US2155187A

US2155187A - File wrapper or folder

Info

Publication number: US2155187A
Application number: US150028A
Authority: US
Inventors: Green Marcy
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1937-06-24
Filing date: 1937-06-24
Publication date: 1939-04-18
Anticipated expiration: 1956-04-18

Description

April 18, 1939.v M. GREEN FILE WRAPPER OR FOLDER Filed June 24, 1937 INVENTOR- /Zar reen/ TTORNEY Patented pr. 18, 1939 UNITED STTES rArsNT orifice 2 Claims,

This invention relates to folders or file wrappers usually employed for holding documents, letters or other papers, and particularly those in which the contents of the folder are adapted to be secured in place in the folder by paper fasteners or similar devices.

One of the objections inherent in files of this character at the present time is that the fastening devices employed for holding the papers in place usually present a head or other fastener element on the outside face of the folder. Such a projecting element not only interferes with the insertion of the folder in a crowded iile cabinet, but often damages adjacent folders in the file when being inserted or withdrawn therefrom. In cases Where the folder is designed so that the fastener is adapted to be inserted through an infolded flap portion to thereby cover and protect the head of the fastener by interposing it between the back of such iiap and the body of the folder, additional expense is incurred in the manufacture of that type of folder, due to the fact that the generally square or rectangular outline of the folder is departed from thus requiring additional paper stock.

The object of the present invention therefore is to provide a folder or file wrapper so constructed that it will accommodate the forms of fastening devices now on the market for attaching papers together or within such a folder, without causing portions of such fastening devices to be exposed on the outside of the folder, and without requiring the body of thefolder to be made in an unusuall shape which under ordinary conditions requires additional stock.

A further object of the invention is to provide such a fo-lder or file wrapper with one or more tab portions capable of selective projection from the body of the folder whereby a fastening device or element may be passed through said tab portion or portions when the tab portion or portions have been folded back to thereby interpose the head or back portion of the fastening means between the back of the tab and the body of the folder so that the head or back o-f said fastening element is thereby protected and is not exposed on the outside of the folder.

A still further object of the invention is to provide such tab portions in such spaced relationship that such tabs as are required for different types of fastening devices may be selectively used and also whereby papers or documents within the folder may if desired be grouped and held together in such groups by either similar or different kinds of fastening devices.

(Cl. L29- 19) More particularly, the invention contemplates the provision of a folder having a body portion of any known kind wherein one or moresuitably positioned tabs are defined by weakened lines, thereby permitting any one or more of the tabs to be forced outwardly from the body portion. and folded back to form a flap element through which one or more fastening devices may be inserted, with the head or back portions of such fastening devices interposed between the iiap element and i the body of the folder and thereby prevent any exposure externally of the folder.

In the accompanying drawing, wherein, several embodiments of the invention are shcwn,Fig. 1 is a face view of a folder or file wrapper made in accordance with the invention, showing the same opened out at to disclose the tab; formation; Fig. 2 is a perspective View of a portion of the body of the folder, showing one of the tabs pushed inwardly; Fig. 3 isl a sectional View through a part member I and integrally attached body porti-on 2, f

these elements being divided by the conventional fold line 3. In folders of this character, any papers or documents attached to the le are usually secured to the body portionv 2 or to the inside of the cover member I by means of fasteners of the pronged type which causes the head of the fastener to be exposed on the outside of the file and thus interferes with the insertion of the file in a crowded file cabinet, and often damages adjacent files in the cabinet when the file bearing the fastener member is forced in place or forcibly withdrawn. In the embodiments of my invention shown, the fastener members, instead of being inserted through the body of the folder in such a manner as to present parts of the fastening member on the outside of the folder, are inserted through tabs, examples of which are shown at 4, 5 and 'l in Figs. 1 to 3 inclusive. The shape, number of tabs and the location of the same in the body portion of the folder, or on the cover flap also if desired, is dependent upon the uses to which the folder is to be placed and the contents which it is intended to receive.

In Fig. 1 the body portion 2 is shown as being provided near its upper edge with several spaced tabs indicated at 4 and 5. The tabs are initially formed in the body portion by being dened by weakened lines, so that when any selected tab or tabs is required, it is forced inwardly as shown by the arrow in Fig. 2, and then folded back on the line 6. In use, the tab folded inwardly as just explained, overlies the inner face I of the body portion and a fastener member is thrust through the tab so that the head or base 9 of the fastener member isl disposed between the back of the tab and the inner face I 0 of the body portion, as clearly shown inv Fig. 3. To facilitate the insertion of the fastening members through the tabs, said tabs may be provided with apertures such as shown at 2I. The prongs 8 of the fastener member pass through the le contents or documents 20 to securely hold the same. When the fastener member is located in the position sho-wn, it will be apparent that no portions of the fastener member are exposed on the exterior of the folder.

Since folders of this character are used for the reception of papers of various kinds and sizes, and numerous kinds of fastener members are utilized for holding papers in the folder, means must be provided whereby the folder will be flexible in its uses to enable it to accommodate various filing situations. For example, when a simple, pronged paper fastener of the character shown in Figure 3 is to be used, and the papers to be held in the file are fastened only at a single, central position, a single, centrally located tab such as shown at may be pushed out of the body of the folder and used. In a case where a doublepronged flat metal fastening device is to be used, two flaps such as shown at 4 may be pushed out and utilized, these flaps being pushed forward out of the body of the folder when and. if needed, the fastener inserted through them and the papers affixed in the usual way.

In Figs. 4 and 5, tabs I4, I5 and IS are arranged in staggered groups to meet various filing requirements, such as for example, the filing of papers in separate groups. Thus, the tabs I4, or either of them, may receive at Il the group of papers indicated at I9, while the tab I5 may receive and hold the group shown at I3, and the tabs shown at I6 may receive another group.

At I in Fig. l is shown a plurality of adjacent tab portions, any selected one or more of this group being capable of use when required. For example, selected tabs may be used from this group according to the spacing of binding holes provided in certain types of paper. The tabs placed in group relationship as indicated at l, can also be used to receive double-pronged fastening members wherein the prongs are different distances apart in the different types of fasteners.

From the foregoing, it will be apparent that the size, shape, number and location of the tabs provided in the body of the folder is a matter of ling requirements. A single folder can be provided with an arrangement of tabs adapted to be selectively pushed out of the body of the folder when required, to suit almost every filing need. When tabs of this kind are provided in the body of the folder, no projecting part of the fastening element appears on the outside of the folder, and since the tabs employed are within the body of the folder and surrounded by the same, the conventional square or rectangular formation of the sheet from which the folder is formed is not departed from, and the folder can resultantly be made at a cost no greater than that at which the ordinary type of folder is produced.

What I claim is:

l. A folder or le wrapper having a body portion forme-d with at least one tab portion defined by weakened lines whereby said tab portion may be forced on said weakened lines forwardly line of fold and said edge whereby documents attached to the exposed face to the tab and extending in a direction away from the edge near where the tab is located will overlie and cover the opening formed in the body portion by the formation of the tab.

2. A folder or file wrapper having a body portion formed with an integral tab forced out of the body portion to thereby form an opening therein, said tab being inwardly folded upon the inner face of the body portion, a pronged fastening member extending through said tab and through file contents and having portions disposed between the back of the tab and the inner face of the file wrapper, said tab being so positioned on the body portion that documents attached to the exposed face of the tab and extending across the top of the opening will be wholly contained within the folder and will overlie and cover the opening formed in the body portion by the formation of the tab.

MARCY GREEN.