US1223075A - Stand or support for loose-leaf books, &c. - Google Patents

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W. H. KIDDER; ST AND 0R SUPPORT FOR LOOSE LEAF BOOKS, &c.

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. desirable to provide suitable means for so WELLINGTON I-I. Kimmie, or noosnvnnr, nnw z'onrz, A-SSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO UNDER'WOOD COMPUTING MACHINE oorrrANY, or new YoaK, 1v. Y., A

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Specification of Letters Patent.

STAND OR SUPPORT FOR LOOSE-LEAF BOOKS, 860.

Patented Apr. 17, 1917.

Application filed November 10, 1914. Serial No. 871,229.

To all whom it mayooacem:

Be it known tl12tt i,"l VELLINGTON II. Kro- DER, a citizen of the United States, residing in Roosevelt, in the county of Nassau, Long typewritten entries thereon without reclamping the remaining leaves, and then replaced in the binder, the invention being particularly designed for use with a work-supporting table forming an adjunct to a typewriting and computing machine stand. In certain kinds of work, as for example, in systems of bookkeeping wherein a loose-leaf ledger is employed, it is often necessary'to remove a considerable number of the loose leaves, one at a time from different parts of the book for making typewritten entries thereon, each leaf being returned to its individual position in the ledger before a succeeding leaf at some other part of the ledger is removed. To enable such work to be carried on rapidly and accurately, it is highly supporting the ledger that it will be unnecessary either to close it or lock the leaves therein when an individual leaf has been temporarily removed. A loose-leaf ledger or binder of the usual construction cannot be left lying open on a table or support, as many of the leaves therein would become displaced by springing or being pulled off the binding posts of the binder. If th book is closed when a leaf is removed, considerable time is consumed in again opening the book to the proper position for returning the leaf that has been temporarily extracted, and there is also liability of the leaf being returned to the wrong position in the binder. The above and other difficulties are overcome and the work of removing and re placing individual leaves is greatly facilitated by the resent invention, wherein means are provic ed for supporting the looseleaf binder in the oblong pocket, comprising supports underneath the opening in the table and arranged to retain the book in an only tion, the leaves remaining flat and being held by. their own weight on the binding posts of the binder without any tendency to become displaced. With the binder so supported, any selected leaf may be withdrawn for the purpose of making an entry thereon,

and the binder left open at the place from which such leaf has been removed, so that said leaf may be quickly returned to its po sition in the binder and without any danger of its being placed at the wrong position.

Other features and advantages will hereinafter appear.

In the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a stand on which is mounted an Underwood-Hanson adding and typewriting machine.

Fig. 2 is a plan view,,partly broken away, of the work-holding leaf or table forming an attachment of said stand.

' Fig. 3 is a fragmentary perspective view of partsshown in Fig; 1.

Fig. i is a detail sectional elevation of one of the book-supporting brackets and a block forming a rest for the back of the book.

Fig. 5 is a front elevation of the book-supporting device, the book being shown in broken lines.

Fig. 6 is an end elevation of the same.

The stand on which the combined typewriting and adding machine M is mounted, comprises a top 1 supported on uprights or legs 2, the latter braced by horizontal bracerods 3. Work-supporting leaves or tables 4 may be removably attached at opposite sides of the stand. Each table 4: is supported at its end adjacent the stand by means of hooks 5 engaging a forwardly and rearwardly 8X' tending bearing rod 6. The table is. supported in horizontal position by a U-shaped brace-rod 7 having a hinged connection by means of brackets 9 to the outer end of the table, the inner ends of said brace-rod enterswung downwardly about the rod 6 as a pivot until the openings of the hooks 5 are in an upright position when the hooks may be lifted off the rod, thereby freeing the table from the stand.

The means for holding a loose-leaf book while individual leaves thereof are removed to have entries made thereon by the machine M, may comprise a receptacle or pocket formed by crotches 10 and 11 suspended from the table 42, preferably beneath a rectangular opening 12. The opening 12 may be provided by cutting away a portion of the table to form one side and end wall of the opening, the other side and end wall being for-med by an Lshaped metal strip 13, secured at its ends to the front and end of the table, said strip completing the rectangular outline of the table.

The crotches or brackets 10 and 11 are secured by screws to the table and the strip 13. The sides of the crotches are inclined to form rests for the covers of the loose-leaf book B, and blocks 14f of wood or other suitable material are secured by means of screws 16 in position to form supports or a saddle for the back of the book, the upper surfaces of said blocks being preferably curved to conform to the outline of the book. lhe blocks may be formed with grooves 15 to receive the brackets.

When a leaf is removed from the book B to be placed on the machine, the book is slipped back foremost into the pocket formed by the opening 12 and crotches 10 and 11, the book being left open,'as indicated in Fig. 6, at the point where the leaf has been removed. In this position the leaves are held by their own weight on the supporting pins in the. book, and thus prevented from accidental displacement. The book also remains open at the point where the leaf has been removed, so that said leaf may be immediately replaced in its proper position when the required entry has been made thereon.

The divergence of the side-walls of the pocket from the bottom up, is suiiicient to cause the loose leaves to lie on the side of the opening on which they are placed, but insufficient to bring the leaves to a position which might cause them to spring 0E their supporting pins or permit them to become displaced in the book. Ordinarily, when a leaf has been returned, the book may be opened to a new position for removing a succeeding leaf without withdrawing the book from its pocket, the book being so supported as to permit the leaves being turned without danger of displacement in the book. The pocket also forms a convenient receptacle for the book when not in use.

Variations may be resorted to within the scope of the invention, and portions of the improvements may be used without others.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim:

- 1. A table provided with means for holding a loose-leaf binder open at the. boint where a leaf has been withdrawn, and for retaining against accidental disarrangement the unlocked leaves of the binder, comprising an oblong pocket for supporting on edge the back part of the binder inserted in the pocket, said pocket having a saddle arranged to hold the back of the binder about centrally in the pocket, and the sides of the pocket being so disposed relatively to said saddlethat the binder inserted in the pocket is retained thereby nearly in closed condition, said sides being slightly separated to permit the upstanding covers and leaves to tilt outwardly only sufficiently to retain the leaves against either cover where they may be set, and thereby hold the binder open at the point where the leaf is withdrawn.

2. A table provided with means for holding a loose-leaf binder open at the point where a leaf has been withdrawn, and for retaining against accidental disarrangement the unlocked leaves of the binder, comprising an oblong pocket for supporting on edge the back part of the binder inserted in the pocket, said pocket having a saddle arranged to hold the back of the binder about centrally in the pocket, and the sides of the pocket being so disposed relatively to said saddle that the binder inserted in the pocket is retained thereby nearly in closed condition, said sides being slightly separated to permit the upstanding covers and leaves to tilt outwardly only sufficiently to retain the leaves against either cover where they may be set, and thereby hold the binder open at the point where the leaf is withdrawn, the portion of said table which is provided with said pocket being hinged to swing down and bring said pocket beneath the remaining portion of the table.

WELLINGTON H. KIDDER.

Witnesses 2 W. O. VVESTPI-IAL, JULIUs DUOKSTINE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. G.

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