US1609041A

US1609041A - Loose-leaf clamp

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Publication number: US1609041A
Application number: US71886A
Authority: US
Inventors: Pauker Edmond
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1925-08-01
Filing date: 1925-11-28
Publication date: 1926-11-30
Anticipated expiration: 1943-11-30

Description

Nov. 30,1926. 1,609,041

E. PAUKER LO OSE LEAF CLAMP Filed Nov. 28, 1925 MM/ %EA/mn/,

- mama Patented Nov. 30, 1926.

UNHED STATES PATENT orricr.

EDMOND PAUKER, OF ASTORIA, NEW YORK.

LOOSE-LEAF CLAMP.

Application filed November 28, 1825, Serial No. 71,886, and in Hungary August 1925.

This invention relates to improvements in to maintain the upper and lower rods 15, clamping devices, especially to the type of and 16, in proper alignment. clamps adapted to be used for clamping The front lower edge of the clamping loose sheets containing records to bekept on member 10, is serrated as at 22, to form afile. This clamp may be fastened to either biting surface. The device is held in place so a single board, or inside of a book or cover. by rivets 23, passing through openings 2A in The main object of this invention is to the base 6, and through a board or a cover provide a clamp of simple rigid construction of a" file or book. and easy to manipulate. From the foregoing it will readily be seen Another object of this invention is to prothat I have provided a simple and efiective 5 vide a clamp in which the gripping power is clamp, that may be operated by merely sliddependent on a cam or wedge action instead ing the member 11, in the direction of the of the usual spring action. arrow to open the clamp for insertion of Other ob ects and novel features of my 1nanyth ng to be clamped, and in the opposite vention will be apparent as the description direction for closlng or clamping. 6o

rogresses, The lower lnclined rod 16, passing through In the drawings, forming a part of this the lower hole 12, and upper hole 13, acts specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view as acam or wedge tending to raise or lower of one embodiment of my invention. the clamping member 10, through the medi- Figure 2 is a plan view of the clamping um of the upper rod 15, engaging said device. clamping member 10. The forward edges Figure 3 is a cross section of same taken 25, and 26, act to align the sheets 27 that on line 3-3 of Figure 2. may beinserted for clamping.

Figure 4 is an end View of my clamp, in Having described my invention what I clamping engagement with a number of claim is: To loose sheets. 1. A clamp, consisting of a base, projec- My invention consists of a clamp 5, having tions fixed to said base, a clamping member a base 6, said base 6, having projecting ears pivotally connected with said base, a lower 7, and 8, to which there is pivotally connectand an upper opening in said projections, ed as at 9, a clamping member 10. To proan car on one surface of said clamping mem- 7 vide clamping means I pass a sliding clamp her, and a wedge slidably mounted in the operating member 11, made of heavy wire openings in the said projections and the ear through

openings

12 and 13, in the ears '2' of the clamping member. and 8, of the base 6, and through an ear 1%, 2. A clamp consisting of a base having in the clamping member 10. openings therein at different heights, a 83 It will be noted that the sliding member clamping member pivotally connected with 11, is composed of an upper horizontal bar the base and a clamp operating member havor rod 15, a lower angularly disposed rod ing an upper horizontal bar engaging the 16, and an upright connecting member 17, at clamping member and a lower inclined bar 40 one end, and is connected at the opposite operably mounted in the openings in the 85 end by means of a projection 18, forming a base. part of the rod 15, passing through a loop In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my 19, formed at the extreme end of the rod 16. signature.

A loop 20 on the extreme end of projection 18, forming a part of the upper rod 15, helps EDMOND PAUKER.