Patent · US Expired

Visible file-card system

US4037339A · kind A · utility

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7Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateSep 2, 1976
Grant dateJul 26, 1977
Priority date
Expiry dateSep 2, 1996

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB42F17/18
  • WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A visible file-card system including a holder and a plurality of cards with cooperating means for pivotally mounting the cards in the holder in superimposed, overlapping, stepped relationship with a portion of the face of each card adjacent its lower edge, visibly exposed. The specific structure for mounting each card on the holder comprises a resilient pivot strip secured to a tab at the upper edge of each card having pivot extensions or pivot lugs on its ends. The holder comprises a back with a longitudinal channel or elongated recess which has flanges at its edges provided with pairs of horizontally spaced opposed pivot openings for receiving the oppositely-projecting pivot lugs of the pivot strips, as the strips are contracted by bending and then allowed to expand to project the pivot lugs into a pair of the opposed pivot openings.

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