US965227A

US965227A - Manifolding device.

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Publication number: US965227A
Application number: US48899809A
Authority: US
Inventors: George Heath Robinson
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1909-04-09
Filing date: 1909-04-09
Publication date: 1910-07-26
Anticipated expiration: 1927-07-26

Description

G. H. ROBINSON.

MANIFOLDING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED APB. 9,1909. 9 5,227 Patented July 26, 1910.

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MIVE/V 70R GEORGE HEATH ROBINSON,

OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

MANIFOLDING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 9, 1909.

Patented J uly 26, 1910.

Serial No. 488,998.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Gnoncn HEATH Romn- SON, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at London, England, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Manifolding Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a manifolding device for use when duplicating in books, bound or collected forms, and the like, and its object is to provide improved means whereby an invoice or other document may be written and at the same time a duplicate of the document entered in the book or upon a form or the like.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the application of the invention to a loose leaf book and in same Figure 1 represents the book open with the manifolding device in place. Fig. 2 is a part plan view on a larger scaleand Fig. 3 a cross sectional view on line 2-2.

In said drawings the open tube 1 is preferably provided at the back with spring clips 2 adapted to engage with the pins or posts 3 which hold the loose leaves 4, all that is required being that the tube may be readily held in place while the sliding rod 5 is moved up and down therein to correspond with the desired position the invoice 6 is to take with reference to loose leaves 4. As shown rod 5 carries arms 7 which in turn support the

double spring clips

8, 9, 1O normally held in their closed position by springs 12 in the well known manner but capable of being separately opened, the

parts

8 and 9 gripping the invoice 6 (or two or more copies with interposed carbon leaves may be inserted) while 9 and 10 form the clip for the usual carbon leaf 11 As the invoice portion of the clip will be most often opened it may be convenient to provide extensions 13 from the inner ends of

plate

9 or 10 which will rest against the leaves 4 so preventing 9 and 10 rising when plate 8 is raised as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 3.

When it is desired to write on the pages to the left of the fixed part 1 the rod 5 with its connected clips is slid from tube and reversed and replaced thus bringing the carbon 11 on the page on the left.

To enable the clips to lie flat over either page the arms 7 are preferably curved, as shown in Fig. 3.

Several invoices or the like may be written slmultaneously by arranging them 111 the clip, one above the other, with the required number of carbon sheets interposed.

In using the manifolding device described above it is possible, by sliding the movable part up or down over the pages of the book or the forms, to make allowance for the space occupied by the usual printed headings of the invoices or the like and to arrange the entries in the book or upon the forms, one beneath the other without waste of space.

It will be understood that the details of construction may be varied without departing from this invention, and that the term book in the following claims is intended to include either a bound or a loose-leaf book, or a collection of forms or sheets.

lVhat I claim is 1. A manifolding device for use with books comprising a grooved member having means for attachment to the cover of a book so that the said member shall lie between two open pages thereof, a rod adapted to slide in the grooved member, a clip, and curved arms connecting the sliding rod and the clip.

2. A manifolding device for use with books comprising a grooved member having means for attachment to the cover of a book so that the said member shall lie between two open pages thereof, a rod adapted 'to slide in the grooved member, two clips arranged adjacent to each other, and curved alrms connecting the sliding rod and the c ips.

3. The combination with a loose-leaf book and pins upon which the leaves are held, of a stationary part, clips on said part adapted to engage with the pins of the loose-leaf book, a second part adapted to slide relatively to the said stationary part and a clip carried by the movable part.

4. The combination with a loose-leaf book and pins upon which the leaves are held, of a stationary part, clips on said part adapted to engage with the pins of the loose-leaf book, a second part adapted to slide relatively to the said stationary part, a clip carried by the movable part and a second clip located adjacent to the first clip upon the movable part.

5. The combination with a loose leaf book and pins upon which the leaves are held, of a grooved member, clips on said member 10 to slide in the grooved member, and two clips arranged adjacent to each other and connected to the rod.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE HEATH ROBINSON.

Witnesses:

WVALTER ERNEST BROOKE, ERNEST CHARLES THOMAS.