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T. S. MURPHY, Jr. 86 W. H. DAVISON. TEMPORARY BINDER.

No. 440,110. Patented Nov. 4, 1890.

UNITED STATES THOMAS S. MURPHY, JR,

YORK, ASSIGNORS TEMPORARY BINDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 440,110, dated November 4, 1890.

Application filed October 5, 1887.

have invented new and useful Improvements in Temporary Binders, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in jointed or hinged book-covers having removable leaves upon which or within which may be filed invoices, bills, cuttings, sheet-music, pzlli-mphlets, papers, prints, memoranda, or the li c.

It also relates to jointed or hinged covers within which may be fastened for preservation, and from which may be withdrawn for use readily, invoices, bills, scraps, clippings, music, papers, pamphlets, &c.

It also relates to jointed or hinged covers having leaves divided laterally and removable, in which may be preserved for ready reference prints, papers, and memoranda of every description.

Our invention consists of covers jointed or hinged to astiff back, which is provided with removable lacings longitudinally, or suspensory threads, for the purpose of holding the leaves or articles to be filed, so that they may be readily removable, and so that when the covers or leaves or articles filed are opened the adjacent cover and leaves or articles filed will lie fiat or level.

Our invention further consists in and relates to self-binding devices so arranged with self-locking removable lacings or strands and removable leaves that when the leaves or articles filed are opened at any page they will lie fiat from the back to their outer edges and may all together or separately be removed from the covers.

It also relates to devices for locking and unlocking the strands, so that each may be removed or replaced separately.

These objects we attain by means of the construction shown in the accompanying drawings on one sheet, which form part of the specification, and in which- Figure 1 shows covers A A open, disclos- 5o ing leaves ZZ, inserted in some of the strands,

Serial No. 251,490. (No model.)

plates 19 p, and removable suspensory lacings a. Fig. 2 shows covers A A partially removed, with leaves removed to show suspensory strands a mounted upon plates or caps or clips 19 p, and one strand partially withdrawn a c. Fig. 3 is a vertical section through covers, leaves, strands, and back piece I) at X on Fig. 2. Fig. 4 shows selflocking adjustable strand, cap, or plate or clip 10, one screw 3 being shown.

The same letters in each figure designate the same parts of the invention.

As illustrated in the drawings, the appliance consists in a stiff back board, (a vertical section of which is shown at b, Fig. 3,) pref erably rounded at the back, with the opposite surface flat, upon which we. mount and hinge the covers A A, as in the ordinary well-known methods of binding covers upon books. The inner face of back board b may be concaved or convexed, but is preferably fiat, to form a back rest for the folded edges of the leaves to prevent their too free play upon the strands a a. The back board may be of metal suitably formed for sustaining the covers and caps or clips 19 p, or these clips may be stamped or molded in one piece with the back piece. Upon the ends of the back piece we mount the suspending clips 19 19', Figs. 1 and 4, suitably cut away at Z Z to accommodate the covers A A at their jointed juncture with the back piece.

At suitable distances apart along the upper edge of the clips we arrange perforations c 0', preferably in a straight line; but they may be curved outwardly or inwardly along the correspondingly-curved edge of the cap. The clips project above the face of the back piece to allow the suspensory strands a a to be mounted suspensorilyfrom clip 10 to clip p.

The lacings or strands a, a are constructed, preferably, of wire, and are mounted upon the clips 10 p by being inserted in the perfotions 0 0'. These perforations may be circular, and the projecting ends of the strands may be rigidly fastened therein or upon the clips, or may be locked to the clips by being coiled upon the clips, as in Fig. 2, or may be headed, as at c, Fig. 2, to prevent their being u min i of a single piece of wood, preferably pulled out or away from the clips by the weight of the leaves. The coiled end may readily be unloosened and the strand removed from the clip; but, preferably, we construct the clips as shown in Fig. 4, having key-hole perforations c 0, through which the head of a strand 0, Fig. 2, maybe inserted and be locked with the clip, the weight of the leaves on a strand drawing it up into the diminished part of the slot. In this way each strand may at each end be locked or unlocked readily upon the clips and readily removed or replaced. Obviously other well-known equivalent constructions may be employed in mounting the lacings or strands upon the suspending-clips. Thus a second clip may be mounted upon the face of the clip p by screw or thumb nut or other well-known constructions, so as to clamp and hold by friction between the adjacent faces of the clips the bent ends of the strands so they may be removed at will. We also mount the clips upon the back boards adjustably therewith. To accomplish this, we slot the clip 0 0, Fig. 4, so that it may be adjusted by means of thumb-nut screwsor similar equivalent device for the purpose of raising or lowering the strands relatively to the face of the back board to restrain the play of the leaves, and for the purpose of readily removing the clip (without releasing the strands therefrom) together with the strands mounted thereon, to permit the free removal of the leaves or replacing thereof. The slots may extend to the edge of the clip, as at dotted lines 0, Fig. 4, and one or more slots may be employed in each clip, one acting with ascrew as a hinge; or, obviously, instead of one broad clip 19 several narrower clips provided with one or more perforations each, and each provided with the slot-adjustingdevice may be employed. The leaves are suspended from the strands, Fig. 3, one or several sheets or articles over a single strand to be sustained thereby. Later-allydivided or different-sized sheets may be used upon which to attach invoices, bills, memoranda, clippings, samples, prints, &c., in usual well-known ways. Sheets with indexes or other devices for reference may be used, and the strands may be more or less in number, according to the character of the articles desired to be filed for preservation within the covers. One or all sheets or articles filed may be readily removed without injuring the filing device, which can be repeatedly filled by replacing the leaves. The sets of strands may be divided by inserting one or more clips perforated, as described, at suitable distances apart along the face of the back board, and each strand may be readily unlocked and removed with the leaves or articles suspended therefrom without interfering with the others by pressing the head a down till it can slip out of the enlarged part of the key-hole perforation 0'. In like manner, without the use of the intermediate sheets, pamphlets, samples in dress goods, ribbons, sheet-music, 850., may

be held bound within the covers or removed at will. Obviously, also, the covers and suspensory device may be of any size to suit the necessities of the matter desired to be filed; also, the covers may be omitted, and also pockets employed instead of folded leaves forthe retention of letters or other matter. Obviously, or pocket being suspended, hinged, and thereby bound upon its separate strand, and the strands being adjustable at suitable distances apart and near or far from the back pieces, when the covers or leaves are opened the uppermost leaves will lie fiat upon those below, and not be bulged at the back part by reason of the lower or under leaves being tightly bound, as in the ordinary binding of a book, since the back piece readily adjusts itself angling with the covers as the leaves are filled in.

The figures show the perforations on the caps in a straight line; but they may be in an outward or inward curved line to effect a tighter or looser binding of the leaves and to adapt the construction to desired objects.

The methods of construction and of operation and the advantages of our invention will be obvious to those skilled in the art from the foregoing description without further explanation.

We claim as of our own invention- 1. The combination of self-locking separablydetachable suspensory strands, a sustaining back or frame, and adjustable clips, substantially as described.

2. In a temporary binder, the clips p 19, provided with angled perforations, combined with a back or support, and removable suspensory self-locking strands, substantially as described.

3. The combination of a back or support, and strand-clips provided with perforations adapted to receive and sustain strands separably detachable therefrom and self-locking therewith, substantially as described.

4.. The self locking and detachable strands mounted upon a back adj ustably therewith by means of adjustable perforated supportingclips,with covers and leaves to form a selfbinding file, substantially as described.

5. The combination of a back piece 6, separably-detachable strands a a, and adjustable clips to form a temporary binder.

6. The combination,in atemporary binder, of the back I), detachable self-locking suspensory-strands a a, and adjustable supportingclips 19 19, substantially as described.

7. A temporary binder provided with suspensory strands mounted upon a frame or back and having perforated clips with which said strands are self-locking, substantially as described and shown.

THOMAS S. MURPHY, JR. WILLIAM H. DAVISON.

Witnesses:

DAVID S. SAXE, ERNEST W. RI'ECK.

also, each sheet or group of sheets I or

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