Supports: cabinet structure – With card or sheet retainers – Suspended sheets
Patent
1996-09-17
1998-09-29
Cuomo, Peter M.
Supports: cabinet structure
With card or sheet retainers
Suspended sheets
40359, 40641, 3123484, B42F 1302
Patent
active
058137343
ABSTRACT:
A file guide is formed for use in a hanging file that has a pair of rigid, laterally-spaced, parallel rails held elevated at the top of a file storage compartment, such as a file drawer. The file guide is formed of a thin, flat member that is longer than the distance between the parallel rails. The flat member has a pair of ears at its opposite ends in which rail openings are formed entirely within the structure of the ears. Each of the rail openings is large enough to receive and surround one of the rails. Access slits narrower than the rails are defined in the ears to extend between the rail openings and locations on the perimeter of the thin, flat member. The flat member is sufficiently elastically deformable to spread apart at the slits to permit passage of the rails therethrough. It is also sufficiently resilient to return to an undeformed condition to capture the rail within the rail openings after passage of the rail through the access slits. The thin, flat member may be formed as a narrow strip that extends only across the upper portion of the file compartment between the rails, or as a hanging structure that extends down into the file storage compartment. It may be formed as a multilayer structure in which pockets are defined, and also as a folded structure with a pair of retaining panels, each having a pair of ears of the type described. The retaining panels are joined at the bottom to form a sling, box-bottom file, tote file, or an expandable file.
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Cuomo Peter M.
Thomas Charles H.
Vu Stephen
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