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US1031392A
US1031392A US63590111A US1911635901A US1031392A US 1031392 A US1031392 A US 1031392A US 63590111 A US63590111 A US 63590111A US 1911635901 A US1911635901 A US 1911635901A US 1031392 A US1031392 A US 1031392A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B42—BOOKBINDING; ALBUMS; FILES; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER
    • B42F—SHEETS TEMPORARILY ATTACHED TOGETHER; FILING APPLIANCES; FILE CARDS; INDEXING
    • B42F9/00—Filing appliances with devices clamping file edges; Covers with clamping backs
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
    • Y10T24/20—Paper fastener
    • Y10T24/202—Resiliently biased
    • Y10T24/205—One piece
    • Y10T24/206—Mounted on support means

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  • This application relates to resilient clips such as are used for holding bills, chargeslips, and the like, in connection with account-registers, or wherever it is necessary to hold one or more sheets of paper for filing purposes.
  • the object of the invention is to produce a clip of simple and efficient form, which may be readily constructed of a single length of wire, and which shall have capacity for a variable number of bills or slips.
  • the invention consists in the bill-clip hereinafter described, as it is defined in the succeeding claim.
  • Figure l is a front-elevation of a portion of a billholder frame of an account-register provided with clips embodying the present invention
  • Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22 of Fig. 1.
  • the bill-clip is formed of a single length of wire, and comprises a loop-shaped portion, which may be of any convenlent form, and of which the side-members 3 and t are preferably connected together near the middle by means of a sheet-metal member 5.
  • the side-members 3 and 4: of the loop are bent inwardly at the bottom, and are formed continuously with helical resilient portions 6 and 7, respectively. From the inner extremity of each helical portion the wire extends horizontally, so as to form two straight portions 8 and 9, respectively, and these port-ions terminate in upwardlydirected hooks 10.
  • the port-ions 8 and 9 are arranged to extend through the helical portions 6 and 7 and they thus constitute pivotal supports for these portions.
  • the clip is adapted to be used in connection with a bill-holder frame, or any other device having a fiat sheet-metal body-portion or base-plate 11.
  • This baseplate is provided with lower and upper perforations 12 and 19, respectively, through which the hooked extremities 10 are inserted, and in this manner the clips are conveniently fixed to the base-plate.
  • the clips When used in connect-ion with a bill-holder frame, as illustrated, the clips may be arranged in pairs on opposite sides of the frame, the hooks 10 of the corresponding clips extending through the same perforations. This arrangement, however, constitutes no part of the present invention.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates, in connection with the clip, index-cards 13 removably fixed to the base-plate by means of lugs 14. This arrangement illustrates a convenient device for identifying the contents of each clip, but is not claimed as a part of the present invention.
  • a bill-clip comprising a single length of wire bent to form a central loop-portion
  • tWo helical portions at the ends of the loop adapted to be fixed at their ends, beyond the portion, and two straight portions continusides of the loop to a base-plate.

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A. F. STAPLES.
BILL CLIP.
APPLICATION FILED JUNE 28, 1911.
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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
ALBERT F. STAPLES, OF CANISTEO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO SUPERIOR REGISTER. COMPANY, OF CANISTEO, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.
BILL-CLIP.
Specification of Letters Patent.
Application filed June 28, 1911.
Serial No. 635,901.
To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALBERT F. STAPLES, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Ganisteo, in the county of Steuben and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bill-Clips, of which the following is a specification.
This application relates to resilient clips such as are used for holding bills, chargeslips, and the like, in connection with account-registers, or wherever it is necessary to hold one or more sheets of paper for filing purposes.
The object of the invention-is to produce a clip of simple and efficient form, which may be readily constructed of a single length of wire, and which shall have capacity for a variable number of bills or slips.
The invention consists in the bill-clip hereinafter described, as it is defined in the succeeding claim.
In the accompanying drawings: Figure l is a front-elevation of a portion of a billholder frame of an account-register provided with clips embodying the present invention, andFig. 2 is a section on the line 22 of Fig. 1.
In the illustrated embodiment of the invention the bill-clip is formed of a single length of wire, and comprises a loop-shaped portion, which may be of any convenlent form, and of which the side-members 3 and t are preferably connected together near the middle by means of a sheet-metal member 5. The side-members 3 and 4: of the loop are bent inwardly at the bottom, and are formed continuously with helical resilient portions 6 and 7, respectively. From the inner extremity of each helical portion the wire extends horizontally, so as to form two straight portions 8 and 9, respectively, and these port-ions terminate in upwardlydirected hooks 10.
The port-ions 8 and 9 are arranged to extend through the helical portions 6 and 7 and they thus constitute pivotal supports for these portions. The clip is adapted to be used in connection with a bill-holder frame, or any other device having a fiat sheet-metal body-portion or base-plate 11. This baseplate is provided with lower and upper perforations 12 and 19, respectively, through which the hooked extremities 10 are inserted, and in this manner the clips are conveniently fixed to the base-plate. When used in connect-ion with a bill-holder frame, as illustrated, the clips may be arranged in pairs on opposite sides of the frame, the hooks 10 of the corresponding clips extending through the same perforations. This arrangement, however, constitutes no part of the present invention.
When bills are to be inserted in, or removed from the clip, the loop is grasped at the top and swung away from the base-plate 11, this movement being permitted by the yielding action of the helical portions 6 and 7. At this time the straight portions 8 and 9 act as pivots for the helical members, so that the latter can rotate without being swung away from the base-plate. When released the clips spring backto the baseplate, and owing to the fact that the straight portions 8 and 9 are of considerably less diameter than the helical portions of the clips, these latter portions may be moved outwardly by the bottom of the bundle of bills as far as is necessary to accommodate the thickness of the bills at this point.
The drawings illustrate, in connection with the clip, index-cards 13 removably fixed to the base-plate by means of lugs 14. This arrangement illustrates a convenient device for identifying the contents of each clip, but is not claimed as a part of the present invention.
I am aware that a wire clip has previously been proposed, in which the loop-portion is pivotally mounted by means of helical portions embracing straight members, but I am the first, so far as I am informed, to produce a device of this kind which may be readily manufactured from a single length of wire by the use of ordinary wire-working tools, and this result I attain by the particular arrangement of the several parts of the clip which is defined in the following claim.
A bill-clip comprising a single length of wire bent to form a central loop-portion,
Patented July 2, 1912.
tWo helical portions at the ends of the loopadapted to be fixed at their ends, beyond the portion, and two straight portions continusides of the loop to a base-plate.
ous with the helical portions and extending, ALBERT F. STAPLES. respectively, in opposite directions from WVitnesses:
5 each helical portion through the opposite FARNUM F. DoRsEY,
helical portion, the straight portions being D. GURNEE.
Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,
Washington, D. O.
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