GB912044A - Improvements in filing cabinets - Google Patents

Abstract

912,044. Filing papers; indexing. BECKER, O. A. Dec. 1, 1958, No. 22987/62. Divided out of 912,043. Classes 16 and 146 (1). A filing cabinet 46 has sliding drawers 47 for the reception of vertically upstanding folders 3, the drawers having longitudinally extending partition members 53 which subdivide the drawer into two compartments, each compartment having an open top and an open side so that folders contained therein may be readily withdrawn through the open side. The front of the drawer carries a guide 58 receiving an index strip or strips, while a guide-plate 5 bearing a tab 6 is inserted between each group of folders 3 which bear individual tabs 4. An index panel 49 is slidably mounted on a guide 50. Alternatively, an index panel 52 is hinged to the member 53. The guide plates 5, Fig. 2 (not shown) are provided with index cards 57 slidably m ounted between rails 55. In another embodiment, Fig. 3 (not shown), the tabs 4 project from the top of the folders, while the front of the drawer carries index cards 65. The guide plates 101, Fig. 4, corresponding to the plates 5, are mounted on guides 103 in the manner shown in Fig. 5. The plates 101, Fig. 4, carry index cards 107 arranged in vertical slides, the cards being raised by tabs 108. The plates 101 are yieldable to permit deflection, thus permitting opening of folders without removing them from the drawer; reinforcing grooves 104 restrict the flexibility to the required extent.