Improvements in Files for Papers.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Sept., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 1st Apr., 1892-Accepted, 7th May, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Files for Papers.
I EDWARD JAMES BEAUMONT of College Road Reading Clerk do hereby
declare the nature of my invention for improvements in files for holding bills
invoices and other papers to be as follows:-
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My invention relates to that class of file which holds papers by passing them over
a pointed hooked wire and has for its object facility of disengagement of any
number of the papers and the semi-automatic separation & coupling of the main
parts of the file. A booked wire passes through a tube which is fixed in a pedestal.
In the cavity in the pedestal is a pivoted tongue piece which may be weighted or
caused to return to its position by a spring. Past one end of the tongue piece or
through a hole therein the end of the hooked wire, which may be notched or grooved,
passes & by the buckle action or cam-clip action of the tongue piece the wire is
prevented from returning except when the other end of the pivoted tongue piece is
pressed upwards or into the cavity of the pedestal. Thus when the file is standing
upon a table the hook may be withdrawn with any desired number of the bills or
papers upon it and when it is re-inserted it is automatically clipped. When the file
including its base is lifted from the table the tongue grips the hooked wire and it
may be hung up by the hook without any separate action on the part of the user
for fixing the hooked wire in the pedestal.
Dated this 15th day of September 1891.
EDWARD JAMES BEAUMONT.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Files for Papers.
I, EDWARD JAMES BEAUMONT of College Road, Reading, Clerk, 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 two part bill, invoice, and paper files, or two part stem
paper files, and consists in means for automatically locking and releasing the attach-
able and detachable stem as hereinafter described.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents in vertical section, a detach-
able and two part stem bill file, constructed according to, or provided with improve-
ments, made according to my invention.
The said file is shown with the parts in the positions which they respectively
assume, when the said file is hung up, taken hold of by the hooked end, or when
suspended.
Figure 2 shows the same, or portions of the file with the base part resting upon a
table, desk or other surface, and with the detachable stem released from the base,
consequent upon the weight of the file and its contents, pressing upon an extending
portion of a lever catch.
Figure 3 shows the lower and catch end of the detachable and inner stem, and the
lever catch, upon an enlarged scale.
Figure 4 represents a plan of the underside of the base, showing the recessed
bottom, and the lever catch working within it.
The same letters of reference, indicate like parts in Figures 1 to 4.
a is a fixed and open ended tubular stem, attached to, and carried by a base or
[Pains Qd1

page_text: poised lever c, catches, and holds the stem d, fixedly to the base when the file is lifted
or hung up, 3, is the joint of the lever, and e' the counterpoised or weighted end of
the same.
The lever is carried within the recess of the base by a bracket e, with bearing
sides e².
OPERATION.
The filing of bills, invoices, papers and the like, is performed, by threading the
same first over the hooked end of the movable part or wire d, and then pass the
said bills or papers thus threaded, over the tubular and fixed stem a, when the first
named stem may be removed, without disturbing the filed papers.
Assuming the file to be resting on a table, then by taking hold of its hooked end,
and suspending the same by it, the counterpoised end of the lever catch falls below
the surface of the underside of the base, and thereby lifts the short arm c¹, with the
catch, or shoulder part, coming above the stem shoulder ', hence the fastening
or locking of the detachable stem to the base.
The greater the pull upon the threading stem of the file, the greater the lock,
consequent upon the upward movement.
On now placing the file upon a table or other surface, its weight, and that of the
filed matter forces inwards the counterpoised lever end, until the same is hidden
within the recess in the base, and comes flush with the underside surface of it.
The charging of the lever's relative position, takes its short arm horizontally or
nearly so, and with the shoulder or part 2, clear of the shoulder do, hence the
releasing of the attachable and detachable stem d, from the stem a, and base b.
Intermediate or middle bills or paper filed, can now be got at, by sliding the bills
or papers above those required, onto the detachable part, which is then removed,
and the required bill, paper, or the like, looked to, or taken off, (see Figure 2).
By the now placing the one part within the other and tubular part, and lifting
the file by the hooked end, the attachable and detachable part. is connected to the
other part, and automatically locked thereto.
Figure 5 represents in section, a bill and paper file base or lower end, fitted and
provided with stem fastening, or locking means, constructed and arranged according
to a modified form of my said invention.
The fastening or locking of the attachable and detachable stem, is more positive
or direct, than in the preceding arrangement.
a is the fixed stem, the base carrying it, 62, is a recess in the middle of the said
base, c is a cranked lever jointed at c, and with the cranked arm c', having a hole c³,
with a shoulder part 3, near its end, which engages with a shoulder d', of a neck d*,
at the lower end of the detachable and attachable stem d.
The other end c, of the said lever catch is counterpoised, so as to put the cranked
end of it into engagement with the stem, when the file is picked or hung up, by the
fore or hooked end of it.
gis a stop for limiting the outward movement of the lever catch, on the file being
picked up.
The placing within, and pushing home of the stem d, into, the stem a, when the
base of the file is resting upon a surface, takes the lower end of it into and through
the hole c³, of the lever end c', and on the file being subsequently picked up by the
detachable part, then the weighted end of the lever drops and engages the shoulder
or solid part c' of its other end, with the shoulder d', of the removable stem, hence
the connecting and locking of the said movable stem to the base.
Figure 6 represents a further means of locking the removable stem, to the base.

page_text: slide, wherethrough the shoulder d°, of the stem d passes, and is engaged, and is
a weight, with upwardly directed pusher branches ', having inclines c, adapted to
impinge against the said slide, and so push the same back, which is returned to its
normal and locking position, by a spring h.
To prevent the displacement of the pusher part, stops 8, of it, come against
stops b, at the entrance of the cavity, of the base b.
OPERATION.
The placing of a file upon a surface, presses up the pusher part c³, c', by its
weight, and forces the inclines c, against the slide c, and so presses the said
slide back and disengages the catch part of it from the shoulder d³, of the
attachable and detachable stem d, hence the unlocking.
The lifting of the file by the stem d, allows the part
the slide c to be taken forward to its normal position by
locking.
to fall by gravity and
the spring, hence the
Figure 7 shows a further form of locking, and unlocking, the removable stem
part of a two part file, to its base or pedestal on the said file being removed
from off a plain surface, by taking hold of the detachable part.
a is a fixed stem, carried by a base b, having a recess, sunken within the
middle of its underside, are catch ends carried by a double branched tongue
piece c, carried by a frame e, with cross bar e². e is a cross pin or stud carried
by a rising and falling pusher block or operator c, adapted to work within the
recess 2d is a removable stem, with shoulder d³, at its lower end and taking
and sliding within the tubular and fixed stem a.
When the file rests upon a table or other plain surface, the operator c³, is
pressed inwards causing the stud or pin co, to travel up. the neck e', and so open
out the arms terminated by the catch ends c², hence the unlocking.
By taking hold of the upper end of the stem d, by the hook or other end
(not shown) the operator or pusher c³, falls by its own weight, and takes the
pin c, with it, and from between the contracted part c', of the catch arms,
hence the closing of the catch ends, before the shoulder c, and the locking of
the stem and base together.
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 :-
First In a two-part-stem paper, bill or invoice file, automatically securing
or locking the attachable and detachable stem part to the other or base part,
and also releasing the said attachable and detachable stem part from the said
other or base part, by or through the intervention, of a counterpoised catch
lever slide, arm, pusher or their equivalents which locks and releases, in manner
and by means as described and set forth, on the said attachable and detachable
stem part being laid hold of, hung up or the like, or the base of the file being
placed upon a plain or other surface.
:-
Secondly In the securing and releasing means of two-part-stem paper, bill
or invoice files, automatically locking and releasing the attachable and detachable
part to or from the base or other part, by a counterpoised and jointed lever,
constructed, applied and working, substantially as described and set forth in
Figures 1 to 5.
Thirdly In the fastening and releasing means of a two-part bill file, the
combination with a shouldered ended attachable and detachable stem, of a lever,
or counterpoised catch lever, constructed and applied with the said end substan-
tially as described and set forth in Figures 1 to 5.
Fourthly-In the fastening and releasing means of a two-part bill file, auto-
matically fastening and releasing the attachable and detachable stem from the

page_text: other or base part, by a slide operated by a pusher, constructed arranged and
working substantially as set forth in Figure 6.
Fifthly In the fastening and releasing means of a two-part bill file, auto-
matically fastening and releasing the attachable and detachable stem from the
other or base part, by a branched or double branched catch, arranged, combined
and operating, for the said affixing and releasing, substantially as described and
set forth in Figure 7.
Dated this 30th day of March 1899
EDWARD JAMES BEAUMONT,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.