US1705306A - Safety counter bill file - Google Patents

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March 12, 1929. F ONEIL 1,705,306

SAFETY COUNTER BILL FILE Filed Jan. 14, 1928 I I INVENT'OR Reufien I' wuu'is Owed ATTORN EY Patented Mar. 12, 1929.

UNITED STATES stir crates.

REUBEN FRANCIS oNErn, or OAKLAND, onnrronnm.

SAFETY COUNTER BILL FILE.-

Application filed January 14, 1328. Serial No. 246,868.

ing the point of the spike in such a manner as to prevent any personal injury being done to any employee or any patron of the place of business in which the file is located, while at the same time allowing bills and the like to r be applied in the usual way to the file by pres.-

ing said papers down upon the spike.

Essentially the protecting means comprises a guard normally disposed directly above and spaced a short distance from the point of the spike. A further object of my invention is to support this guard in such a manner that it may be shifted laterally clear of the spike so as to enable any number of bills on the file to be removed simultaneously if desired, or moved down to envelop the point of the spike.

A further object of the invention is to produce a simple and inexpensive device and yet one which will be exceedingly effective for the purpose for which it is designed.

These objects I accomplish by means of such structure and relative arrangement of parts as will fully appear by a perusal of the following specification and claims.

In the drawings similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views:

Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation elevation of my improved bill file showing the parts in their normal positions.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the device.

Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of the file showing the cover plate removed.

Fig. 4: is a fragmentary section showing the point protector or guard lowered over the plate.

Referring now more particularly to the characters of reference on the drawings, the support or base of the device is a circular member comprising a top plate 1 from which aside flange 2 depends all around the same to a certain depth so as to provide a chamber under the plate above the counteror table on which the flange rests.

A vertical rod 3 projects upwardly from the plate 1 adjacent one edge and at its lower end is fixed in a pedestal 4t turnably mounted in the plate 1. At its upper end this rod is bent to extend substantially horizontal'for a certain distance as shown at 5, this bent portion at its outer end terminating in a downwardly depending threaded stem 6. This stem is normaLy in vertical alinementwith and spaced from a spike member 7 which at its lower end is secured in the plate 1 in diametrally opposed relation to the rod Threaded on to the stem is a guard sleeve 8, whose vertical movement in either direction on the stem is,

limited b 1 QHlHI GD'IQRt-S 9 on the o oosite ends of the stem. These parts areso arranged that when the guard is at its upper limit of movement, the space between the bottom of the guard and the point of the spike is sufficient to permit of the impaling of bills, etc, on the spike as shown in Fig. l but is not sufiicient to permit of a finger of the operator passing therebetween. When the guard is lowered to its limit of downward movement, it extends below and is disposed about the point of the spike somewhat as shown in Fig. 4.

It will therefore be seen that when the guard is in the first described position any papers may be readily placed on the spike while at the same time the point is covered from above so that there is no danger of its contacting with the hands, finger, or any other portion of the anatomy of any person accidentally coming against the file. When the guard is lowered the papers are positively prevented from being removed.

Secured to and projecting radially from the pedestal 4t under the plate is an arm 10 which extends towards the opposite edge of the plate. At the outer end of the arm an upstanding finger or thumb knob 11 is fixed, this knob projectin up through a slot 12 cut in the plate and curved concentric with the pedestal, said slot having an arcuate length of about 90. A spiral spring 13 is disposed under the plate and is connected one end to the arm and at the other end to the base and acts to maintain the knob on the arm at one end of the slot, in which position the guard 8 is concentrically alined with the spike. It will therefore be seen that by moving the knob to the opposite end of the slot, the rod 3 and the parts connected thereto will be turned through a 90 arc, so that the guard will then be moved clear of the spike and any or all of the bills impaled on the spike may be readily withdrawn as a unit from the spike. knob is released the guard will automatically When the holding pressure on the the present and preferred construction of the device, still in practice such deviations from such detail may be resorted to as do not form a departure from the spirit of the invention, as defined by the appended claims. I

Having thus described my invention What I-clai'm as new and useful and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A bill file including a spike men'rber on which to impale bills, a guard cap disposed in line With the spike, and a threaded stem on which the cap is adjustably screwed; said stem being disposed in longitudinal a'linement with the spike and spaced from the point there-oi a predetermineddistance.

2. A bill file including a spike member on which to impale bills, a guard normally in line with the spike and beyond the point thereof, and movable means rigidly supporting the guard to enable the same to be moved laterally with regard to the spike.

3'.- A b'illfile' including a spike member on which to impale bills, a guard beyond and spaced from the point of the spike, a movable member supporting the guard and means applied to said member for normally maintaining the guard in longitudinal alinement with the spike While enabling said guard to be moved laterally with respect to the spike.

4. A bill file including a. spike member on Which to impale bills, a guard beyond and spaced from the point of the spike, a movable member supporting the guard and including a turnable element disposed parallel to the spike, means for turning said element, and means applied to the turning means for nor iii-ally maintaining the guard in longitudinal alinement with the spike.

5. A bill file including a spike member on which to impale the bills a guard beyond and spaced from the point of the spike, a movable member supporting the guard and including a turnaible' element disposed parallel to the spike, a common base member in which the spike and element are mounterhan operating arm applied to said element, n'icans between the arm and base for limiting the are of turning increment of said element, and spring means for holding said element at one end of such arc, the guard being then longitudinally alined with the spike.

6'; A bill file including a spike member on which to impale the bills, a gua d beyond and spaced from the JOlIl'li of the spii-ze, a movable member supporting the guaro and including a turnable element disposed parallel to the spike, a common base member in Whichthe spike and element are i-nounted in spaced relation to each other; said base having a top plate with a chamber thereunder, an operating arm connected to and extending. radially from said element under the plate, knob projecting from the outer end of the arm through a slot in the plate curved concentric With said element, and a spring acting toyieldably hold the knob at one end of the slot; the guard being then in longitudinal a-lineinent with the spike.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

tE-UBEN FRANCIS ONETL.

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