Sliding Item Patents (Class 40/374)
  • Patent number: 8443534
    Abstract: A tabbing apparatus is provided that includes a pocket and a tab element disposed within the pocket in a retracted position. The tab element includes an indexing segment configured for protruding from the pocket in an extended position as a tab and for being received within the pocket in the retracted position, an anchor portion attached to the pocket, and an intermediate portion connecting the anchor portion and indexing segment and configured for folding to allow the indexing segment to move between the retracted position and the extended position. The indexing segment is configured for displaying writing thereon for indexing a file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Esselte Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Goodfellow, Braden Jones, Brian Causse
  • Patent number: 7401428
    Abstract: In a method and system for displaying information on a display mount, at least one one-piece information strip holder is provided having a clear window and first and second parallel channels for receiving a respective information strip. Information is entered onto the information strip. The information strip is slid into the first and second parallel channels of the at least one information strip holder. The information strip holder is mounted to the display mount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: Nelson-Harkins Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Rand Harkins
  • Patent number: 7334363
    Abstract: Index tab holders are movably mounted on top portions of file folders or data separation sheets to locate the tab holders in selected lateral locations without removing the tab holders from the file folders. Linear rails associated with the top portions of the file folders cooperate with ribs on the tab holders to mount and laterally guide the tab holders on the file folders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Inventor: Merrill J. Hansen
  • Patent number: 6408218
    Abstract: An apparatus for monitoring the assembling, testing, and inspection of a product is provided comprising a plurality of kits, wherein each kit contains a plurality of parts to be assembled together to form a product. The apparatus further comprises a plurality of cue cards with each card having a status indicator corresponding to the assembly progress of a particular kit. A display device is further provided to visually display the plurality of cue cards. The status indicator of each cue card can indicate to load the parts into the kits, that the parts are ready to be assembled, that the parts are being assembled, and that the parts in the kit are assembled. A movable indicator, such as a pin, is movable between the status positions to visually indicate the same. The cue card further includes a priority level indicator that corresponds to the priority level of a particular kit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: Textron Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Francis W. Hallahan, Thomas M. Olson
  • Patent number: 4443961
    Abstract: A transparent panel assembly consists of an upper and lower plate defining a space therebetween. It is secured to the cart and extends across the space between the transverse push rod and the upper transverse rod or bar of the rear side of the cart body. Printed advertisements or notices etc. may be detachably inserted within the space or spaces between the upper and lower panels, visible to the shopper pushing the cart. Clamps extend around the push bar and are secured to the adjacent edge of the panel holding this edge adjacent the underside of the push bar and further clamps extend around the other transverse rod and engage the underside of the other edge of the panel which rests upon the upper transverse rod for support. The sheet or sheets of display material carrying the advertisements or notices, extend slightly from the panel under the push bar where it is shielded yet permitting easy access for removal and replacement purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1984
    Inventor: Edward J. Gilroy
  • Patent number: 4425727
    Abstract: The invention relates to an information board comprising a rectangular base plate having vertical first and second lateral supports; a number of flat, rectangular first and second sign elements arranged in a plane parallel to the base plate, each of said sign elements being provided with at least one groove extending in the plane of the sign element to retain an exchangeable strip provided with characters, of the same length as the sign element and slightly narrower than the groove, said strip being arranged to be inserted in the groove from any of the opposite ends of the sign element; a vertical partition slat arranged to divide the information board into a left panel for a predetermined number of said first sign elements of predetermined length and a right panel for a corresponding number of said second sign elements of predetermined length, said first sign elements being arranged to be received with one end in a groove facing the center of the base plate and formed by said first vertical lateral support,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1984
    Inventor: Bo Waldekrantz
  • Patent number: 4375856
    Abstract: A guide unit (9) for the flat objects, the unit includes a plurality of guide paths (12,15,16) and movable along one side of a magazine for holding flexible flat objects transversely to the one side in locations spaced along the one side of the magazine, it being thus possible to place a first such guide path (12) opposite a first such location (6), the other guide paths of the guide unit, which diverge away from the first guide path being placed simultaneously opposite the locations (5,7) adjacent the first location.An ejection device (10) moves any flat objects (8) contained in the neighbouring locations (5,7) outward from the one side of the magazine into the divergent paths (15,16) of the guide unit to provide a clear opening before an object is inserted in the first location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1983
    Assignee: Societe Anonyme dite: Compagnie Generale d'Automatisme
    Inventor: Alain Chappot
  • Patent number: 4347274
    Abstract: Visible index strip rolls of a novel, cost effective construction; and methods and machinery for manufacturing those rolls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1982
    Inventor: Alexander P. Janssen
  • Patent number: 4305217
    Abstract: A partitioned structure comprising an open topped container and a plurality of dividers having sides positioned within the container. The container has horizontal interior side channels on either side thereof so that each divider having at least one tab disposed on each side thereof slides within one of the horizontal channels and permits movement of the divider relative to the container. Each divider has a projection extending above its top on which information is placed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1981
    Inventors: Lorna A. Green, Joseph C. Green
  • Patent number: 4250216
    Abstract: Visible index strips which may or may not be preprinted and which can, at least in most cases, be produced at a lower cost than previously patented index strips. The index strips are of multi-ply construction with the plies typically, but not necessarily, being made of paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1981
    Inventor: Alexander P. Janssen
  • Patent number: 4231175
    Abstract: Microfiche cards and the like are held in a file enclosure between file-segregator cards. The segregator cards are shaped to fit on and slide along longitudinal rails. To promote fanning of the segregator cards when they are compressed in a particular way, they have added thickness in a zone near their bottom edges. Two independently adjustable compressors are provided, one above and one below the added-thickness zone. By manipulation of the compressors a user can fan the file to a desired extent, controlling the fraction of the group of segregator cards which fans, and the angle between the adjacent fanned segregator cards, or can maintain the file tightly closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1978
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1980
    Assignee: Baxter Associates, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth W. Baxter
  • Patent number: 4193218
    Abstract: Translucent plastic pages of an improved design for the filing of color film slides, wherein the storage trays are slightly indented to remove the slide emulsion from direct contact with the plastic. In accordance with a further feature, the translucent storage pages are formed from archival material, and are designed alternatively to be suspended in a file cabinet by means of a hanging bar which affixes to the page, and includes an indexing tab; or to be stored in a conventional ring binder, without the hanging bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1980
    Assignee: Franklin Distributors Corporation
    Inventor: Leon Mermelstein
  • Patent number: 4085534
    Abstract: Holder for data carriers and procedure for manufacturing such a holder. The holder includes a plurality of members, each being approximately rectangular in shape. Through the provision of a tongue and slot on each member, the members can be arranged into an overlapping arrangement with the tongue of one member being secured in the slot of the adjacent lower member. Clamping members are then used to secure the lateral sides of the members together so as to form a unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1978
    Assignee: Eichner Organisation KG
    Inventors: Werner Willi Gustav Eckstein, Dieter Klaus-Jurgen Schweinsberg
  • Patent number: RE30959
    Abstract: A scheduling board providing for the orderly listing of jobs or operations scheduled and/or contracted to be performed and the progress thereof in relation to the time allotted to each for their completion, said board incorporating an elongate, relatively narrow-width slideway extending along one side edge thereof for the reception of a plurality of discrete "day-date" tabs arranged in column formation therein, and further incorporating a wider channel disposed to the side of said slideway adapted to be filled with a multiplicity of transversely extending semi-rigid strips inscribed on their face with job or operation data, the vertical height of each of said strips being a known fraction of the vertical height of the day-date tabs, said column of day-date tabs being slidable upwardly in response to upward push force applied to the lowermost or lower tabs upon each uppermost tab having been removed from the slideway, and said topmost strip(s) being manually liftable from said channel by bowing force applied f
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1982
    Inventors: John S. Anderson, Virginia B. Anderson