Improvements in Cases or Holders for Letters and other Loose Sheets of Paper or other Material.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 19th July, 1894-Accepted, 25th Aug., 1894.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cases or Holders for Letters and other Loose
Sheets of Paper or other Material.
I, ISAAC CHALKLEY GOULD, of 52 Old Bailey, in the City of London,
Wholesale Stationer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has reference to improvements in cases or holders for letters and
other loose sheets of paper or other material (hereinafter referred to as loose papers)
the object being to provide means whereby loose papers within a case or holder,
will, when the latter is placed upright become automatically held in place and
prevented from becoming disarranged. For this purpose I provide the case or
holder (hereinafter called a holder) which may advantageously resemble a book
externally and be provided with a hinged cover and side adapted to engage each
other by a clip or fastening piece, with a plate or flap hinged or pivoted to
the holder, the arrangement being such that the free end of the flap will bear
against papers placed in the case when the holder stands on edge like a book,
a sliding piece that may resemble a button or stud being applied to the flap or to a
fixed part-cover in such a way as to act by gravity, when the case is placed
upright and turn the flap about its hinge or pivot thereby causing its free end to
press against the papers in the holder and retain them in place.
According to one arrangement the flap is a metal plate hinged at or near that
edge of the lower side of the holder which is next the cover or lid when closed.
The flap is slotted lengthwise to receive the neck of a stud-like piece of sufficiently
heavy material, such as bone ivory or metal. Between the hinged cover or lid of
the holder and the flap, a piece of wood or other material is secured, it may be by
glueing or otherwise fixing to the edges of the top and bottom sides of the casing in
such a manner that it forms a part cover with its inner surface contiguous to the
hinged or pivoted end of the flap. By this construction it will be readily
understood that upon the holder being placed in an upright position, the stud-like
piece will fall by gravity and wedge itself between the flap and the inner surface of
the part cover.
The sliding piece, instead of being arranged to slide in a slot in the flap may be
arranged to slide in a slot in the part cover, the flap, in this case, being plain.
Or the part cover may be dispensed with, the sliding piece carried by the flap then
wedging itself when the holder is placed upright, between the flap plate and the
cover or lid of the case, or the sliding piece might be adapted to slide in guides
formed with or attached to the part cover.
To enable the sliding piece to be fitted in the slot, the latter may be made
of shape and be enlarged at one part so that the head or base of the sliding piece
can be passed through the slot.
As will be obvious holders according to this invention may be provided with more
than one flap and with more than one sliding piece.
Dated this 20th day of October 1893.
I. C. GOULD,
By L. W., per F. B.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cases or Holders for Letters and other Loose
Sheets of Paper or other Material.
I, ISAAC CHALKLEY GOULD, of 52 Old Bailey, in the City of London,
Wholesale Stationer, 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 has reference to improvements in cases or holders (hereinafter
referred to as holders) for letters and other loose sheets of paper or other material
(hereinafter referred to as loose papers), the object being to provide means whereby
loose papers within the holder, will, when the latter is placed upright, become
automatically held in place and prevented from becoming disarranged. For this
purpose I provide the holder with a hinged or pivoted plate or flap (hereinafter
called a flap), so arranged that its free end will bear against papers within the
holder when the latter stands on edge like a book, a sliding piece, that may
resemble a button or stud and is hereinafter called a sliding button, being applied
to the flap, or to a fixed part-cover, in such a way as to act by gravity when the
holder is placed upright, and turn the flap about its hinge or pivot, thereby
causing its free end to press against the papers in the holder and so retain them
in place.
In the accompanying drawings,
Figs. 1 and 2 are elevations at right angles to each other, showing a holder
constructed according to this invention, the said holder being shown in its open
position ;
Fig. 3 is a face view, to a larger scale, of the hinged flap with sliding button,
detached from the holder.
Figs. 4 and 5 are similar views to Figs. 1 and 2 of the inner case of a modified
form of a holder with my improvements applied thereto; and
Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the outer case into which the said inner case is
adapted to slide.
Figs.
and 8 are similar views to Figs. 1 and 2 respectively, illustrating two
modified arrangements.
Fig. 9 is a cross section of an inner case similar to that shown in Fig. 4,
illustrating a further modified arrangement.
The holder 1 shown in Figs. 1 and 2, is provided with a hinged cover and side.
Within it is a metal plate or flap 2 hinged at or near that edge 3* of the lower
side 3 of the holder which is next the hinged cover or lid 4 when the same is closed.
The flap is formed lengthwise with a slot 5 to receive the neck of a stud-like piece 8,
herein called the sliding button, which is made of sufficiently heavy material, such
as bone, ivory or metal, and is free to slide in such slot.
To enable the sliding button to be fitted in the slot, I prefer to form the latter of
a uniform width throughout and so bend or spring the two side portions of the plate
in which it is formed, that the sliding button can be readily sprung into place in the
slot, after which the plate is caused to assume its normal flat state.
Between the hinged cover or lid 4 of the holder, and the flap 2, a piece 7, of wood
or other material is secured, it may be by glueing or otherwise fixing it to the
edges of the top and bottom sides 3,3 of the holder in such a manner that it forms
a part cover with its inner surface contiguous to the hinged or pivoted end of the
flap 2. The side 9 of the holder is hinged to enable the papers, which are arranged
between the flap and the back or bottom of the holder, to be easily removed and
replaced. It may conveniently be held in its closed position by a clip 10 attached
to the lid 4, or by a lock, or by a rim projecting from the lid 4 in a manner well
understood.

page_text: By the construction described, it will be readily understood that upon the holder
being placed in an upright position, the sliding button 6 will fall by gravity and
wedge itself between the inner surface of the part cover 7 and the flap 2, the free
end of which will thus be caused to bear against the papers within the holder and
firmly retain them in place. The holders may, if desired, be so made as to resemble
books externally.
In the arrangement shown in Figs. 4, 5 and 6, the holder comprises an inner case
or receptacle, shewn in Figs. 4 and 5, for loose papers, and an outer case, shown in
Fig. 6, that may have externally the shape of a book, as shown, and in which the
inner case can slide. The said inner case is formed with an opening 11 at one side,
its top side 12 being somewhat narrower than its bottom side 13, and the ends 14, 14
being bevelled to render papers within the case readily accessible. The slotted
flap 2 with sliding button 6 is hinged within this inner case in the same manner as
in the above described arrangement, the button acting, when the case is placed
upright, against the side 12, which corresponds to the part cover 7 in the previous
arrangement. 15 is a loop of flexible material by means of which the inner case can
be readily withdrawn from the outer one.
Holders according to this invention can be variously modified. Thus the sliding
button 6 instead of being arranged to slide in a slot in the flap 2, may, as shown
in Fig. 7, be arranged to slide in a slot 5* in the part cover 7, the said flap, in this
case, being plain, that is, not slotted. Or the part cover 7 may be dispensed with,
as shewn in Fig. 8, the sliding button 6 carried by the flap then wedging itself,
when the holder is placed upright, between the flap 2 and the cover or lid 4 of the
holder; or the sliding button might be adapted to slide in guides 16 formed
with or attached to the part cover 7, or to the side 12 of the case 12-13 as shewn
in Fig. 9.
As will be obvious, holders according to this invention can be provided with more
than one flap, and the flaps, or one of them, may be hinged to the part cover 7, or
side 12, as the case may be, instead of to the end 3 as in the above described
arrangements. Each flap may if desired, be provided with more than one sliding
button.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In a holder for letters and other loose sheets, a hinged or pivotted plate
or flap adapted to bear against letters or other loose sheets in said holder, and a
sliding device adapted to act by gravity against the said plate or flap and hold the
same in its operative position substantially as herein described for the purpose
specified.
2. In a holder for letters and other loose sheets, the combination of a normally
fixed part, a hinged flap adapted to bear against the loose sheets, and a sliding piece
adapted when the holder is turned on end, to act by gravity against the said fixed
part and flap and hold the latter in its operative position substantially as herein
described.
3. My improved cases or holders for letters and other loose sheets, constructed
arranged and operating substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to
and shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, and in Figs. 4, 5 and 6, 'or modified according to
Fig. 7, or according to Fig. 8, or according to Fig. 9 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated thi. 10th
1004
For the Applicant,
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.