US378062A

US378062A - File-box

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Publication number: US378062A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1888-02-14
Anticipated expiration: 1905-02-14

Description

(.NO Model.)

' 2 Sheets-Shea; 1. E. E. BAKER.

FILE BOX.

No. 37 082. Patented Feb. 14, 1888. 8

( No Model. 2 Sheets- -Shet 2.

E. E. BAKER.

.FILE BOX. 1

Patented Feb.- 14, 1888.

ma/zW UNITED STATES EDWARD E. BAKER, OF MORGANTOWN, WEST VIRGINIA,ASSIGNOR TO THE PATENT GLOBE COMPANY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

FlLE-BOX..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 378,062 dated February 14, 1888.

pplication filed July 5, 1887. Serial No. 243,434. (No model.) 7

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD E. BAKER, of Morgantown, Monongalia county, West Virginia, have invented a new and useful File- Box for Documents, of which the following is a specification. 7

My invention relates to an improvement in the class of file boxes or receptacles illustrated in my patent, N 0. 339,254, of April 6, 1886, to which reference maybe made for more explicit explanation of details applicable to my present improvement.

In my present improvement the various supporting and other functions of the follower are obtained by forming it of a metal plate which (at a distance from its lower edge exceeding the height of the guide-rails and the same distance apart) has two guide eyes or orifices in a part of it, which have such obliquity to the main portion of such follower-plate as, in the closed condition of the device, to coact with the elasticity of the contents to securely clamp the same. The same orifices, on the unclamping of the follower, permit it to be first slid freely rearward along the guiding and supporting rails, and then, on the follower being pressed backward, to cause itto bind upon said rails in the reverse direction to that employed for clamping, so as to hold the contents in a convenient sloping position for examination of their titles.

In the preferred form of my present improvement the box proper is formed out of a single piece of sheet metal.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I is a perspective view of one of my improved fileboxes in its open condition. Figs. II and III are side elevations of the same in the open and closed conditions,respectively. Figs. IV and V are respectively a front View and a vertical section of. a portion of my follower in theclosed condition. Figs. VI and VII are vertical sections of the same portion in the freesliding and the rearwardly-locked conditions,

respectively. Fig. VIII represents the sheetmetal blank out of which the preferred formof my box proper is constructed. Fig. IX represents a modification of my improvement in which the material of the box proper is wood. I

In the preferred form of. my improvement a piece, mainly of rectangular contour, is so stamped out of sheet metal and bent' rectangularly at or about its mid-length as to constitute-the base 1, with its two erectside flanges or curbs, 2, and the front, 3, with its two rearwardly-extending flanges, 4, of my file receptacle or box proper. Firmly attached'to and serving to brace together the parts 1 and 3, as well as to support and guide the follower and confine the contents, are the two guide-railsfi. Before their said attachment to the box proper the said guide-rails are inserted within orificesfi in the rear obliquely-bent portion, 7, ofthe metallic plate 8 that constitutes my file clamping and supporting follower 6 7 8. The relations of the said guide-rails and the said orifices are such that the lower edge of the follower is always held out of contact with the base 1, and the obliquity'and dimensions'of the said orifices are such as to cause the said follower to be self-locking forward inthe posit-ion shown in Figs. III, IV, and V, to becapable of being slid easily along the horizontal portion of said rails when suspended freely, as in Fig. VI, an d to be self-lockingrearward when in the position represented in Figs. I, II, and VII. The said guide-rails are preferably constructed out of stout wire, and have their horizontal portions 9 connected with their vertical portions 10 by oblique portions 11, which, when the follower is pushed 7 clear back to the extreme open position, constitute an additional support to the same.

The above-described preferred form of my improvement may be varied in some of it's details. For example, the box proper, instead of being composed of sheet metal, may be constructed of two wooden boards suitably joined together, as shown in Fig. IX.

I claim as new and of my invention- 1.' In a file receptacle or holder, the combination, with the box proper, 1 3, and with the guiding and supporting rails 5, of the followerplate 8, having the orifices 6 in the obliquelybent portions 7, substantially as and for the Gin the obliquely-bent'portions 7, as set forth.

purposes set forth. In testimony of which invention I hereunto 2. As a new article of manufacture, the file set my hand.- box consisting of the combination of the box EDWARD E. BAKER. 5 proper, 1 2 3 4, formed of a single piece of Attest:

sheet metal, the guiding and supporting rails GEORGE O. BAKER,

5, and the follower-plate 8,rhaving the orifices R. L. BESKSHIRE.