Printed matter – With sliding leaf
Patent
1994-07-25
1995-10-17
Fridie, Willmon
Printed matter
With sliding leaf
B42D 1500
Patent
active
054583772
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
This invention relates to a device to facilitate the retrieval of stored information. More particularly it relates to a device .which has a form allowing economic manufacture and captivation of an element of the device, which needs to move to make the device operational, until the device is about to be first put into service.
The storage and retrieval of information on related matters is an ongoing requirement in modern society. For example persons needing information relating dates of sporting fixtures and locations thereof, or conversions from one currency to another or from one system of measurement to another do not want to consult books or other bulky items and there is therefore a need for a more readily accessible information source.
A device of known type where an information bearing slider panel is slid within a sleeve having a viewing aperture or apertures to allow related information on the slider panel to be seen has been widely used for the above purposes. Such devices can be made in convenient sizes that are readily housed in a wallet or the like.
The possibility of using such devices as an advertising item of the give away type has been considered but the cost of the device as commonly manufactured mitigates against such use. The conventional methods of manufacturing such devices known to the inventors involve a large labor component with a corresponding manufacture cost. It is the object of this invention to provide an extremely low cost item by mechanizing the production of the device.
Broadly stated the invention provides an information retrieval device including a sleeve with a viewing aperture and an information slide panel in the sleeve where the slider panel is retained in the sleeve by a frangible connecting means until the device is to be used. The first force applied to the slider panel to move it in the sleeve destroys the frangible connection and the device can thereafter operate normally. The manufacture of the device of the above form is fully mechanical thereby eliminating the manual labor component required hitherto to fabricate such devices.
The present invention, more specifically, provides an information retrieval device including an open ended circumferentially closed sleeve with at least one aperture in said sleeve to give viewing access to an information bearing slider panel portion mounted in the sleeve and retained therein by frangible connection means, said connection means being adapted to be broken by a force applied to said slider panel portion to slide it within said sleeve.
A method of making an information card as above is also disclosed herein where the method includes the steps of providing a sheet of stiff material, forming parallel fold lines along said sheet to provide a front panel portion disposed between a back panel portion of substantially the same width as the front panel portion and a narrower glue panel portion and a further parallel fold line along said sheet which is perforated to provide a frangible connection means between said back panel portion and a slider panel portion, providing at least one viewing aperture in at least one of the front and back panel portions, followed by fabrication steps including forming a fold along said perforated fold line to place said slider panel portion in overlying relationship with an inner face of said back panel portion, forming a fold along the fold line between said front panel portion and said back panel portion to place the front and back panel portions in overlying relationship with said slider panel portion sandwiched therebetween, forming a fold along the fold line between said front panel portion and said glue panel portion to place said glue panel portion in an overlying relationship with part of an outer face of said back panel portion and gluing said glue panel portion to said back panel portion.
A presently preferred embodiment of the invention will now be described with reference top the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the front face of an information storage and
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patent: 5112290 (1992-05-01), Hibsch
patent: 5137302 (1992-08-01), Angel
Nickoll David A.
Utz John S.
Fridie Willmon
Schindler Edwin D.
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