US470336A - Letter or paper file - Google Patents

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O. L. PAGE.

LETTER OR'PAPER FILE.

No. 470,336. Patented Ma 8, 1892.

v INVENTOR ATTORNEY. I:

NrTnn -STATES CHARLES L. PAGE, or AKRON, KANSAS.

LETTER OR PAPER FILE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 470,336, dated March 8, 1892.

' Application filed February 18, 1891- Serial No. 381,849- (No model.)

To ail whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES L. PAGE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Akron, in the county of Cowley and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Letter or Paper. Files; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to paper-files or temporary holders for'current bills, letters, or other papers which ordinarily accumulate in the transaction of business.

The object of my invention, among other things, is to provide a bill-holder in which the retaining device or locking-plate acts at the same time as a perforator for the papers to be filed and to simplify the construction and facilitate the manipulation of the file.

For this purpose my invention consists, primarily, in a bill-file in which the lockingplate for retaining the papers acts in conjunction with the impaling rod or rods to perforate the papers; and my invention consists in such further features, details, and combinations of parts as will be more fully set forth in the following description, and covered in the claims.

In the drawings accompanying this specification, Figure 1 represents the plan of a paperfile embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a vertical longitudinal section; Fig. 3, a vertical transverse section on line 00 0c, and Fig. 4 a detail View.

In the drawings, A represents the baseplate of the paper-file, andB afile-head, which is secured to the base Aby screws 1) or otherwise. The head B comprises the foot I), the back 6 and the ears The impaling-rods O are secured to the foot I) at a suitable point, as shown. These impaling-rods are tubular at their upper portion 0, as shown,for a purpose to be hereinafter explained,and are provided with the upper circular cutting-edges c, produced by beveling the inner surface of the tubular portion 0, as best shown in Fig. 4.. This bevel is produced by reaming the tubular portion 0 from the inside, and the same may always be sharpened in the same manner.

D is the locking-plate, of metal or suitable material, which is pivoted at d to the ears 5*. This locking-plate consists of the forward portion 01', having the dies or counter-cutters (Z arranged so as to register with and pass over and around the cutting-edges 0 when the locking-plate D is depressed, as shown in full lines in Figs. 2 and 3. These counter-cutters d are preferably formed by reaming the plate D at the proper points, so as to produce the upwardly-made perforations shown, whose lower cutting-edges snugly fit around theimpaling-rods 0 when the plate D is depressed.

I provide means for retaining the lockingplate in its depressed position (shown in full lines in Fig. 2) and in its elevated position. (Shown in dotted lines in the same figure.)

These means preferably consist in a spring E,

attached to the head B at e and to the locking-plate D, preferably by a link 6', located in a slot 6 in said plate and large enough to permit the necessary play of the link. a, the link 6 being in turn connected with the plate D by the transverse pin or pivot 6 "The location of this pivot or pin 6 is such that it will pass the dead-center with the pivot cl when fully depressed or when fully elevated. For facility of manipulation I provide the plate D with the tails or arms (1 The head B is preferably cast in one piece, and the impaling-pins Gare attached thereto, preferably, by placing them in the flask in any well-known manner and casting the head around them. By this means afirm and com- .pact head is produced, and the rods 0 will be firmly held in position.

The mode of operation of my paper-file will be obvious from the foregoing.

WVhen it is desired to file a paper, thefile is opened by pressing down on the arms d until the pin c has passed the dead-center, when the spring E will hold the plate D open and elevated, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2. The paper is then placed over the rods 0 and the plateD released by urging the arms d away from the head B until the dead-center is overcome, when the spring E will carry the plate down and by the conjoint action of the cutting-edges e and the dies (1 perforate the paper, slip it over the rods 0, and lock the file. The plate D thus serves the three purposes of perforating and iinpaling the papers and locking them in the file. The openings above the dies (1' enable the clippings to be readily removed by blowing or otherwise.

By having the tubular portions 0 of the impaling-rods C beveled interiorly I am enabled to make the perforations inthe papers to be filed in the exact diameter of the said rods. Whenever the cutting-edges become dulled, they are easily sharpened by reaming the tubular portions interiorly.

When the paper-file is filled with papers, or when for any reason it is desired to remove all the papers Withoutdisarranging them, the locking-plate D is raised and the staple F is adjusted on the file by inserting its legs f in the tubular portionsc-of the impaling-rods O, and the papers are then slipped from the impaling-rods onto the staple and may be permanently held in place on said staple when the same is reversed by turning down the projecting ends of its legs f onto the papers.

WVhile I have shown what I consider the preferable form of carrying my invention into effect, it is manifest that the same may be modified in many ways without departing;

from my invention. I do not, therefore, de-

sire to be limited to the precise construction 2. In a paper-file, the combination, with impaling-rods provided with upper cuttingedges, of a locking-plate provided with dies or counter-cutters registering with said cuttingedges, substantially as described.

3. In a paper-file, the combination of impaling-rods provided with cutting-edges, with a locking-plate provided with upwardly-flaring perforations having cutting-edges at their lower portions, said cutting edges being adapted to register with and act in conjunction with the cutting-edges of the impalingrods, substantially as described.

4. In a paper-file, the combination, with an impaling rod or rods, of a pivoted lockingplate engaging with the impaling-rods and means for retaining said locking-plate in its open and closed positions, substantially as described.

5. In a paper-file, the'combination of the following parts: a file-head, .a locking-plate pivoted thereto, and a springattached to the head and to the locking-plate, the parts being so arranged that the spring will retain the locking-plate both in its elevated and in its closed position, substantially as described.

6. In a paper-file, a file-head comprising an 1 impaling rod .or rods and a head proper cast in one piece and around the impa'ling-rods, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES L. PA GE. Witnesses:

J. 0. PAGE, E. P. YOUNG.

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