US958801A - Paper-file. - Google Patents

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G. E. GIBBS.

PAPER FILE. APPLIGATION FILED SEPT. 22, 1909.

958,801 Patented Ma 24, 1910.

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CHARLES E. GIBBS, 0F MALDEN, MASSACHUSETTS.

PAPER-FILE.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. GIBBS, of Maiden, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper-Files, &c., of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates chiefly to a file for holding sheets of paper, and comprising a flat board or support of wood or other compressible material having projecting pointed studs on which sheets of paper may be impaled, and a hinged spring-pressed clamping plate, one edge of which is pressed yieldingly toward the support and is provided with orifices adapted to receive said studs, the clamping plate being provided with guards which cover the pointed ends of the studs and prevent them from inflicting injury.

The invention has for its object,'first, to provide an improved construction whereby the studs are secured to the wooden back or support and, secondly, to provide an improved construction of the clamping plate and the stud guards.

The invention consists in the improvements which I will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification,-Figure 1 represents a side view of a paper file embodying my invention, a part of the support being broken away. Fig. 2 represents an edge view of the parts shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a section on line 33, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 represents a side view of one of the impaling studs. Fig. 5 represents a sectional view of one of the washers hereinafter referred to. Fig. 6 represents in section a portion of the clamping plate without the stud guard. Fig. 7 represents the side view of one of the stud guards removed from the clamping plate.

Similar reference characters indicate the same or similar parts in all the views.

In the drawings, 12 represents a flat support of compressible material such as wood, the support being preferably a suitably fin ished board adapted to support sheets of paper and the securing devices hereinafter described. The board is provided with one or more pointed studs which project from the outer side of the board at right angles therewith sothat sheets of paper maybe im- Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 22, 1909.

Patented May at, 1910.

Serial No. 518,938.

paled upon the studs. Each stud is composed of a pointed outer portion 13, a rivetshaped inner portion 1 1, and a peripheral ridge or enlargement 15 between the portions 13 and 14, said enlargement being relatively near the outer end of the portion 141. The stud is preferably made of a single length of wire subjected to suitable pressure which forms the ridge 15 integral with the body of the stud. In securing the stud to the support 12, I form an orifice through the support, and place on opposite sides of the support two washers 16 and 17 which are, by suitable pressure, caused to indent the sides of the support so that the outer sides of the washers are substantially flush with the sides of the support, the orifices of the washers coinciding with the orifice through the support. The washer 16 is provided with a socket 18 formed to receive the ridge 15, the form of the socket being such that when the ridge is inserted in it, the outer side of the ridge is substantially flush with the outer side of the washer 16 and support 12, as shown in Fig. 3. The rivet portion 1 1, is of such length that it is adapted to pass through the support and the two washers, and project from the outer surface of the washer 17 sufliciently to permit its end portion to be upsetand form a head 19 which engages the washer 17. The stud is thus rigidly connected to the support, the entire body portion of the stud which projects from the outer side of the support being of uniform diameter and a *ailable for the support of paper sheets.

20 represents a clamping plate having cars 21 which are pivoted at 22 to cars formed on a plate 24 fixed to the support 12. A spring 26 supported by the pivot rod 22 bears on the clamping plate at one side of the hinged connection, and holds the edge of the clamping plate at the opposite side of said connection yieldii'igly against the support 12. The plate 20 is therefore adapted to clamp sheets of paper against the front side of the support. The clamping plate is provided with orifices which coincide with the studs 13, the latter projecting through the said orifices when the device is 1 in use.

It will be observed that when the clamp ing edge of the plate 20 is pressed inwardly against the support, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the plate is inclined relatively to the studs 13, the latter being obliquely arranged relatively to the plate.

30 represents a tubular guard which is adapted to be inserted and secured in the orifices 25, the guard having an open inner end and a closed outer end, and its form being such that it is adapted to cover the point and the major portion of the stud 13 as indicated in Fig. 3, thus preventing the pointed end of the stud from inflicting injury. The guard-receiving orifice 25 is obliquely ar ranged relatively to the sides of the plate 20 so that when the inner end'of the guard is seated on the wall of the orifice, the guard stands obliquely to the sides of the plate. The guard is preferably made from a single piece or blank of sheet metal, the blank being originally flat and converted into the form shown, by a series of operations wellknown to metal workers. The inner end of the guard, which is formed to closely fit the orifice 25, may be secured in said orifice in any suitable way, preferably by means of an internal screw-thread 27,

Fig. 6, formed in the orifice 25, and an external screw-thread 28, Fig. 7, formed on the inner end portion of the guard. The guard is therefore adapted to be screwed into the plate, and may be additionally secured by solder, if desired.

I do not limit myself to the improved connection between the support 12 and the stud 13 in a paper file, it being obvious that a stud adapted in this way to a compressible support may be used for other purposes.

' Iclaim:

1. A device of the character stated comprising a support-of, compressible material, such as wood, a'jstud having a rivet-shaped inner portion extending through the support, and a peripheral ridge near the outer end ofthe rivet portion, washers pressed into the opposite sides of the supporflwith their outer faces flush with the corresponding faces of said support, one of said washers having a socketforming a seat for said ridge, whereby the outer side of the latter is flush with the face of said support, the other washer being engaged with the upset end of the rivet portion.

2. A device of the character stated com prising a support having a pointed impaling stud and a spring pressed clamping plate, hinged to said support and provided with an orifice arranged to receive said stud, said orifice bein screw threaded and obliquely arranged re atively to the sides of the plate, and a tubular guard having a closed outer end formed to cover the pointed end of the stud, said guard being formed independently of the plate and eXteriorly threaded to engage the threads in said orifice whereby said guards are supported in an inclined position relatively to the sides of the plate.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

' CHARLES E. GIBBS.

Witnesses C. F. BROWN, P. W. PEzzE'r'rI.

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