Improvements in Paper Fasteners.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 11th July, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 8th Apr., 1897-Accepted, 15th May, 1997
Improvements in Paper Fasteners.
We, ROBERT BELL, Clerk of 2 Whitburn Terrace, South Shields in the County-
of Durham and WILLIAM THOMAS HALL, Schoolmaster, of 1 Whitburn Terrace,.
South Shields in the County of Durham do hereby declare the nature of this
iuvention to be as follows:-
Our invention consists of a strip of pliable sheet brass about 2 inches long & inch
broad, widened at one end to inch for about & inch. Through this broadened part.
a hole is made sufficiently large to admit easily of the passage of the thinner portion.
In use a hole is first made in the papers to be fastened about inch from the edge.
The thinner end of the fastener is then passed & drawn through until checked by
the wider portion at the other end. The thinner end is then bent round the papers
and passed through the hole in the wider end of the fastener & then pressed down.
along with this wider portion flat upon the paper.
R. BELL.
WM. THOS. HALL..
We, ROBERT BELL, Clerk, of 2 Whitburn Terrace, South Shields, in the County-
of Durham, and WILLIAM THOMAS HALL, Schoolmaster, of 1 Whitburn Terrace,.
South Shields, in the County of Durham, 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 invention consists of a strip of pliable bent brass about 2 inches long and
inch broad, widened at one end to inch for about inch. Through this
broadened part a hole is made sufficiently large to admit easily of the passage of the
thinner portion. In use, a hole is first made in the papers to be fastened about inch
from the edge. The thinner end of the fastener in then passed and drawn through
until checked by the wider portion at the other end. The thinner end is then bent
around the papers and passed through the hole in the wider end of the fastener and
then pressed down along with this wider portion flat upon the paper.
Our invention is clearly shown on the annexed drawings,
Figure 1 being an elevation or face view of the article d as a paper fastener or
binder.
Figure 2 represents the first position or bend after its smaller end has been passed
through the paper, and with the narrow end B passed through the slot C of the
broader end D as an overedge fastener.
Figure 3 indicates the 3rd and 4th position of the two ends, one, the broader D,
being bent flat, and the other B turned backwardly as a means of locking the article.
firmly.

page_text: Figure 4 shows two of the articles A, A, passed through two holes in the paper
instead of through one hole only, as in the former case. This binding method by
our fasteners from and through the flat side of the paper will hold the sheets as
leaves E in book like form, each article as in the former case being passed through
slits or holes, the ends bent towards each other, one end passed through the slot in
the opposite end, and then bent back towards itself to form the lock.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
The construction of an appliance to the form and with a slot in the broadest end,
as at Figure 1, and its application as a means of fastening papers together, as indicated
at Figures 3 and 4 respectively.
The 8th day of April 1897.
R. CORE GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166 Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Robert Bell and William Thomas Hall.

page_text: Figure 4 shows two of the articles A, A, passed through two holes in the paper
instead of through one hole only, as in the former case. This binding method by
our fasteners from and through the flat side of the paper will hold the sheets as
leaves E in book like form, each article as in the former case being passed through
slits or holes, the ends bent towards each other, one end passed through the slot in
the opposite end, and then bent back towards itself to form the lock.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
The construction of an appliance to the form and with a slot in the broadest end,
as at Figure 1, and its application as a means of fastening papers together, as indicated
at Figures 3 and 4 respectively.
The 8th day of April 1897.
R. CORE GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166 Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Robert Bell and William Thomas Hall.

page_text: Date of Application, 11th July, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 8th Apr., 1897-Accepted, 15th May, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Paper Fasteners.
We, ROBERT BELL, Clerk of 2 Whitburn Terrace, South Shields in the County
of Durham and WILLIAM THOMAS HALL, Schoolmaster, of 1 Whitburn Terrace,
South Shields in the County of Durham do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
Our invention consists of a strip of pliable sheet brass about 2 inches long & inch
broad, widened at one end to inch for about & inch. Through this broadened part.
a hole is made sufficiently large to admit easily of the passage of the thinner portion.
In use a hole is first made in the papers to be fastened about inch from the edge.
The thinner end of the fastener is then passed & drawn through until checked by
the wider portion at the other end. The thinner end is then bent round the papers
and passed through the hole in the wider end of the fastener & then pressed down.
along with this wider portion flat upon the paper.
Dated this 10th day of July 1896.
R. BELL.
WM. THOS. HALL..
We, ROBERT BELL, Clerk, of 2 Whitburn Terrace, South Shields, in the County-
of Durham, and WILLIAM THOMAS HALL, Schoolmaster, of 1 Whitburn Terrace,.
South Shields, in the County of Durham, 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 invention consists of a strip of pliable bent brass about 2 inches long and
inch broad, widened at one end to inch for about inch. Through this
broadened part a hole is made sufficiently large to admit easily of the passage of the
thinner portion. In use, a hole is first made in the papers to be fastened about inch
from the edge. The thinner end of the fastener in then passed and drawn through
until checked by the wider portion at the other end. The thinner end is then bent
around the papers and passed through the hole in the wider end of the fastener and
then pressed down along with this wider portion flat upon the paper.
Our invention is clearly shown on the annexed drawings,
Figure 1 being an elevation or face view of the article A as a paper fastener or
binder.
Figure 2 represents the first position or bend after its smaller end has been passed
through the paper, and with the narrow end B passed through the slot C of the
broader end D as an overedge fastener.
Figure 3 indicates the 3rd and 4th position of the two ends, one, the broader. D,
being bent flat, and the other B turned backwardly as a means of locking the article.
firmly.