Patent GB-717311-A (GB)
Title: Suspension files for documents and the like
IPC: B42F15/00
Filed: 1951-01-22
Abstract: 717,311. Filing papers. BECKER, O. A. Jan. 22, 1951 [Feb. 1, 1950], No. 1646/51. Classes 16 and 146(1) A hanging file of variable widths for documents comprises side walls with means at their tops by which they may be suspended and a flexible bottom adapted to receive and support a variable length of transverse stiffeners. As shown in Figs. 1, 2, side walls 1 are connected by a flexible bottom 2, 3, 4 provided with longitudinal strips 5 secured by spaced stitches 6 so that transverse stiffeners 7 of the desired length can be inserted between the bottom 2 and the strips 5. The side walls 1 are suspended by means of wire loops 8, in the form of a large safety pin, which have one limb in a hem at the upper edge 10 and the other limb engaging over tubes 9 secured in the filing cupboard or cabinet, the loops 8 being longer than the distance between the tubes to allow any file to be pulled forwardly. The side walls 1 are secured to the bottom parts 3, 4 and to the upper part 10 by guides 12, 14 and slides 11, 13 and 15, 16 which also enable the different parts to be pulled forwardly, as shown in Fig. 1. The guides and slides, as shown in Fig. 2, have a cross-section to prevent disengagement vertically and to prevent undue tilting of the parts drawn forwardly. Finger pieces 25 and 28 are provided for gripping the parts. As shown in Fig. 8, the side walls 1, suspended by wire loops 8 over tubes 9, are provided at the bottom on one side of the file with a stitched fold 36 and the other with a hem 29 through which passes one limb 30 of a wire loop 30, 31, the other limb 31 passing underneath the bottom 32. The bottom 32 is. formed by an extension of the first side wall 1 and a second sheet 33, formed by folding back the sheet 32, is secured thereto by stitching 34, as in Fig. 13, in parallel rows and stiffeners 35 are inserted between the sheets 32, 33, the stiffeners being held in place by the fold 36. The stiffeners may be only of the width desired, the remainder of the double bottom hanging limply. The second side wall 1 is held at the required position by a locking means such as a wire 37 inserted in the appropriate gap in the stitching 34. In a modification, Fig. 11 (not shown), the separate second side wall is dispensed with and the files are interconnected, the wire loop 30, 31 being passed through the fold 36 of the next file side wall 1 and locked by a wire 37 as above. As shown in Fig. 13, a number of side walls 50 may have a common double bottom 32, 33 interconnected by stitching 34 and with stiffeners 35, each wall 50 having a wire loop 30, 31 passing through a hem 29. In this construction, the top edges are formed with a hem on their rear portion only and a rod passes through the hem and has hooked ends to rest on tubes 9 running across the back and front of the files, and the group of files can be pulled forward along the rods. Separate inner bottoms which can be pulled out, or, as in Fig. 13, inner folders 53, have grooves for varying the width and are engaged at their top edges by guides 48 stitched to the side walls 1 or 50. As in Fig. 8, downward facing guide strips 43 stitched to the outer side of one file may interconnect with upward facing guide strips 42 (not shown) on the next file. Guide strips 26, as in Figs. 1 and 8, may be provided for card carriers 27 which may receive guide cards relating to all the files of a group. The front edges, Fig. 8, may have the shape shown and a groove 45 facilitates turning back of the shaped front part. Tabs. The front edges of the walls 1, Fig. 1, are provided with stitched guide strips 18 on which slide label holders 17 and signals 19 embracing the strip. Fixed or slidable label holders 20 are provided on the top edges. The shaped front edges of the walls 1, Fig. 8, have fixed label holders 38 stitched thereto and slidable holders 41 on the upper edge. Signals 40 may slide in cuts near the front edge. Labels for a group of files, Fig. 1, may be provided in label carriers 22 movable along a rail 21 fastened in the cabinet, each carrier 22 having a downward extension 23 to be engaged by an upward projection 24 (not shown) from the upper edge 10 of one of the file walls 1 so that as the group of files is moved along the tubes 9, the label carrier 22 is correspondingly moved along the rail 21.