US1013633A - Partition or guide for files. - Google Patents

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P H. YAWMAN. PARTITION 0R GUIDE FOR FILES.

APPLICATION FILED APR, 25, 1907.

Patented Jn.2,1'912.

stares rarer enrich PHILIP H. YAYVMAN, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO YAWMAN & ERBE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 035' ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

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FABTKTXON OR GUIDE FOR FILES.

Apptication filed April 25, 1907. 'Serial No. 370,191.

1'0 all whom it may concern:

30 it known that I, Punitr H. YAWMAN, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State ,otNew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Partitions or Guides for Files; and I do hereby declare the tollowing to he a full, clear, and exact de cription of the same, reference being had t'tV'tllQ accompanying drawings, forming a part of the specification, and to the reference-nmncrals marked thereon.

My present invention relates to filing devices and particularly such as include a receptacle, usually a drawer, provided preterably near or at the bottom with a rodor similar im'paling or securing member which in use passes through the cards or sheets fo'ri'ning the records to be preserved, or the said cards, or some of them, may simply 'torm partitions constituting separating mem bers dividing ott papers or articles arranged in groups between them and forming them in classes, and my invention has for its object to provide partitions or cards of this nature when used for whatever purpose, which will be strong and durable and be particularly reinforced at the point of engagement with the rod or equivalent member and at the, point or points at which it. receives the greatest-strain or at which it would have the greater tendency to break, were my improvements not applied thereto, whereby the cards are rendered serviceable througlniiut a longer period of subjection to constant handling.

A. further object of my invention is to provide a reinforcement for the card which will not add appreciably to its thickness and though exposed to contact with papers inserted adjacent thereto will have no tendency to engage the same, and prevent their proper arrangement.

To these and other ends the invention consists in certain improvements and combinations of parts all as will be hereinafter more fully described, the novel features being pointed out in the claims at the end of the specification.

In the drawmgs: Figure 1 1s a transverse vertical sectional view of a filing receptacle showing in front elevation a card embodying my lYIlplOVGlYlQlll'S as used therein. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section of the card taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig.3 is a perspective detailview showing the rear Patented J an. 2, 1912.

lteterrii'ig now to the drawings in which similar numeral of reference indicate similar parts, 1 indicates the side walls of a receptacle or drawer provided with a bottom 2 having a slot or opening 3 therein, thesaid bottom being preferably arranged slightly above the portion ab of the walls upon which the drawer operates and is supported. Located within the slot and extending longitudinally thereof is a'eard retaining and, in the present instance, animpaling rod or member t arranged to lie below the plane of the upper surface of the bottom of the drawer for reasons hereinafter referred to, the rod being otherwise connected and operating in any suitable or desired manner.

The objectof the member t in a device of this character is to so engage Within suitable perforations or cutaway portions in the partitions or cards as to maintain, for convenience, their correct positions in the container or to prevent their withdrawal by unauthorized persons, and being in constant usage, particularly when employed as partitions tor purposes before identified, the Wear upon these cards is great, it being customary tto form them of light yielding material. in order that they may be bent or inclined upon their support to permit inspection of papers arranged behind or adjacent thereto. When so handled they are naturally grasped at their upper-qr exposed edges. and sometimes subjected in this manner to severe strains which are resisted only at the con-- nection between the rod and card with the result that the latter is disposed to crack upon one or more lines intersecting the aper ture aitd rod. Particularly -is this true when the cards are formed as shown in the draW- ings wherein 5 indicates the-body portion of the card and G a tongue or extension formed thereon projecting within the slot 3, and" provided with an aperture 7 to accommodate the rod 4-. The card is thus weakened in form in the vicinity of the" greatest stressand the tongue becomes cracked or broken, usually across its base. If a gromet is employed in the aperture the advantage gained slight, as I have found by experiment that the crack will still appear either as before or in a line tangent to the gromet and it is, moreover, open to the objection that it must project appreciably above the tion for paper filing receptacles comprising surfaceof the card and will engage papers inserted against the faces of the latter. To obviate all these disadvantages I provide upon the card adjacent the point of engageinent with the impaling or retaining memher, a relatively indestructible reinforcing plate 8 having an aperture therein registering with that in the card, and n'eterably of corresponding shape. The said plate should exteml to the edge of the card when prae: ticable and particularly when the card is provided with the tongue. in which case the plate should also e.;tend above the aperture to a point well beyond the base line of v the tongue, or'beyolnl the junction of the latte and the body of the -ard, that is in the present form the line oi the bottom edge of the card. It is secured to the latter preterably by a plurality of spurs 9 arranged in rows, shown. which may be punched from the material of the plate and driven through and clenched upon the opposite side of the card. down and secured in a similar manner and upon the upper edge is also provided an,

iidditional spur 11 similarly treated.

The plate may be termed of any suitable material, but preferably of thin and. rather soft or slightly-pliable sheet metal, which wiltgive a limited degree as the card is bent or sprung to prevent the fastel'iings becoming loosened, but which will nevertheless prevent the card from bending to the breaking point. The thinness of the metal which n'iaybe em 'iloyed with good results prevents it from engaging the papers as they are inserted, which result is also obtained .by the action of the rounded edges' o't the spur 11 (clearly shown in Fig. 2) and of the corners 10. The aperture 7 is greater in the vertical than in the horizontal dimension to preventthe cards from binding on the rod when tilted.

The advantage of a device in which the rod is located below the surface of the bot.- tom oi the receptacle and the partition card provided with a tongue extendingdownwardly and into cooperative relation therewith is, that papers may be filed therein without being 'irovided with a cutaway portion to :ugconnnodate the rod and by elongatin the aperture as described the card may normally rest upon the bottom instead of upon the rod, as shown. This form may be safely adopted and rendered durable thrt'lugh my improvements. the i.'eintorccnu-nt 8 extending across all points where weaknesses would otherwise develop "and parti ularly at the base of the tongue, as be .t'ore pointed out.

.1 claim as my invention:

1. As an article of manufacture, a parti- The upper corners 10 arewturneda body portion having a tongue thereon, said terial ol the body portion arranged thereon adjacent. the cutaway portion and extending beyond the base of the tongue to cooperate with both the latter and the body portion.

2. As an article of manufacture, a partition for paper tiling receptacles comprising a body portion having a tongue thereon, said tongue being provided with an aperture -to accommodate 'a retaining member and having a reinforcing member of relatively stiff material distinct from the material of the body portion wholly superposed thereon to surround the aperture and extending beyond the base of the tongue to cooperate with both the latter and the body portion.

is an article of manufacture, a partition for paper tiling receptacles composed of relatively thin material embodying a body portion having a tongue thereon, said tongue being-provided with a cutaway portion for cotiperation witha retaining ntember and having a reinforcing member arranged thereon adjaeentthe cutaway por tion and comprising a sheet metal plate extending beyond the base of the tongue to cooperate with both the latte and the body portion and secured thereto by a portion bent to extend thrraigl'i the material of the card at the upper edge of the plate.

I l, its an article of; manufacture, a partition for paper tiling receptacles comprising a body portion having a tongue thereon, said tongue being provided with a cutaway portioirtor cooperation with a crud-retaining member and having a reinforcing ineinber wholly superposed thereon to surround the cutaway portion composed of a pliable metal strip extending beyond the base. of the tongue to cooperate with both the latterand the body portion. l

The cmnbinat-ion with a paper filing receptacle having a slot in the bottom thereof 'and a retaining member located in the slot,

ha \ing a tongue projecting within the slot,

said tongue being provided with a cut-away 1 portion for cooperation with the retaining member. and a reinforcing member of rel atively Qua. material distinct from. the matex rialjot' the body portion on the tongue adjacent the cutaway portion and projecting beyond the base of the tongue to cooperate with both the latter atid the loody portion.

PHILIP H. YAl VliiAN. l l itnessesc WAL'rrr. '13. im an, RUssnLL B, GRIFFITH.

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