US105987A - Improvement in paper-files - Google Patents

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. UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE,

FRANCIS C. SENSEMAN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR IO HIMSELF JAND A. E. STEEL, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT vIN PAPER-FILES,

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 105,987, dated August '2, 1870.

-To all whom t may concern: v

Be it known l, FEANcIs C. SENsEMAN, of

' Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the saine, reference beingy had to the accompanying drawings, forming partA of this specification, in whichl Figure l represents a side elevation, partly in section, of the improved file. Fig 2 is a detail enlargedv side View of the lowerpart of the same. Fig 3 is adetail transverse section of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate correresponding parts.

This invention has for its object to construct a le for bills, letters, Sto., in such a manner that any one bill or letter can be reached and removed without requiring the separate removal and reattachment of all those above it.

The invention consists in the combination of a wireV iile with a tubularslotted holder, the parts" being so arranged that the wire can be withdrawn with some of the bills, leaving the remainder on the holder.

A in the drawings represents a vertlcal tube, secured upon a platform or foot, B, and slotted longitudinally, as shown.

C is a wire pointed at the upper end and provided. near its lower end with a projecting ear or lug, a. vThe wire is inserted in the tube, the ear passing along the slot. Then inproper position thc ear can be turned into a notch, b, of the tube, in which it is held by a spring, c, that presses against the lower end of the wire. The spring can, however, be dispensed with. The upper end of the tube is tapered to gradually approach the size of the wire.

The letters or bills to be iiled are put over the wire and held on the tube. When one particular paper is to be taken out from a number on the file, the lot is divided atV the place of the desired one, and the upper half slipped upon the upper projecting part of the'wire. rIhe wire is then taken out of the tube, when the uppermost bill on the latter can readily be removed. rlhe wire being replaced allows the upper papers to be readilyv slipped back over the tube. l

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent--A The file consisting ofthe slotted tube A, wire C, and lug a, all arranged as set forth.

F. C. SENSEMAN.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL C. OGLE, H. B. STEWART.

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