Patent ID: 7232537

Claim:
A method of making a slip-resistant hanging folder of paper stock, said folder having front and back sides and top edges, and when assembled, support bars running along said top edges for hanging, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing folder paper stock; (b) providing embossing dies in spaced, operable, mating relationship; (c) positioning said folder paper stock appropriately in said embossing dies; (d) applying force to at least one of said embossing dies so as to decrease the spaced relationship at a place on said front and back sides spaced from said top edges; (e) deforming said folder paper stock in first and second spaced apart places along the surface of said folder paper stock with said embossing dies; (f) attaching said support bars along said top edges; and (g) folding said folder paper stock such that said first and second deformed places are located on exterior surfaces of said front and back sides of said hanging folder, so that said deformed places form finger gripping locations on the exterior surfaces of said hanging folder near said top edges and below said support bars.