An Improved Method of and Means for Filing and Binding Letters and other Documents.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd July, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 2nd April, 1897-Accepted, 2nd July, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of and Means for Filing and Binding Letters
and other Documents.
I, GEORGES FRANZ TURNER, of 15, Park Road, West Dulwich, London, S.E., Clerk,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates firstly to the temporary filing of letters and other documents
and secondly to their more permanent binding in book form automatically by and
when removing saine from the file.
According to my invention I make use of a baseboard of stout strawboard or wood
provided at the back with a spring clip of special construction, having hookshaped
wires with hollowed ends bent over at the top, so that when the clip is down, the said
bent wires rest upon the points of two or more prongs of equal length projecting
upwardly from the baseboard a short distance in front of the said clip. A thumb
piece provided at the back of the clip serves as a means by which the same may be
raised away from the prongs. The temporary binder according to my invention is
placed upon the aforesaid baseboard and consists of a kind of portfolio with stiff covers
and limp back which is pressed over the prongs of the baseboard which pierce and
thus hold it in place. In the portfolio, sheets of paper are arranged in alphabetical,
numerical or date order, the front edges being lettered or numbered and stepped as in
the case of an ordinary index, the back edges being likewise placed over the prongs
to keep them in position. The letters or documents to be filed.are placed over the
prongs between the sheets in their respective divisions.
The second feature of my invention, namely the more permanent binding of the
letters or other documents which have been temporarily filed as above described, is
effected as follows:-When the file is full, a string is passed through a hole or eye
which I provide in the top of each of the aforesaid prongs of the baseboard and the
portfolio containing the papers is bodily raised and removed from the prongs, the
upward movement of the portfolio causing the string to be drawn through the holes
in the portfolio and letters. The string is next securely fastened and the binding
process is complete. In this manner one baseboard will serve to bind an unlimited
number of portfolios of letters or other documents filed thereon.
Dated thin and dave of T.... 1906
An Improved Method of and Means for Filing and Binding Letters
and other Documents.
I, GEORGES FRANZ TURNER of 15 Park Road, West Dulwich London. S.E. Clerk.
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
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page_text: performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
According to my invention I make use of a baseboard K. fig. 1. of stout strawboard
or wood or other material, to which I affix a spring clip of special construction see
fig. 1. viz: to a hollow centrepiece A fig. 1. a flat steel or iron spring C. fig 1. is
fastened at one end by a rivet B. fig. 1. and at the top end of hollow centrepiece
A fig. 1. a thumbpiece D. fig 1. constructed with two shields at the bottom of same,
is fitted so as to resolve on a pivot E fig. 1. the edges of the shields being arranged
so as to press on the end of the spring C. fig. 1. The spring clip having hook shaped
wires G fig 2 fixed in a cross bar F. fig. 2. the said cross bar being fastened to the
thumbpiece D. fig. 1. so that when the clip is down the said bent wires G fig 2 rest
upon the points of two prongs I. fig. 1. of equal lengths projecting upward from, &
fixed in a cross bar H. fig. 1. the said cross bar being a part of the centre hollow piece
A. fig. 1. A thumb piece D. fig. 1., as described above, serves as a means by which
the same may be raised away from the prongs.
The temporary binder I fig. 1. according to my invention is placed upon the
aforesaid baseboard K fig. 1. & consists of a kind of portfolio with stiff covers &
limp back which limp back is pressed over the prongs I fig. 1. of the cross bar
H. fig. 1. which pierce it and thus hold it in place. In the portfolio or binder L fig. 1.,
sheets of paper are arranged in alphabetical numerical or date order, the side edges
being lettered or numbered & stepped as in the case of an ordinary index, the back
edges of same being placed over the prongs I fig. 1. to keep them in position. The
letters or documents to be filed are placed over the prongs I. fig. 1. between the sheets
in their respective divisions.
The second feature of my invention, namely the more permanent binding of the
letters or other documents which have been temporarily filed as above described is
affected as follows:
When the file is full a string M fig. 2. is passed through a hole or eye J figs. 1 & 2.
which I provide in the top of each of the aforesaid prongs I. fig. 1. of the cross bar
H. fig. 1, and the portfolio containing the papers & index is bodily raised &
removed from the prongs I fig. 1., the upward movement of the portfolio or binder
L fig. 1. causing the string to be drawn through the holes in the binder L. fig. 1. &
papers & index contained therein. The string is next securely fastened and the
binding process thereby completed.
In this manner one baseboard & clip will serve to bind an unlimited number of
portfolios or binders of letters or other documents filed thereon. Having now
particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what
inanner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is
1. An improved method of filing. and automatically indexing letters or other
documents
2. An improved method of automatically binding letters or other documents.
GEORGES FRANZ TURNER.