US779102A - Card-file. - Google Patents

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No. 779,102. PATENTED JAN. 3, 1905. L. SENGB.

CARD FILE.

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Patented January 3, 1905.

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LIBORIUS SENGE, OF CRESCENT SPRINGS, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR TO GLOBF-WERNIGKE COMPANY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

CARD-FILE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 779,102, dated January 3, 1905.

Application filed May 16, 1903. Serial No. 7,393. i

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LIBORIUS Snnen, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing at Crescent Springs, in the county of Kenton and State of 5 Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Card-Files, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to files for index or other cards for use in libraries, ofiices, and other places where cards are used for purposes of indexing accounts for reference; and it has for its object the improved construction of such files whereby their ease of manipulation, security, and eificiency are increased.

The novelty of my invention will be hereinafter more fully set forth, and specifically pointed out in the claims. In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1, Sheet 1, is a central sectional side elevation of a card-file embodying my invention. Fig. 2, Sheet 1, is a plan View of the same. Fig. 3, Sheet 2, is an inside elevation of the operating parts of the file on the dotted line a: m of Fig. 5 looking to the left and with the inside plate removed. Fig. 4, Sheet 2, is a corresponding view with Fig. 3, but showing the parts in proper positions when the card retaining and releasing bars are spread apart to lock the cards, while Fig. 3 shows the parts in proper position when the cards are released. Fig. 5, Sheet 2, is a broken sectional side elevation of Fig. 3 and including the adjacent and associated parts. Fig. 6, Sheet 2, is a perspective view of the ends of the card releasing and retaining bars adjacent to the operating mechanism. Fig. 7, Sheet 2, is a corresponding view of the opposite ends of the bars. Fig. 8, Sheet 2, is a broken elevation of the bottom of one of the cards, showing its slot for opening for the passage and spreading of the bars and showing the bars in section and spread apart.

The same letters of reference are used to indicate identical parts in all the figures.

In its preferred form of construction the file is a drawer, of which a series is usually employed and contained in a suitable case for a cabinet. The drawer may have an interior width just sufficient to contain a single row of cards which stand on edge transversely of the drawer, or it may be wide enough to have two or more card-compartments side by side andextending from the front to the rear of the drawer. I have only illustrated a drawer with a single card-compartment; but it will be readily understood that this may be duplicated or pluralized into a drawer with any number of compartments desired, the mechanism in each compartment being identical with that illustrated and to be now described.

In the drawings, A represents the bottom of the drawer, 13' its side walls, Cits front wall, and D its rear wall. There is a slot E through the bottom of the drawer atits middle extending its entire length.

Secured upon the inner side of the front Wall of the drawer, in this instance by two screws 0, and near its bottom is a struck-up metal housing F, constructed'after the manner of an ordinary drawer-lock case, and guided within this housing, by means of the walls thereof and an inner plate 6, Fig. 5, secured to the inner side of the front wall C, is a vertically-slidable piece Gr, having an upper cut-out portion 0, Figs. 3 and 4, in which is confined a crank cam-piece cl, fast upon a stem or shank 6, Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, suitably journaled through the front wall C and carrying an operating-buttonf, which also serves as the drawer-pull. Below the opening 0 in the plate G is a second opening 9, which is of a peculiar shape and somewhat similar to three ovals connected together, as will be clearly shown by reference to Figs. 3 and 4.

The card retaining and releasing bars H, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7, are flat metal bars arranged parallel to each other and to the bottom of the drawer. As seen in Fig. 6, these barsH are provided with elongated trunnions, which are bent at right angles to their axes and form cranks within the housing F and confined within the opening 9 in the plate G. The rear ends of these bars H are provided with trunnions, which have their bearing in a plate I, secured in any suitable manner to I the rear wall D of the drawer.

The operation of my device is as follows: Assuming the parts to be in the positions shown in Fig. 3, where the card retaining and releasing bars are shown in dotted lines to be in such position that the cards may be removed therefrom or new cards inserted thereon by turning the operating-button f, the crank-cam d is rotated within the opening 0 in the plate G, which forces said plate downward within the housing F, and the downwardly-extending portions h of the opening g bearing against the cranks formed by the bent ends of the trunnions on the forward ends of the bars H revolve these bars upon their axes and spread the same to the position shown in section in Fig. 8, the parts then having assumed the positions shown in Fig. L. By revolving the cam d in the opposite direction the plate G will be raised within the housing and the upwardly-projecting portions 11 of the opening 9 in the lower part of the plate G will bear against the cranks upon the trunnions of the bars H and restore the same to the positions shown in Fig. 3, as will be readily understood.

J is the usual or any suitable follower slidable within the drawer and guided upon a rod K, located directly beneath the bars H and supported in the housing F at the front end of the drawer and the plate I at the rear end thereof.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim 1. In a card-file, the combination of the filing-base, a pair of flat card retaining and releasing bars parallel therewith, front and rear pivots in stationary bearings for the lower edges of said bars, operating projections forming part of said bars and extending outwardly from the front pivots at angles to the planes of the fiat portions of said bars, a guided sliding plate with slots engaging the angular operating projections on the ends of the bars, and means for operating said sliding plate, whereby the bars are brought together or spread apart, substantially as described.

2. In a card-file, the'cornbination of the filing-base, a pair of flat card retaining and releasing bars parallel therewith, front pivots for said bars having angular outward extensions forming operating-cranks, said angular extensions extending outwardly at angles to the planes of said flat bars, rear pivots in stationary bearings for said bars, a guided sliding plate with slots engaging said operatingcranks, a rotatable cam confined within an opening in said plate for operating the same, and a thumb-piece on the outside of the drawer connected to and for operating said cam, Sub stantially as described.

3. In a card-file, the combination of the bars H pivoted at their lower edges at the rear of the drawer, and provided at their forward ends with pivoting trunnions having a bear ing at the front wall of the drawer, a housing F secured to the inner side of the front wall of the drawer, and provided with an opening for the passage of the trunnions on the front ends of the bars H, a plate G guided within said housing and provided with opening 9, outwardly-extending cranks formed on the trunnions on the front ends of bars H oonfined in the opening 9, an opening 0 in said plate Ur, a crank-cam (Z confined within said opening 0, and an operating-button f connected by means ofstem a to and for the pur pose of operating said cam-piece d, substantially as described.

LIBORIUS SENGE.

Witnesses:

WM. J. PECK, EDWARD PEcK.

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