Improved Paper Holder.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Nov., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 29th July, 1891 Accepted, 19th Sept., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Paper Holder.
REGINALD WOOD Hallam Head Sandygate near Sheffield in the County of
York Joiner do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to make an improved safty paper holder. My
invention as applied consists of a brass plate to which is attached a steel spring
and pin having a point protector thereto.
Modification may be made without departing from the principal of this invention
by useing a combination of suitable meterial such as paper mashia, wood, bone, tin,
iron, or steel.
1000
REGINALD WOOD.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Paper Holder.
I, REGINALD WOOD of Hallam Head, Sandygate, near Sheffield, in the County
of York, Joiner, 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, reference being had to the accompanying
drawings and to the figures and letters marked thereon:-
The object of this invention is the production of an improved safety paper
holder.
In carrying my invention into effect I employ a metal foundation plate, to which
is attached a steel filing pin, a steel spring, and a point protector acted upon by
said spring.
In the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 represents a longitudinal section, Figure 2 a plan, and Figure 3 an end
view, of a paper holder constructed according to my invention, and Figure 4. is a
longitudinal section, and Figure 5 is a plan of a slightly modified form of my
improved paper holder and Figure 6 is a section of another slightly modified
form.
In all the figures like parts are indicated by similar letters of reference.
a is a metal foundation plate, to which a steel filing pin and a steel spring c are
fixed.
The foundation plate a is formed with two rising cheeks a¹ a¹ to which the lever
point protector d is pin jointed.
In the paper holder shown at Figures 1. 2. 3 each of the cheeks a' has formed
thereon, a stop a² against which the point protector lever d rests when in its normal
position, and the point protector consists of a lever having at its outer end a cap
or thimble covering the steel filing pin b.
In the paper holder represented at Figures 4 and 5, the lever point protector d,
instead of being formed as shown at Figures 1. 2. 3, is formed of a curved tube,
into the outer end of which the filing pin b enters, and instead of employing a
stop a on each cheek a' as shown at Figures 1. 2. 3 the paper holder shown at
Figures 4 and 5 has a cross pin a³ extending from one cheek a¹ to the other and
fixed in such cheeks.
The paper holder shown at Figure 6 has the filing pin & curved so that the point
stands in a vertical position and the lever point protector d in its normal position
is at right angles or thereabouts to the foundation plate a.

page_text: When using paper holders constructed according to my invention, the lever
point protector d is first raised, as shown by dotted lines in Figures 1 and 4, the
papers are placed on the steel pin b, and the point' protector d is turned on its axis
until the spring c can act thereon, when the latter will force it until it assumes the
position shown by the full lines.
If desired the space in the point protector b, may be filled with cork, india
rubber, or other suitable material, and the foundation plate of the paper holder may
be provided with cars or lugs a', as shown at Figure 5, to enable a book cover to be
attached thereto in a somewhat similar manner to that now adopted with the
ordinary letter file.
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 :-
1. A paper holder constructed substantially as herein shown and described.
2. A paper holder consisting of a foundation plate, a filing pin and spring fixed
to said plate, two cheeks rising from said plate, a lever point protector pin-jointed
to said cheeks and acted upon by the spring, and a stop or stops against which the
lever point protector rests in its normal position substantially as herein shown and
described.
Dury
1091.
REGINALD WOOD.
By Harris & Mills,
23, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.