An Improved Appliance for Threading Pay Slips and other Papers.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 21st June, 1898
Complete Specification Laft 20th Coh 4000
OCLL
1000
Date of Application, 21st June, 1898
Complete Specification Loft, 20th Feb., 1500
600 Accepted,
4000
Both mar, 1000
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance for Threading Pay Slips and other Papers.
I, FRANK HAGART BLOCKLEY, of 124, Drayton Park, Highbury, London, N.,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention for an improved appliance for threading pay slips and other
papers relates especially to means for threading the pay slips used in restaurants
and similar places after the days work and consists essentially of a file upon
which the slips are placed, the needle or point being movable and connected to a
string box or the like whereby the string can be drawn through the slips.
In carrying this invention into practical effect, upon a string box of suit-
able shape a socket is mounted and in this socket a long spike or needle is fitted
so that the point projects upwards in the manner of a paper file. The lower end
of this spike or needle is formed with an eye through which the end of the string
is passed the lower end of the socket being of course open to afford connection
with the interior of the string box.
The
In use, the pay slips are filed upon the spike or needle in the usual way and
at the close of the day's work or when full, the spike or needle is pulled out of
the socket, drawing the string through the pay slips so that they are threaded
upon it, and it can then be cut off to the required length and tied up.
needle is then reattached to the string and inserted in the socket ready for use.
This appliance can of course be used for any papera, receipts or the like which
require to be threaded and tied up and put away.
Dated this 21st day of June 1898
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance for Threading Pay Slips and other Papers.
I, FRANK HAGART BLOCKLEY, of 124, Drayton Park, Highbury, London, N.,
Gentleman, 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:-
This invention for an improved appliance for threading pay slips and other
papers relates especially to means for threading the pay slips used in restaurants
and similar places after the days work and consists essentially of a file upon
which the slips are placed, the needle or point being movable and connected to a
string box or the like whereby the string can be drawn through the slips.
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page_text: In carrying out this invention into practical effect, upon a string box of suit-
able shape a socket is mounted and in this socket a long spike or needle is fitted
so that the point projects upwards in the manner of a paper file. The lower end
of this spike or needle is formed with an eye through which the end of the string
is passed the lower end of the socket being of course open to afford connection
with the interior of the string box.
The
In use, the pay slips are filed upon the spike or needle in the usual way and
at the close of the day's work or when full, the spike or needle is pulled out of
the socket, drawing the string through the pay slips so that they are threaded
upon it, and it can then be cut off to the required length and tied up.
needle is then reattached to the string and inserted in the socket ready for use.
This appliance can of course be used for any papers, receipts or the like which
require to be threaded and tied up and put away.
In order that this invention may be more clearly described reference is had
to the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings on which Fig. 1 is a view,
partly in section of a threading appliance constructed according to this invention.
Fig. 2 is a similar view of a double arrangement and Fig. 3 is a plan thereof.
Referring first to the arrangement shown in Fig. 1, the box A is adapted to
contain string or thread B and in the lid A' a socket C is mounted. A spike or
needle is fitted in the socket C and is secured in position by means of the set
screw E. The spike or needle D is pointed at its upper end and is formed with
an eye at its lower end through which one end of the string or thread B is
passed. The socket C is of course open so that the string or thread B can be
drawn through when required.
In use, the pay slips are filed upon the spike or needle ) in the ordinary way,
but at the close of the day's work or when full, the setscrew E is released so
that the spike or needle C can be removed from the socket C drawing the string
or thread B through the pay slips so that they are threaded upon it, and can
be cut off to the required length and tied up. The spike or needle D is then
again threaded and reinserted in the socket C ready for use.
If desired the setscrew E may be dispensed with the socket C being so con-
structed that the spike or needle D is held in place.
In Figs. 2 and 3 a double arrangement is shown in which two spikes or needles D
are employed. The two boxes A are fitted in a small desk of the like so as to
be more convenient for many purposes.
If desired, several of these may be combined to form sets of files each fitted
with the threaded arrangement so that in use the papers can each be placed on
its particular spike or needle and all the papers of one kind are therefore placed
together.
In Figs. 2 and 3 the lids A¹ are adapted to lift up, the setscrews E being placed
inside the boxes A so that there is nothing to interfere with the capacity of the
spikes or needles.
Although described more particularly for use with pay slips in restaurants and
the like, it will be understood that the same arrangement can also be employed
for other papers which require to be threaded and tied up and put away.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
(1) An improved appliance for threading pay slips and other papers, consist-
ing of a box adapted to contain string or thread, a socket mounted in the lid
thereof, and a spike or needle adapted to be inserted in the socket the said spike
or needle being pointed at its upper end and provided with an eye at its lower end
through which the string or thread is passed substantially as described and for
the purposes specified.
(2) An improved appliance for threading pay slips and other papers consisting
of box A adapted to contain string or thread B, removable lid A', socket Č

page_text: mounted therein; spike or needle D pointed at one end and provided with eye d
and set screw E all arranged and operating substantially as described with refer-
ence to the drawings.
Dated 101 L...
1900
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.