US1028300A

US1028300A - Filing device.

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Publication number: US1028300A
Application number: US63590011A
Authority: US
Inventors: Albert F Staples
Original assignee: SUPERIOR REGISTER Co
Current assignee: SUPERIOR REGISTER Co
Priority date: 1911-06-28
Filing date: 1911-06-28
Publication date: 1912-06-04
Anticipated expiration: 1929-06-04

Description

A. F. STAPLES.

IIILING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 2s, 1911.

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ALBERT F. STAPLES, OF CANISTEO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR T0 SUPERIOR REGISTER COMPANY, OF CANISTEO, NEW YORK, CQBJPORATION Q1? NEVI YCRKq FILING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed J' une 28, 1911.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, ALBERT F. STAPLES, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Canisteo, in the county of Steuben and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Filing Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to filing devices useful particularly in connection with account-registers, but also applicable to various uses where charge-slips, bills, and the like, are to be filed.

One object of the invention is to produce a spring-clip or bill-holder of novel and simple form, for holding bills or charge-slips against a plate or frame such, for example, as is employed in account-registers.

Another object of the invention is to improve the construction of such a plate or frame in various respects hereinafter set forth. U

To the foregoing ends the invention consists in the filing device hereinafter described, as it is dened in the succeeding claims.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a partial front-elevation of the present invention, as embodied in the bill-holder frame of an account-register or similar device; Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the bill-holder frame of Fig. 1, on the line 2-2 in said figure; Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 in Fig. 2; and Fig. 4 is a side-elevation, on a smaller scale, of a group of bill-holder frames or filing devices constructed in accordance with Figs. 1, 2 and 3.

The invention is illustrated as embodied in a group of bill-holder frames adapted for use in account-registers such, for example, as that illustrated in United States Letters Patent granted to A. F. Staples and C. IIT. Potter, No. 853,651, dated May '14, 1907, although the devices of the present invention constitute a complete filing apparatus in themselves and may be so employed apart from the supporting and controlling mechanisms of said patent.

Each bill-holder frame has a flat bodyportion consisting of two thicknesses 5 and 6 of sheet-metal or other suitable material. The sheets 5 and 6 are creased or flanged outwardly at suitable intervals to produce forwardlyand rearwardly-projecting

vertical ribs

7 and 8, respectively, these ribs serving both to stiften the bill-holder frame and to divide it into columns, in each of which any suitable number of bill-holding clips'may be arranged one above the other.

Each bill-holder frame is stiffened at the bottom by means of a hollow sheet-metal member 9. This member is provided with upwardly-extending flanges 10 inclosing the lower edge of the body-portion and secured thereto by rivets. At its lower angles the bottom-member 9 is formed with integral, outwardly-pressed

sleeves

11 and 12 located at the front and rear, respectively, of the frame. lIhese sleeves are located in staggered relation, as shown in Fig. 3, so that when a plurality of the bill-holder frames are placed together, as in Fig. 4, the sleeves on adjacent frames are brought into alinement, thus permitting hinge-wires 13 to be introduced into the lsleeves so as to hinge the frames together in a series. In this manner the frames are so connected-that they may be swung apart or together, like the leaves of a book, thusadapting the deviceas a whole for use as, or in connection with, an account-register.

'Ihe lateral edges of each bill-holder 'frame are stiened by means of hollow sheet-metal side-members 14 which are secured to the body-portion in the same manner as the bottom-member 9, by means of flanges 15 and rivets 16.

The upper edge of each bill-holder frame is stiffened by means of a hollow sheetmetal member 17 secured to the body-portion by flanges and rivets, and this topmember has an inclined upper surface 18 to facilitate the manipulation of they bill-holder frames and to aord a convenient surface for index-letters, numbers, or other indications of the contents of the several frames.

The construction of the bill-holder frames just described produces a frame having great rigidity in proportion to its weight, and which may be cheaply constructed. When the bill-holder frames are hinged together, as in Fig. 4, the hollow edge-members not only constitute stiifening devices but also, through their interengagement. constitute closures by which protection is afforded to the bills or charge-slips carried by and contained between the adjacent frames.

To diminish the slamming action when adjacent frames are swung together about their pivotal connections, and also for the purpose of affording an effective closure between the tops of the bill-holder frames to prevent the ingress of dust or water, I employ a noved device adapted to operate both as a buffer and as an obturator between the tops of the frames. To this end the forward and rear surfaces of the top-member 18 are pressed inwardly to form grooves 19, and these grooves are continued around the lateral edges of the frames as shown in Fig. l. On each alternate top-member a band 20 of rubber, or other suitable flexible material, is seated in the groove, being held therein either by suitable cement or by being stretched to afford suflicient tension for this purpose. Then the frames are close together, in the position of Fig. 4, the bands 2O seat themselves in the grooves in the adjacent frames, so that between the contact-- ing surfaces of each pair of frames there is a strip of flexible material seated in the opposed grooves, thus sealing the space between the adjacent surfaces and also affording a resilient device to receive and cushion the impact of the frames.

The novel bill-clip constituting a feature of the presentinvention is constructed and arranged as follows: The body-portion of the bill-holder frame is provided, at suitable intervals, with elongated horizontal openings 21, in each of which is located a helix 22 of spring-wire. From one end of this helix a loop 23 extends upwardly at the front of the bill-holder frame, and' the other end 25 of the loop is bent horizontally and inserted in the coil 22, so that the loop is pivotally mounted and is resiliently pressed toward the surface of the body-portion. The other end of the coil 22 is bent upwardly to form a second loop 26, which is located at the rear of the body-portion opposite to the loop 23, and the free end 27 of the loop 26 is also bent horizontally and inserted in the coil 22. By this construction a single, integral wire member is formed t-o constitute, in effect, two clips in corresponding positions at the front and the rear of the bill-holder frame.

The form of the clip just described is such that it will retain itself in the opening 2l, but to secure a neater finish and to support the clip more effectively I prefer to mount the resilient portion 22 of the clip in a sheetmetal sleeve 28. This sleeve has depending fianges 29 which are secured to the bodyportion, below the opening 2l, by means of rivets 30.

To equalize the torsional effect on both side-members of the

loops

28 and 26 the

horizontal members

25 and 27 are carried completely through the coil 22 and are then themselves coiled to form resilient coils 31. The extremities of the wire, beyond these latter coils, are bent into hooks 32 engaging openings in the bodyeportion of the frame, whereby these extremities are fixed against rotation. The swinging movement of each loop is thus resisted, at one side of the loop, by the coil 22, and, at the other side, by the coil 3l acting through the

straight portion

25 or 27. A

Any convenient number of clips may be employed in vertical relation between the

flanges

7 and 8, and the drawings accordingly illustrate the bill-holder frames as broken in the middle to indicate that they may be of indefinite height.

My invention is not limited to the embodiment thereof hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, but may be embodied in various forms, within the nature of the invention as it is defined in the following claims.

I claim l. A filing-device comprising a series of bill-holder frames having corresponding grooves in their opposed marginal surfaces, and elastic devices mounted on the frames and seated in said grooves to afford buffers and closures between the adjacent frames.

2. A filing-device comprising a bill-holder frame having grooves in the forward and rear surfaces of its upper marginal portion, a resilient band seated in said grooves, and bill-holder frames pivotally connected at the bottom with the first-mentioned frame and provided with grooves located in position to be engaged by said band when the frames are swung together about their pivotal connections.

3. A filing device comprising a fiat bodyportion and a hollow sheet-metal bottommember fixed to the lower edge of the bodyportion, the sheet-metal, at the forward and rear lower angles of the bottom-member, extending outwardly at separate points in the form of alining hinge sleeves.

4. A filing-device having, in combination, a bill-holder frame with a flat body-portion provided with an opening, a bill-clip comprising two loops connected by a resilient coil, said coil being located in said opening and one of the loops being on each side of the body-portion, and a sleeve inclosing and pivotally supporting the resilient coil and secured to the edge of the body-portion adjacent saidopening.

5. A filing-device having, in combination, a bill-holder frame with a fiat body-portion provided with an elongated opening, a billclip comprising two loops connected by a resilient member, said member being located in said opening and one of the loops being on each side of the body-portion, and a sleeve inclosing and pivotally supporting the resilient member and secured to the edge of the body-portion adjacent the opening.

6. In combination with a bill-holder frame having a flat body-portion provided with an opening, a bill-clip comprising a central coil located in said opening, a loop on each side of said body-portion, one side of each loop being connected with an end, respectively, of the central coil and a member connected with the other side oi each loop and passing through the central coil, each of said members, beyond the central coil, having a coiled resilient portion and being fixed, at its extremity, to the billholder frame.

7. A filing-device comprising a billholder frame having a body-portion formed oi' two thicknesses of sheet-material, said material being bent outwardly to form forwardly and rearwardly-extending ribs dividing the frame vertically into columns, hollow sheet-metal stitfening members iiXed to the edges of the body-portion, and billclips mounted upon the body-portion between said ribs.

8. A ling device comprising a bill-h0lder frame having a hollow sheet-metal top-inember provided at its forward and rear surfaces with inwardly-pressed grooves, aresilient band extending continuously around said top-member and seated in said grooves, and bill-holder frames pivotally connected, at the bottom, with the first-mentioned frame and provided, in their top-members, with grooves located in position to bel engaged by said band when the frames are swung together about their pivotal connections.

ALBERT F. STAPLES.

Witnesses:

FARNUM F. DoRsEY, D. GURNEE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.