US1574897A - Reversible card-index holder - Google Patents

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March 2 1926.A

F. H. JOHNSTON REVERSIBLE CARD INDEX HOLDER original Filed Nov. 19, 191'9 2 Sheets-Sheet l y J j y March 2 1926.

F. H. JOHNSTON REVERSIBLE CARD INDEX HOLDER Original File@ N0v- 19, 1919 2 sheets-sheet 2 2: m, E 1 K f: 5. .y T z. F L. n jh" jA I r 1 w mm ilL, @mf m a f 2 n Patented Mar. 2, 1926.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK H. JOHNSTON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS,

TO ACME CARD SYSTEM COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORORATION OF.

ILLINOIS.

REVERSIBLE CARD-INDEX HOLDER.

Application led November 19, 1919,4Sria1 No. 339,251. Renewed July 23, 1925.

To all whom t may concern.:

Be it known that I, FRANK H. JonNs'roN, a citizen of theUnited States, residing in the city of Chicago, county of Cook, and

State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Reversible Card-Index Holders, kof which the following is a speciiication.

My invention relates to improvements in reversible card index holders and refers more particularly to holders adapted for use in file cabinets or the like.

It has among its salient objects to provide a holder which is held in the drawer. of a cabinet; to provide a holder with index cards mounted upon both sides and adapted to be reversed so that entries may be made on the cards on either side; to provide a reversible card index holder which may be reversed when the drawer is withdrawn from the cabinet and is hinged in either a vertical or horizontal plane so that when the holder is reversed it will lie in identically the same position in the drawer, no matter which side is being used; to provide a reversible card index holder which has the drawer as a support when entries are being made on the cards on either side of the holder.

There are numerous ways in which the holder may be reversed making it possible to use'twice the number of cards upon the holders as are generally available on holders in card index cabinets. The first and most obvious being simply to lay the reversible holder in the drawer and remove it to reverse it. This is rather awkward in operation and has the added disadvantage that holders may be removed and misplaced, and for that reason I suggest the following modiications.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is the reversible holder and drawer showing stud and groove reversing device.

Fig. 2 is a sectional edge view of assembly shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the end of the drawer shown in Fig. 1, with parts Abroken away.

" Fig. 4 is a fragmentary detail of top of the holder.

Fig. 5 is a holder with vertical hinges.

Fig. 6 is an edge view of side reversing hinge arrangement, shown in Fig. 5. Figs.

5 and 6 are modifications of holder in Fig. l.

Fig. 7 is a fragmentary detail of the side of the holder shown in Fig.` 8.

Fig. 8 is an edge view of top pivoting rod or hinge; a second modification ofthe reversible holder.

Fig. 9 is an end view of the end revolving 60 hinges; a third modification of the reversible holder. x

Referring in detail to the drawings, there are four means shown'for reversing the card holder 1 in the drawer 2. In Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the slottedend pieces 3 in the drawer are engaged b studs 4 on the holder sliding therem. igs. 5 and 6 show the side hinges' 5 pivoted at 6 to the drawer and at 7 to the holder, thus allowing the holder to be reversed, end for end, 1n the drawer. It will be noticed in Fi 6 that the cards 8 on the underside of t e holder-lie in a reversed position so that they will be properly arranged when the holder is reversed.

In Fig. 9, the hinges 9 are placed at the top and bottom of the holder (the bottom end only is shown as the top is identical with it) and are pivoted at the center 10 to the drawer and at 11 to the holder. With this arrangement, the holder is reversed, edge for edge, asin combination shown in Fig. 1. The method shown in Fig. 8 has the holder pivoted at 12. When the drawer is open, the front end of the holder may be lifted and turned back and entries made on the cards arranged in reverse order.

The card holders are of the usual design having lateral channels 13 which assist in supporting the cards. The end pieces 3 of the drawers are high enough to allow clearz ance between the cabinet (not shown) and the cards when the drawers are slid out and in. Therunners 14 are iixed to the bottom of the drawers and make the operation of the drawers easier.

It has been the usual .practice when using a card index cabinet to have cards mounted only upon one side of the holder in the drawer. With my invention, both sides of the holder can be used for cards and with either side up the holder will be sup orted so that there will be a firm writing ack for making entries upon the cards.

It is not my intention to restrict myself to these means of reversing the holders, but I elongated slots in opposite end portionsthereof, of a reversible card index holder adapted to be carried b said drawer and movable therewith, stu s projecting from Said holder and entering said slots in the ends of the drawer, said holder beingshiftable bodily relative to said drawer by a movement of the studs in said slots to permit the holder to be reversed.

2. In a reversible card index holder, the combination with a sliding drawer, the end portions of said drawer having elongated slots therein disposed in substantially the same horizontal plane, a reversible card index holder carried by said drawer and movable therewith, studs disposed near one 1ongitudin'al edge of said card holder at each end thereof, said studs being adapted to enter the slots in the end portions of said drawer and slidable therein relative to said end portions to permit the holder to be moved relative to the drawer to reverse' the exposed side thereof.

3. In an index holder, the combination with a sliding drawer, of a reversible card index holder carried by said drawer and movable therewith, means connecting said holder with said drawer, said means permitting a sliding bodily movement of the holder relative to the drawer to permit the exposed portion of said holder to be reversed, substantally as described.

-FRANK H. JOHNSTON.

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