AN EYELET AND PAPER FASTENER COMBINED
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles M Dermott, Gentleman, of No. 2, Carlton
Villas, Wiltshire Road, Brixton, Surrey, for the Invention of "AN
EYELET AND PAPER FASTENER COMBINED."-A communication from abroad
by Edward Boynton, of Tenth Street, First Avenue, New York, United
States of America.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles McDermott at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
7th August 1867.
I, CHARLES MCDERMOTT, Gentleman, of 2, Carlton Villas, Wiltshire Road,
Brixton, Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
EYELET AND PAPER FASTENER COMBINED," to be as follows:-
An article for binding papers, and made of a strip of metal having an eyelet
bole in the centre and at an equal distance from the ends. The ends, which
are pointed, are carried inwards as far as the edges of the eyelet hole, and are
then bent in a horizontal position, thus forming two prongs, and having a
space between them of the width of the eyelet hole. In fastening or binding
papers together these ends or prongs are forced through the papers (the space
between then still being kept) by a hand press used for the purpose, and are
bent over or clenched on the reverse side. When thus fastened the space
between the two prongs forms the eyelet hole in connection with the puncture
in the centre of the metal. By this arrangement in binding papers the
security of tape or string can be resorted to in addition to that of the metallic

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles McDermott in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
4th February 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
MCDERMOTT, Gentleman, of No. 2, Carlton Villas, Wiltshire Road, Brixton,
Surrey, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Charles McDermott, Her special licence that I, the said Charles
McDermott, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others, as I,
the said Charles McDermott, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with; and no others; from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN
EYELET AND PAPER FASTENER COMBINED," a communication to me from abroad
by Edward Boynton, of Tenth Street, First Avenue, New York, United
States of America, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Charles McDermott, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the
Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next' and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles McDermott, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The
Invention for which this Patent is claimed is a paper fastener 'with an
eyelet, by means of which a hole will be secured through such masses of paper
as it is desired to bind together, and through which eyelet or hole tape may 'be
passed for the purpose of further securing the papers and affording means' for

page_text: the application of seals, legal or other. Also for the threading many separate
packages of papers together.
I will first describe the Invention and designate its mode of manufacture,
form, and working, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings, in
which Figure 1 represents a strip of metal having an eyelet hole in the centre
at an equal distance from the ends. These ends are bent inwards as far as to
the edges of the eyelet hole, and then bent upwards in a perpendicular
direction, thus forming two prongs having a space between them of the width
of the eyelet bole, as seen in Figure 2. Figure 3 gives an inclined view of
the eyelet and paper fastener combined, showing the base and the eyelet hole
therein. Figure 4 affords a sectional view of the eyelet and paper fastener
combined, showing the preservation of space between the prongs of the fastener
when thrust through a number of papers. Figure 5 is an illustration of the
use of the eyelet and paper fastener combined in attaching together many
separately combined bodies of paper with string or tape, &c. &c.
The mode of using the fastener is thus:-In binding papers together the
prongs of the eyelet and paper fastener combined are forced through the paper
by the fingers, or by means of a chisel or a band press specially adapted to the
purpose, by which latter the prongs may be carried through fifty sheets, and
also bent over or clenched on the reverse side. When thus fastened the space
between the two prongs in combination with the hole in the base of the
fastener forms the eyelet.
Having now fully described the Invention, what I claim as new and desire
to secure by Letters Patent is as follows:-
First, I claim the eyelet in combination with a paper fastener.
Secondly, I claim a paper fastener having one or more holes so constructed
that in binding papers together tape or string may be passed through the holo
or holes, giving additional security and facility to binding.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth
day of January. A.D 1868.
In presence of
CHARLES MCDERMOTT. (L.S.)
ROB'. H. GILES,
20, Devereux Court, Temple,
London, W.C.