US2049436A - Index device - Google Patents

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US2049436A
US2049436A US612957A US61295732A US2049436A US 2049436 A US2049436 A US 2049436A US 612957 A US612957 A US 612957A US 61295732 A US61295732 A US 61295732A US 2049436 A US2049436 A US 2049436A
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Walter T Gollwitzer
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41L—APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR MANIFOLDING, DUPLICATING OR PRINTING FOR OFFICE OR OTHER COMMERCIAL PURPOSES; ADDRESSING MACHINES OR LIKE SERIES-PRINTING MACHINES
    • B41L47/00—Details of addressographs or like series-printing machines
    • B41L47/02—Applications of printing surfaces in addressing machines or like series-printing machines
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B42—BOOKBINDING; ALBUMS; FILES; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER
    • B42F—SHEETS TEMPORARILY ATTACHED TOGETHER; FILING APPLIANCES; FILE CARDS; INDEXING
    • B42F21/00—Indexing means; Indexing tabs or protectors therefor

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  • the tab is held in place against removal, but may readily be freed by a slight manual pressure against the tongue pressing it back into the plane of the tab.
  • Fig. 1 is a face view of an address plate equipped with my index tab
  • Fig. 2 is a fragmentary rear elevation of such address plate and tab
  • Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the plate and tab taken on the line 3-3 in Fig. 1, but on a larger scale
  • Figs. 4 and 5 are respectively fragmentary perspectives of the upper portion of the address plate looking at the face and the rear respectively
  • Figs. 6 and 7 are perspectives of the tab itself showing it in the normal position and in the distorted position when mounted respectively.
  • the member to be indexed consists of an address plate comprising essentially a sheet-metal member ill, ordinarily called the plate or holder, and a printing member 20 thereon, may be a strip of sheet-metal embossed with printing characters 2
  • the holder also preferably carries a suitable index card 30.
  • the printing plate 20 is held between the curled-over lower edge I l of the holder l0, and suitable lips l2 cut out from the holder and turned toward the edge II and suitable end stops 5 l3.
  • the index card 30 is shown as held by the curled-over upper edge ii of the holder, and suitable lips, a corner pocket and an end stop (each designated l6) pressed out from the plate II). It should be understood, however, that the particu- 10 lar form of the holder plate ID, as well as the means for holding the printing surfaces thereof and for holding the card, if one is employed, may be varied at will.
  • each keeper comprises a strap separated above and below from the plate proper (which is relatively depressed in these regions) and connected at their ends by inter- 2O mediate plate portions M, which are bowed upwardly from the plane of the adjacent plate portions, being connected therewith above and below by gradual offsets.
  • the strap portions form loops relatively raised from the portions of the plate immediately above and below them.
  • the plate or other member to be indexed has, along its upper portion, a row of pockets open at the upper end, each pocket having its admission through a slot 43, then a forwardly open portion in front of the zone 42, then a rearwardly open portion behind the keepers 40 and finally a forwardly open, but rearwardly closed, inclined portion 45.
  • These pockets are intended to cooperate with my index tab about to be explained.
  • the tab 50 is of the form shown in the perspective in Fig. 6 comprising an upper or visible portion 5
  • a tongue 54 integral with the shank near the lower end thereof but otherwise separated from the shank. As shown, this separation is effected by a narrow V shaped slit 56.
  • the tongue 54 normally lies in the same plane as the shank 52 of the tab, as shown in Fig. 6.
  • the shank 52 has a. width only slightly less than that of any pocket of the member to be indexed and the thickness of the tab is only slightly less than the depth of the pocket, as bounded at the rear by the front face of the zone 42 and at the front by the rear face of the keepers 40. Accordingly, the tabs may readily be pushed down into position through the openings 43 near the top of the plate so that they stand as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2.”
  • the tab may be very readily inserted in place and when in place it becomes automatically locked by reason of the tongue being bent behind the retaining zone 42 of the plate.
  • the tab is thus eifectively held so that it will not be inadvertently removed either manually or by the action of the selector mechanism coacting with a tab, in an address-printing machine.
  • the tab may be released whenever desired by a slight manual pressure, as, for instance, by the user's thumb nail against the tongue 54 at the rear side of the plate.
  • the space behind the keepers 40 is open, and accordingly, the tongues 54 are readily accessible, and a slight pressure against the tongue bends it back into the normal plane of the tab shank so that the tab may be very readily removed.
  • My tabs may be more compactly stored; are not likely to become tangled; may be used without possibility of injuring the operators flngers; are insertable with either face forward, and are adapted for very cheap manufacture.
  • the peculiarly formed plate, provided with the open ended pockets having the camming surfaces at the bottom and the rearwardly open portion for the tongues of the tabs may be very readily made by a stamping action which distorts the abutment portion rearwardly, and inclines the cam portions rearwardly.
  • the tab shanks lie behind the card, but they do not in any manner distort the card, as even the projecting lower ends thereof are not materially above the plane of the plate.
  • the pro jecting head which acts as the index, while at the rear, there is accessible not only the head but the tongue portion of the tab.
  • the head may be grasped between the operators fingers and the tongue pressed forwardly by the operators thumb at the rear of the plate to remove the tab. Accordingly, insertion and removal of the tab is readily accomplished without disturbing the index card on the face of the plate.
  • a plate having a row of keepers adjacent its upper edge, said keepers being free from the body of the plate at their upper and the lower edges.
  • the plate having a relatively rearwardly depressed zone just beyond the tops of the keepers and having a rearwardly inclined zone just below the bottoms of the keepers, and an index tab having a shank adapted to be inserted behind any keeper and with its lower end engaging the incline, said tab having a tongue which is projected to engage the edge of the plate material at the depressed zone by reason of the bending of the lower end of the tab by the inclined zone of the plate.
  • a plate to be indexed and a tab said plate having a row of keepers parallel with its upper edge and separated from the body of the plate above and below, the plate having a relatively rearwardly depressed zone above the keepers with its forward surface in a plane parallel with and behind the plane defining the rear surface of the keepers, the plate having an inclined region below the keepers with its upper edge at the rear of the plane defining the rear face of the keepers, there being openings through the upper portion of the plate to the front of the relatively depressed zone, whereby the tab may be inserted through one of such openings in front of the depressed zone and behind a keeper, and then at its lower end come onto the inclined surface, said tab having a tongue adapted to be swung by the engagement of the shank with the inclined surface to cause the'tongue to project from the body of the tab into position to engage the under edge of the relatively depressed portion above the keepers, and a transverse shoulder on said tab adapted to abut the plate as the tab is inserted there
  • a metal plate having its upper edge curved forwardly and having below such upper edge a relatively rearwardly depressed portion, and below such relatively depressed portion a row of relatively raised keepers having fiat faces in a plane parallel with the general plane of the plate, and below the keepers an inclined portion of the plate, the keepers being separated above and below from the depressed portion and the inclined portion respectively to provide a passageway behind the keepers, and there being openings through the body of the plate adjacent the curled-over edge aligning with the passageways of the keepers.
  • a metal plate having below its upper edge a rearwardly ofiset portion, and below such rearwardly offset portion a row of keepers, and below the keepers an inclined portion, the keepers being separated above and below from the offset portion and the inclined portion respectively to provide vertical openings, and there being openings through the body of the plate adjacent theupper edge aligning with the openings of the keepers, and an index tab having a shank adapted to be inserted from the upper edge through any of the openings into the region in front of the rearwardly offset region and behind the keepers, and the shank having a tongue which becomes deflected toward the rear by reason of the camming action of the inclined surface of the plate so that the tongue stands in line with the metal of the plate at the rearwardly offset region.
  • a plate arranged to carry printing char- "acters and having a depression extending along 5 the plate adjacent one edge, a row of keepers raised from the bottom of the depression and open at their top edges and openings through the wall of the depression adjacent said edge of the plate and in registration with the passages of the keepers, whereby index tabs may be passed through the openings and beneath the keepers.

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USD793307S1 (en) * 2015-03-17 2017-08-01 Yuan-Hung WEN Brake backing plate with heat sink

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
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USD793307S1 (en) * 2015-03-17 2017-08-01 Yuan-Hung WEN Brake backing plate with heat sink

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