Patent GB-654662-A (GB)
Title: Appliance for filing record cards or the like
IPC: B42F17/02
Filed: 1947-08-05
Abstract: 654,662. Filing paper and like sheets. DIEBOLD, Inc. Aug. 5, 1947, No. 21231. Convention date, March 2, 1946. [Class 146 (i)] An appliance for filing record cards 87 or the like in which a base 2 is provided with a stop wall 9 projecting upward from each end and in which end support members 4 and separator members 3 are removably mounted on the base, includes a flat smooth top wall 5 spaced from the base and having a pair of elongated slots 17, the separator members 3 having pivots 60 and the end support members 4 having pivots 47 engaging the slots and being thereby pivotally mounted on the base 2 below the top wall 5, the end and separator members being rocked individually or in groups to form a U-opening 85 between required adjacent separator members. Each slot 17 is enlarged at 18 at each end and channel brackets 19 secured below the enlargements 18, the end support members 4 being pivoted on pins 51 through their pivots 47 in the recesses so formed. Below one slot 17, the left as seen in Figs. 4 and 28, a channel strip 20 is secured to form a recess 22 overhung by the edge 21 of the slot 17. Below the other slot 17, a Z-shaped strip 23 is secured to one side and an angle strip 24 to the other to form a recess 22a also overhung by the edge 21a of the slot 17, the two recesses 22, 22a thus being similar but the recess 22a having a space 25 along the lower right hand corner. An angle strip 28 is hinged by a pin 27 to a member 26 secured to the top wall 5, so that it can pivot from the position shown in Fig. 25 to that of Fig. 4 in which it enters the space 25 and obstructs part of the recess 22a. The pivots 60 of the separator members 3 are introduced through the slots 17 and moved to the left so that the strips 21, 21a enter notches 62 above the pivots 60, the angle strip 28 then being pivoted upwards to lock the members 3 on the base. Movement of the strip 28 is effected by a button 41 in the front of base 2, the button 41 being slid along a slot 43. To the button 41 is secured a bar 34 which is connected by a bar 32 to a control member 30 sliding in a channel 40 and having a rounded end 31 by which the angle strip 28 is held pivoted upwards, movement of the button 41 to the right against a spring 44 moving the control member 30 to the right so that the strip 28 falls to free the recess 22a. The end support members 4, preferably of sheet metal, have reinforcing corrugations 46 and a cross brace member 49 terminating in a curved handle portion 50, the brace members 49 resting against the angled stop walls 9. The separator members 3, preferably of fibre board, have pivots 60 formed in two parts, a cylindrical part 60 terminating in strap portions 61, formed with the notches 62, depressions 63, 63a and arch-shaped at 64, and an inner cylindrical part, fitting into the part 60, with projecting ears which lie adjacent the notches 62. The strap portions 61 are secured to the members 3 by spot welding the opposite depressions 63, 63a through holes in the members 3, the top edge of the strap 61 thus forming an inclined edge so that record cards do not catch on them. The end support members 4 and separator members 3 are provided with thumb knobs 79, 72 respectively having angled-thumb recesses 77, the knobs being of substantially the same thickness as the pivots 47, 60. Record cards will normally be upright and cut out portions 55 and 78 in the members 3 and 4 allow for easy removal Cards may be offset temporarily to one side and when pushed back are aligned by an upstanding flange 16 on the other side of the base 2, or may be turned on one side as at 87. When offsetting of cards is not required, upstanding flanges 16 may be provided on both sides of the base.