Patents by Inventor Robert J. Mangler

Robert J. Mangler has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6039354
    Abstract: An index sheet or divider which may be accommodated by and directly printed upon by a conventional machine printer. The index sheet includes a main body portion and a foldable index tab portion. The index tab portion is transformable into a configuration allowing the index sheet to controlledly pass through a printer. After printing, the index tab portion is transformable into another configuration allowing it to stand out, identify, separate, or otherwise distinguish documents or items with which one or more index sheets are kept. When completed, the index tab portion has back-to-back printable surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignee: ACCO Brands, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Mangler
  • Patent number: 4958453
    Abstract: A large copyholder for holding stacks of documents of varying thickness having a line guide adjustable to accommodate for stack thickness. The line guide is pivotal to also serve variable thickness stacks adjacent the copyholder. The line guide is connected to the copyholder through a frictional axis arrangement to hold the line guide in selected positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1990
    Assignee: Wilson Jones Company
    Inventors: Robert J. Mangler, Anne J. Marsland, George O. Podd, Russell Schweizer
  • Patent number: 4893839
    Abstract: A movable index mounted on a base sheet for reciprocal movement which movement is controlled, guided and limited by track means and track-follower means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1990
    Assignee: Wilson Jones Company
    Inventors: George O. Podd, Robert J. Mangler, Anne J. Marsland
  • Patent number: D379475
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1997
    Assignee: ACCO USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Mangler