Abstract: A hanging multiple page protector includes a plurality of page protectors, a hanging base, and a retainer member. The hanging base includes an elongated plate with a plurality of peg projections extending from a front thereof. A magnet strip is preferably attached to a back of the handing base. Preferably, at least two attachment lugs extend from one of the lengthwise edges of the hanging base. Each attachment lug has at least one opening disposed therethrough. Each page protector is fabricated from a clear plastic material. The page protector has at least two openings disposed in a top thereof which are positioned to allow insertion of the plurality of peg projections. The bottom of each page preferably has a tab retainer. The tab retainer has an opening for insertion of a tab element. The retainer member has a peripheral edge disposed on a back thereof that is sized to loosely receive the hanging base.

Abstract: A removable page protector for a sample book includes first and second elongated members which, in assembled relationship on a page, produce a protective reinforcement along the free edge of the page and the top and bottom edges adjacent thereto. Connecting units spaced from one another along the length of the elongated members enable the elongated members to be removably connected to one another. When assembled on a page, the elongated members form a multiplicity of receiving pockets, each of which is bounded by one or more connecting units, the sample page and the inside surface of the elongated member facing the sample page. These receiving pockets may be used to hold an end of a sample card in assembled relationship to the sample page.

Abstract: A seal is provided for notebooks and albums to prevent inadvertent opening of the rings and to prevent pilferage of paper, photo album insert sheets and the like. The seal is a continuous band or overlapped loop of plastic material which is heat-shrunk over the rings. In the most preferred embodiment, the material used for the seal in spot welded, such as by ultrasonic welding, to hold it in place during the heat-shrink operation.

Abstract: An apparatus for storing selected items within the covers of a ringed notebook or ringed binder. The notebook or binder is of a type that typically stores paper or accessories that do not extend to the full width of the covers thereby leaving presently unused volumes between the covers beyond the perimeter of the paper or other accessories. The present invention includes a thin main plate member and a storage device. The thin main plate member has a plurality of spaced openings therethrough. These spaced openings are arranged and sized so as to accommodate the rings of a ringed notebook or ringed binder. The storage device stores at least one selected item. This storage device means extends from the main plate member into a presently unused volume between the covers. Thus, the normally unused volume can be utilized to store the selected item. The storage device includes a plurality of spaced arms for grasping the at least one selected item.

Abstract: A holding rail is useful with a storage file having stiff cover sides and an upright clip holding presentation pages. The rail may be used to hold the storage file in a presentation position or to hold the presentation pages contained in the file in a clamped-down position. The rail is also useful for linear measurement. The holding rail is substantially flat with a plurality of upwardly bent legs. At least one upwardly bent leg is located at opposing end portions of the rail. The storage file may be held in a presentation position by placing the edge of each of the stiff cover sides into one of the upwardly bent legs of the rail. The rail thereby supports the storage file with the upright clips racing outwardly and the presentation pages in the presentation position. A plurality of tapered slots or other perforations are formed within the rail. The tapered slots may engage the upright clip, thereby holding the presentation pages of the storage file in a clamped-down position.

Abstract: A page lifter clip attached to the back member of a loose-leaf ring binder prevents the snagging and damaging of pages when the covers of the ring binder are closed. The page lifter clip is made of spring steel or of flexible, resilient plastic. It comprises a clamping arch member for attachment to the back member of a loose-leaf ring binder, clamping jaws for securely holding the page lifter clip in place, and proximal and distal arms which prevent the pages from slipping between the rings and the covers of the ring binder, thereby preventing the pages from being damaged when the ring binder is closed.

Abstract: A paper lifter and a loose-leaf ring binder combine to form a class two lever system. The lifter has two sets of apertures. A first set fits slidably over the rings. A curved load arm reaches inward from the apertures and abuts a plate protecting the binder ring mechanism; the curvature provides a variable length load arm with lifter angle. The contact point between the load arm and the plate becomes a system fulcrum; yet the contact point (and the lifter) is free to slide along the plate. An effort arm extends oppositely to reach and slide against the binder cover. A second set of apertures are slots in the curved load arm. The slots, in line with the rings, prevent ring interference with continuous contact between the load arm and the plate. The system fulcrum then remains on the plate for the first and critical phase of the closing motion.

Abstract: An apparatus (10) for making a binder self-supporting has a right-angular shaped side wall (20) of a height approximately equal to the width of the spine (34) of a binder (30). The right-angular shaped side wall is perpendicularly connected to a right-angular shaped bottom wall (22). The right-angular shaped bottom wall (22) is affixed to the inside surface (38) of either the front or back cover (36) of the binder (30). Once the apparatus (10) is affixed to the binder (30), the open edge of the binder (30), which is opposite the spine (34), presents a box-like configuration. The edge (24) of the right-angular shaped bottom wall (22) is bevelled so that sheets filed in the binder (30) more easily pass over that edge (24).

Abstract: A punched sheet ring binder with configured ring halves, an arcuate mechanism cover with spaced apart platform surfaces to support the sheet border edges during operation of the binder.

Abstract: A writing platform for a notebook, the writing platform including a writing table that can be elevated from a flat configuration to an elevated position along one edge so as to provide a writing surface underneath one or more pages in the notebook. A riser is hingedly joined to the writing table and supports the edge of the writing table at a preselected elevation. Detent means are included to releasably support the riser in a generally vertical orientation. The dimensional characteristics of the writing table, the riser, and the detent means determine the ultimate elevation of the edge of the writing table.

Abstract: Low cost index media for use with loose-leaf binders and wirebound notebooks. An index tab includes a base portion having a plurality of apertures engagable by rings of a ring binder, and an index portion which projects beyond documents within the notebook in order to display index indicia. The index portion is integral with but offset from the base portion to define a clearance region which prevents interference between the index tab and an actuator lever for the loose-leaf binder. A second indexing article consists of an index sheet having a base portion and index portion, the base portion being of comparable dimensions to the documents within the notebook, and being bindable within the notebook. The index portion is foldable relative to the base portion, and may include preprinted index indicia as well as an area for inscribing merge information associated with respective indices.

Abstract: A record keeping assembly has a binder with locating elements spaced along the length of the outer side edge of a panel and a shingled assembly of overlapping elongated sheets with apertures along the one side thereof through which said locating elements extend. Under the shingled assembly is a flexible peel strip which has one end secured to the panel adjacent the outer side and which extends along the locating elements across the panel and projects outwardly therefrom. This peel strip is gripped by its projecting end and lifted upwardly to peel the portion of the shingled assembly overlying the strip from the locating elements.

Abstract: To register a sheet within a plane, a sheet registration means is provided comprising a flap formed on the sheet for resiliently biasing registration edge elements of the sheet against fixed locating pins. A total of no more and no less than three registration edge elements of the sheet are engaged by the locating pins to provide exact location of the sheet in its proper orientation within the plane.

Abstract: A ring binder-based filing system including enhanced prime storage areas for storing content or information records such as an index, table of contents, glossary, or the like. The two prime storage areas in a ring binder, the Home location inside the front cover and the End location inside the rear cover, are fully exploited by providing means for displaying and protecting the underlying information records while facilitating easy replacement or updating of information records, and by providing a means for rapid access to these prime locations. Two transparent windows are provided at each prime location, one hinged to the respective cover and retained by a magnetic latch system, and the other secured to the binder rings. A Homing Tab extends from an edge of the windows secured to the binder rings and facilitates return from any internal storage location back to either one of the prime locations.

Abstract: A leaf-lifter device to be used in connection with ring binders so that the loose-leaf pages in the binder do not bind under the rings of the binder when the loose leaf is closed. In one preferred embodiment the apparatus is comprised of seven parallel strips of plastic connected to one another by a flexible, thin plastic membrane which forms a hinge. Each of the two outside parallel strips are mounted to the adjacent outer leaf of the binder. The inner or center strip is mounted to the binder spring plate. The intermediate strips are not attached to the binder so that as the binder is closed the two intermediate strips will buckle at their hinged edges and will thus lift the loose-leaf pages so that they avoid binding and tearing under the binder rings.

Abstract: A clamping device for shackle mechanisms which can also be used as a tear-open safeguard and as a sheet turner consists of a flat body (8) with two L-shaped apertures (9,9'), one leg (10,10') of each aperture (9,9') extending parallel to the plane of the sheet shackels (17,17') and the legs (11,11') extending transversely thereto being arranged in line, also on the flat body (8) there are two hook-shaped portions (12,12') with a mouth (13,13'), this mouth (13,13') extending, over the distance of the sheet-shackle legs (4,5), parallel to the transverse leg (11,11') of the aperture (9,9') and the mouth (13,13') and transverse leg (11,11') being clampable firmly to the sheet-shackle legs (4,5).

Abstract: An improved sheet lifter is disclosed. The sheet lifter includes a lower edge having inner and outer ends, an inner edge extending upwardly from the inner end of the lower edge in a direction substantially perpendicular thereto, and an outer edge extending upwardly and inwardly from the outer end of the lower edge at an angle of from 70 to 184 degrees.

Abstract: A page lifting device for use with looseleaf binders containing binding rings. The leaves of the page lifter are formed from one or more rigid or flexible sheets of material, or loops of stiff wire, rotatably affixed at their inner edges to the inside of the binder at or contiguous with the centerline of the binding ring base cover. They can contain slots therein, which allow them to fit over the binder rings on closing, or be one or more rigid or flexible sheets located between the binder rings, and affixed to the inside of the binder such that the leaf or leaves envelope and lift the looseleaf pages away from the binder spine on closing.

Abstract: A page lifting device for use with looseleaf binders containing binding rings. The leaves of the page lifter are formed from one or more, rigid or flexible sheets of material or loops of stiff wire affixed at their inner edges to the inside of the binder at the base of the binding rings by hinged or flexible means. They can contain slots therein, which allow them to fit over the binder rings on closing, or be one or more rigid or flexible sheets located between the binder rings, and affixed to the inside of the binder such that the leaf or leaves envelope and lift the looseleaf pages away from the binder spine on closing.

Abstract: A deformable cradle, after reposit in, and beneath the looseleaf filler of, a ringbinder notebook, assists collection of the filler whenever the open ringbinder is closed. The cradle designs fit ringbinders employing two or more rings and accommodate ring widths from about one to three inches (25 to 75 mm). A binary guide is described; unitary cradles are shown and described; a cradle is shown and described as employing an independent centering means attached; methods and materials are shown and described for effecting dependent connections of a cradle to the spine of a ringbinder, both permanently and removably. Improvement resides in ability of a cradle to usher the filler out of the troughs under the ringbinder rings where filler stock is prone to catch and bind during ringbinder closure.

Abstract: A hanger and sheet lifter for ring binders or the like whereby the ring binder may be hung on spaced parallel rails conventionally employed in many filing systems. The hanger is defined by an elongated member having a length greater than the length of the spine of the ring binder with which it is to be used. The ends of the member are provided with hooks which open in the same direction. The member also includes a plurality of slots corresponding in number to the number of rings in the ring binder in which it is to be used and which extends longitudinally of the member. The length of the slot is such that the hanger can move from a position wherein both hooks extend outwardly from opposite ends of the spine of the ring binder to a position wherein one of the hooks is wholly received within the ring binder to enable the ring binder to be stood on end without the lowermost hook interfering with the supporting surface.