above the
paper H to be bound, as indicated at Figure 4. It is first introduced into the fixed
ladder D, slightly compressing the paper, then it is pressed down firmly at its free
end, and this pressure exerted upon the paper is retained by the hinged ladder E,
into one of the openings of which the rod C is introduced. The paper is thus
fixed as represented at Figure 1.
For greater simplicity the ladders D and E can be replaced by open link chains
of any suitable description, as represented at Figure 5, the openings of these chains
serving, as described with respect to the previous figures, to receive the ends of
the pressure bar C.
The metallic parts can be ornamented in any desired manner, and they can be
varnished, bronzed, nickelled, or otherwise finished according to taste.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
ion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
laim is :-
In temporary bindings or files for letters, invoices and other papers, the com-
bination of a metallic hinged back A, carrying covers B B', with the two ladders D
nd E placed at the two ends, and one of which at least is movable, and the pressure
od C capable of being fixed at various heights in the openings of the ladders,