Improvements in Appliances for use in Filing Letters, Invoices, Newspapers, and other Papers.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 11th July, 1892-Accepted, 8th Oct., 1892
COME LIMIE DIEUITIVATION.
Improvements in Appliances for use in Filing Letters, Invoices,
Newspapers, and other Papers.
I, ARTHUR ERNEST WALKER of 18 Chiswell Street in the City of London
Manufacturer, 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 :-
These improvements constitute means for readily holding and filing letters
invoices, newspapers and other papers while admitting of easy removal of same.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is a longitudinal section through a box
file with drawer constructed according to my invention.
Figure 2 is a plan of the drawer.
Figure 3 is an end view of same and
Figure 4 a side view of the lock clip opened.
On the drawer A are fixed two tubes B B having the upper ends cut off slanting
so as to readily enter the papers to be filed thereon. C, C1, C2, is a piece of
wire bent into the form of two curved levers C, C, the pointed ends of which can
enter the ends of the tubes B to form a lock clip. The levers C are bent up from
the intermediate weigh shaft part C¹ which is formed with a cranked middle
part whereto is connected one end of a helical spring D (or it might be a flat
spring adapted to press upon the crank C). The weighshaft part works in bent
wire eyes or other hearings. The crank is provided with a stop or the drawer
is as here shown provided with a stop F for determining the open position of the
levers C wherein the papers can be removed or fresh ones inserted.
Figure 5 is a side view of a card intended to hang on the wall and provided
with the same means for filing papers on as just described.
Figure 6 is an end view and Figure 7 a side view showing the lock clip open.
In this case as a modification the same wires E which form eyes or bearings
for the clip C, C¹, C² enter and carry the tubes B; the latter are fixed or
removable.
Figure 8 is a perspective view of a bookshaped box file. On its bottom A is
fixed the lock clip appliance B, C of the form described. The end A' of the box
is made to turn down on hinges.
Figure 9 is a side view of a card intended to hang on the wall, for holding
letters, papers or newspapers by merely clipping or clamping them but without
piercing.
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Figure 10 is a side view showing the clip in the open position and Figure 11 is
plan. The clip parts may suitably be made of wire as shown. The clip C, C₁,
C, C³, consists of the two side parts C, the cross connection C³ and the weigh
shaft part C¹ which latter is formed with a crank C in the middle whereto is
connected one end of a helical spring D (or it might be a flat spring adapted to
press upon the crank C³). The intermediate or weigh shaft part C¹ works in bent
wire eyes E or other bearings. If the weigh shaft part is cranked in these places
in the manner shown no special stop is needed for holding the clip in the open
position Figure 10. G is a stop or ledge upon which the papers rest and which
may be made of wire. This form of clip may also be used for a drawer in a box
as in Figure 1 or for a bookshaped box as in Fig. 8.
The wire staple H shown in Figures 1 and 2 is so bent that its two free ends
can be inserted a little way in the open ends of the tubes B when the clip has
become filled with papers and these have to be removed. For this purpose the
papers are then threaded upon the said staple, being in the filed order and
removed therewith when the ends of the staple have been clenched down upon the

page_text: papers the latter become bound together as a volume. Fresh index sheets having
been put in, the file is again ready for use.
Figure 12 is a perspective view of a spring punch for piercing the holes in the
index sheets and other papers to be inserted in the file. It consists of a piece of
sheet steel I bent into the shape shewn and united to a thicker piece of metal K,
the former having two die holes I' and the latter two punches K'. This punch
may if desired be fixed on a wooden board. L L are angle pieces for gauging the
distance of the holes to be punched in the sheet of paper.
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 :-
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First. The lock clip herein described with reference to Figures 1 to 8 consisting
of tubes B upon which papers are filed and bent levers C the points of which are
adapted to enter said tubes and which are on a weigh shaft C having a cranked
part C upon which a spring acts substantially as described and for the purpose
of readily filing and removing papers.
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Second. The clip appliance herein described with reference to Figures 9. 10
and 11 consisting of a stop or shelf G upon which rest the papers to be filed or
retained and bent parts C, C, C³ on a weighshaft C₁ having a cranked_part_C
upon which a spring acts substantially as described, and for the purpose of readily
filing or holding and removing papers.
Third. The clip boxes and cards shewn on the drawings.
Fourth. The spring. punch described with reference to Figure 12.
Fifth. The staple H for taking off and binding the papers filed.
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.