US1665128A - Reenforced folder or file holder - Google Patents

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April 3, 192s. C. E. CATHER REENFORCED FOLDER OR FILE HOLDER Filed July 9. 1926 Patented Apr. 3, 1928.,

UNITED STATES insane 'PATENT-orifice.

CHARLES E. CATHER, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSGNOR TO UNTED STATES ENVELOPE COMPANY, F SRINGFELD, MASSACT-USETTS, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

REENFORGED FOLDER OR FILE HOLDER.

Application led July 9,

The present invention relatesto a folder adapted for the retention of correspondence files, records, and the like, which is so constructed as to present its contents to inspection in the order in which' the same were fastened in the folder. The several features of the invention are fully set forth in the following description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Fig. l is a plan View of the sheet or blank from which the folder of my invention is constructed.

Fig. 2 is an edge. view, showing the sheet of Fig. 1 as it is folded and equipped to provide the correspondence holder of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is a front view of the folder in the position of attachment thereto of correspondence and the like.

Fig. 3a is an edgewise view in the same position as Fig. 3.

Fig. 4 is a plan view of the holder with the correspondence in normal position.

Fig. 5 is an edge wise view, showing the same position as Fig. 4.

Like reference characters refer to like parts in the different figures.

Referring first the Figs. l and 2, the folder is preferably made from a rectangular sheet 30 1 of stiff heavy paper, said sheet being folded transversely along the line 2 to provide a double thickness of considerable depth near the top, as shown in Fig. 2. Before folding the sheet 'l back upon itself along the line 2, said sheet has aflixed thereto, between the line 2 and a parallel scored 'line 3, a plurality of metallic or other fasteners 4, 4, preferably of the bendable tongue type, these fasteners having attaching spurs which pass through the material and are clenched on the back side of the sheet.

Vhen the material of the sheet is folded back upon itself along the line 2, the double thickness provides a backing for the fasteners 4, 4, which covers the clenched-over prongs of said fasteners, which prongs, if left exposed, would be apt to catch on the edges of the papers and other files or correspondence holders. To insure permanent coverage of these prongs and to provide suitable reenforcement for the upper end of the folder, the doubled-over portion, beyond the line 2, is adhesively secured to the back of the sheet by suitable gumming, as indi- 1926. Serial No. 121,473.

cated at 5. rlhis folding on the line 2 brings the scored line 6 into registry with the scored line 3, so that the folder, as thus constructed, appears, when viewed from its edge, as shown in Fig. 2. In this condition, it is ready for the attachment thereto of correspondence and the like, which attachment is effected in the following manner.

The extreme upper edge of the folder carrying the fasteners 4, 4 is the part to which the correspondence is attached, and this attachment is effected by bending up the tongues 7, 7 of the fasteners 4, 4 so that said tongues will pierce the material of or pass through holes previously made in the sheets to be held by the folder. Each successive sheet 8 to be held in the folder is turned face down and inverted, so that its upper front margin, as shown in Figs. 3`and 3a, is opposed to and overlaps that portion of the folder which carries the fasteners 4, 4. The overlapping of the front margin of sheet 8 is impaled on the prongs 7, 7, of said fasteners, after which said fasteners are bent back into. normal position, thereby securing the sheet 8 to the folder. Then, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, the fastener-carrying portion of the folder is bent or turned down along the registering score lines 3, 6, so that the sheet 8 comes front face uppermost and in proper position so that printing or writing on its front face can be read. Subsequent sheets, or correspondence bearing on the same subject matter and, therefore, desired to be filed in the same folder, are att-ached in the same manner as the first sheet 8, namely by lirst turning back the fastener-carrying portion, then laying said sheets 9 and 1() face` down and in inverted position, so that their upper front margins overlap and oppose the fasteners 4, 4, and then impaling said margins on said fasteners,-so that when lthe folder resumes its normal condition, as illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5, the several sheets 8, 9 and 10 are presented to the user in chronological or consecutive order, the earliest attached sheet being always nppermost in the lile, and the others following in the order of their filing.

I claim:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a reenforced folder or file-holder comprising a backing sheet having one or more fasteners secured thereto near its upper edge, the mae terial of said'edge beyond said fasteners be-I forcement for said fasteners, and the domu-` bled portion carrying said fasteners being folded forwardly so as to cause said fasteners t0 face the front of said sheet, whereby to present the successive papers attached by said fasteners to said folder "in the order of their attachment thereto. Y

2. As a new article of manufacture, a reenforced folder or file-holder comprising a backing sheet having onelor more fasteners secured thereto by attaching spurs near its upper edge, the materialV of said edge beyond said fasteners being` folded baekwardly to'cover said attaching' spurs `and secured by adhesivetothe rear face of said sheet as aV reenforcenient for said fasteners, and the doubled portion carrying said fasteners being folded forwardly so A"as "to cause said fasteners to face `the front of saidshe'et, Whereby to present the successive papers attached by said .fasteners to said folder in the order of their attachment thereto.

Datedth'is lseventh 4day of'July, 1926.

i CHARLES n. GATHER;

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