US809976A

US809976A - Filing box or drawer.

Info

Publication number: US809976A
Application number: US16069703A
Authority: US
Inventors: Reuben H Ober
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1903-06-09
Filing date: 1903-06-09
Publication date: 1906-01-16
Anticipated expiration: 1923-01-16

Description

No. 809,976. PATBNTED JAN.16, 1906. R. H. BER.

FILING BOX OR DRAWER.

APPLXGATION FILED JUNE 9,1903.

FILING. @@X DRAWER..

te essere,

Specification of Letters Patent.

atented Jan. 16, 1906.

Application tiled June 9,1905. Serial No. 160,697.

Garrettsville, inthe c unty of Portage and.

State of Ohio, have invented or discovered newand useful Improvements in Filing Boxes or Drawers, oi which the following is a specification.

I invention relates to filing boxes or dra. ers which may be entered into andwithdrawn from the pockets or holes oi iilingcabinets.

It is-the object of my invention to make a filing box or 'drawer which will not bind on the sides of the pockets, which may be adj usted to various lengths, which may be suspended on the cabinet when fully withdrawn from its pocket, and which may have its parts quickly, easily, and cheaply constructed integrally with its iinger-pull and labelholder.

lther objects oi my invention will appear hereinafter inthe detailed description thereof.

In the drzmdngs which form a part of this specification, Figure I is a perspective of my invention with the rear portion thereof broken away Fig. II, a plan of a fragment of a sheet from which the iront of my tiling box or drawer is made, showing the lines on which the sheet is cut and folded to form the fingerpull and label rest or holder; Fig. III, a ragment oi'a cabinet in vertical section through a series of pockets, together with the rear portion of ailing box ordre-wer, all illustrative oi the manner in which the boi: or drawer is held when withdrawn Vt'rorn its individual pocket, Fig. III, a plan oi a fragment of a liling box or drawer, showing an adjustable means Vtor supporting the forward or lower end the articles in the box or drawer; and Fig. a vertical section ci a fragment of the tren of the bor; or drawer, showing a second torni which the label restor holder may assume.

"n the widtlrof the sides due to the et the iiled articles or otherwise.

ling-box that frictionally engage with the sides 12 of the filing-cabinet, the other parts of the box being spaced therefrom slightly. The rear upper part of the sides 2 are eut oil on inclines 8, as shown in Figs. I and III, and between the reduced rear ends of the sides is secured the back 5, which reaches nearly to the top edges of the sides and may entend entire-ly to the, top thereof, if desired. To the rear side of the baclris secured by riveting, soldering, or otherwise a strip of metal 9, having a hook l0, with its open mouth toward the front and partially or wholly below the bottom 3. The filing-box slides-on the top oi the guides ll on the sides 12 (one only heing shown) of the cabinet. The hook l0. rides just above the bottoms 1 3 of the pockets, which are placed a little below the tops et the said guides 1l to provide a wayl for the hook 10. This arrangement-oi1 the hook and the guide and the pocket-bottoms may be varied, however. Y

Below the top of the guides and near the front oi each pocket is a rod 14 in the path of the hook 10, so that when the box is withdrawn the hook engages the rod. The box may then be swung down into the position shown in Fig. III, the hook holding the box suspended in a position from which papers may be taken or Into. which they may be placed and where the box is by merely raising its lower end ready to be returned to its pocket.

rIhe top 6 maycover as muon of they top of the box as desired; but I have shown it over only theviorward portion thereof, whore it serves to keep the contents ol the box in place, especially when the box has been swung down, as in Fig. III, or the box is full.

I may malte the sides of the box or drawer corrugated, as shown at 15 in Fig. IV, or the corrugations may be on strips secured to the sides oi the box or drawer. Into opposite corrugations l5, which are Guides, I slide a gate or stop if? for the int end of the filed articles, so that artisl of dillerent lengths can be accommodate in the various boxes in the cabinet used. 'i ne gate or stop 16 also serves to divide the box into compartments for diifcrent articles. The rib 7 niay be used with the corrugated sides, il desire The bor; is closed by the front 4, extending beyond the boxinembeis, to which it is at-' tached in any convenient manner. In this iront I provide a label rest or holder 17, which IOOV IIO

is integral with the front 4 and is made by making a cut on three sides of a rectangle and bending back the cut portion on the lower uncut side of the rectangle. The three cuts of the rectangle are shown by the numerals 1.8, 19, and 2O on Fig. II and the place of bending by the dotted line 21. An arched cut 22 is made within the rectangle, the base of the arched out being on the dotted line or near that line. rIhat partv of the rectangle left at the sides of and above the arched cut is bent back beyond the inner side. of the front 4, as shown in Fig. l, where the bottom ofthe label-rest is inclined,or in Fig. V,where the label -rest is shown as a pronounced shoulder, (marked 23.) The tongued or rounding part 24 of the .rectangle left within Jvfhe arched cut is bent forward on the dotted line 21 to form a curved handle or finger-pull 25, by which the boX or drawer may be lifted on the hook or pulled out of its ocket. The bending of the ingerull 25 fldrward leaves the opening 26, and t e bending back of the label-rest leaves an opening through which the label is read. v

The label showing the contents of the box is slipped in between the body of the front 4 and the rest 17 and is supported on the portion of the rest 17 which connects it with the front 4. The label may be inserted from behind the top 6, as is clear, or through the eoaeve opening 27 in the forward end of one of the sides 2, or said opening may be at the forside the boX and the latter a portion thereof bent within the box.

2. In a iling box or drawer front, a labelholder and a handle integral with the front andconsisting of portions bent in opposite directions from the body thereof, the portion containing the opening from which the han- -dle is bent being bent to forni a label-holder.

31.- ln a boX or drawer, a front having a handle integral therewith and a label-holder integral therewith'and formed ot a single tongue extending each side of the handle.

In witness whereof I' hereunto subscribe my name this 5th day of June, 1903.

' REUBENH. BER

In presence ofy y R. S. WEBB, n

W. E. AQLER.