US1623980A - small - Google Patents

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April 12 1927. 1,623,980 J. s. SMALL FILE Filed Oct. 5. 1921 l r: 6 L

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Patented Apr. l2, i927.

UNITED STATES JOHN S. SMALL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

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Application filed October 5, 1921.

This invention relates to files and is more particularly though not exclusively concerned with card indexes of the class in which the cards are arranged with their identitication-receiving margins in overlapping relationship. The invention will be best understood by reference to the following description when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings of one illustrative embodiment thereof, while its scope will'be more particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In. the drawings:

Fig. l is a front elevation of a portion of a card index exemplifying the invention;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view on line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a detail front elevation of one of the card supporting bars;

Fig. 4L is a sectional view on line 4-4 of F ig. 2; and r Fig. 5 is a cross-sectional view of a series of bars illustrating the mode of displacing two bars toward the frame to permit the intermediate bar to be grasped for removal.

Referring to the drawings and to the embodiment of the invention which is selected for exempliiication, there is shown a card index comprising a series of cards 6, having their identification-receiving margins arranged in overlapping relationship, although it should be understood that the invention is not limited to an index of this particular class. Each card is held or carried by a card holder, herein comprising a bar 8, hav ing card-attaching means, the latter herein con'iprising arms conveniently formed of wire presenting pintles 12 suitably hinged to the bar as by slitting and punching the latter to present projections let atlording recesscs 16 best shown in Fig. 4, in which the pintles are received thereby presenting l'iinges. Ehiitable provision is made to prevent the pintles from being withdrawn from their places as by providing the bar between the projections Ll with projections 18,,l1erein conveniently formed as tongues projecting laterally from the bar and bent inwardly toward each other until their ends abut, as shown in Fig. These projections may also serve to assist in preventing the bars from riding over one zinother.

The arms 10 are appropriately secured to their respective cards by providing said arms with oppositely directed terminal portions 20 received in suitable openings in the Serial No. 505,643.

card, the latter for this purpose in the pres ent example being provided with two pairs of slits 22 through which the terminal portion of the wire is threaded as best shown in Fig. 2. The relative arrangement of the parts is such that the sheet can be detached from the holder only by diminishing the distance between the card-engaging portions of its attaching means that is to say by reducing the distance between the extremities of the terminal portions 20 to a suiiicient extent to allow one of them to be withdrawn from one of the slits 22. This is a distinct advantage, because it prevents the cards from becoming accidentally detached from their holders as they cannot be detached. without first removing the holders from the frame now to be described owing to the fact that the bar, while in the panel, cannot be flexed sulliciently to permit of detaching the card therefrom.

The frame herein selected for exemplification comprises a panel formed of a piece of sheet material 24:, such as thin sheet metal, having guides herein ZZ-bars 26, suitably secured thereto as by soldering or welding and presenting inwardly directed flanges 28 overlying the terminal portions of the bars 8 and affording channels 30 in which the ends of the bars are received, as best shown in Fig. 2. The bars are placed edge to edge in series and preferably have their adjacent edges contacting throughout; they extend transversely of the guides and are slidable lengthwise with the latter.

Removal and replacement of the bars in the present embodiment is accomplished by making them flexible so that they can be bent or bowed sufficiently to reduce their length to a distance less than the space be tween one overlying flange and the bottom of the channel under the other flange. To

this end. each bar is preferably made oi? a separation of the card'and its holder is impossible yet one can be detached from the other instantly by simply first removing the holder from the frame. Rearrangement and reclassification of the index from time to time may be accomplished with ease by removing any card with its holder and reinserting it in a new place, previous to which it is necessary of course to provide a space at the d sired point by sliding the adjacent cards and their holders along their guideways in a well known manner.

The removal of any given holder from its place is facilitated by making provision to ;)ermit any two holders to be displaced inwardly in a direction transverse to their normal plane, thereby to render the intermediate holder accessible to be grasped tor removal in the manner clearly illustrated in Fig. 5. One convenient way of rendering. this possible is by providing the frame with adepression 32 (see Fig. 2) into which the holders may be displaced by simply pressing them inward y. In the present example the depression is siu'iply a space be tween :1 pair of ribs 3% presented by the plate 24:, thus elevz'it-ing the bars an appropriate distance above the -front surface of? the plate, it being understood of course that the channels 30 are preferably of sulficient depth from front toback to permit the bars to be normally held in their places without stress. When a given bar is to be removed, the two bars on either side of it are pressed inwardly by the thumb and forefinger, as illustrated in Fig. 5, and the intermediate bar is then grasped and bent in an outward direction at its central portion towithdraw its ends from beneath its overlying flanges. Thebar can then be detached from the sheet by bending the bar in the opposite direction as before described.

Having thus described one embodiment of the invention but without limiting myself thereto, what I claim and desire by Letters Patent to secure is:

1. In a file, the combination oi a frame, a. plurality of cards, and a plurality of card holders held by said frame, each holder comprising a bar and attaching means hinged to said bar and secured to the card held by such holder, each holder being adapted to prevent the card held thereby from being detached from such holder with out first detaching the latter lirom said frame.

2. In a; file, the combination oi a frame, a. plurality of cards, and a plurality of card holders held by said frame, e'ach holder comprising a bar and attaching means hinged to said bar and secured to the card held by such holder, saidholder'having pr0- vision for detaching the same from itscard by diminishing the distance between the card-engaging portions of said attaching means.

In a file, the combination of a frame, a

plurality of cards, and a plurality of card holders held by said frame, each holder con'iprising a. bar and attaching means hinged to said bar and secured to the card held by such holder, said holder havin pio vision for detaching the same from its card by bending the same to diminish the distance between the card-engaging portions ol? said attaching means.

a. In a file, the combination of a frame, a: plurality of cards, and a plurality of card holders held by said frame, each holder comprising a bar and attaching means hinged to said bar and secured to the card held by such holder, each card being provided with openings, and its attaching means being received in opposite outward directions into said openings.

5. In a file, the combination oi a frame, a plurality of cards, and a plurality ol card holders held by said frame, each holder comprising a bar and attzurhiug means hinged to sai l bar and secured to the card held by such holder, each card being provided with openings, and its attaching means having oppositely and outwardly directed portions received in said openings.

6. In a file, the combination ot a frame, a plurality oi cards, and a plurality ot' card holders held by said frame, each holder comprising a bar and attaching menus hinged to said bar and secured to the curd held by such holder, each card being provided with openings, and its attaching means comprising arms hinged to such bar and having outwardly directed terminal portions received in said openings '7. In a file, the combination o i a frame presenting inwardly directed fiai'i 'es and oppositely disposed channels behind said flanges and a pairoi ribs intermediate said channels, said ribs presenting between them a depression, a plu'ality of cards having l'ree, overlapping margins presented at the front, and a plurality oi' card holder; coniprising straight bars abutting edge to edge, having their ends received in said channels and having intermediate portions resting on saidribs, said flanges, said channels, said ribs, and said bars, being cooperatively arranged to permit any given bars to be displaced inwardly in a direction transverse to their normal plane, thereby to perniit an intermediate bar to be glfl'ZtSPQti tor vemo al, said= channels being greater in depth from front to back than the thickness of said bars, and the height of said ribs being such that the trout laces oi said bars are held snugly against the rear facet-i of said flanges, said channels providing spaces to permit the ends of said bars to reccde reamvardlv when the intermediateportions oi said barb are bowed in a forward direction for removal.

8. In a file, the con'lbinution oi a frame presenting inwardly directed flanges, oppositely disposed channels behind said flanges, and a lengthwise depression intermediate said channels, a plurality of cards having one set of overlapping margins presented at the front, and a plurality of card holders comprising straight bars abuttingedge to edge, having their ends received in said channels and having intermediate portions extending across said depression, said flanges, said channels, said depression and said bars, being cooperatively arranged to permit any given bars to be displaced into said depression in a direction transverse to their normal plane, thereby to permit an intermediate bar to be grasped for removal.

9. in a paper file, the combination of a frame, a series of parallel bars held by said frame, a series or sheets having overlapping margins, and means offset from said bars attaching said sheets thereto, said bars and said means having provision. to prevent removal of a given sheet from its bar without first removing such bar from said frame.

10. In a paper file, the combination of a frame, a series of bars held by said frame, a series of overlapping sheets, and means interposed between said bars and said sheets attaching them together, said bars and said means having provision to prevent removal of a given sheet from its bar without first removing such bar from said frame,

11. In a paper file, the combination of a frame, a series of bars held by said frame, a series of sheets having overlapping margins, and means laterally disposed with respect to the longitudinal dimensions of said bars for attaching said sheets thereto, .aid bars and said means having provision to prevent removal of a given sheet from its bar without first removing such bar from said frame.

11:3. In a paper file, the combination of a frame, a series of bars held by said frame, a series of sheets having overlapping margins, and means holding said sheets spaced from said bars, and attaching said sheets thereto, said bars and said means having provision to prevent removal of a given sheet from its bar without first removing such bar from said frame.

. 3-3. In a file, the combination. of a frame, a plurality of cards, and a plurality of card holders held. by said frame, each holder comirising a bar and attaching means hinged to said bar and secured to the card held by such holder, said attaching means being adapted to prevent a given card from being detached from its holder without first detaching the latter from said frame.

I l. In a file, the combination of a frame, a plurality of cards, and a plurality of card holders held by said frame, each holder comprising a bar and attaching means hinged to said bar and secured to the card held by such holder, said attaching means being adapted to prevent a given card from being detached from said attaching means without first detaching said holder from said frame. 15. In a tile, the combination of a frame, a plurality of cards, and a plurality of card holders held by said frame, each holder romprising a bar and attaching means hinged to aid bar and secured to the card held by such holder, said attaching means being adapted to prevent a given card from being attached to said attachi. means without first detaching said holder from said. frame. 16. In a lile, the combination of a frame, a plurality of cards, and a plurality of card holders held by said frame, each holder comprising a bar and attaching means hinged. to said bar and secured to the card held by such holder, said attacl'iing means being adapted to prevent a given card from being attached to or detached from said attaching means without first detaching said holder from said frame.

17. In a file, the combination of a support, a series of overlapping sheets, and a series of parallel bars supported by said support, said bars being adapted to have their normal length diminished, said sheets and said bars having cooperative means attaching said sheets to their respective bars and providing for detachment of said sheets from their respective bars only by diminishing the effective length of said bars.

18. In a file, the combination of a support, a series of parallel bars supported by said support, each bar presenting a pair of aligned bearings extending lengthwise there of, sheet-attaching means comprising pintles received in said bearings, and a series of sheets associated with said bars, respectively, and attached to said attaching means, each sheet and its attacl'nng means having 00- operative provision to prevent detachment of such sheet from its attaching means without first detaching ths associated bar from said support. 19. In a file, the coi'nbination of a support, a series of parallel bars supported by said support, each bar presenting a pair of aligned bearings extending lengthwise thereof, sheet-attaching means comprising oppositely directed pintles received in said bearings and oppositely directed terminal portions, and a series of sheets associated with said bars, respectively, and provided with openings which receive said attaching means, said terminal portions and said openings cooperating to prevent removal of said sheet from said attaching means without first detaching the associated bar from said support. 20. In a file, the combination of a support, a series of parallel bars attached to said support, said bars being adapted to have their normal length diminished, and a series of sheets, said sheets and said bars having cooperative means attaching said sheets to their respective bars and providing for detachment of said sheets from their respective bars only by diminishing the effective length of said bai's,'and' said support and said bars having cooperative means to permit detachment of said bars from said support by diminishing the effective length of said bars. 21. In a paper file, the combination of a support, a series of overlapping sheets presenting openings, and a series of sheet-supporting bars attached to said support and having projections Whose free ends are directed toward the adjacent ends 01 said bars and are received in said openings, respectively, said-bars being adapted to have the normaldistance between their ends changed, said support and said bars presenting cooperative means permitting said bars to be detached from said support by changing the distance between the ends of each bar.

22. A filing element comprising, in combination, a cardypresenting openings, and a bendable card-supporting bar presenting projections whosejfree ends are directedto- Wards the ends of said bar and are received in said openings, respectively, and are re movable from said openings by bending said bar to reduce the distance between said projections.

23. A filing element comprising, in combination, a card presenting openings, and a card-sup porting bar presenting attaching means elevated above the surface of said bar and received in said openings, respectively, said bar being bendable to enable the distance between said card-attaching means to be reduced to Withdraw the same from said openings.

24. A liie comprising, in combination, a support, a series of parallel bars attached to saidsitlpport, and a series oi sheets associated with said bars, respectively, each sheet and its associated bar having cooperative means attachin such sheet to its bar, and providing for the detachment oi? such sheet from its bar only by removing such bar from said support.

in a lile, the combination of a. support, a. series of parallel bars attached to said support, said bars being :nhipted lo have their normal length diminished, and a series of sheets associated with said bars, respectively, each sheet and its associated bar having cooperative means attaching such sheet to its bar, and providing for attachment or such sheet to its bar only by diminishing the effective length of such bar, and said support and said bars having cooperative means to permit attacln'nent oi" said bars to said support by diminishing the elfective length of said bars.

In testin'iony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

JOHN S. SMALL.

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