An Improved File for holding Pamphlets, Magazines, and other Periodicals.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 17th July, 1896
Complete Specification 'Left, 17th Apr., 1897-Accepted, 3rd July, 1897
An Improved File for holding Pamphlets, Magazines, and other
Periodicals.
I, CEDRIC CHIVERS, (Manager of the Library Bureau) 10 Bloomsbury Street,
London W.C. do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
An improved file for holding pamphlets, magazines and other periodicals, which is
capable of holding any number of the same.
It consists of two plain boards, with eyelet holes for threading a cord through; an
essential part of the invention being an independent piece of turned wire to be
affixed in a certain manner to the pamphlet or magazine and used in conjunction
with the aforementioned boards.
My invention consists of an improved file or binder hereinafter described which is
designed for application to pamphlets, periodicals and the such like for the purpose
of protecting them from wear and dirt whilst being read, carried about or await-
ing binding into volumes. In making a file according to my invention, I take two
rectangular pieces of straw board or any other suitable material of suitable width and
length relatively to the sizes of the various pamphlets periodicals &c., which
it is intended to protect.
And I take pieces of cloth, leather or other suitable covering material for
the aforementioned straw boards, and cover one side of each of them with it, allow-
ing a little width and length in the same material for turning over.
On the transverse side of each of the straw boards I paste paper or other suitable
material for the sake of neatness. I then make two eyelet holes in each board
at suitable distances from each of the two left hand or right hand corners as the case
may be.
I next take a short piece of tinned wire and turn it so as to form the shape of a
shepherd's crook with the exception that the short end is continued to form a small
eye, the whole to be of the nature of a clip.
These pieces of turned wire are intended to be connected with the periodical to be
protected, one at the top and one at the bottom at the fold of the periodical so
that the eye of the turned piece of wire remains outside the back of the periodical
and the other arm of the turned piece of wire or clip passes over the top or bottom
as the case may be to the inside of the periodical.
I then take a boot lace or other suitable cord or tying material and thread each end
of it through the respective eyelet holes in the straw boards, at the same time also
engaging the eyes of the pieces of turned wire which are previously clipped onto the
periodicals placed between the two boards.
I then tie the two ends of the tying material into a bow and so secure the
periodicals in the file.
A file made according to my invention is capable of holding any number of
periodicals of the same height the number of which can be added to or taken from
by releasing the tying material and afterwards rethreading and tying it as before
described.
17th July 1896

page_text: An Improved File for holding Pamphlets, Magazines, and other
Periodicals.
I CEDRIC CHIVERS, Manager of the Library Bureau Limited, 10, Bloomsbury
Street London W.C. 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 :-
My invention consists of an inproved file or binder hereinafter described which
is designed for application to pamphlets, periodicals and the such like for the
purpose of protecting them from wear and dirt whilst being read, carried about
or awaiting binding into volumes.
In making a file according to my invention I take two rectangular pieces of straw
board or other suitable material of suitable width and length relatively to the sizes
of the various paurphlets, periodicals etc., which it is intended to protect.
And I take pieces of cloth, leather or other suitable covering material for the
aforementioned straw boards and cover one side of each of them with it, allowing
a little width and length in the same material for turning over.
On the transverse side of each of the straw boards I paste paper or other suitable
material for the sake of neatness. I then make two eyelet holes in each board at
suitable distances from each of the two left hand or right hand corners as the case
may be.
I next take a short piece of wire and turn it so as to form the shape of a
shepherd's crook with the exception that the short end is continued to form a small
eye, the whole to be of the nature of a clip.
These pieces of turned wire hereinafter called attachment clips are intended to be
connected with the periodical to be protected, one at the top and one at the bottom
at the fold of the periodical so that the eye of the attachment clip remains outside
the back of the periodical and the other arm of the attachment clip passes over the
top or bottom as the case may be, to the inside of the periodical.
I then take a boot lace or other suitable cord or tying material and thread each
end of it through the respective eyelet holes in the straw boards at the same time
also engaging the eyes of the attachment clips which are previously clipped on to
the periodicals placed between the two boards.
I then tie the two ends of the tying material into a bow and so secure the
periodicals in the file.
A file made according to my invention is capable of holding any number of
periodicals of the same height, the number of which can be added to or taken from
by releasing the tying material and afterwards rethreading and tying it as before
described.
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:-
A novel binder for protecting the parts of pamphlets magazines etc., formed sub-
stantially as herein before described, that is to say a binder consisting essentially of
two boards with eyelet holes, attachment clips and tying material and these being
used in combination as hereinbefore described form a substantial means of protecting
or filing such parts of pamphlets magazines etc.