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 BHANNON V. J. M. W. JONES STATIONEBI & PBINTING 00. 205 �Shannon V. J. M. W. Jones Stationert & Printing Co. �{Circuit Court, K D. Illinois. October 31, 1881.) �1. liETTERS Patent — Paper- HoLDBHs—lNTnrNaEMENT. �Letters patent No. 217,909, issued July 29, 1879, to Frederick "W. Smith and Jamea S. Shannon, for an improvement in paper-holders, are valid and in- fringed, as to claims, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7, by the defendant's devlce. �Jesie Cox and Homer N. Hibbard, for complainant. �N. C. Gridley, for defendant. �Blodgett, D, J. This is a suit for injunction and damages for an alleged infringement, by defendant, of patent No. 217,909, issued July 29, 1879, to Frederick W. Smith and James S. Shannon, and which is nowheld by complainant, for an "improvement in paper- holders." The defence set up is want of laovelty and non-infringe- ment. The character and scope of the invention are set out by the patentees in theix specifications 8,8 follows : ,i �. "Our invention relates to that dassof paper files or teraporary binders adapted, by having separable uniting wires, tq allow of the withdrawal of any one of many papers. thereon held, or the insertion of papers between those aiiready on flle, without disturbing the order In which the others are placed, The object of our invention is to provide a flle more prompt and positive in its action, less calculated to tear the papers flled thereon, more conveident 6t manipulation, ond adapted, in its double form especially, to serve asawriting tablet for thelap or desk. It consists in a paper-holder with duplex parallel hinged transf er wires, made f rom one piece, having the flxed wires and moy- able wires secured to the same Connecting plate, whereby those parts may be separately packed and attached to any desired base-boardj in the stfuctuie of the puncturing wire; in a felt or plush covering for the bottom of the base- board; in the stop to limit the movement of the hinged wires. Figure 1 is a perspective view of a double or duplex flle applied to a tablet, showing the flxed wires as being tubular and the movable wires solid. It also shows the movable or transfer wires formed of a single piece of wire, bent, in its Con- necting or horizontal position, in the shape of a crank, and hinged near its angles." �Another feature of the device, as described and elaimed, is that the flxed and movable wires are attached to a single plate, removable from the tablet, which allows the parts to be separately packed for transportation. The leading idea of this device is the two punctur- ing spindles, and the transfer wires, so arrangea to operate with each other as to form two continuons parallel rings, upon which papers may be held in place, and yet permit the easy opening of the rings for the removal or insertion of a paper, without the displacement of the others. Standards or spindles for holding papers in place are old, ��� �