EP0895873A1

EP0895873A1 - Filing Equipment

Info

Publication number: EP0895873A1
Application number: EP98114581A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Mikio Ito
Original assignee: Ito Co ltd
Current assignee: Ito Co ltd
Priority date: 1997-08-08
Filing date: 1998-08-03
Publication date: 1999-02-10
Also published as: JP3048701U; CN1207987A

Abstract

The present invention relates to a filing equipment comprising two mount-portions (1) being capable of opening and shutting at opposite sides across the connecting portion, a lingulate piece (2) partially fixed on an inner surface of one of said mount-portions and a clip put papers (3) and said lingulate piece, and used by catching an end portion of paper and a free-end portion of said lingulate piece with said clip. The filing equipment of the present invention can temporally catch the documents and can keep the documents in a certain order, and from which the documents can be easily detached.

Description

Industrial Field of The Invention

This invention relates to a filing equipment for holding documents by means of catching.

Background of The Invention

As Filing equipment for holding documents or clear pockets keeping documents in (hereinafter referred to binders), binders having a catching means of levers, springs or rings are known. A binder catching documents with rings, for example, is constituted to catch documents by passing metal rings through filing-holes made on documents.
On the other hands, as other filing equipment, catching metallic parts having two levers and used for catching documents of from about few pages to about several tens of pages (hereinafter referred to clips) are known. In the use of said clips, once documents have been held by the clip, then said levers made to be capable of turning on toward or backward the surface of the caught documents are turned toward the surface of the documents and stretched over the surface of the documents for ensuring the levers not obstruct handling the caught documents. In addition to this type of clips, another type of clip is practiced, which also has two levers made to be capable of turning on toward either of right or left side parallel to the engaging parts of the clip.
The binders as mentioned above are , for example, suitable in keeping the documents categorized into certain groups, while the clips have a advantage of its easiness in catching on and off the documents and are thus suitable in making up references for meetings by collecting the documents needed from several binders or in temporally filing the document before sorting.
However, the documents as caught by the clips are easily corrupted or scattered and lost and the binders require much time for put on or in the documents.
Therefore, none of the above-mentioned prior arts could provide a filing equipment having the function of the clip temporally holding and filing the documents in combination with the function of the binder keeping the sorted documents.
An object of the present invention is to improve such problems and to provide a filing equipment (binder) which can temporally catch the documents and can keep the documents in a certain order, and from which the documents can be easily detached.

Summary of The Invention

For solving the problems, the filing equipment according to the present invention is characterized by comprising two mount-portions capable of opening and shutting and being at opposite sides across the connecting portion, a lingulate piece partially fixed on inner surface of one of said mount-portions and a clip for putting papers and said lingulate piece together, and used by catching an end portion of paper and a free-side portion of said lingulate piece with the clip.
More specifically, the filing equipment according to the present invention comprises two mount-portions capable of opening and shutting and being at opposite sides across the connecting portion, a lingulate piece partially fixed on inner surface of one of said mount-portions, a pocket-shape holder having a size corresponding to that of the mount-portions and a clip for putting the pocket-shape holder and said lingulate piece together, and has holes on the free-side portion of said lingulate piece and the caught-side of said pocket shape holder formed at the site corresponding to the engaging site of said clip, and is used by catching the pocket-shape holder and free-side of the lingulate piece with the clip through said holes.

Brief Description of The Drawings

Figure 1 is a perspective-view illustrating the binder according to one embodiment of the present invention holding documents;
Figure 2 is an inside-view illustrating the constitution of the binder according to one embodiment of the present invention;
Figure 3 is an outside-view illustrating the constitution of the binder according to the embodiment of the present invention shown in Figure 2;
Figure 4 is a side-view illustrating the constitution of the binder according to the embodiment of the present invention shown in Figure 2;
Figure 5 is a top-view illustrating the pocket-shape holder used in the binder according to the present invention;
Figure 6 is a top-view illustrating the clip used in the binder according to the present invention;
Figure 7 is a perspective-view illustrating the clip used in the binder according to the present invention shown in Figure 7;
Figure 8 is an outside-view illustrating the constitution of the binder according to the embodiment of the present invention other than that shown in Figure 2;
Figure 9 is an inside-view illustrating the constitution of the binder according to the embodiment of the present invention shown in Figure 8; and
Figure 10 is a side-view illustrating the constitution of the binder according to the embodiment of the present invention shown in Figure 8;

Detailed Explanation of The Invention

The present invention will be described in detail along with one embodiment of the invention by referring to attached drawings in below.
Figure 1 is a perspective-view illustrating the binder according to one embodiment of the present invention. As shown in Fig. 1, the binder 1 according to the present invention comprises two mount-portions being capable of opening and shutting at opposite sides across the connecting portion, and a lingulate piece 2 consisting of a free-end portion 25 and a fixed portion 23 is provided on an inner surface of one of the mount-portions, and the free-end portion 25 of the lingulate piece 2 and the clear pocket-shape holder 4 is caught together by a clip 3. On another mount-portion, i.e., at the inner surface of the mount-portion on which the lingulate piece 2 is not provided, a clear pocket 24 is fixed for enabling to keep documents at this site. The binder 1 itself is made with inorganic antibacterial materials.
On the back cover 1A of the binder 1, as shown in Fig. 2, a clear pocket 11 capable of keeping papers is provided and a back title of the binder may be displayed by put the paper indicating the title into this clear pocket 11. As shown in Fig. 3, the lingulate piece 2 is adhered to the inner surface of one of mount-portions 1B of the binder 1 at the fixed portion 23. This lingulate piece 2 is formed in much smaller size than that of the mount-portion 1B and at free-end portion 25 has a four-sided cut 21 and a hole 22. A size of the four-sided cut may be varied depending to the shape of the clip 3 used. Thus, the shape and size of the cut 21 and the hole 22 of the lingulate piece 2 is formed so that the connecting portion 3C of the clip 3 put on the cut 21 and the engaging part of the clip 3 insert the hole 22. Figure 4 shows the binder 1 of Fig. 3 from view direction of B indicated in Fig. 3.
The clear pocket-shape holder 4 has, as shown in Fig. 5, a four-sided hole 41 whose shape and size can be determined dependent on those of the clip 3 at center of one end, and two rounded holes 42 and 43' to enable the holder 4 to be used with other binders at both sides of the hole 41. The holder 4 of the present invention has a pocket 42 to keep the documents in a pocket 42 on the holder, and thus this holder 4 may be useful for temporally filing and easy to detach the documents from the holder 4. Moreover, a convex portion 4A which enables easy paging and is available as an index label may be provided at opposite side of the held portion with the clip 3.
The clip 3 consists of, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7, two levers 31 and 31' made to be capable of turning on toward either of right or left side parallel to the engaging parts of the clip, and a elastic metal piece formed by uniting two plate-portions 3A and 3B folded back at its free-end and covering the supporting 32 and 33 of the levers 31 and 31' with a connecting portion 3C which links the plate-portions 3A and 3B together. The clip 3 is used to catch the pocket-shape holder 4 with levers 31 and 31' in their standing state (shown by dotted lines) and the levers are laid down once after catching the holder 4 and/or the documents for ensuring the levers not obstruct closing the binder 1. The folded portions of the plate-portions 3A and 3B may be molded to have uneven-shape for placing the levers 31 and 31' at desired positions such as a completely standing or laying position.
The clip 3 having such constitution will make the binder 1 be easy to page and to sort out the pocket-shape holder 4 and the documents. The width of the connecting portion 3C of the clip 3 can be, for example, the width enough to catch and hold about 80 pieces of copy-papers.
In the above-mentioned embodiment, the clear pocket-shape holder for keeping documents is employed. However, instead of employing the pocket-shape holder, documents or copy-papers their-self can be directly caught into the binder of the present invention with forming said four-sided holes onto the documents or copy-papers.
Similar to that, instead of the clip having the levers made to be capable of turning on toward either of right or left side parallel to the engaging parts of the clip, a clip having the levers made to be able to turn into its stretching form after catching the documents and the like.
Alternatively, the binder 1 according to the present invention may have two lingulate pieces 2 and 2' each provided on another inner surfaces of two mount-portions, as shown in Figs. 9 and 10. Such constitution may enable that the lingulate piece 2 catch documents having sizes of no more than that of the one mount-portion (the size of the binder folded in double) and the lingulate piece 2' having a cut 21', a hole 22', a fixed portion 23' and free-end portion 25' catch the documents of size of the binder. Of course, only either size of those can be caught.
Figure 8 is a drawing illustrating the back cover of the binder, Figure 9 is a drawing illustrating the inner side of the binder, and Figure 10 shows the binder of Fig. 9 from view direction of B indicated in Fig. 9.
As stated above, according to the present invention, a lingulate piece for caught with a clip is made and fixed on a binder, therefore documents or pocket-shape holders can be temporally caught with the clip in the binder. Thus, the documents or pocket-shape holders can be temporally caught and filed with the clip and kept in the binder to which the clip is fixed. Moreover, since clips are used as a catching metallic parts in the binder according to the invention, the documents or the pocket-shape holders can be easily brought out.

Claims

A filing equipment comprising two mount-portions being capable of opening and shutting at opposite sides across the connecting portion, a lingulate piece partially fixed on an inner surface of one of said mount-portions and a clip put papers and said lingulate piece, and used by catching an end portion of paper and a free-end portion of said lingulate piece with said clip.
The filing equipment according to claim 1, wherein the clip consists of two levers made to be capable of turning on toward either of right or left side parallel to the engaging parts of the clip, and a elastic metal piece formed by uniting two plate-portions folded back at its free-end and covering the supporting of said levers with a connecting portion which links the plate-portions together.
The filing equipment according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of the lingulate piece and the clip are provided.
A filing equipment comprising two mount-portions being capable of opening and shutting at opposite sides across the connecting portion, a lingulate piece partially fixed on an inner surface of one of said mount-portions, a pocket-shape holder having a size corresponding to that of the mount-portions and a clip for putting the pocket-shape holder and said lingulate piece together, and having holes on the free-end portion of said lingulate piece and the caught-side of said pocket shape holder formed at the site corresponding to the engaging site of said clip, and is used by catching the pocket-shape holder and free-side of the lingulate piece with the clip through said holes.
The filing equipment according to claim 4, wherein the clip consists of two levers made to be capable of turning on toward either of right or left side parallel to the engaging parts of the clip, and a elastic metal piece formed by uniting two plate-portions folded back at its free-end and covering the supporting of said levers with a connecting portion which links the plate-portions together.