Abstract: A display card holder for use on support surfaces, such as golf carts includes a display card retaining sleeve and a sleeve holder. The sleeve holder includes an entrance slot having inwardly extending retention ridges which deform and thereby reduce vibration of the retaining sleeve. The sleeve holder may further include a mechanical locking mechanism for securing the sleeve in the sleeve holder.

Abstract: A system for mounting a component to a portfolio including a tongue located on the component, the tongue having a tail portion and a tip portion, and a portfolio having a tongue opening formed therein. The top can be inserted into the tongue opening and component rotated relative to the portfolio until the tongue is generally received through the tongue opening to couple the component to the portfolio.

Abstract: A poster display apparatus provides a slanted back, a curved front, opposing sides, and a bottom that define an interior space. The apparatus holds posters therein in an upright display position. An antislip member of the apparatus reduces the relative movement of the posters to one another and to the apparatus. The front and back slant backward near the bottom portion of the posters causing the bottom portions of the posters to slant backward. The backward slant also reduces movement of the posters during browsing. One alternative includes an adjustable front and back to maintain the relative distance and force between the front and the posters, the back and the posters, and the posters themselves further reducing the slippage of the posters during browsing.

Abstract: A file card for a paper slip holder and dispensing unit comprises a substantially flat stiff support panel having a generally rectangular configuration, a front face, a back face, a top edge and a bottom edge, a mounting attachment at the bottom edge for mounting on a support shaft, and a coupon clip on the front and back faces, the clip formed of a substantially rectangular sheet of semi-rigid material having a fixed end and a free end, the fixed end secured to the support panel adjacent an edge thereof, the sheet formed with a rounded fold along a transverse line forming a long panel and a short panel having a common edge, the short panel having the free end, the short panel disposed adjacent the face of the support panel, and the free edge of the short panel curved toward the face of the support panel.

Abstract: A system for filing documents in a filing cabinet with a suspension rod. A suspension strip is fixed to a top edge of each document, and includes an orifice for receiving the suspension rod, and notches with an edge interposed therebetween. The notches and edges are identical from one suspension strip to one another. A scale is positioned behind the suspension strips of the documents, and displays identification information which is aligned with grooves formed by alignment of the notches of adjacent suspension strips. A tab fixed to a top portion of the suspension strip constitutes a guide mark for the document corresponding to which the suspension strip is fixed, wherein the tabs of different suspension strips are of different colors, and each color is associated with identification information which is displayed on the top portion of the scale for identifying documents.

Abstract: The present invention is an improved information organizing device fashioned from a sheet material in which columns of parallel slits are made. These slits form columns of opposing, downwardly converging legs of material. Between these legs of material is placed a pinch crease that imparts a twist in the legs raising certain edges of the legs and thus facilitating the insertion of information vehicles such as memo cards.

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,

Abstract: The album has an imperforate backing member. Attached to the backing member are a plurality of transverse, parallel rectilinear strips each coated at its underside with adhesive. The strips are each adhered to the top face of the backing member, each strip having a section inclined away from and free of the top face of the backing member. Adhered to each of the inclined sections of the strips is a bent-back section of a transverse release ribbon. The ribbons have extending tab portions which may be grasped by fingers of a user to pull the release ribbon off and away from the strip to uncover the adhesive-coated inclined section or portion of the strip. The ribbons and inclined portions of the strip form adhesive-free wedge shaped spaces into which photographic snapshots may be inserted in predetermined overlapping relationship.

Abstract: My invention provides a movable overrider system for moving a reference element board 15r over the front faces of track-supported module boards 15 of a modular scheduling board system 10. An upper wall track 12 supports a trolley bracket 20 that carries a pair of wheels 21 engaging a retainer lip 17 and resting on a path 14 of the upper wall track 12, while lower track 11 supports boards 15. Holders 25 on the lower edge 24 of trolley bracket 20 hold the back of the reference element board 15r to hang downward from the trolley bracket. Holders 25 and bracket 20 are dimensioned to suspend reference board 15r at the same vertical level as track-supported boards 15 so that reference board 15r can roll along the length of tracks 11 and 12 and override the track-supported boards while staying in horizontal alignment.

Abstract: A machine for the manufacture of a panel file for the storage of flat, flexible data elements is herein disclosed. A sheet of flexible resilient material is unrolled from an arbor. The material is cut into strips and rolled onto reels. The strips are substantially narrower than the depth of the pockets to be formed in the panel file. The reels are mounted on a strip aligning mechanism so that as the strips are unloaded from the reels they are in a parallel overlapping relationship. The strips are then pulled through an accumulator and placed in a heat sealing die. In the heat sealing die, the strips are joined to each other proximate the ends thereof to form a layered panel of overlapping pocket entrances. Also in the heat sealing die, a pocket forming sheet is attached to the back of the layered panel of strips.

Abstract: A card rack includes parallel pairs of coplanar fins that extend inwardly from side walls whose spacing is adjustable. The inner edges of the coplanar fins are spaced apart so as to provide a passage for an elongated stop member that extends through all the compartments. Holes in tabs at both ends of the stop member receive self-tapping screws. The threaded portions of the screws engage opposed faces of upper and lower pairs of fins to secure the stop member in place. The screws can be loosened to slide the stop member along the upper and lower compartments and thereby adjust the depth of all the compartments.

Abstract: A storage device for microfiche and the like, wherein a pair of sheets are secured in facing relation, one of which is provided with a plurality of parallel slits each having downturned end portions to define a flap swingable forwardly to open a slot for removably receiving microfiche, and the other sheet is cut to define a plurality of inverted generally U-shaped sheet formations having their upper bight regions secured to the flaps for outward swinging therewith and unobstructed reception of microfiche into said slots.

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.

Abstract: A panel file, for the storage of flat, flexible data elements, consists of plural, vertically spaced pockets, the entrances of which are formed by a plurality of vertically spaced, horizontally extending strips of resilient material. The strips are arranged so as to have an upper edge which overlaps the lower portion of the next upwardly adjacent strip. The strips are fastened together at their lateral margins. The lower portions of the pockets are formed by a support sheet which is attached to the panel on the surface opposite the pocket entrances. The support sheet is cut so as to have a column of inverted "V"-shaped straps, each having a vertex which is attached to the back of strips above overlapped portions thereof. The strips have an upwardly indented bottom edge with a central vertex at the point where the support sheet strap is attached to the next downwardly adjacent strip.

Abstract: A film and card holder constructed of a plurality of terraced V-shaped pocket panels held in a semi-rigid frame, the pocket panels being spaced selected distances from one another by spacing tabs integrally formed in and extending from the bottoms of adjacent panels. The frame includes apertures for receiving a foldable stand for positioning the holder in an upstanding position for use.

Abstract: A disposable cigarette gas lighter employing a plastic gas tank is provided on the face of the gas tank with a printed sheet carrying thereon publicity information. The gas tank is provided with a recess to receive the printed sheet and a plastic lens is attached thereover. Otherwise, the plastic lens is provided on the back surface thereof with a recess to receive the printed sheet. The plastic lens is formed as a cylindrical positive lens.