An Improved File for Bills, Memoranda, and other Documents.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 28th July, 1887.
Specification Accepted, 2nd Sept., 1887.
An Improved File for Bills, Memoranda, and other Documents.
We, EDWARD WESTMORE ALLEN and HENRY JAMES DAVIES, both of Nelson
Street, in the City and County of Bristol, wholesale stationers, 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 improved file for bills, memoranda and other like documents in which this
invention consists has two covers or boards which constitute respectively the back and
front of the file and are connected together at the bottom. The upper part of the
front leaf or board is made in the form of a flap which may be turned down on its
hinge upon the board. The file is furnished with a string for the purpose of suspending
it from a hook or peg. This string is passed through holes in the front of the file
and carried through to the back. Thence it is conducted downwards and towards the
bottom of the file it is brought through to the front and at a point still nearer to the
bottom of the front board it is anchored or made fast.
The bills, memoranda or other documents are loosely placed between the leaves or
boards of the file and when the file is suspended the documents are securely held
therein the weight thereof and of the file assisting, through the string, to draw the
boards or covers nearer to one anothor.
When the file is removed from the peg or hook from which it is suspended the flap
aforesaid is easily turned down for inspection of the documents and withdrawal of or
reference to one or more of the same.
Referring to the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawing, Fig. 1 thereon
represents a front view of a file constructed and fitted in accordance with this
invention. The file is represented as closed and suspended. Fig. 2 is an end view
of Fig. 1.
The file consists of a case having two boards or covers a and b connected together
at the bottom. Towards the top of the front board a is a flap c capable of folding
outwards and downwards upon the board as shewn in front view at Fig. 3 and in end
view at Fig. 4. The string d for suspending the file is passed through the flap c and
carried through the back of the board b. Thence it is conducted downwards and

page_text: returned to the front. At a point still lower it is anchored at both sides as at e. The
bills, memoranda or other documents indicated in the drawing by the letter fare
contained between the boards or covers a and b and when the file is suspended they
are compressed between the boards or covers and securely held thereby.
Instead of anchoring or fastening the string d as at e it may be continuous and
conducted inside the file from one of the lower holes to the other."
When it is required either to add a document to those on the file or to refer to a
document therein the file is taken from the hook or peg from which it is suspended
and the flap e is then turned back so as to give access to the documents and permit
them to be readily inspected or withdrawn. When the string d is subsequently
drawn up for suspension the flap is raised and the file closed the weight of the file or
of the file and the documents it holds assisting to press the covers towards one
another.
The documents are not pierced or mutilated and they are protected from dust.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is :-
An improved file for bills, sheets of memoranda and other documents, composed of
two boards, leaves or covers such as a and b connected together at the bottom, the
front cover being furnished with a flap such as e capable of being turned outwards
and downwards when the file is not suspended, and which flap is drawn and held up
when the file is suspended by a string such as d interlaced through the said covers or
boards, substantially as hereinbefore described and shewn in the accompanying sheet
of drawings.
Dated this 28th day of July 1887.
W. LLOYD WISE,
Per F. J. Brougham,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicants.