Improvements in Files for Registering Orders, Correspondence, Engagements, and other Matters.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 29th July, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 24th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 16th Nov., 1.95
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Files for Registering Orders, Correspondence,
Engagements, and other Matters.
We, JOHN PALMER CLARKE of 7 Angel Hill Photographer and WALTER
EDMUND NUNN of 48, Abbeygate Street Hosier both of Bury St. Edmunds in
the County of Suffolk do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
Our invention relates to improvements in a file for registering orders, pending..
completion and shewing at a glance all or certain important notes engagements,
memorandums correspondence or other matters in the order in which they are
received. Our said invention consists of a tablet or board made in a suitable size
for requirements which has fixed upon it at certain intervals clips grips or spring
catches for holding the notes, letters, orders, engagements or other matters.
The object sought to be obtained by our said invention comprises simplicity in
its working shewing at a glance all matters or subjects requiring attention in rotation
and keeping before one's eyes all matters until completed.
A further object obtained by our said invention is that the oldest order or other
matter always remains first on the board or tablet and until completed remains in
the first position.
Dated this 27th day of July 1895
JOHN PALMER CLARKE,
WALTER EDMUND NUNN,
Applicants.
Improvements in Files for Registering Orders, Correspondence,
Engagements, and other Matters.
We JOHN PALMER CLARKE of 7 Angel Hill Photographer and WALTER
EDMUND NUNN 48 Abbeygate Street Hosier both of Bury St. Edmunds in the
County of Suffolk 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 relates to improvements in a file for registering orders pending
completion and shewing at a glance all or certain important notes, engagements
memorandums correspondence or other matters in the order in which they are
received.
Our said invention consists of a tablet or board made in a suitable size for
requirements which has fixed upon it at certain intervals clips grips or spring
catches for holding the notes letters orders engagements or other matters.
The object sought to be obtained by our said invention comprises simplicity
in its working shewing at a glance all matters or subjects requiring attention in
rotation and keeping before one's eyes all matters until completed.

page_text: A further object sought to be obtained by our said invention is that the oldest
order or other matter always remains first on the board or tablet and until completed
remains in the first position.
A further advantage sought to be obtained by our said invention is that in use in
hotels or other public buildings the said board or tablet can be used for filing
letters telegrams or other matters for visitors and other persons, for this purpose
we suggest a case with a glass front under lock & key to place tablet in.
In order that our said invention may be clearly rendered reference may be had
to the accompanying sheet of drawings in which Fig. I is a front elevation plan
and Fig. 2 a side elevation plan of the improved file, similar letters of reference are
used to indicate like parts in both views.
In constructing a file according to our said invention we employ a board or tablet
as shewn by letter A and attached to it at certain intervals are the clips grips, or
spring catches B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 and so on to the number required: on the
receipt of any order or the making of any engagement or appointment the first clip
marked on the sheet B 1 can be used and as the orders letters or memorandums or
other matters are received so the clips in rotation either horizontally such as
B1 B2 B3 B4 and so on or perpendicularly as indicated upon our plan by the
letters and figures B1 B5 B 9 B 13 B 17.
In the event of any order being completed or the engagement over by lifting the
spring the order, engagement, appointment or other matter is immediately released
as shewn in B 12 Fig. 2.
For hotel use and places of the like we suggest using a part alphabetical
arrangement for the filing of the letters when received to simplify the searching.
We do not comprise in our said invention any particular form of clip grip
or spring catch nor any particular means for connecting them to the board or
tablet.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
First. In a file a combination of spring catches clips or grips upon a board or
tablet substantially as herein described and shewn.
Second. In a file a combination of these spring catches clips or grips holding
a complete record of all orders, correspondence pending completion and the filing
of all letters and other matters waiting collection substantially as herein described
with reference to the appended sheet of drawings.
Dated this Twenty-third day of September 1895.
JOHN PALMER CLARKE,
WALTER EDMUND NUNN,
Applicants.