Improvements in Apparatus for Filing Letters, Bills, and the like.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Apr., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 4th Feb., 1891-Accepted, 14th Mar., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Filing Letters, Bills, and the like.
We, CLAUS HINRICH MOHRDIECK, and MORITZ SIEGELBERG, both of
Thalstrasse 8, Hamburg, in the Empire of Germany, Merchants, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to apparatus for filing letters, bills and other papers; and
the objects of the same are to provide means for stringing or fastening such papers
automatically on a wire or needle at a regular distance from their edge, and to afford
facilities for withdrawing any desired paper without taking the whole block from
the file.
To this effect the wire or needle in the form of a hook is provided with a slightly
upward bent point and the shaft of the needle is attached either to a convenient
standard or a board adapted to be hung to the wall. To the said standard or wall-
board is also connected a fork-shaped bracket or tongue, placed above the point of
the said needle and having its extremity, which extends beyond the point of the
said wire or needle, slightly upwardly bent, so as to form a permanent open entrance
for the papers to easily slip between the said tongue and the straight part of the
hook-shaped receiving needle or wire. The slightly upwardly bent point of the latter
is however received between the prongs of the said fork-shaped or split tongue,
which is provided at its root with a slightly projecting shoulder.
When it is desired to string or fasten a sheet or leaf of paper on the said wire or
needle for temporary preservation, it must be shifted between the said needle and
the said tongue until it meets the projecting shoulder at the root of the latter and
then it has to be drawn back.
At the beginning of this backward motion the point of the needle automatically
enters the leaf or sheet of paper, which then passes over the curved portion of the
needle or wire to its lower straight portion or shaft, which is adapted to store the
filed papers. As the distance of the said shoulder at the root of the said tongue
from the point of the receiving-needle or wire is a defined one, the leaves or sheets
will be perforated altogether at a regular distance from their respective edge, which
will be advantageous in the case of its binding in book-form for permanent
preservation.
For the purpose of withdrawing the block of paper or a certain leaf from the
file, either the said tongue or bracket is adapted to unfold or to swing aside from
the point of the receiving-needle or wire, or the latter may be withdrawn from the
standard or wall-board and the papers slipped off from either of the shanks of the
same, as usually.
But in order to admit one or more certain leaves or sheets only to be taken off
from the file at desire, so that the remainder need not be taken from the receiving-
wire or needle, the lower extremity of the latter is somewhat reduced in thickness
to fit into a tube connected to the said standard or wall-board of the apparatus.
As the outer diameter of this tube is equal to that of the receiving-wire or needle
the papers on the file may easily be shifted from the receiving needle upon the said
tube and vice versa, or one part of the papers received upon the tube, the other
upon the needle or wire, so that after the latter is separated from the tube, the
desired leaf or sheet of paper on the file may be easily taken off as usually and
the needle attached again to the said tube, where it may be secured by an elastic
projection or spring of the needle engaging with a recess or aperture in the wall of
the said tube.
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HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.

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Improvements in Apparatus for Filing Letters, Bills, and the like.
We, CLAUS HINRICH MOHRDIECK, and MORITZ SIEGELBERG, both of
8, Thalstrasse, Hamburg, in the Empire of Germany, Merchants, 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 relates to apparatus for filing letters, bills and other papers, and
the objects of the same are to provide means for stringing or fastening such papers
automatically on a wire or needle at a regular distance from their edge, and to
afford facilities for withdrawing any desired paper without taking the whole of the
papers from the file.
In the accompanying drawing
Figure 1 is a side elevation of a bill or letter file constructed according to our
invention.
Figure 2 is a front view of the upper part of the said file.
Figure 3 is a top view of the same.
Figure 4 is a side view thereof partly in vertical section and
Figure 5 is a side elevation of a paper file attached to a board for hanging on the
wall showing a somewhat modified construction of the invention.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures of
the drawing.
C
The wire or needle in the form of a hook is provided with a slightly upwardly
bent point and the shaft of the needle c is attached either to a convenient
standard a (Figures 1-4) or a board b adapted to be hung to the wall (Figure 5).
To the said standard a or wall board b is also connected a fork-shaped bracket or
tongue d, placed above the point of the said needle e and having its extremity,
which extends beyond the point of the said wire or needle c, slightly upwardly bent,
so as to form a permanent open entrance for the papers to easily slip between the
said tongue d and the straight part of the hook-shaped receiving needle or wire c
(see Figure 4). The slightly upwardly bent point of the latter is however received
between the prongs of the said fork-shaped or split tongue d, which is provided at
its root with a slightly projecting shoulder gl.
When it is desired to string or fasten a sheet of paper or a letter fon the said
wire or needle e for temporary preservation, it must be shifted between the said
needle and the said tongue d until it meets the projecting shoulder g¹ at the
root g of the latter (Figure 4) and then it has to be drawn back.
At the beginning of this backward motion the point of the needle c automatically
enters the leaf or sheet of paper f, which then passes over the curved portion of the
needle or wire c to its lower straight portion or shaft, which is adapted to store the
filed papers (Figure 4).
As the distance of the said shoulder g' at the root g of the said tongue d from
the point of the receiving-needle or wire c is a defined one, the leaves or sheets will
be perforated altogether at a regular distance from their respective edges which
will be advantageous in case the letters or papers are to be bound in book form for
permanent preservation.
For the purpose of withdrawing the whole of the papers or a single paper or
letter from the file, either the said tongue or bracket d is adapted to swing around
the pivot whereby it is arrested in either position by the action of a spring h the
free end of which bearing against said root 7 (Figure 4) or the tongue d may be
secured in a post k by a set screw i (Figure 5) and swing aside from the point of
the receiving-needle or wire e or the latter may be withdrawn from the standard d
or wall-board and the papers slipped off from either of the shanks of the same,
as usual.
In order to admit of one or more letters or papers being taken off from the file as

page_text: desired the lower extremity of the receiving wire or needle c is somewhat reduced
in thickness at c¹ to fit into the tube c² connected to the said standard a or wall-
board b of the apparatus. As the outer diameter of this tube c² is equal to that of
the receiving-wire or needle c the papers on the file may easily be shifted from the
receiving needle to the said tube and vice versa, or one part of the letters or
papers may be placed upon the tube c² and the other part upon the needle or wire c,
so that after the latter is separated from the tube 2, the desired letter or paper f
on the file may be easily taken off as usual and the needle c attached again to the
said tube, where it may be secured by an elastic projection or spring 7 engaging
with a recess or aperture in the wall of the said tube c².
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
First. As an improvement .in apparatus for filing letters, bills and the like the
combination of a wire or needle in the form of a hook having an upwardly bent
point with a fork-shaped bracket or tongue attached to a standard or board and
provided at its root with a shoulder, substantially as and for the purpose set
forth.
Second. As an improvement in apparatus for filing letters, bills and the like the
combination of a wire or needle c in the form of a hook having an upward bent
point with a fork-shaped bracket or tongue d provided with a projection g¹ and
pivotally connected to a standard or board, substantially as and for the purpose
described.
Third. As an improvement in the hereinbefore described apparatus for filing
papers, bills and the like the connection of the wire or needle c at one end to
a tube 2 by means of a spring 1 substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated 1
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1001
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HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.