PAPER FILES AND BINDER
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Archibald Ellis at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th March 1882.
ARCHIBALD ELLIS of Lewes in the County of Sussex.
PAPER FILES AND BINDER
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"IMPROVEMENTS IN
A file made in accordance with this invention consists of two metal plates
hinged together so that they may be opened out flat and closed so as to assume
a position of right angles to each other. On the one hinge is fixed a metal tube
bent to the form and length (or nearly so) of the fourth part of a circle described
from the hinge as a centre. On the other hinge is fixed a rod similarly curved,
and of about the same length so that when the hinges are opened and flat there
shall be a short distance or opening between the ends of the curved tube and rod
(for filing the papers) and when the hinges are being closed to a right angle the
rod enters and slides within the curved tube on which the papers to be filed aro
placed.
The binder consists of a metal tube flanged at one end and provided with a
female screw at the other end. A rod flanged at one end and provided with a
male screw just under the flange takes easily into the said tube until the respective
screw threads meet when the rod is screwed down into the tube and becomes
fastened therein, the papers to be bound being confined between the two flanges.
I fix the aforesaid hinges by one part of the hinge plates to one of the sides of
a cover or binding by means of screws rivets or pins and the other of the hinge
plates to the back of such cover or binding a groove being left at the angle for
imbedding the part through which the hinge pin passes-the other of the two sides
of the cover not affected but folding over so as outwardly to form the appearance
of a book,

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Archibald Ellis in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
27th September 1882.
ARCHIBALD ELLIS of Lewes in the County of Sussex
PAPER FILES AND BINDER
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"IMPROVEMENTS IN
A file made in accordance with this invention consists of two metal plates a
and b hinged together so that they may be opened out flat Figures 1 and 3 or
closed so as to assume a position of right angles Figures 2 and 4. On one of the
plates b is fixed a metal tube c to the form and length (or nearly so) of the fourth
part of a circle described from the pin of the hinge as a centre. On the other
plate a is fixed a rod d similarly curved and of about the same length so that
when the plates are opened out flat there shall be a short distance or opening
between the ends of the curved tube and rod Figures 1 and 3 (for filing the papers)
and when the plates are being closed to a right angle the rod d enters and
slides within the curved tube c on which the filed papers are placed Figures 2
and 4.
For the purpose of hanging up the file and case or cover I make a metal loop
or ring e the stem or shank of which is fixed to or made in one piece from the
centre of the hinged plate b and to the other plate a I make an orifice to permit
of the before mentioned loop or ring passing through when the plates (or hinge)
are closed to a right angle (Figure 4). To the upper and under side of the metal
plate a (and close to the side of the orifice f) I have two half buttons g and g¹
rivetted together so that the upper and under buttons turn with each other, when
the plates are opened out by turning the buttons, the before mentioned loop or
ring is held between the double buttons in order to hold the plates and with them
the circular tube and rod in a fixed position whilst searching or turning over the
filed papers Figures 1 and 3.
I fix the aforesaid file by one of the hinged plates to the centre or to one side
of a cover or binding by means of screws, rivets or pins and the other of the
hinged metal plates to the back of such cover or binding a groove being left at the
angle for imbedding the part through which the hinge pin passes, or I cut a piece
out of the groove so as to allow the part through which the hinge pin passes to
have free play, the other of the two sides of the cover not being effected but folding
over so as outwardly to form the appearance of a book.or box.
The binder Figure 6 consists of a metal tube h flanged at one end and also
provided with a screw or any suitable catch or fastener a rod j being likewise
Hanged at one end this rod is pressed down into the tube h and becomes held
therein by means of any suitable fastener (the papers to be bound being first placed
on the rod j) and confined between the two flanges, this binder can also be made
to fix in a box or cover.
Figure 5 represents the file opened wide to allow of the binder; being placed
just within the mouth of the tube c to receive the papers from the file on to the
binder.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of my invention and the manner
in which the same is or may be performed I would observe in conclusion that I do
not limit myself to the precise details herein given and shewn in the accompanying
Drawings as various modifications may be made therein while retaining the

page_text: essential features of my invention but what I claim as new and desire to be secured
to me by Letters Patent is the Improvements in paper files and binder herein before
described and illustrated or any modification thereof.
In witness whereof I the said Archibald Ellis have hereunto set my hand
and seal this twentysixth day of September in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
ARCHBD. ELLIS. (L.S.)