New or Improved Name or Number Index.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 25th May, 1897-Accepted, 31st July, 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Name or Number Index.
T, STANISLAUS ZEYLAND, of 49, Gross Gerberstrasse Posen in the Kingdom of
Prussia, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
The present invention relates to a name or number index whereby it is possible
to arrange the names in consecutive order not only according to their initial letter
but also in order of their second, third, or fourth letter, or even of all their letters in
alphabetic order. In like manner in the case of numbers they can, by means of
the present invention, he conveniently arranged in their numerical order. This
object is attained by marking the separate names or numbers upon separate strips
which can be removed out of the book or card, which are fixed in the book or card,
in the manner hereinabove described.
Referring to the accompanying drawings:-
Figure 1 shows the inner pages of a register book upon which the single strips a
marked with a name or a number are arranged one below the other in the manner
shown and are held fast at their middle as well as at their two sides or only at the
sides alone by means of copper or metal strips b or the like.
In the modification shown in Figure 2 the separate name or number strips a are
secured in their place at both sides by means of fixed bars of papier mache or metal,
and can be taken out of these bars by widening or thrusting the same apart and be
re-arranged in any desired order.
According to the modification set forth in Figure 3 separate name or number
strips are arranged in a guide or bar d or by means of string or wire adjustably
arranged both at the middle and at the sides. and can be interchanged as desired
after the turning away of the holder or bar d upon the pin da in the direction of
the arrow or upon an axis d³ fixed in the plane of the side or of the table.
In the modifications shown in Figures and 5 are shown in what manner the
single name or number strips are held by means of side and step formed guiding
bars e f either in the whole length or only at the ends in such a manner that they
partially cover one another mutually, whereby a firm holding of the strips is
secured and the same are unlimited in their width.
In all the modifications set forth in Figures 1 and 5 the strips can either pass
over the whole breadth of the side or be divided by the arrangement of a corre-
sponding number of the guide bars or securing material such as strings wires bars
and so forth in any desired number of columns.
The taking in and out as well as the arrangement of the strips in these columns
is effected in the same manner as has been already described for the modifications
applicable to the strips which extend the whole width of the side.
Figures 6 and 6 illustrate such a modification in which each leaf of the register
book is divided into two halves and the name or number strips are arranged in each.
of these halves and are consequently in two series or columns.
Instead of having two columns the division of the leaves according to this system
might also be in three or more columns. The strips utilised in this system are of

page_text: course much shorter, but are the more strong and are not so easily bent even
when the cardboard used for them is of less strength. The removal, replacing and
adjustment of the name strips for the purpose of alphabetic arrangement thereof
is much more quickly and easily effected. The names themselves are not so
thickly pressed over one another whereby the register becomes more plain and the
eye notices the names in the arrangement much more quickly. Moreover a further
advantage of this system is found in that the number of the folios do not proceed
in a long narrow row over a whole side but stand close to the names themselves
in several rows over one another. The eye whilst following the long row of
figures cannot so easily pass over a line standing above or under as easily occurs
in very much filled or long used ledger indexes.
The fixing of the pages as well as the fixing of the names or number strips
is effected by means of card or metal guide bars in the manner shown in
Figures 6 and 6".
In Figure 7 is shown a modification in which the single number or number
strips are adjustably fixed upon a central axis o and cover one another and open out
in the shape of a fan.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. A name or number index in which the single letters or numbers are marked
upon separate slips a which form adjustable tables for the purpose of enabling
such tables to be constructed for each letter or number series alphabetically or
numerically nevertheless separated and capable of re-arrangement..
2. A modification of the index claimed in Claim 1 characterised by the fixing of
the single name or number strips at their middle and at their sides or at the sides
alone by means of elastic materials metallic or indiarubber strips or pins & adjust-
ably in their position (see Figure 1).
3. A modification of the index claimed in Claim 1 characterised by the fixing of
the separate name or number strips at the sides, or if desirable also in the middle
by means of fixed bars of card or metal, from which position they can be taken
out by separating and pushing aside, substantially as shown in Figure 2.
4. A modification of the index claimed in Claim 1 characterised by the adjustable
arrangement of the separate name or number strips at their middle and at the sides,
or at the sides only by means of a guide or bar or by means of a string or wire,
so that upon the release of this holder they can be interchanged.
5. A modification of the index claimed in Claim I characterised by the arrange-
ment of the separate name or number strips mutually and consecutively partially
covering one another (see Figures 4 and 5) or brought out fan shaped and fixed
adjustably upon a central axis (Figure 7).
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6. A modification of the index claimed in Claim 1 characterised by the arrange-
ment of the name or number slips a in two or more columns upon the side of the
page by means of guiding straps.
Dated this 25th day of May 1807
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
322, High Holborn, London, W.C., Patent Agents for the Applicant.
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
322, High Holborn, London, W.C., Patent Agents for the Applicant.