Improvements in Files for Letters, Papers, and the like.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Apr., 1890-Accepted, 31st May, 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Files for Letters, Papers, and the like.
EYRE CROWE Box Manufacturer of Gatteridge Street Banbury in the County of
Oxford 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 relates to that class of file in which the papers to be filed are punched
with two holes near the top and are then placed on two arched wires.
In most of the files at present in use the arched wires are each made in two parts
one of which is movable and must be moved before a paper can be either placed on or
taken off the wires.
In my improvement the wires are so formed that letters or papers can be filed or
taken off without disturbing the position of the wires in any way.
With the help of the accompanying drawings I will proceed to describe my
invention and shew how it is carried out.
Figures 1 and 2 shew one form of my file. Figure 1 being an elevation shewing
the index and Figure 2 a plan of the same the index being removed.
A. is a flat board of any suitable material forming the body of the file. B the index
and filed letters or papers, each pierced with two holes so as to slide easily on the arched
wires C C.
The wires Care fixed firmly to the board A by means of staples E or in any
other suitable way.
The wires are so formed that at the front of each is a diagonal slit D sloping down
from front to back.
To file a paper two holes are punched near one end of it, & the same distance
apart as are the wires CC. The position in the index where it is required to place
it is then found, and all the papers together with that part of the index above that
place are slid over to the other side of the wire, the paper to be filed is then placed on
the file by means of the slip 1) and the papers and index slid back to their places.
To take a letter or paper off the file, the place is found as before & all letters &c.
above the one required are moved up past the slit.
That end of the paper farthest from the wires is then lifted up when the paper will
slide up the wires & come out by the slits D.
It will be seen that as the slits D are diagonal papers &c. when moved up at right
angles to the wires will have no tendency to leave the file at the slit, but by lifting
any paper up at the end it comes out easily.
This form can be made so cheaply that when filled it may be put away just as it is
& no binder is required.
Figs. 3 & 4 shew a modified & more expensive form of file in which all the papers
can be taken off at once when required & bound in any suitable way.
The lower part F of the arched wires CC is made movable & is, except when the
file is to be emptied, held up in its place by the pivoted spring G. If the spring is
turned on its pivot the lower wire F is released and can be pulled downwards.
At the top of each wire F is a hole or eye H.
When it is required to empty the file, a string or tape is threaded through each eye H
and the wires Fare pulled down, this draws the string through the holes in the papers.
The papers can then be all taken off at once, tied together with the string and either
bound in any suitable way or put away just as they are.
When the file is in ordinary use, any letter can be filed or taken off without moving
the wires F, by means of the diagonal slits E as before explained in connection with
Fic 1 & 0

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said i ven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is.
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1st. The arched wires () () having slits D¸ substantially as & for the purpose herein-
before described.
2nd. The arrangement in connection with the arched wires CC of movable
wires F having eyes pierced near the top substantially as & for the purpose herein.
before described.