Improvements in Files for Papers.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 13th June, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 13th Mar., 1897-Accepted, 1st May, 1897
I, PETER WORDEN PECKHAM, of 54 Robsart Street, Brixton, London, S. W.
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to paper files.
In carrying out my invention I make the file with a metal base and two wires.
One wire is bent or looped at one end and is acted on by a plate or other spring
secured to the plate and at its other end it is archel over so as to form a hook,
which, when the file is closel, fits on to the other wire or spike also secured in the
base plate.
The two wires instead of being vertical to the base plate as usual are slanted
or inclined slightly and the arched wire is, preferably, provided with a socket,
catch, or point at its end which locks in or on the top, which may be pointed, of the
other wire or spike.
Both wires are arranged so as to securely and firmly lock together when
closed.
The ends of the wires may be made to mortice or tip into each other.
In all cases both wires are so slanted and braced and the bent wire is made with
such an arch that when the two wires are locked together they will resist a
relatively big pressure without yielding, bending, or twisting out of place or shape
as is usually the case with such files when forced into a drawer too small for
them.
If desired the spike may have an eye in it.
The hook may have fitted on it a paper punch made with an inverted U or V cut
in its lower side.
10 ton of In 1906
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70 Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.
Improvements in Files for Papers.
1, PETER WORDEN PECKHAM, of 54 Robsart Street, Brixton, London, S.W.
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 paper files.
In carrying out my invention I make the file with a metal base and two wires.
One wire is bent or looped at one end and is acted on by a plate or other spring
secured to the plate and at its other end it is arched over so as to form a hook,
which, when the file is closed, fits on to the other wire or spike also secured in the
base late.

page_text: The two wires instead of being vertical to the base plate as usual are preferably
slanted or inclined slightly and the arched wire is, preferably, provided with a
socket, catch, or point at its end which locks in or on the top, which may be
pointed, of the other wire or spike.
Both wires are arranged so as to securely and firmly lock together when
closed.
The ends of the wires may be made to mortise or tip into each other.
In all cases both wires are so slanted and braced and the bent wire is made with
such an arch that when the two wires are locked together they will resist a
relatively big pressure without yielding, bending, or twisting out of place or
shape as is usually the case with such files when forced into a drawer too small for
them.
If desired the spike may have an eye in it.
The hook may have fitted on it a paper punch made with an inverted U or V cut
in its lower side.
And in order that ny said invention may be properly un lerstood I have hereunto
appended an explanatory sheet of drawings, whereon,
Fig. 1 is a side view, Fig. 2 a plan, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal section of the
paper file.
file.
Fig. 4 is a side view and Fig 5 a plan of a slightly modified construction of the
Fig. 6 is a side view and Fig. 7 a plan of a double file.
Fig. 8 shows in side view, front view and plan the punch for punching the
paper.
Fig. 9 is a partial view of the spike b.
a is the metal base plate which has secured to its underside by means of the
rivet d' a plate spring d which acts upon the horizontally bent part cl of the wire
hook c. This hook has a socket at its end which is capable of locking on to the
pointed end of the spike b. The spike 6 is preferably slightly inclined and the
wire hook e may also be slightly inclined as indicated in dotted lines at Fig. 4.
Fitted to the wire c is a punch holder f having a steel punch g in it. This punch
which is particularly shown at Fig. 8 has a U or V shaped cutting face as indicated
on the drawings.
In the file shown at Fig. 4 the punch f, g, is dispensed with.
The double file, Figs. 6 and 7, is of the same construction as that at Figs. 1, 2
and 3 with the exception that the two hooks c are connected together by the part c
which latter is acted on by the large plate spring d. A punch fis fitted on each
hook c.
If desired instead of having the socket c² on the wire c the socket may be made
on the end of the spike b and a tapered point be made on the end of the wire c so
as to fit into the socket.
Any other suitable and well known form of locking device may be used for the
wires b, c.
Under a modification instead of making the spike 6 a rigid fixture it may be
made to tip or slide into and out of contact with the part 2 of the wire c which
latter in this case may be a fixture.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
consider novel and desire to claim is :-
1. In combination, a base plate, a spike (b) fitted in the base plate, an
arched wire (c) fitted movably in the base plate and locking on to the spike (6)
and a spring secured to the base plate so as to act on the bottom of the
wire (c) substantially as hereinbefore set forth, or any mere modification of this
combination.
2. In combination, a base plate, a spike (b) fitted in the base plate, an arched
wire (c) fitted movably in the base plate and locking on to the spike (b), a spring

page_text: secured to the base plate so as to act on the bottom of the wire (c) and a punch
with a U or V shaped cutting face secured to the wire (c) substantially as herein-
before set forth, or any mere modification of this combination.
11: 19th dow of March 1807
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70 Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.