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Patent
1993-12-23
1996-01-02
Dorner, Kenneth J.
Card, picture, or sign exhibiting
Register, or file
Interchangeable file item
40383, 206425, G09F 110
Patent
active
054797349
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
DESCRIPTION
The present invention relates to a device and to a method for enabling large documents to be stored vertically without being ordered, while conferring individuality to each document, making it subsequently possible, without manual intervention, to locate and identify the document, or in the event of absence or error, enabling that situation to be observed visually.
The technical field of the invention is that of equipment for filing large documents vertically, whether they be made of paper, cloth, film, or light alloy, which documents may be made by drawing, writing, photography, etching, collage, or cutting out, the above lists not being limiting.
The advantage of storing documents vertically, particularly documents that are of large size, is to group them together in a volume that is compact and that occupies minimum floor space.
Documents of large size are generally suspended from rods that are parallel, substantially straight, and horizontal, and that are fixed in filing cabinets that may be referred to as filing cupboards or chests having vertical dividers, or else that are merely fixed to a wall or to any other support.
The theoretical capacity of a filing cabinet for large documents is generally 800, 1,000 or 1,500 documents.
The major drawback encountered by a user of the vertical method of filing documents is that it is difficult quickly to find a particular document that is desired without having to finger and leaf through the others, and this becomes particularly lengthy and fiddly when the size of the documents is 1 m.sup.2, 2 m.sup.2, or more.
The same applies when it is necessary to find the proper location for a document that is to be put back amongst the others.
To reduce these difficulties, the documents must be split up into small groups that are separated by guides made of card, and indexes must be placed on the top edges of the documents, which cards and indexes are often thicker than the documents themselves, thereby wasting space and going against the looked-for purpose of a vertical filing system.
In addition, the indexes often impede the passage of the documents through copying machines.
Identification systems exist that use numbers on labels that are stuck on or that are notched, or that use color coding, however those systems solve identification problems in part only and they enable documents to be located only by groups of ten, they are fiddly to implement, and in practice they are little used.
The user encounters other drawbacks, for example the need to return each document to the same place in its numerical order, the absence of any quick way of checking whether documents are missing, and enormous amounts of time are lost in the event that one of the documents has been put in the wrong place.
The present invention seeks to remedy the above drawbacks.
The object to be achieved is a device and a method for individualizing each of the documents forming parts of a group, that are stored vertically one in front of another by being suspended from rods that are substantially straight and horizontal, and that makes it possible at all times to check whether said documents are present or absent, and to make it possible to identify each of them visually without manual intervention.
This object is achieved (FIGS. 15 and 16, sheet 5) by the device and the method of the invention which consists in writing or printing the numerical or alphabetical elements that particularize each document on a horizontal scale that is positioned above and behind the vertically stored documents that are juxtaposed one in front of another, the relationship between said elements and a tab fixed on the top edge of each document being indicated by grooves and stripes that result from contiguous juxtaposition of crenelations and markings on the top edges of the documents.
The result of the invention constitutes vertical storage of large documents that does not necessarily require the documents to be placed in a determined order relative to one another, each document remaining locatable and identifiabl
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Rouget Gabrielle
Rouget Pierre
Dorner Kenneth J.
Silbermann Joanne
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