US1070164A - Spring-clip for filing appliances. - Google Patents

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E. B. MOSELEY. SEEING CLIP FOR FILING APPLIANCES.

APPLICATION FILED 00130, 1911.

1 ,070, 1 64, 4 Patented M512, 1913.

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COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH co WASHINGTON Swewboz UNITED srn'rns PATENT OFFICE.

EMERSON B. MOSELEY, 0F ALLIANCE, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE MQCASKEY REGISTER COMPANY, OF ALLIANCE, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

SPRING-CLIP FOR FILING APPLIANCES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 12,1913.

Original application filed June 20, 1911, Serial No. 834,258. -Divided and. this application filed October 30,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMERSON B. MosELEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Alliance, in the county of Stark and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Spring-Clip for Filing Appliances, the same being illustrated and described, but not claimed, in my application for Letters Patent filed June 20, 1911, Serial No. (33%,268, of which application this is a divisional part, and of which invention the following is a specification.

The invention relates to an appliance specially adapted for filing bills of sales or accounts, as of a retail merchant, and more particularly to that class of appliances containing a series of leaves normally located face to face, and being hinged or jointed to gether so that they can be rotated apart to expose and, give access to the faces of the several frames.

The object of the present invention is to provide wire-spring clips which can be conveniently connected to the frames, with their connected ends bent to form springs for holding the body of the clip at varying intervals from the frame to receive and retain bunches of bills of varying thickness.

The present embodiment of the invention, thus set forth in general terms, is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, forming part hereof, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of a filing appliance with a pack of upright frames therein, showing the foremost frame rotated forward to a prone position; Fig. 2, a detached perspective view of the form of wire-spring clip adapted to be secured to the sheet metal plate of the frame; and Fig. 3, a detached perspective view of the form of wire-spring clip adapted to be secured to the rim of the frame.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the drawing.

The frames or leaves 1 are preferably made of metal sheets or plates, with the reinforcing end and side strips 2 and 2 secured on their faces, which strips serve to stiffen as well as to separate the frame plates, and also constitute a rim within which are formed the recesses 3 in the faces of the frames for receiving the bunches of bills to be filed in the appliance. The spring clips 4 Serial No. 657,588.

are secured to the frames within the recesses formed by the reinforcing strips, and each spring is preferably composed of an integral wire bent to form an upper or free end 5 with two lateral legs 6. The lower ends of the legs are bent or curved, first inward in the plane of the legs to form the transverse leg-shanks 7 thence laterally to the plane of the legs and outward to form the transverse spring shanks 8 which are located at an interval alongside of and substantially parallel with the leg-shanks, and preferably extend beyond the outer ends thereof; thence downward and inward to form the trans verse base shanks 9, which are located at an interval below and substantially parallel with the spring-shanks and preferably extend inward to or beyond the inner ends thereof; and thence the free ends are bent or end of the clip to bear, by springing, against the metal plate of the frame when the clip is secured thereto.

The parts are so proportioned and arranged that, when the clips are secured to the frames, the base-shanks 9 and the. springshanks 8 will normally lie along the face of the metal plate, while the leg-shanks and the lower ends of the legs will be normally lo cated in the plane of the face of the reinforcing strips, thus leaving a substantial interval between the lower ends of the legs and the metal sheet, which forms a socket to receive a bunch of bills; it being understood that the yoked ends of the clips are normally de flected backward to press against the face of the metal sheet or intervening bills; and it is evident that the compound spring formed by the several shanks not only serves to resiliently resist the outward rotation of the yoked end of the clip, and thereby hold an inserted bunch of bills in place, but also permits the lower ends of the legs to be sprung outward to increase the interval between these ends and the metal plate, thereby increasing the depth of the socket for receiving a thicker bunch of hills than could he received in the normal interval.

I claim:

1. A filing clip made of spring wire bent to form two lateral legs yoked together at the upper ends, and having the lower ends hent first inward toward each other to forin transverse leg-shanks in the plane of the legs, thence outward alongside the leg shanks to form spring-shanks at an interval from the leg shanks and out of the plane of the legs, thence inward alongside the springshanks to form transverse base-shanks at an interval below the spring-shanks, leg shanks and spring shanks lying in a plane substantially parallel to that of the legs and thence to form securinp' shanks.

lupper ends, and having their lower ends bent inwardly toward each other to form 'transverse leg shanks, thence outward to form spring shanks, thence inwardly along side of said spring shanks and said leg shanks to form transverse base shanks at an v l interval from sa1d spring shanks and thence laterally to form securlng shanks, the said leg shanks and spring shanks being arrz'lnged in a horizontal plane side by side and form mg a support on which slips may rest.

EMERSON B. ldOSELEY.

lVitnesses RUTH A. MILLER, RAY F. KoHL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington; D. G.

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