Paper Securer.
Year: 1885

page_text: HENRY STEER 1 Iron Gate Derby, Author, I do hereby declare the nature of
this invention, to be as follows:-
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An instrument with one, two or more screws to secure papers together by the
corners or elsewhere. Papers are well secured without marking or piercing, and
one or more can at any time be taken out and replaced with a very small amount
of trouble only.
Paper Securer.
I HENRY STEER 1 Iron Gate Derby in the county of Derby, Author, 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:
This invention has for its object an improved [paper clip, fastener or securer
and consists in the combination with a pair of fixed plates or clamps of a screw
or screws acting directly or through the instrumentality of a moveable plate, to

page_text: clamp sheets of paper, letters, envelopes, cards, pamphlets and the like together
without piercing or damaging the same.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Fig. 1. shews the simplest form of my invention.
A A' are metal or other plates kept at a suitable distance apart by standards B. B¹.
C is a screw and D its flat nut the screw travelling in plate A. By advancing the
screw towards A¹ the papers can be clamped between A¹ and nut D, this is suitable
where the corners of papers &o have to be clamped. E is a hole in a projecting
portion of plate A for hanging the clamp and contents on a nail, hook or other
arrangement.
Fig. 2. shews a form for clamping the edges of letters, bills, circulars, manu-
scripts of all kinds, envelopes, cards &c in this arrangement A' A³ are plates
secured together by standards B' B' fixed at one edge of each plate. A is a
moveable plate sliding on the standards B B and in which turns a screw C
working in a thread in plate A. D¹ is its nut
By the action of screw C¹ the plate A' can approach fixed plate A³ and clamp
papers &c between such plates.
Instead of the end of screw C¹ turning in plate A' it may if desired simply press
on such sliding plate. E is a a swivelling or fixed hook to hang up the device.
More than one screw and nut may be used but I prefer the arrangements referred
to in Figs. 1 and 2 aforesaid.
By the word "paper" I mean to include any analogous material such as tracing
linen, parchment or textile or cloth goods in the form of samples and the like.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
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First. The combination with a pair of fixed plates maintained by standards or
pillars at a distance from each other, of a screw or screws furnished with nuts or
heads adapted to confine paper or like sheets or articles, between said nut or head
and one of such plates, substantially as described with reference to Fig. 1 of the
accompanying drawings.
Secondly. The combination with a pair of fixed plates maintained by standards
or pillars at a distance from each other, of a screw or screws carrying or actuating
a moveable plate to confine paper or like sheets or articles between said moveable
plate and one of such fixed plates, substantially as described with reference to
Fig. 2. of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 28th day of July 1886