Patent · US Expired

Clamping device and a clamping file equipped therewith

US5413430A · kind A · utility

21Cited by

7References

17Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Kratzert & Schrem GmbH · DE

Inventors

Kurt Schrem · Pfullendorf, DE
Herbert Kratzert · Spaichingen, DE
Alexander Benn · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 28, 1994
Grant date	May 9, 1995
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 28, 2014

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB42F9/00
WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A clamping device and clamping file for releasably holding sheets of paper or the like is disclosed. The clamping file includes two file covers connected to one another along a folding edge. The clamping device is swivellably fastened to one of the file covers at a window cut-out in the clamping file adjacent the folding edge. The clamping device includes first and second legs connected by a back to form a U-shaped elastic clamp for paper sheets. To facilitate insertion of paper sheets, a longitudinal end area of the clamping device is configured with one of the legs spaced from the other leg to form a paper inserting mouth which is maximally wide at a longitudinal end of one of the legs.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.