Improvements in Files or Binders for Holding Letters, Bills, and other Papers or Documents.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Jan., 1896-Accepted, 15th Feb., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Files or Binders for Holding Letters, Bills, and
other Papers or Documents.
1, WILHELM BELLER, of 67, Ostendstrasse, Frankfurt, in the Empire of
Germany, Manufacturer, 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, and accompanying drawing, that is
to say:-
My present invention relates to that kind of file or binder for holding letters,
bills, and other papers or documents, in which a detachable part is used which
when sufficiently filled with papers can be removed from the holder, and a fresh
one substituted for it.
It consists of a novel method of construction by which the detachable part of the
file is combined with a guide fixed inside the book-like cover of the file, and carries
fixed to it projecting receiving tubes upon which the papers are filed and into which
fit the straight parallel ends of a bent wire the transverse connecting branch of
which fits into a spring catch fixed to the slide, in such manner that the wire can
he instantly released when desired and withdrawn from the receiving tubes for the
insertion and removal of papers, whilst the detachable part together with the bent
wire and the papers or documents upon the file can be removed and a fresh one
substituted for it.
I also provide a novel holder by which such papers or documents are easily and
securely held down upon the detachable part of the file.
In the accompanying drawing, which is in illustration of my invention,
Figure 1 is a view of a book-like letter file shewn open, the dotted lines
(Figure 1) shewing it when closed.
Figure 2 is a view upon a larger scale of the detachable part fitted into the
guide.
Figure 3 is a separate view of the bent wire, and Figure 4 of the detachable
part removed from the guide.
Figures 5, 6, 7, and 8, are separate views of the paper holder.
a and bare the book-like covers for the letter file, connected by the back c.
The guide d formed of light metal such as tinued plate, is rivetted or otherwise
fixed on the inside of the cover b, and into a horizontal guide formed in it slides
the detachable part consisting of a body e to which are fixed the rigid receiving
tubes f, f.
The part e is brought up against a stop in the guide at 9, when in its proper
position, and is preferably provided with longitudinal projecting arms (Figure 4),
which fit between the spring holder i, so that the detachable part is held steadily
in position. The bent wire k has two parallel descending arms 1, which fit in the
tubes, whilst the part of the wire which connects them fits into a spring catch m
which is fixed to the guide d or to the cover b.
This catch ordinarily prevents the wire from leaving the tubes, but when
required the spring can be easily pressed back to free the wire, and the detachable
part e with the papers can, (with or without the bent wire) then be removed from
the guide and a fresh one substituted.
The holder shewn in Figures 5, 6, 7, and 8, consists of two strips of thin metal n
and o, attached together by rivets working in a slot so that the strips cau be
elongated telescopically (as shewn in Figure 7) or brought together (as shewn in

page_text: Figure 5). Holes, p, p, are made through both strips, in such position that when
the strips are closed together the receiving tubes f pass freely through them. The
holes have tapered elongations r, r, so that when the strips are driven forcibly
apart the holes jam upon the tubes f and remain fixed there, holding the papers
down and retaining them in their proper position. If the strips n, o, are brought
together again they can be readily lifted off the tubes f, and the papers removed.
This paper holder is applicable to all files having two fixed receiving tubes or
wires.
Although shewn fixed in book-like covers, it is evident that the guide d may be
fixed to a board or any suitable support.
I am aware that paper files have been made having a detachable part fitting in
a spring guide and carrying receiving tubes for papers, which when inserted in the
guide are opposite the ends of fixed wires, and I do not claim broadly such an
-arrangement, but
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 letter files having a detachable part carrying a filing or receiving tube
or tubes, the combination of the fixed guide, the detachable part carrying a
receiving tube or tubes, the bent wire, having parallel ends fitting in the receiving
tubes, and the spring catch, receiving and holding the bent wire, all substantially
as described and illustrated.
(2.) The paper holder, consisting of two strips sliding on each other, and having
holes with tapered elongations, substantially as and for the purpose described, and
illustrated in Figures 5, 6, 7, and 8.
Dated this 10th day of January 1896.
EDWARDS & Co.,
65 and 66, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.