US3287814A

US3287814A - Mounting means

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Publication number: US3287814A
Application number: US354599A
Authority: US
Inventors: Littmann David
Original assignee: Cardiosonics Medical Instruments Corp
Current assignee: Cardiosonics Medical Instruments Corp
Priority date: 1964-03-25
Filing date: 1964-03-25
Publication date: 1966-11-29
Anticipated expiration: 1983-11-29

Description

D. LITTMANN 3,287,814

MOUNTING MEANS Nov. 29, 1966 Filed March 25. 1964 FIG. 5 m

ATTORNEYS United States Patent 3,287,814 MOUNTING MEANS David Littmann, Belmont, Mass, assignor to Cardiosonics Medical Instruments Corporation, Belmont, Mass., a corporation of Massachusetts Filed Mar. 25, 1964, Ser. No. 354,599 7 Claims. (Cl. 33-180) The present invention relates to a means and method of securing a plurality of sheets such as information-bearing or data sheets to a mounting sheet or the like, and is a further improvement of the type of device and method disclosed and claimed in copending application Serial No. 291,033 filed June 27, 1963, now Patent No. 3,243,886, of which the applicant is a co-inventor.

As described in the above mentioned copending application, there is a continuing need for an efiicient means and method of securing data sheets to a larger mounting sheet. There is a particular need in the hospital and medical field, where it has been customary to retain records of electrocardiograph charts or leads by cutting segments from the lead and securing the segments to a larger mounting or report sheet. The customary methods of cutting rectangular segments from the lead and then fastening the cut segment to a mounting sheet by taping or stapling is laborious and time consuming.

The present invention is designed to overcome these difliculties and provides certain advantageous features which are not shown and disclosed in the copending application referred to above. In the present invention a means is provided by which small data sheets, preferably segments of electrocardiograph leads, are secured to a mounting or record sheet efficiently, effectively, securely and neatly.

The present invention also provides a means of mounting data sheets or leads such as electrocardiograph charts in a simple manner which requires substantially no training or skill.

The present invention also provides a means by which segments of electrocardiograph leads or the like may be secured to a mounting chart having pressure sensitive adhesive applied in shapes conforming to the segments of the electrocardiograph lead without the likelihood of inadvertently adhering the segments to the mounting sheet while positioning them.

In the copending application referred to above, the segments of electrocardiograph leads are dropped onto the frame, preferably with one portion on a side member. The segments are aligned with guides on the side member before permitting the adhesive portion to engage the mounting sheet. Unfortunately in securing many of such segments to mounting sheets, the operator occasionally inadvertently allows a portion of the segment about to be attached to come into contact with the pressure sensitive adhesive surface of the mounting sheet prior to proper alignment. This often results in the tearing of the segments When they are removed for proper alignment.

The present invention overcomes such difficulties by providing a means in which the data sheets may be aligned properly with the mounting sheet in such a manher that it is unlikely that they will inadvertently be placed in contact with the mounting sheet prior to being properly aligned.

These and other objects and advantages will be more clearly understood when considered in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which:

FIG. 1 is a perspective partially fragmentary view of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a fragmentary cross section taken substantially along the line 2-2 of FIG. 1

3,287,814 Patented Nov. 29, 1966 FIG. 3 is a fragmentary bottom view of the fragmentary cross section shown in FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a fragmentary cross section taken substantially along the line 44 of FIG. 1, and

FIG. 5 is a plan view of a typical mounting sheet with a plurality of data sheets at least partially secured thereto.

While the embodiment of the present invention is de scribed in connection with a means of securing segments of electrocardiograph leads to a mounting or report sheet, it should be understood that the invention disclosed may be applied to means and methods of mounting other types of sheets and consequently has other applications.

Referring to the drawings there is illustrated a preferred embodiment of the invention for use in mounting segments of electrocardiograph leads on a mounting sheet 1. The mounting sheets 1 are normally coated with suitably sized and shaped pressure sensitive adhesive areas on their upper surface, as will be described in greaterdetail. Data recording spaces may be provided on the bottom side. In this arrangement a means for supporting a mounting sheet 1 may be formed of a rectangular board for locating the mounting sheet 1 in a preselection position 4. These means may comprise a plurality of upwardly projecting pins or dowels 3. The pins 3 permit the mounting sheet 4 to be located or positioned on the board 2 in the position indicated by the dotted outline 4.

A frame 5 is positioned over and is preferably secured to the board 2. This frame has arms 6 and 7 at one end. These arms 6 and 7 are pivotally secured to a bar 8 by pins projecting through the arms 6 and 7 into the ends of the bar 8. The bar 8 is in turn secured to the board 2 by screws 9 or by other suitable means.

Frame 5 includes upper and lower cross members 10 and 11 which respectively form the upper and lower ends of the frame 5. These cross members interconnect the side members 12 and'13. The side members 12 and 13 are symmetrically located on either side of, and together with, the cross members define the periphery of the frame.

Also extending between and integrally interengaging the upper and lower cross members 10 and 11 are intermediate dividers or side members 14 and 15 which divide the interior of the frame into a plurality of parallel

elongated apertures

16, 17 and 18. Each of the

side members

12, 14, 15 and 13 are formed with vertically extending walls having surfaces bordering and facing the

apertures

16, 17 and 18. The side member 14 has surfaces 21 and 22 bordering respectively apertures 16 and 17, while side member 15 has surfaces 23 and 24 bordering respectively the

apertures

17 and 18. The side members 12 and 13 are each formed with walls having surfaces 27 and 28 respectively facing inwardly and bordering respectively the outer sides of

apertures

16 and 18.

Each of the

apertures

16, 17 and 18 are formed with longitudinally extending shelves 30 integral with the side members forming them and extending inwardly therefrom into the aperture with the opposite shelves 30 on either side of each of the elongated apertures coplanar with one another, and lying preferably in a plane which is intermediate and parallel the planes passing through the uppermost and lowermost portions of the side members 12 and 13. These shelves 30 thereby provide a recessed portion .31 underneath the shelves which would normally be spaced above a mounting sheet sandwiched between the frame and the flat upper surface of the board 2. A plurality of upwardly extending partitions 36 are formed in the upper surfaces of each of the shelves and divide each of the apertures into a plurality of segments. The partitions 36 extend inwardly from the facing side walls of the bordering side members of the aperture and have a height preferably equal to the height of the bordering wall with the upper surface of the partitions 36 coplanar with the upper surface of the side members and the lower surface integral with the shelf 30. These partitions 36 thereby form a plurality of continuous wall segments about each aperture with pairs of wall segments shaped to define the size of individual data sheets. In the preferred embodiment illustrated, each of the

apertures

16, 17 and 18 are provided with three pairs of continuous wall segments defining locations for four individual data bearing sheets over a mounting sheet 1 properly positioned between the frame and the board 2.

Integral with the cross member 11 is a tab or lip 39 which forms a handle to permit pivoting of the frame about the hinged arms 6 and 7 so that a mounting sheet may be positioned between the frame and the board 2.

The data sheets 56 are precisely dimensioned to correspond with predefined rectangular area-s 61 on the mounting sheet. These predefined areas 61 are symmetrically located on the mounting sheet 1 so that they each underlie a compartment 40 defined by pairs of opposite continuous wall segments in each of the

apertures

16, 17 and 18 where the mounting sheet is positioned beneath the frame. These predefined areas 61 are dimensioned so that when thus positioned, each predefined area 61 partially underlies the shelves 30 at opposite sides. The areas 61 are preferably coated with an adhesive of the pressure sensitive variety adapted to secure data sheet 56 thereto.

\ In using this device, a plurality of uniformly sized and shaped data sheet 56 are cut by any suitable means from an elongated electrocardiograph lead. The frame 5 is pivoted upwardly so that a mounting sheet 1 may be positioned under it. A mounting sheet 1 is then positioned as indicated at 4 between the board 2 and the frame 5. The frame is then closed so that it rests on the mounting sheet. In this position, the lower edges of the walls, as indicated at 70, are aligned with the longitudinal spaces 66 of the mounting sheet which longitudinally define areas 61 one from the other. The compartments 40 are thereby aligned with the areas 61 as illustrated in FIG. 1. Individual data sheets 56 sized to the dimensions of compartments 40 are then positioned in the compartments 40 with the outer side edges of the data sheets butting against opposite continuous wall segments. Since the operator will normally drop the data sheet onto the aperture and the side edges of each data sheet will engage the shelves 30 at its side edges, the center portion of each data sheet will not fall into contact with the adhesive center portion of segments 61 until positively forced down by the operators finger. Thus the operator may properly locate the data sheets in the positions defined partially by the opposite continuous wall segments without the likelihood of inadvertently interengaging the pressure sensitive adhesive portions of the data sheet and the mounting sheet. After the data sheets have been properly located, the operator 7 may then force down the center portion so as to engage the adhesive portions to the data sheet and mounting sheet, as illustrated in FIG. 2 at 71. Thereafter the frame may be pivoted upwardly leaving behind the data sheets which have been partially adhered to the mounting sheet and which pass through the

apertures

16, 17 and 18 as the frame is pivoted upwardly. The operator may thereafter force down the free side edges of the data sheets, which had up to then rested on the shelves 30, with his fingers to engage the remaining unadhered portions of the data sheets and mounting sheet.

' What is claimed is:

1. A means for mounting a plurality of data sheets at preselected positions on a mounting sheet larger than said data sheets comprising,

a board having a fiat surface and means for receiving and locating a mounting sheet in a selected position,

4 a frame having an aperture formed therein with opposite side members bordering said aperture and spaced apart the width of said data sheets,

means for registering said frame with said selected position,

a pair of coplanar shelves with each shelf integral with a side member and extending inwardly therefrom into aid aperture to form supports for opposite edges of a data sheet as it is positioned over said aperture,

and upwardly extending partitions formed on the upper surfaces of said shelves with the partitions on one shelf laterally aligned with the partitions on the other and with said partitions dimensioned and spaced from each other to receive data sheets therein with the side edges of said data sheets supported on said shelves and the upper and lower edges adjacent said partitions and with the center portions of said data sheets lying over said aperture.

2. A means for mounting a plurality of data sheets at preselected positions on a mounting sheet larger than said data sheets comprising,

a board having a continuous flat surface and means for receiving and locating a mounting sheet in a selected position,

a frame having an aperture formed therein with opposite side members bordering said aperture and spaced apart the width of said data sheets to act as a first means for locating said data sheets in a first plane,

pivot means for registering said frame with said selected position overlying said mounting sheet,

a pair of coplanar shelves with each shelf integral with a side member and extending inwardly therefrom into said aperture towards each other to form supports for opposite edges of a data sheet as each sheet is positioned over said aperture,

and means for further locating said data sheets in said first plane.

3. A mean-s as set forth in claim 1 wherein said shelves extend inwardly from the inner edges of said side members with the upper surface of said shelves lying in a plane intermediate the upper and lower edges of said side members.

4. A means as set forth in claim 1 wherein said side members form longitudinally extending walls normal to and continuous with said partitions to form continuous Wall segments adapted to extend about the edges of the portions of data sheets lying on said shelves.

5. A means as set forth in claim 4 wherein said shelves have lower surfaces lying in a plane intermediate the parallel planes passing through the uppermost and lowermost portions of said side members.

6. A means for mounting a plurality of data sheets at preselected positions on a mounting sheet larger than said data sheets comprising,

a board having a flat surface and means formed thereon for receiving and securing a mounting sheet in a selected position,

a rectangular frame having a plurality of longitudinally extending parallel side members defining therebetween a plurality of parallel elongated apertures, said side members including pairs of vertically extending parallel walls bordering said apertures and spaced apart across said apertures the width of said data sheets,

a plurality of coplanar shelves with each shelf integral with a side member and extending inwardly from said vertically extending parallel walls into said aperture to form supports for opposite sides of data sheets positioned over the aperture bordered by said shelves,

upwardly extending laterally extending partitions formed on the upper surfaces of said shelves with the partitions on shelves bordering each aperture laterally aligned, said partition dimensioned and spaced to define individual data sheets locating areas in said frame with said vertically extending walls and said partitions forming a series of continuous wall seglments adapted to extend about the edges of the por- References Cited by the Examiner tions of a plurality of data sheets lying in longitu- N D STATES PATENT dinal alignment on said shelves and over each of U ITE S Sa'id apertures, and 2,852,932 9/1958 Cable 33180 mean-s pivotally securing said frame to said board. 5 2,853,792 9/1958 Lutes 33 184'5 7. A device as set forth in claim 6 wherein said shelves 2,902,770 9/1959 Mulcahy 33184'5 lie in planes inter-mediate the :parallel planes passing through the uppermost and lowermost portions of said LEONARD FORMAN Pr'mary Exammer' side members. S. S. MATTHEWS, Assistant Examiner.

Claims

1. MEANS FOR MOUNTING A PLURALITY OF DATA SHEETS AT PRESELECTED POSITIONS ON A MOUNTING SHEET LARGER THAN SAID DATA SHEETS COMPRISING, A BOARD HAVING A FLAT SURFACE AND MEANS FOR RECEIVING AND LOCATING A MOUNTING SHEET IN A SELECTED POSITION, A FRAME HAVING AN APERTURE FORMED THEREIN WITH OPPOSITE SIDE MEMBERS BOARDERING SAID APERTURE AND SPACED APART THE WIDTH OF SAID DATA SHEETS, MEANS FOR REGISTERING SAID FRAME WITH SAID SELECTED POSITION, A PAIR OF COPLANAR SHELVES WITH EACH SHELF INTEGRAL WITH A SIDE MEMBER AND EXTENDING INWARDLY THEREFROM INTO SAID APERTURE TO FORM SUPPORTS FOR OPPOISTE EDGES OF A DATA SHEET AS IT IS POSITIONED OVER SAID APERTURE, AND UPWARDLY EXTENDING PARTITIONS FORMED ON THE UPPER SURFACES OF SAID SHELVES WITH THE PARTITIONS ON ONE SHELF LATERALLY ALIGNED WITH THE PARTITIONS ON THE OTHER AND WITH SAID PARTITIONS DIMENSIONED AND SPACED FROM EACH OTHER TO RECEIVE DATA SHEETS THEREIN WITH THE SIDE EDGES OF SAID DATA SHEETS SUPPORTED ON SAID SHELVES AND THE UPPER AND LOWER EDGES ADJACENT SAID PARTITIONS AND WITH THE CENTER PORTIONS OF SAID DATA SHEETS LYING OVER SAID APERTURE.