US1696375A - Prescription-filing cabinet and the like - Google Patents

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Dec. 25, 1928. I

C. M. ANDERSON PRESCRIPTION FILING CABINET AND THE LIKE Filed Aug. 2, 1927 FIG; 2.

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PRESCRIPTION-FILING CABINET AND THE LIKE.

Application filed Augiist Z, 1927. Serial No. 210,158.

My invention relates to filing cabinet and perforator tor prescriptions, and the like.

The object of my invention is to produce a device or the character described which will be new, novel, efficient, and of utility; which will be compact, substantial, cheap and durable; which will provide a private filing cabinet which can be kept away from the public and which will be easilyaccessible to the pharn'iacist, drugg t, or operator and which will occupy little space and can be easily kept on a counter, desk, or table.

lVith these and other objects in view my invention consists in the construction, nove features, and combination of parts hcrein after more fully described, illustrated in he accompanying one-sheet drawing; and pointed out in the claims hereto appended; it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion, size, shape, weight and minor details of construction, within the scope of my invention may be'resorted to without departing from the spirit or principle oi the invention or sacrificing any of the advantages thereof.

lhe novel features, invention and other 1 objects will be more fully shown in the specilication, claims, and accompanying one-sheet drawing, of which,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the cabinet open and empty; Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the pertorator for the prescriptions;

Fig. 3 is a. perspective view of the open filing cabinet showing in the middleportion a number of prescriptionsheld up by the holding or lifting arm. r I Like characters of reference designate like parts in all thefigures.

. The method of handling the prescriptions, which of necessity are on file for long periods of time it not practically perpetually has been unsatisfactory. This is largely by reason of the fact that they are made by various physicians throughoutthe country on ditierent size sheets oi paper and sometimes are folded and sometimes not andare handled by various persons before they reach the druggist for filing and filling. Ottentin'ies a prescription is desired to be filled immedi ately on account of the urgency for the no cessity of it; practically no way of indexing or consecutively numbering is applicable tor tiling such prescriptions. lily invention re-,

lieves all of the objectionsto sucha careless and SllPShOtl manner of handling, besides making it possible to easily handlethein and easy to get hold of any given number of prescriptions desired; it also makes it possible to tile many more prescriptions in the same size filing cabinet than is permitted by any other method.

Referring to the drawing wherein for the sake of illustration is shown a preferred embodiment of the invention, I provide a metallie, or other suitable material, filing cabinet adapted to be'placed upon a' table, counter, or desk 1 the cabinet has preferably an extended beveled base 3 at the bottom oft-he filing cabinet 2 and can be when desired securely fastened to the table or other fixture as shown at Saidliling cabinet has a sidefi, a back G, a second side 7, atop 8, a door 9, and an inside bottom 10. These are all preferably of metal, but may be made of other suitable material. In the base 10 is provided a plurality of struck-up tongues 14 adapted to receive and hold the bent wire base 13 of tiling rod 11 having a sharp point at its upwardly ex i tending tree end 12. This filing rod ispret- ,erably 0t coppered spring steel, the spring downwardly thereon of a plurality oi prescriptions on file. The sharp point 12 is prelierably a sufiicient distance from the top of the inside of the filing cabinet to permit the insertion of thehands of the onerator and the taking therefrom and placing therein of a large number of prescriptions when it is desired to. be done. The door 9 is preferably hung on cleat hinges 15 at the bottom and 16 near the top mounted on rod 17 extending from the base 10 to the top 8 which is anchored to said base and top respectively. Said door has near its outer closing edge a lock 21 adapted to be locked securely to said side-wall 5 and to be unlockedatanytime the operator desires to use the same. Said rod 17 has floatably anchored thereon preferably a steel holding or lifting arm 18 with a rubber tip 19 near its outer end ;'said arm is adapted to be normally kept inside of the wall Tand also to be partially turned away i'romsaid wall in a position adjacent said filingrod ll best shown at 20. This arm is adapted: to hold up prescriptions away from the other prescriptions filed therebelow as shown at32 and to keep them in a given positionuntil the prescription 81 is read, or copied, or taken out, as the case may be; after which time the prescriptions so li 'ted and held can be permitted to descend on rod 11 after the withdrawing of arm 18 thereunder. When a prescription is presented to the pharmacist, or druggist, or operator which has not theretofore been filed in this filing cabinet it is first perforated. For this purpose I provide a perforator composed of an under surface plate preferably adapted to be installed on the top of said cabinet, said under surface plate having an upstanding stud or button 28 at its front center. A perforating plate 25 bent forwardly under surface plate at their inside juncture at edgeportion oil so as to create a resilience for said perforating plate, said perforating plate is preferably triangular and forn'is a tongue at its age); 26. A. disc 29 is fastened adjacent said apes: 29, and has connected thereto a hollow cutting member-'30 being adapted to perforate with its cutting point each prescription when said prescription is pressed down on stud or button 28 after having been inserted between under plate 22 and perforating plate 25 and against upstanding side edge 2a and against inside edge portion 28. When disc 29 is pressed downwardly and the prescription is perforated the resilience between said under plate 22 and said perforating plate 25 formed by the bend at the inside edge portion 23 causes said perforating plate 25 to again resume its normal position for the further inserting of prescriptions therein for perforation. Said cutting member 27 is placed on said pertorator at a point equally distant from the top of the prescription as the filing rod distant from the back 6 of the filing cabinet. lVhen the prescription is placed in the said perforator as indicated and the disk on 29 on cutting member 30 is pressed down on upstanding stud 28 a clean cut perforation is cut in the prescription and it is then ready to be threadedover said filing rod 11. It will be seen that the top and left side edges of the prescription may be the same as the top and left side edges of the other prescriptions whether the prescription so filed is as large as the general average of prescriptions on file or not. The perfora tion being clean cut and taking out a small portion of the paper without permitting the edges from being wrinkled and bent upwardly and downwardly permits the prescriptions.

to be lowered and raised on the file rod much more easily andpermits of the filing of a greater number of prescriptions in a given space than would be possible if the prescriptions were not perforated uniformly and in a clean cut manner, and permits the prescriptlons to be more ea sily removed from the file. The first prescriptions filed would be at the bottom and they would be g 'adually built up consecutivelytherefrom the last and highest number being at the top. The number of the prescription to be refilled would be handed to the pharmacist, or druggist, or operator and the number on the file rod would be sought and when found. the )rescriptions thereabove would be lifted and the holding or lifting arm partially turned to be placed thereunder thereby holding it away from the prescription desired. When the operator is through with the prescription the arm would then be withdrawn and placed in a normal position along the inside of wall 7 and the prescriptions formerly held thcreabovc would be lowered on the filing rod in regular order without taking any of the prescriptions off of the filing rod. 7

Having described my invention what is claimed and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is:

l. A cabinet of the character described, comprising an upright metallic case having walls, top, bottom; and a door, said door be ing adapted to be locked; said bottom being adapted to be fastened to a base, and having on its inside a plurality of upstanding tongues; a filing rod having its lower end bent so as to form a base and to be removably held in said tongues, its upper free end being pointed and adapted to be used through perforations in prescriptions, and the like; a rod anchored at top and bottom adjacent one front edge of said cabinet and being adapted to hinge said door thereon, a slidable arm being adapted for movement and for positioningon said anchored rod for separating, holding and raising one portion of said prescriptions from the other portion; in combination with a suitable cutting perforator adapted to perforate papers for filing in said cabinet so as to make'their filingtherein uniform; said filing rod and the prescription and the like placed therein being adapted to be removed from said cabinet and retired to a suit able container.

2. A filing cabinet of the character described, comprising four walls including a door adapted to be looked; a top and bottom; a rod anchored to said top andbott-om near one front corner adapted to pivotthe hinges of said door near its top and bottom; a slidable arm having rubber button on its outer end being slidably anchored on said anchored rod; a spring-steel filing rod bent at its bot tom to form a base, said base being adapted to be held by tongues in the inside ofsaid bot tom; the upper end of said rod being pointed; said filing rod being adapted for receiving and. holding said prescriptions thereon, in combination with a suitable perforator being adapted to be attached to the top of said cabinet, and adapted to perforate prescriptions and the like for uniformly filing in said cabinet.

CLARENCE M. ANDERSON.

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