US821142A - Leaf-holder. - Google Patents

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No. 821,142. PATENTED MAY 22, 1906. H. V. WAGONER. LEAF HOLDER APPLIGATION FILED NOV. 2, 1903.

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LEAF-HOLDER.

specification of Letters Patent.

ratented May 2v2, 1906.

Application filed November 2. 1903. Serial No. 179,482.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY V. WAGONER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Brooklyn, city and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Im rovements in Leaf-Holders, of

l which the ollowin is a specification.

My invention re ates to improvements in paper-clips, files, or other devices for holding leaves or sheets of paper looselyT or under pressure, and has for its object the provision of means whereby the papers may be securely held or retained when desired, such means, however, being capable of being released for the insertion or withdrawal of sheets of paper, the device at such times being held in an open position without any effort on the part of the user.

Reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings, showing one form. in which my invention may be embodied, and in Which- Figure 1 is a plan view showing the device in a clamping position, the cover being raised. Fig. 2 is a section on line 2 2 of Fig. 1, the cover bein turned back until it is back of and paralle vice. Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is an end elevation showing the device before tension or elastic stress is put upon the clip.

The device shown comprises a base 1, which is preferably secured to a board 2 and forms a support for the pressureeclip 3. The ends of the base 1 are preferably bent up to dform ears 4 for the reception of the hingero 7.

The pressure-clip 3 is preferably formed of spring-steel wire and comprises coiled portions 8 8,`which turn on the hinge-rod 7 and an intermediate portion 9, upon which is sleeved a tube 10 and which forms a pressing edge. The pressureclip 3 normally turns freely upon the rod 7, and the pressing edge may be raised above'the base 1 or thrown back into a desired position, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2, whereby the user retains the free use of both hands for arranging the papers which are to be held in the file. The clip 3 is referably operated by means of an arm 11, w ich is a continuation of one end of the wire bent into such form that it and the coil 8 will be under an elastic stress when held b the catch L2. The papers having been p aced in proper position, the arm 11 is pressed down and outward so as to clear the catch 12, against the lower surface of which with the base or back of the deit is held by elastic tension. It is evident that by this means the clip 3 is held down against the base l or the papers thereon by spring-pressure due to the elasticity of the coil 8 and the arm 11. When 'the clip is so held, the intermediate portion 9, carrying the sleeve 10, is in its lowest position, or whatwe choose to designate the work-engaging position. A button 14 forms a convenient enlargement for the inger to press in operating the arm.

The cover 13 may be of any suitable material and is hinged upon a rod 14. The ends of the rod are bent to form rods 15, whose ends are formed into loops or eyes 1,6, which v receive the rod 7 The arms 15 are of such length and shape that they enable the cover to swing back clear of the raised portion 17 of the base 1. As shown in the drawings, the arms 15 fall into the notches 18 of the member 17 ,whereupon the cover 13 may be turned upon its hinge-rod 14 until it occupies the position shown in Fig. 2; but the arrangement of notches and arms which fall into them is not an essential.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is`

1. In a leaf-holder, a base, a rod,means on said base for carrying said rod, a wire clip having parts at or near its ends coiled about said rod, its intermediate portion forming a ressing edge, one end of said clip being proonged into an arm, a second rod and a cover hinged thereto, the ends of said second rod being bent into arms terminating in eyes which receive said first rod, substantially as described.

2. Ina leaf-holder, a base, a rod, means on said base for carrying said rod, and a wire clip having parts at or near its ends coiled about saild rod, its intermediate portion forming a pressing edge, one end of said clip being formed into a handle whereby said cllp may be manipulated, and means on said base adapted to engage said handle and thereby cause said wire c lip to press against said base, substantially as described.

3. In a leaf-holder, a board, a base mounted on said board, a rod, means on said base for carrying said rod, a wire clip having parts at or near its ends coiled about said rod, its intermediate portion forming a pressing edge, one end of said clip being prolonged into an arm, a catch, said arm bein adapted to cooperate with said catch to ho d the clip in the c TOO IIO

1o and means released from its closed position to move freely on said rod, substantially as described. 4. In a leaf-holder, a base, a rod, means on said base for carrying said rod, a cover carried by said Iod, and a Wire clip having parts I at or near its ends coiled about said rod, its

said handle and thereby cause said Wire clip to press against said base'7 substantially as described.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 26th day-of October, 1903.

HENRY v WAGONER. In presence of JAMES J. CosGfRovE,l SAML. R. BETTS. w

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