GB171306A - Device for filing and binding papers - Google Patents

Abstract

171,306. White, L. D. Nov. 18, 1920. Spiked-prong and like perforators; post files.- Papers are filed and bound upon staples, rails, &c., which are temporarily clamped in an upright position on the frame of the apparatus, rods forming the back of the frame having a pressurebar sliding upon them for forcing the papers down the nails &c. As shown, a clamping-bar N is held to the hollow base B by thumb-screws 0 and is slotted at P to receive one or more nails &c. Q. A pressure-bar D, having apertures F through which the nails can freely pass, slides upon rods C forming the back cf the frame, and is guided through the frame member A by rods G, a spring I being positioned on the guide-rods between the frame member A and an operating- handle J joining the rods. Adjustable projections S serve to align the papers sideways, and projections L<1>, Fig. 1, or K, Fig. 2, prevent the papers from curling up and thus forcing the spikes forward. A removable slotted plate may be placed between the pressure-bar and clamping-bar to keep the spikes in alignment. The rods G and handle member J may be omitted and the device operated by projections on the pressure-bar, the spring in this case being around the rods C. The clamping-bar N may be removable with the spikes &c. and clamped to the under-side of the hollow base, or it may be in sections with the spikes between. In a modified form of apparatus, designed for use with a single spike, the latter passes into a hollow guide-rod forming part of the pressure-bar, the back of the frame engaging slots in the pressure-bar. The papers filed may be permanently bound, for example, by binding the ends of the spikes down, by pressing washers on the ends of the spikes, or by means of threaded twine; or two sections may be inverted and the nails driven into the opposite section.