US1755407A - File - Google Patents

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April 22, 1930.

T. J. OCONNELL FILE Filed June 14, 1927 FIE 3- INVENTOI R BYT'IIOMJSJ'O Canned ATTORNEYS Patented Apr. 22, 1930 PArs r OFFICE THOMAS J. 'OCONNELL, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA FILE Application filed .Tune 14,

My invention relates to files for use in holding a sheaf of papers in order for storage or for ready reference.

Papers are usually clipped together in order to keep them conveniently assembled, but it often becomes necessary to extract one of the sheets from the sheaf or to add other sheets thereto but these are often cumbersome procedures with files as they are at present constructed. 7

It is'therefore an object of my invention to provide a file to which papers can readily be added and from which papers can readily be extracted.

Anotherobject of my invention is to provide a paper file which, with papers filed ghereon, can readily be detached from its ase.

Another object of my invention is to provide an economically constructed file.

My invention possesses other advantageous features some of which with the foregoing will be set forth at length in the followingde- 'scription where I shall outline in full that I form of the file of my invention, which I have selected for illustration in the drawings accompanying and forming part of the present specification. In said drawings I have shown one form of file embodying my invention, but

" it is to be understood that I do not limit myself to such form since the invention as set forth in the claims may be embodied in a plurality of forms.

. In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a file constructed according to my invention. r Fig. 2 is across section on the line 2-2 of *ig. 1. r Fig. 3 is a plan of a sheet of paper especially perforated to be used with the file of my invention.

In its'preferred form, the file of my invention comprises a base having thereon a rod bothof whose ends are seated in the base and 5 an associated rod only one of whose ends is seated in the base.

In the illustrated form of my invention, I

provide a suitable base which can be made of two portions, a pad 6 usually constructed of'wood and a metallic plate 7 preferably 1927. Serial No. 198,722.

countersunk to have its upper surface flush with the surface of the pad. The plate preferably is secured to the pad by means of screws 8 permitting it to be detached if necessary but ordinarily I prefer to have the two associated. The plate is provided with a plurality of irregular apertures 9 of generally rectangular contour which are provided with inwardly projecting lips 11. The material of the pad 6 is removed below the apertures and lips to form depressions 12 thereunder.

. To secure papers to the pad 6, I preferably provide a file comprising a continuous strip of metal which is'detachable from the plate 7 and which is bent into successive convolutions. One end of the strip of material is bentto form a rod or prong 13 seated in the plate 7 and arising substantially perpendicular therefrom. The upper end of the rod 13 is slightly arcuate and is rounded to form a smooth terminal. The rod 13 passes below the lip 11 in one of the apertures 9 and again emerges from its seat below the plate 7 to form a looped rod 14 which extends substantially parallel to the prong 13 and again seats below the plate 7 in another of the apertures 9. A second looped rod'16 is provided adj acent the looped rod 14, while remote from the prong 13 is a similar prong 17 completing the symmetry of the convoluted strip about a central plane.

It will be noted that the lips 11 in the apertures 9 are faced in opposite directions so that the various legs of the strip will be held in place by their resilience, and can readily be removed by urging the various legs toward each other. In this manner the entire strip can readily be removed from the base and together with its attached papers can beentirely separated therefrom.

In order to utilize to the best advantage the file as I have described it I preferably perforateina particular manner a sheet of paper 18 to be used therewith. Adjacent one edge of the paper, which is usually the top of the sheet, I provide a pair of perforations 19 and 20 whose peripheries are preferably uninterrupted circles. I also provide inline with and between the apertures 19 and 20 a pair of apertures 22 whose peripheries are not continuous but communicate through slits 23 with the edge 24 of the sheet of paper.

In positioning the sheet of paper on my file, I preferably place it as shown by the dotted line 26 in Fig. 1, and move it in a plane perpendicular to the legs of the rods 14 and 16 to cause the rods to pass through the slits '23 and be engaged by the apertures 22. The sheet of paper can readily be attached and detached from the file by engagement of the apertures 22 with the rods 14 and 16, and can also easily be moved axially along the rods. To attach thepaper permanently to the file, I preferably lift it axially of the rods 14 and 16 and pass it around the loops therein. As-fit comes adjacent the arcuate portions of the prongs 13 and 17, the apertures 19 and 20 pass axially over the prongs 1'3 and 17 and finally the sheet of paper rests on the pad 6 with all of the apertures 19, 20 and 22 in engagement with the rods 13, 14,, 16 and 17. Avery firmengagement of the paper on the file is thereby provided. V V It is not p'os'sible to extract papers in this position from the file by movement in aplane parallel to the axes of the rods 13 and 17 without tearing'the paper. When, however, it is desired to detach a sheet from the file, it is merely necessary to lift it so that the apertures 19 and 20 are no longer inengagement with the prongs 13 and 17 and then to move the sheet of paper in a plane perpendicular to the axes ofthe rods 14 and 16 so that the rods will pass through the slits 23 and again free the paper. Sheets of paper resting on the pad 6 are thereby permanently attached to the file while those lying in the position of the dotted line'26 of Fig. 'l'a're readily detached therefrom although'they are held securely enough not to be detached of'their own accord.

1. Afile for use with a sheet of paper having a 'pair of apertures therein, one of said apertures having a continuousboundary and thesecond of said apertures communicating with the'edg'e'of said sheet'of paper, comprising a support, a pair of relatively fixed rods, oneof said rods having its ends anchored to 'the'support and adapted to be engaged by said second aperture upon movement of said sheet of paper in a'plane perpendicular to said rod, and the other of said rods having a free end is adapted subsequently to be engaged by said first aperture upon movement of said sheet of paper in the 7 direction of the axis of said rod.

2. A file comprising a base having apertures therein, a continuous strip resiliently engaging said apertures including a prong projecting from said base and a loophaving one leg parallel to said prong, said loop lying plane determined by said prong and one of the legsof said loop.

3. A file for perforated sheets comprising a base, a continuous metallic file strip including a loop portion and a spaced parallel prong coextensive with only a portion of the loop, and means associated. with the base adapted for detachable engagement with the file strip adjacent the ends of the loop portion to anchor the strip to the base. 4. A file for perforated sheets comprising a base, a continuous metallic file strip comprising upwardly extending loop portions and spaced parallel prongs oflesser extent than the loop portions, and anchoring means associated with the base detachably engaged with the continuous strip at a plurality of points intermediate its ends.

5. A file for perforated sheets comprising a flat base member, a continuous bent rod having spaced parallel loop portions and free ends projecting above the base, and means associated with the base to hold the rod in engagement with the base.

6. A file for perforated sheets comprising a base member having spaced recesses formed therein, a continuous bent rod having upstanding spaced parallel loop portions and free ends extending above the base member, said rod having portions thereof intermediate its ends engaged within the recesses formed in the base member.

7. In a file for perforated sheets, a base, means associated with the base for engaging and anchoring a holding'strip for the sheets, a continuous metal strip resilientl engaged at a plurality of'poin'ts intermediate'its ends with said means, said metallic strip having loop portions and spaced parallel prongs extending'up'wardly from the base, the prongs being coextensive with only portions 'o'f'the loo s.

8 In combination, a sheet having 'ajplurality ofalinedapertures andslot's communicating through the edge of the sheet with certain of the apertures, a base, a continuous rod fastened at its ends to the base and "engageable only in a slot-connected aperture by movement of the sheet transverseto'the axis of the rod, and an associated spaced parallel rod of lesser extent adapted to be engaged or disengaged by movement 'of'the sheet in a direction along the axis of the first-mentioned rod. I

In testimony whereof, 'I have hereunto set my'hand.

THOMAS J. OCONN'ELL;

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