An Improved File or Holder for Newspapers and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 26th July, 1892-Accepted, 27th Aug., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved File or Holder for Newspapers and the like.
I, CHARLES HERMAN JAEHNIG, Bookbinder, of Eagle Pass, County of
Maverick, State of Texas, United States of America, 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:-
The invention has reference more particularly to manually portable files in
which the papers after being folded in the usual manner are secured in order, for
preservation and reference. The file is adapted and designed to be laid upon a
table, or placed in the usual rack, or suspended by a hook, and being comparatively
light and easily handled it may be held in one hand by means of its handle at the
base while perusing the paper.
The invention consists in the certain novel and peculiar arrangements and com-
binations of the various parts of the device, all as hereinafter fully described and
then pointed out in the claims.
In order that my invention may be readily understood I shall proceed to describe
it with reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings, the said drawings illus-
trating an actual file or holder made in accordance with my invention and which 1
have found to give the best results in practice.
Fig. 1, is a side view of my improved file, shown as open to receive a paper or
for its removal therefrom, the paper being indicated in broken lines and parts of
the standard being broken away.
Fig. 2, is a similar view of the file closed, the paper being likewise indicated in
dotted-in lines.
Fig. 3, is a broad-side view of one of the attaching springs detached.
Referring to the drawings, in which like numbers of reference indicate like
parts, designates a suitably shaped standard or back-piece, which may be made
of any suitable material, such as wood, and which is provided at its lower end with
a convenient handle 2, by means of which the file may be held in one hand
while reading the filed papers or turning over the leaves thereof.
Upon one side of the standard or back-piece 1, are mounted two springs 3, 4,
located one at or near each end of the main part of the standard. These springs
consist preferably in strips or plates of metal attached by fasteners or screws 5, 5,
to the standard and having their free ends formed with an eye or perforation 6,
adapted to receive the extended ends of the binder-rod 7. These two springs may,
if preferred, be formed by the ends of a single strip of metal secured along the
back of the standard, but the form shown is equally as serviceable.
The binder-rod or retaining-tongue 7, is disposed upon the side of the standard
opposite that upon which the springs are located. The end 8, of the binder-rod
nearest the handle, that is the lower end of said rod, is extended or bent at about
right-angles, inwardly toward the standard and is adapted to extend loosely through
a perforation 9 in the standard and to hinge or connect loosely with the lower
spring 4. This is effected by having the perforation 9, of the standard and 6, of
the spring, arranged in alignment, and the cud 8, of the binder-rod, passing loosely
through both perforations and caught by a head or turned over end 10, of the rod,
thereby affording a hinge or loose joint, by virtue of which the upper end of the
binder-rod may be swung out from the standard to permit the papers 11, to be
hung or placed over the rod, or removed therefrom, as indicated by Fig. 1, of the
drawing.
The upper end 12, of the rod 7, is also extended or bent inwardly at about
right-angles thereto in a manner substantially similar to the lower end 8, and this
end is screw-threaded at 13, and is adapted to take loosely through a perforation 14,

page_text: in the upper end of the standard, which perforation about coincides with the eye 6,
of the upper spring 3, through which the end 12 also extends. A detachable
thumb-nut or cap 15, is fitted on the screw-thread of end 12, and serves to clamp
and hold the binder-rod in closed position, as shown in Fig. 2. This nut or cap
may also serve to tighten the binding tension of the rod or wire 7, though the
springs 3, 4, act to hold the latter in towards the standard under spring pressure
whereby the binder-rod will retain the inserted papers securely in, place and
whereby the binder-rod is self-adjusting relative to the standard to accommodate.a
great, or small number of papers, as the case may be.
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From the foregoing description, the operation of the device will be evident..
With the file in closed position, as shown in Fig. 2, the removal of the nut 15,
permits the rod 7, to be swung into the open position indicated in Fig. 2, under
which condition the papers may be inserted or removed, after which the binder-
rod 7, is forced in towards the standard and the upper end 12, is pushed through
the perforation 14, of the standard, thence through the eye 6, of the spring 3, when
the nut 15, is again applied and the binder-rod thereby locked in position for
holding the papers in the file, as shown in Fig. 2. Any number of papers may be
inserted in the file and the ends of the binder-rod may be prolonged as much as
desired in order to admit a great number of papers. Since the binder-rod extends
along the fold usually formed down the centre of width of the paper, it will hold
them firmly in place on account of the extended surface of the paper with which it
comes in contact.
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
claim: is
1. The improved file or holder for newspapers and the like substantially as set
forth.
2. The arrangement and combination of parts constituting the specific form of
file or holder for newspapers and the like set forth with reference to Figures 1,
2 and 3.
Dated this 25th day of July 1892.
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CHARLES HERMAN JAEHNIG,
Per J. G. L.