US1288188A - Index. - Google Patents

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J, H. RAND.

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MPLICATIOH FILED own. 1917.

Patent-ed DEC- 17, 1918.

JAMES H. RAND, OF NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 1'7, ieis.

Application filed October 29, 1917. Serial No. 199,019.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES H. RAND, citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Newton, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Indexes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to card indexes of the overlapping card, visible index type, and has to do mainly with novel and improved devices for supporting cards in the frame.

In the accompanying drawings which illustrate a preferred embodiment of the invention I Figure l is a front elevation of part of an index containing the invention;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the individual supporting and spacing bars;

Fig. 3 is'a plan view of one of the bars with the wire on which the card is hung;

Fig. 4 is a front elevation of one of the wires and its attached card;

Fig. 5 is a front elevation of a modification; and

Fig. 6 is a sectional detail on line 66 of I Fig. 1.

The usual frame or panel A, preferably.

made of sheet metal, is proyided with the usual bent flanges a at its side edges, constituting inwardly facing channels for 'receiving the ends of the card supporting devices.

Each card supporting device comprises a bar B of resilient sheet metal, bent over upon itself at each end as shown at b and thence inwardly toward the face of the bar as shown at b. The inwardly bent ends 3) are provided with 1 holes or apertures Z2 which constitute sockets for the ends of card supportingwire D.

The card C is attached at its upper edge to the wire D by being folded over the wire,

and the folded margin 0 (Fig. 6) fastened,

preferably by paste or cement to the body of the card, so that the fold of the card fits snugly around the wire. The card may however be shifted lengthwise of the wire, or the wire may be wholly removed. l

The ends of'the bars B which'are resilient are inserted in the channels of the frame by springing .the bars at the middle to contact the distance between the ends sufficiently to pass. the ends past the flanges a The bent-over ends 25 fill the channels and troduced into their holes.

To inspect any card the next overlying card, and those above it, are swung upwardlv on their hinges, one member of each hinge being the socket at the end of the bar B, and the other hinge member being the end of the wire.

The inwardly bent ends 5 of the several bars form substantially continuous walls which close the channels of the frame and normally prevent any accidental lateral displacement of the cards on their several wires. Should it be desired however to provide for lateral displacement of the cards so that a particular card which it is desired to consult may serve as a signal and guide to its location, the modification illustrated in Fig. 5 may be used, wherein each card is cut away at the top as shown at 0' so that it may be shifted lengthwise of its wire a 1imited distance as illustrated at 0 for instance.

The cards C may be cards or sheets on which entries and records of various sorts are kept, or they may be holders for other cards in which case a pocket E of transparent sheet celluloid or other suitable material is provided at the lower edge of each card to receive a suitable card insert. In either case the bars will hold the cards in suitable spaced relation to expose the margins of the cards for indexing purposes.

I claim 1. An index comprising a frame, means disposed along each side margin of the frame having a series of'separate and independent inwardly facing sockets spaced apart, a series of card supportingwires having their ends mounted in opposlte sockets,

and a series of cards supported by said wires.

2. An index comprising a frame having inwardly facing channels, a series of bars .having their ends mounted in the channels,

a series of card supporting wires having their ends pivoted to the several bars and a series of cards supported by the wires.

3. An index comprisinga frame having inwardly facing channels, a series of bars having their ends mounted in the channels,

the bars having socket members at each end,

itself at its ends and the inwardly bent ends beingprovided with sockets, a series of supporting wires having their ends mounted in said sockets, and a series of cards supported by the wires.

5. An index comprising a frame having inwardlv facing channels, a series of bars of resilient metal, each bar being bent over and inwardly upon itself at its ends and the inwardly bent ends being provided with apertures constitutins sockets, the bent over ends being removably mounted in the channels of the frame, a series of supporting wires having their ends mounted in said resales apertures, and a series of cards supported by'the wires.

6. A card supporting device for indexes comprising a bar of sheet metal bent over and inwardly upon itself at its ends, the inwardly bent ends being provided with apertures constituting sockets'and a wire extending between said inwardly bent ends having its ends mounted in said apertures.

7. A card supporting device for indexes comprising a bar having a portion near each vend benttransversely of the plane of the 9, A card supporting device for indexes comprising a bar adapted to be supported at its ends in the guide channels of a. frame, and a card supporting wire removably attached to said bar.

Signed by me at Boston, Massachusetts this twenty-second'day of October, 1917.

James H. RAND.

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