An Improved File for Filing Letters.and Papers.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 16th Jan., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATIVA
An Improved File for Filing Letters.and Papers.
I, DAVID MOORE-JONES of Auckland in the Provincial District of Auckland
and Colony of New Zealand, Ventilating Engineer, 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 consists of a ring or oval of brass or other suitable metal or wire.
The part of the ring or oval farthest from the plate hereinafter mentioned is cut
diagonally across, and the points caused by such diagonal cutting overlap each
other and are so sharpened and shaped as to allow the documents or papers to be
passed between the overlapping points on to or off the ring or oval, at the same
time and in the act of so passing the documents or papers on to and between the
overlapping points, it, is pierced by the point of the ring or oval and so filed with
the greatest ease and rapidity. The points being turned slightly inwards so as to
prevent the documents or papers when being passed backwards and forwards over
the lapping points (when not required to be taken off) from catching in them. It
is fastened to the back of the file by a plate or metal of any shape or form,
containing a hole through which the ring or oval passes, thence through a groove
running down the centre of the plate at the back, and fixed by soldering or
otherwise, the plate then being fastened by clamps, or as desired to the back of
the file. The wire forming the file may be twisted to any shape, that found most
convenient being shaped much like a stirrup. The bottoni or square portion being
as above mentioned fixed to the plate and the overlapping points being at the
arch.
The back of the file consists preferably of a rectangular sheet of millboard say
of foolscap size or somewhat larger and at one end of it, which may be termed the
top, the plate is attached, the ring projecting to the front.
A flap or cover is provided, it is of the same dimensions as the back, to the top
of which it is attached. The papers held in the file lie against the back and the
cover folds over them; to enable it to do so a slit is cut in the cover extending
from the top part of the way down it. When the cover is closed down upon the
back the ring projects through the slot in the cover.
Figure 1 of the annexed drawings is a front view, with the cover raised, of a
file in accordance with my invention.
Figure 2 is a section on the line 2, 2 in Figure 1.
Figure 3 is a front view of the plate.
Figure 4 is a section on the line 4, 4 in Figure 3.
Figure 5 is a side view of the ring or oval and
Figure 6 is a section on the line 6, 6 in Figure 5.
In Figures 1 and 2 parts of the back and cover are omitted.
a is the back, b is the plate, c is the ring or oval, d is the cover.
The plate is fixed to the back by the claws 6' 6'. 6' is the hole in the plate
through which the ring is passed and 6 is the groove in the back of the plate in
which the ring lies. is a hole in the plate by which the file may be hung upon
a nail. cc are the overlapping points of the ring. is the slit in the cover
which allows it to fold down on to the back.

page_text: 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. In a file for filing letters and papers, the overlapping points substantially as
described.
2. In a file for filing letters and papers the combination of parts substantially
as described consisting of the back a, the plate b, the ring or oval o and the
cover d.
Dated this 9th day of November 190
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.