People Oriented Filing Drawing Template
date: label: date made
content: ca 1980
notes: label: Description
content: This green plastic template is drawn to a scale of one quarter of an inch to a foot. It has a scale of quarter inches across the top (labeled as feet from 0 to 35), a scale of suggested aisle widths along the right side, and eleven holes. The holes are for letter size and for legal size data boxes (single and double), for data file cabinets, for letter and legal size drawer files, and for desks of differing shape, with chairs. A mark at the center reads: PEOPLE (/) ORIENTED (/) FILING. A mark on the side reads: DATAFILE.
label: Description
content: In 1978, a maker of cardboard cartons named Thacker Container Corporation, with headquarters in Santa Fe Springs, California, applied for a trademark for the term DATAFILE, as it related to cardboard cartons. It had just begun to use that term in commerce, and received the trademark the next year. Thacker might have used this template as an advertising device.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: TESS Database, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Drawing Templates
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of James J. Williams
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.3104.04
label: nonaccession number
content: 1998.3104
label: catalog number
content: 1998.3104.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: template
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .1 cm x 23.3 cm x 9.3 cm; 1/32 in x 9 3/16 in x 3 21/32 in