US650493A - Binding device. - Google Patents

Description

No. 650,493. Patented May 29, 1900, 4

c. F. SNIDER.

BINDING DEVICE.

(Application filed Mar. 17, 1900.)

(No Model) avian-W4 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES F. SNIDER, OF MOUNT PLEASANT, IOWA.

smn'mo DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 650,493, dated May 29, 1900.

Application filed March 1'7, 1900, fierial No- 9,065. (No model-l T0 aZZ whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that 1, CHARLES F. SNIDER, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Mount ing Device, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to binding devices for loose leaves of any character, and more especially to that class of binding devices which provide for binding in package or book form loose leaves or sheets.

To this end the invention primarily contemplates an improved binder having means for conveniently binding together bank-deposit tickets or slips, sales tickets, loose notes, vouchers, or, in fact, any papers that are usually kept on file and put away for future reference.

In its special application the invention is designed, primarily, as a binder for bank-deposit tickets to provide for binding the latter in packages of any desired size in the form of a book, so that While being held together compactly and within a small compass an individual ticket or slip can be conveniently referred to without unlocking the binder or otherwise disturbing the package. In this application of the invention the same is designed for use in connection with any filing device embodying a punch for cutting holes.

in the tickets or slips and filing them from day to day on spindles, with date-slips for each day.

A further object of the invention is to pro vide a binder constructed in a simple and practical manner and adjustable to any thickness or size of package to be bound, besides being held in a locked condition by the expansive pressure of the package confined between the clamp members of the device.

With these and other objects in view, which will more readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, illustrated, and claimed.

The essential features of the invention for effecting the object sought for are necessarily susceptible to some modification; but the preferred embodiments of the improvements are shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a temporary binder shown applied to abunch orpackage of bank-deposit tickets with date slips or cards interposed therebetween; Fig. 2 is a cross sectional view of the binder, showing the interlocked position of the clamp members. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the binder with the clamp members in the position they occupy when about to be assembled upon a bunch or package of leaves. Figs. 4 and 5 are details in perspective, respectively of the separate clamp members andthe binder.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in the several figures of the drawings.

he device as an entirety is in the form of an extensible clamp carrying file-spindles upon Which are strung the leaves or sheets to be bound together and having means for being tightly clamped upon the package of leaves or sheet-s at one end or edge thereof, so as to provide aholding-back therefor and permitting of free reference to any individual leaf or sheet held thereby. The said extensible clamp comprises a pair of separable interlocking members 1 and 2, which are duplicates in general shape and size and of an approximate L shape in cross-section, said clamp members being designed to loosely register one within the other.

Each of the clamp members 1 and 2 consists of a flat back-piece 3, preferably of a rectangular shape and provided at one edge with an ofiset right-angularly-disposed clip flange or plate 4, which constitutes the clamp portion of the member and clips upon the edges of the leaves, sheets, cards, or other slips to be bound together. One of the clamp members (designated by the numeral 1) is provided in the flat back-piece 3 thereof with a keeper 5, preferably in the form of a slot or opening located contiguous to the edge of the back-piece 3, opposite the flange 4:, and provided with a beveled edge 6 tofacilitate the interlocking engagement of the keeper with the series of catch-tongues '7, provided upon the back-piece of the other clamp memher 2, The said catch-tongues 7 of the clamp member 2 are transversely alined at a point intermediate the end edges of the back-piece of said member 2, and the series of said tongues extend entirely across the back-piece of the member carrying the same to provide means for interlocking the two members of the clamp in any extended or contracted position. The said catch-tongues 7 are preferably struck out from the back-piece of the clamp member 2 and project at the same inclination and in the same direction from the inner side of the said-baek-pieee, and the tongues 7 are of a sufficient resiliency to freely ride upon the beveled side of the keeper slot or opening 5 as the two clamp members are compressed together upon the package of leaves or sheets to be bound therebetween.

To provide for the proper retention of the leaves or sheets within the extensible clamp, the clamp member 1 has projected from the inner side of its clip-flange t one or more filesleeves 8, disposed in parallelism with the back-piece of the clamp-section 1 and designed to telescope upon the complementary pins 9, projected from one side of the clipfiange i of the member 2 and arranged in parallelism to the back-piece of said member, and it will be observed that the registering sleeves and pins 9 constitute telescopic filespi'ndles for holding the leaves or sheets in a properly-alined condition within the clamp members of the binder.

In using the binder after stringing the leaves, sheets, or other matter upon the filesleeves 8 of one of the clamp members the pins 9, carried by the other member, are inserted into the open ends of the said sleeves 8,and the two clamp members are then pressed upon the edge of the package therein. After tightly forcing the clip flanges of the two clamp members upon the package the pressure of the hand is released from the device, whereupon one of the catch-tongues 7 of the clamp member 2 will be thrust by the expansive force of the package into tight interlockin g engagement with the keeper 5 of the clamp member 1, thus securely locking the binder upon its package and preventing the accidental loosening thereof. l/Vhenever it is desired to unlock the binder, so as to remove a leaf or sheet or to place others into position, it is simply necessary by means of a key or other flat instrument inserted between the overlapping back-pieces of the two sections to disengage the active catch-tongue from the keeper or slot and then draw the two clamp members apart Of course prior to this op eration it is necessary to press the clamp members upon the package to carry the active tongue out of its locking-plane.

In the ordinary use of the'device as a binder for bank-deposit tickets or the like, in connection with which a two-spindle ticket-file is used, as in some constructions now on the market, the sleeve-sections 8 of the hereindescribed binding deviccarc slipped over the pointed ends of the spindles of the file on which the tickets are filed and the tickets slipped onto the said sleeve-sections 8 of the binder. Then the points of the file-pins 9 of the binder are inserted into the sleeves 8, on which the tickets are strung, and the clamp members of the device pressed together in the manner described, with the parts having such a position that the back-piece of the clamp member carrying the catch-tongues 7 will pass down on the outside of the backpiece of the other member and ride over the keeper-slot 5 until the pressure of the hand is released to permit one of the catch-tongues to be thrown into engagement with the keeper slot or opening by the expansive force of the tightly-compressed tickets in the manner already explained.

From the foregoing it is thought that the construction, use, and many advantages of the herein-described binder will be readily apparent to those familiar with the art without further description, and it will be understood that various changes in the form, proportion, and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is

l. A binder of the class described, comprising an. extensible clamp having overlapping back-pieces working one within the other, said back-pieces being provided with complementary locking elements held in engagement by the expansive pressure of the bound matter, substantially as set forth.

2. A binder of the class described, comprising an extensible clamp having overlapping backpieces working one within the other, one of said back-pieces being provided with a sin gle locking element, and the other back-piece being provided with a series of transverselyalined locking elements codperating with said single element and held interlocked there with by the expansive pressure of the bound matter, substantially as set forth.

A binder of the class described comprising an extensible clamp consisting of a pair of separable members having overlapping back-pieces working one within the other, the back-piece of one clamp member being provided with a single locking slot or opening, and the back-piece of the other clamp member having a series of catch-tongues, cooperating with said slot or opening, substantially as set forth.

4. A binder of the class described consist ing of an extensible clamp comprising a pair of separable clamp members, each having a back-piece and an offset clip-flange at one edge of the back-piece, one of said clamp members having projected from its clip-flange one or more sleeves, and provided in its back piece with a single slot or opening, and the other clamp member having projected from In testimony that I claim the foregoing as its clip-flange one or more pins telescoping my own I have hereto affixed my signature in within said sleeves and provided on its backthe presence of two witnesses.

piece with a transversely-mined series of lat- CHARLES F. SNIDER. erally-projecting catch-tongues coijperating WVitnesses: with said slot or opening, substantially as set GEO. I-I. SPAHR,

forth. MAX W. BARB.

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