Improvements in Files for Letters and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 19th Oct.. 1445
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Files for Letters and the like.
I, ERNEST NARCISSE LEOPOLD COINTEPAS, of 17, Rue de la Prefecture,
Angers, Maine et Loire, France, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this
nvention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention consists in improvements in devices for filing letters, invoices,
prospectuses, or other papers or documents, and in order that the nature thereof
may be clearly understood, I shall proceed to describe the same with reference to
the accompanying drawings in which :-
Fig. 1 is a front elevation,
Fig. 2 a partial plan, and Fig. 3 a partial side elevation, of a file according to
this invention;
Fig. 4 is a partial plan showing the curved limbs out of engagement with their
tubes;
Fig. 5 is a partial side elevation, and Fig. 6 a partial plan, of the file when
open and with its curved limbs turned back; and
Fig. 7 is a section showing the arrangement of the nut and screw fitting in the
slot in a sliding piece carrying the two curved limbs.
The file comprises a plate a. preferably of metal, attached to one of the
boards b, of the binding of the file in a position adjacent to the fold or guard
connecting the said board to the back of the binding; and upon this plate
tubes ed are fixed perpendicularly to its plane. Along the fold or guard
connecting the board 6 to the back of the binding, the plate a is provided with a
border e which is arranged at right-angles to and against which there is guided
and slides a piece f. To the two ends of this sliding piece there are fixed
perpendicularly to it and by means of two of their ends, two curved, hook-shaped
limbs y and h, which are arranged at a distance apart equal to that of the tubes c
and don the plate a. Their free ends, preferably pointed or sharpened as shown
in the drawings, are adapted to enter the upper ends of the tubes c and d, which
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for this purpose are cut at an acute angle as shown at in Figs. 1, 3, and J.
the sliding piece f there is formed a slot which is substantially of the form of
an and in which a T-shaped piece & (see Fig. 7) is adapted to work with a slight
amount of friction. The piece k is secured on the plate a by means of a screw l
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passing through the said plate and the board b to which it is fixed.
the sliding piece f moves in such a manner that the body of the nut is situated in
the narrow portion of the slot j-that is to say, in the vertical limb of the L-the
sliding piece f is held flatwise on the plate a by the upper lateral portions of the
nut as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 7, but as soon as, in the sliding movement of the
piece, the wider portion-that is to say, the horizontal limb of the slot j-comes
opposite to the nut k, the sliding piece and, with it, the limbs g and h, can be
turned back into the position shown in Figs. 5 and 6.
k
The end of the body-part of the nut preferably fits into a cavity formed in the
border e.
This arrangement affords the advantages that the said body-part is
prevented from turning about its own axis; and that the two portions of the
border e are enabled to constitute a spring in the most effectual manner.
The
5 border e for the purpose just mentioned, made yielding so as to act slightly as a
spring and serves to inaintain the sliding piece and the limbs in one or the other of
the two positions shown.

page_text: The mode of using this file is very simple and is as follows:-
When it is desired to place a document or paper in the file, the sliding piece
(which normally occupies the position shown in Figs. 1 & 2), is pushed in the
direction of the arrow (Figs. 1 & 4) until the wider portion of the slot j is brought
opposite to the nut k; the sliding piece and the limbs then occupy the position
shown in Fig. 4. They are then turned back into the position shown in Figs. 5
& 6, and the sheet or sheets to be filed are then placed upon the tubes c & d, after
which, the sliding piece and the limbs are turned up again and then slid back into
their normal and closed position (Figs. 1 & 2). In order to remove any document
from the file, the above procedure is simply reversed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. In a file for letters and the like the combination of a plate a provided with
two tubes c and d and with a border e, a sliding piece provided with two curved
limbs and with an L-shaped slot j, and a T-shaped piece k mounted on the
plate a and adapted to be slid, with a slight amount of friction, in the slot j
substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described.
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2. The improved file shown in and described with reference to the drawings
annexed.
Dated this 5th day of September 1895.
F. WISE HOWORTH,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.