US1557217A - Visible-card system - Google Patents

Description

' Oct. 13, 1925.

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In a. copending application, Serial No. 412,855, filed Sept. 25, 1920, of which the present application is a division, I have described and broadly claimed a novel construction of a visible card system which occupies a minimum of space which can be more economically manufactured than the card systems now in use.

It further comprehends a novel construction of cards which can be readily inserted into and removed from the filing unit whenever desired, the necessity of employing card holders being dispensed with.

Other novel features of construction and advantage will hereinafter more fully appear in the detailed description and the appended claims.

For the purpose of illustrating my invention, I have shown in the accompanying drawing a typical embodiment thereof which is at present preferred by me since this em bodiment will be found in practice to give satisfactory and reliable results. It is, however, to be understood that the various instrumentalities of which my invention con sists can be variously arranged and organized and that my invention is not limited to the precise arrangement and organization of these instrumentalities as herein shown and described.

Figure 1 represents, in perspective, a visible card system, embodying my invention.

Figure 2 represents a top plan view of an index blank.

Figure 8 represents a top plan view of an index formed from a blank seen in Figure 2.

Figure 4 represents an end elevation of the index seen in Figure 3.

Figure 5 represents, in end elevation, a plurality of the indexes in assembled position and in interlocked relationship.

Figure 6 representsa top plan view of a plurality of card index blanks before they have been separated,

Similar numerals of reference indicate correspor ding parts,

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grooves 4e." 5'designates the cards or indexes which are formed from the blank 6 by the bending of the blank. The blank 6 is provided with a pair of weakened lines 7 extending laterally across it in spaced relationship and preferably in parallelism thereby forming a terminal tab 8, a downwardly extending fold 9 with a downwardly extending flap 10. men the blank is folded on the weakened lines an upper pocket 11 is formed and a lower pocket 12. The downwardly extending flap 10 preferably has its ends cut away on an incline, as indicated at 13. The blank is of such length that when folded its ends 14; are adapted to slide in and be received in the grooves 4 of the panel 3. The index strips 5, see Figure 5, interlock with each other when assembled so that when they are in the panel they are in interlocked relationship and are properly secured in place. The upper portion of the outer face of the upper terminal tab forms a recording portion to receive the filing indicia. It will be seen as in Figure 5 that when two index strips are assembled the lower tab which ex tends into the pocket 11 of the index tab beneath it determines the visibility of the recording portion.

In writing on the index strips on a typewriter, it is advantageous to fill them out before they have been separated into individual index blanks. For this purpose a plurality of the index blanks are formed from a single sheet of material with the weakened lines 15 which enables the index strips to be readily separated after the desired data has been written in with a typewriter. They are then folded to form a card index element 5, as seen in Figure 3. The cards may be formed of sheet material of any desired character and of any desired thickness.

It will now be apparent that I have devised a new and useful visible card sys-- ment of t e iaveeties sea t e t e"? i scription, and while I have, in the present instance, shown and described apreferred embodiment thereof which will give in practice satisfactory and reliable results, it is to be understood that this embodiment is susceptible of modification in various particulars without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1; The herein described filing card having a double fold forming an upper and a lower terminal tab of substantially equal dimensions and extending in opposite directions, said upper terminal tab having a portion of its outer face forming a recording portion designed to receive the filing in dicia and the width of said lower tab when two cards are assembled defining the visibility of such indicia.

2. A plurality of filing cards each having a double fold to form an upper and a lower terminal tab and an upwardly and a downwardly directed pocket, the upper tab having a recording portion, the tabs extending in opposite directions and being of substantially the same width whereby when the cards are assembled the upper ter-' minal tab will be received in the downwardly directed pocket of the filing card above it and the lower tab will be received in the upwardly extending pocket of the filing card below it, said lower tab extending to the bottom of the pocket to define the visibility of the recording portion. 7

' WILLIAM A. RINGLER.

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