US3423862A - Card index with selecting means - Google Patents

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US3423862A
US3423862A US535507A US3423862DA US3423862A US 3423862 A US3423862 A US 3423862A US 535507 A US535507 A US 535507A US 3423862D A US3423862D A US 3423862DA US 3423862 A US3423862 A US 3423862A
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Walter Koller
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R9/00—Structural associations of a plurality of mutually-insulated electrical connecting elements, e.g. terminal strips or terminal blocks; Terminals or binding posts mounted upon a base or in a case; Bases therefor
    • H01R9/22—Bases, e.g. strip, block, panel
    • H01R9/24—Terminal blocks
    • H01R9/2425—Structural association with built-in components
    • H01R9/2441—Structural association with built-in components with built-in overvoltage protection
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B42—BOOKBINDING; ALBUMS; FILES; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER
    • B42F—SHEETS TEMPORARILY ATTACHED TOGETHER; FILING APPLIANCES; FILE CARDS; INDEXING
    • B42F17/00—Card-filing arrangements, e.g. card indexes or catalogues or filing cabinets
    • B42F17/34—Card-filing arrangements, e.g. card indexes or catalogues or filing cabinets with card selection means, e.g. telephone number list finders
    • B42F17/343—Card-filing arrangements, e.g. card indexes or catalogues or filing cabinets with card selection means, e.g. telephone number list finders with sliding movement of selected cards
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B42—BOOKBINDING; ALBUMS; FILES; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER
    • B42F—SHEETS TEMPORARILY ATTACHED TOGETHER; FILING APPLIANCES; FILE CARDS; INDEXING
    • B42F17/00—Card-filing arrangements, e.g. card indexes or catalogues or filing cabinets
    • B42F17/34—Card-filing arrangements, e.g. card indexes or catalogues or filing cabinets with card selection means, e.g. telephone number list finders
    • B42F17/346—Card-filing arrangements, e.g. card indexes or catalogues or filing cabinets with card selection means, e.g. telephone number list finders with pivoting movement of selected cards
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01T—SPARK GAPS; OVERVOLTAGE ARRESTERS USING SPARK GAPS; SPARKING PLUGS; CORONA DEVICES; GENERATING IONS TO BE INTRODUCED INTO NON-ENCLOSED GASES
    • H01T4/00—Overvoltage arresters using spark gaps
    • H01T4/06—Mounting arrangements for a plurality of overvoltage arresters
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04Q—SELECTING
    • H04Q1/00—Details of selecting apparatus or arrangements
    • H04Q1/02—Constructional details
    • H04Q1/14—Distribution frames
    • H04Q1/142—Terminal blocks for distribution frames
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04Q—SELECTING
    • H04Q1/00—Details of selecting apparatus or arrangements
    • H04Q1/02—Constructional details
    • H04Q1/14—Distribution frames
    • H04Q1/146—Distribution frames with line protection means

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  • the invention relates to a card index, consisting of a case with a drawer (acted on by a push spring and closed by a fillet) for accommodating index cards with reference numbers, letters and so on, and with a device for unlocking the drawer and releasing the index card selected by means of a set key, pushing out the unlocked drawer by means of the push spring.
  • the object of the invention is therefore to provide a card index of simple construction, permitting writing on and withdrawal of individual cards from the drawer without difficulty and which can be operated by one manipulation.
  • This object is attained in accordance with the invention in that in a card index consisting of a case with a drawer acted on by a push spring and closed by means of a fillet, for accommodating index cards with reference numbers, letters or the like-and this is what forms the invention-the bottom of the rearwardly open drawer is provided with parallel longitudinal slots for the passage of snug type cams, which are fixed to the bottom of the box type case and are at a predetermined distance from the case opening, corresponding, when the drawer is pushed in, to the length of a base part of the drawer bounding a recess and falling away obliquely in relation to its front wall, at the longitudinal edges of which drawer there is provided in each case an entrainment member for engagement in correspondingly shaped entrainment recesses of the index cards of resiliently elastic material, which have index type selector recesses
  • a control rail which can be struck by these and can be tipped transversely to their longitudinal direction round a sung, in which rail, on the longitudinal side opposite the selector keys, the fillet (pressed by the action of a spring into the catch element of the drawer) is guided and supported during the swivelling out.
  • Each selector key is under the pressure of a counterspring and has two lateral shoulders bounding the upward thrust produced by a spring, and below these a pin adapted to the profiles of the selector recesses of the index cards.
  • the selector recesses of the index cards extend at their front ends stepwise from the left and from the right longitudinal side to the center of the index cards; their size decreases in conformity with the alternate staggering with each index card lying below.
  • FIGURE 1 shows a multiplicity of superimposed index cards with selector recesses provided at their ends, viewed in perspective.
  • FIGURE 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of a card index.
  • FIGURE 3 shows the card index as in FIGURE 2, but with the drawer partly run out.
  • FIGURE 4 shows the card index, partly in perspective and partly in section.
  • FIGURE 5 is a further form of embodiment of a card index in vertical longitudinal section
  • FIGURE 6 is the card index as in FIGURE 5, partly in perspective, partly in section.
  • the card index constructed in accordance with the invention consists of a case 4 with a drawer 2, open at the rear end and guided on the bottom of the case, for
  • the index cards 1 are of resiliently elastic material; they are pro vided on their longitudinal sides, that is to say adjacent to the ends of the cards, with entrainment recesses 15.
  • the ends of the index cards 1 have selector recesses 20, which extend stepwise from the left and from the right card longitudinal sides to the center of the index cards, and become smaller, in conformity with the alternate staggering, with each index card lying below.
  • the alternate staggering is preferably so arranged that the left hand steps are formed by the first, third, fifth and seventh cards and the right hand steps by the second, fourth and sixth cards (FIGURE 1).
  • the base of the drawer 2 (guided in the case 4), which is acted on by a push spring 12, is provided with parallel longitudinal slots 3 for the passage of snug-shaped cams 5 fixed to the bottom of the case.
  • the cams 5 are at a predetermined distance from the opening of the case, corresponding when the drawer 2 is pushed in to the length of a bottom part of the drawer 2, bounding a recess 16 and sloping obliquely downwards in relation to its front wall; there is provided on its cheek-type longitudinal edges in each case an entrainment element 6 for engagement in the entrainment recesses of the index cards 1.
  • selector keys 7 which act on a fillet 10 to close the drawer 2.
  • Each selector key 7 is under the pressure of a counter-spring 13 and has two lateral shoulders 19, which bound the upward thrust produced by the spring 13. Below the shoulders 19 each selector key 7 is provided with a pin 8, which is adapted to the profile of the selector recesses 20 of the index cards 1.
  • the fillet 10 engages in a recess 11 provided in the longitudinal side Wall of the drawer 2, that is to say adjacent to its end face.
  • a control rail 9 which can be struck by them and can be tipped transversely to their longitudinal direction round a snug 14 formed on the box-type case 4.
  • the pins 8 of the actuating keys 7 are made hook-shaped at their free lower ends.
  • the hook-shaped pin portion designated by is so arranged that when the actuating key 7 is pressed down the said pin portion engages under the card stack to be held back and thus holds this securely in position (FIGURES 5 and 6).
  • the surfaces on the bottom side of the hook 25 are made arcuate, so that in its downward movement the pin 8 can be moved past the front edges of the index cards without damaging them.
  • the entrainment elements 6 are bent down in a hook shape at their upper free ends in the for-ward direction of movement of the drawer 2.
  • the outer upper horizontal surface of the hook-shaped portion is formed arcuately as a journal surface.
  • the card index formed in accordance with the inven tion works as follows: When not in use the drawer 2 is held in the case 4. By means of the cams 5 guided through the drawer bottom the index cards 1 are easily lifted in the zone adjacent to their end face having the selector recesses 20, so that this portion of the cards comes to lie below the selector keys 7 (FIGURE 2).
  • the forward movement of the drawer 2 is effected after the swivelling out of the fillet 10 from the catch element 11 by means of the push spring 12 preferably taking the form of a spreader spring.
  • the push spring 12 preferably taking the form of a spreader spring.
  • the index cards 1 gripped by the entrainment members 6 are simultaneously drawn out of the case 4, so that the selected index cards, if requisite as the uppermost of a stack of index cards, are fully available for inspection or for writing on.
  • the index cards remaining in this slide away because of the resilientlyelastic properties of the card material, over the snugshaped cam 5 and through under the actuate pin 8 (FIG- URE 3).
  • the extent to which the drawer 2 travels out is determined by the length of the slot 3 provided in the bottom of the drawer 2.
  • the end of each slot can have a rubber bolster to reduce the noise made by the impact.
  • the back of the cam 5 nearest the front side of the appliance is made with such a marked level that after the removal of the index cards these can easily be inserted again in the correct stack sequence.
  • the card index constructed in accordance with the invention is superior to the known appliances, yet is simpler in design and easier to produce. If operated correctly any error in selection is excluded.
  • the appliance is extremely simple to handle because of the automatic outward travel of the drawer and the manner in which the index cards lie completely free in this, i.e. are easily removable, for writing on and so on. If after the removal of an index card the drawer is accidentally closed, then by actuating the particular key assigned to the missing index cards, the particular corresponding index card stack travels out and the missing or removed index card can then be placed on it.
  • the construction of the appliance is economical of space.
  • the case accommodating the drawer for the index cards is formed as a base fitting, for a telephone apparatus for example, with a pedestal surface and base fillets.
  • a card index comprising a case having top and bottom walls, a drawer slidably movable relative to said case, said drawer having therein a plurality of flexible superimposed index cards, each of said cards having entrainment recesses therein which register when the cards are superimposed in said drawer, each card having a selector recess differing in width from the recess of other cards, and the cards being arranged such that the recesses in the cards are progressively wider from the first card to the last card, said case having transversly spaced snug-shaped cams mounted on the inside of the bottom wall adjacent the front of the case, said drawer having parallel longitudinal slots for accommodating said earns, a pair of card entrainment members integral with the bottom of said drawer received in said entrainment recesses, a plurality of transversely mounted and vertically reciprocal actuating keys supported on said top wall of said case and corresponding in number to the number of index cards, each of said actuating keys arranged to abut a non-recessed area of a different one of said
  • a card index according to claim 1 in which said releasable means for maintaining said drawer closed comprises a spring biased fillet engageable with a catch element in said drawer, said means for releasing said releasable means comprising a rail pivotally mounted adjacent said keys and adopted to be pivoted by actuation of a key to move said fillet against the spring bias to release the drawer.
  • each actuating key comprises a depending pin portion having a profile adopted to the profiles of the selector recesses of the index cards, at least one laterally extending shoulder, spring bias means acting against said shoulder to normally keep said key out of contact with said cards.
  • a card index according to claim 3 in which the free lower end of the pin is angled downwards in the closure direction of the drawer and the bottom surface of the angled-down section is arcuately formed as a journal surface.
  • a card index according to claim 1 in which the selector recesses of the index cards extend stepwise at their front ends from the left and from the right along sides towards the center of said cards and are smaller in size correspondingly to the alternate staggering at each index card lying below.
  • a card index according to claim 1 in which the entrainment member is angled downwards in the outward travel direction of the drawer.

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US4076352A (en) * 1975-06-18 1978-02-28 U.S. Philips Corporation Sliding drawer
US4351125A (en) * 1980-04-09 1982-09-28 John Manufacturing Limited Telephone index
US4406076A (en) * 1981-01-23 1983-09-27 Confon Ag Card index for fixing to a vertical wall or for placing on a base
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US3276155A (en) * 1963-04-19 1966-10-04 Conia Andre Edouard Indexes for telephone numbers
US3167371A (en) * 1963-10-15 1965-01-26 Southern Plastics Engineering Selector index
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US3747244A (en) * 1970-11-30 1973-07-24 W Koller Card index with selecting means
US4076352A (en) * 1975-06-18 1978-02-28 U.S. Philips Corporation Sliding drawer
US4351125A (en) * 1980-04-09 1982-09-28 John Manufacturing Limited Telephone index
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