With Means To Separate Or Riffle File Item (e.g., Magnet) Patents (Class 40/372)
  • Patent number: 8424229
    Abstract: A slide for attaching to a display item such as a calendar, a poster, document, banner, wall hanging, or workpiece, has a longitudinal channel with a first end and second end and a longitudinal bend extending from the first end to the second end, a first bend portion and a second bend portion joined by the longitudinal bend, the first and second bend portions each having respective interior confronting surfaces adapted to receive an edge of the display item therebetween and respective exterior surfaces, a pair of bulges projecting from the first bend portion, a first bulge being close to the first end and a second bulge being close to the second end; and a hanger generally centrally fast with the second bend portion. The slides are paired in sets, the bulges of a first slide being spaced a different extent from its edges to those of the second set, so that the bulges of the paired slides do not coincide if one is nested in the other. The bulges may be symmetrically or asymmetrically arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Inventor: Eric R. De Beer
  • Patent number: 6988330
    Abstract: A calendar slide for binding a margin of a calendar or a poster and allowing the same to be hung by a hanger in a desired location, such as a wall. Spaced convex bulges in the calendar slide prevent the slides from sticking together during the storage, shipment, and binding processes, and also promote uniform stacking of the slides in a tinning machine magazine, and finally prevent the adjacent nested slides from scratching or marring one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2006
    Assignee: Stuebing Automatic Machine Co.
    Inventor: Allan Gavronsky
  • Patent number: 6945564
    Abstract: An expense receipt diary of a notebook-type (10) consisting of a front cover (12), a back cover (14), and a plurality of interior pages (16), secured together by binding (18) on one side. The front of each interior page (16) consists of a mounting area (24) that contains a plurality of adhesive strips (28). Each strip (28) is comprised of a release liner (30) and an underlying adhesive (32). Receipts (34a) may be attached to the underlying adhesives (32) by removing the liners (30) and pressing the receipt (34b) onto the exposed adhesives (32). The recording area (20) is located on the reverse side of the mounting area (24). The recording area (20) is a printed surface where the employee can record details pertaining to the receipts attached (34b) to the mounting area (24) of the same sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Inventor: Roberto Hernandez
  • Patent number: 5031865
    Abstract: A portable card file capable of being removed from its base such that it may be inserted into another base at a different location. The base is mountable in a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1991
    Inventor: Patrick D. Blattner
  • Patent number: 4370821
    Abstract: A rotary magazine assembly for holding information bearing cards and the like having support pins attached along one of the sides of the cards, includes a stand with spaced apart plates for supporting the cards for rotary movement about the central axis of the stand, and a device mounted on the stand adjacent one of the plates for maintaining a pair of cards separated from one another when it is desired to retrieve information therefrom, the device including a stop element moveable into and out of engagements with sides of the separated cards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 1, 1983
    Assignee: Eichner Organization KG
    Inventor: Falk J. Eichner
  • Patent number: 4275887
    Abstract: A multiple game assembly that can be carried in a player's pocket is provided. A plurality of game boards are contained within the housing assembly and an exterior indicator can select any specific game. When the housing assembly is open the preselected game board is automatically positioned in an operative mode. Each game sheet includes a magnetizable substrate that is capable of retaining magnetic game pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1981
    Assignee: Takara Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masanobu Tateyama
  • Patent number: 4245415
    Abstract: A file card for use in a filing system for compact filing of information. Such a system includes a file receptacle for a plurality of the file cards. The cards include fulcrum means adjacent their bottom edges and are normally supported in the file receptacle in substantially vertical positions. However, by manually fanning apart any pair of the file cards at their top edges, the fulcrum means of these and adjacent cards cooperate with one another and with the file receptacle to automatically fan apart the upper portions of file cards adjacent the manually fanned apart cards, thereby making visually scannable the information on the upper portions of such cards. In one embodiment the file cards are merely divider cards, and data cards are inserted between them. In this instance the data cards are supported by a data card support arrangement which is integral with the file receptacle, and holding elements are provided on the file cards to position the data cards against desired ones of the file cards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1975
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1981
    Assignee: Visu-Flex Company
    Inventor: Arthur T. Spees
  • Patent number: 4242819
    Abstract: A microfiche carrier assembly is provided comprising a core of flexible but relatively rigid sheet material having a thin cover sheet provided with an adhesive surface for securing the cover sheet to the core so as to seal both faces and one end of the core. The cover sheet extends beyond the other end of the core to provide overhanging flaps forming a pocket therebetween with the adhesive surfaces of the flaps facing inwardly. A marginal edge of a microfiche is positioned in the pocket and is secured therein by the flaps. The microfiche carrier assembly is also provided with selector means in the form of a perforation at a predetermined location in a selector field to permit retrieval of a selected microfiche from a deck of microfiche carrier assemblies contained, for example, in a magazine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1981
    Assignee: AM International, Inc.
    Inventors: William R. Swift, Clyde E. LeFevre
  • Patent number: 4204351
    Abstract: A rotary card index system including a card carrying drum rotatably mounted on a support frame and a pivotal plate member mounted on said frame for movement to and from a retracted inoperative position and an operable position between adjacent cards for maintaining the adjacent cards in spaced relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1980
    Assignee: Business Efficiency Aids, Inc.
    Inventor: Graham S. W. Hawkins
  • Patent number: RE30396
    Abstract: .[.A filing system for the compact filing of information having a file container with a plurality of backing cards in said container. Cooperating between said file cards are fulcrum means positioned near the bottom edges of said backing cards and with support means for supporting the backing cards adjacent a fulcrum means, the parts being so arranged as to permit selected backing cards normally supported in a substantially vertical position to be separated or fanned apart at their top edges so that information on the upper portions of said backing cards may be accessible upon a limited number of cards. Also positioned between the backing cards are data cards which are supported by a data card support positioned above the fulcrum means. Access may be had to the data cards upon "fanning" of a limited group of backing cards..]. .Iadd.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Inventor: Arthur T. Spees