File folder

• US 20070196163A1
• Filed: 09/16/2005
• Published: 08/23/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fernando Miralles De Imperial Mora-Figueroa
• Original Assignee: Fernando Miralles De Imperial Mora-Figueroa
• Inventors: Miralles De Imperial Mora-Figueroa, Fernando
• Granted Patent: US 7,448,818 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 402/73
• CPC Class Codes: B42F 13/14 with clamping or locking means pressure bars B42F13/36

Abstract

Of the type of those which incorporate a portfolio (1), with its front wall (2), its rear wall (3) and its spine (4), to which is coupled a plurality of sheets or documents (9) provided with holes (10) next to one of their edges, it incorporates a narrow plate (5) joined to the internal face of its rear wall (3), next to its spine (4), from which plate (5) emerges a plurality of narrow toothed strips (6) of which are complementary respective headers (8) joined in turn to a second strip (7), physically independent of the portfolio (1), so that after coupling the sheets or documents (9) to the toothed strips (6), by passing these through the holes of the former, said toothed strips (6) are finally coupled to the headers (8) of the moveable plate (7), whereby the sheets (9) are definitively fastened and it is possible to proceed to the cutting of the surplus segment of said toothed strips (6).

Claims

1. File folder, of the type constituted by means of a portfolio with a front wall, a rear wall and a spine, provided with means for fastening a plurality of sheets or documents, provided in turn with an alignment of holes located next to one of the edges thereof, characterized in that such fastening means for the sheets consist of a narrow plate (5) fastened to the portfolio (1) in the proximity of its spine (4), preferably fastened to the rear wall (3) thereof, on its internal face, from which plate (5) emerge perpendicular and evenly distributed a plurality of toothed, narrow strips (6), a second plate (7) also participating in the file folder, physically independent of the same, carrying in turn a plurality of small headers (8), numerically coincident with the toothed strips (6) and spaced at a distance coincident with the spacing between these strips, said headers (8) having one or more interior teeth which, allowing the displacement in one direction of the toothed strips (6), cause the blocking of the same in the opposite direction, all the foregoing such that the aforementioned moveable plate (7) is fastened to the strips (6) of the fixed plate (5), after having mounted on said strips (6) the entirety of the documents (9) to be filed.

2. File folder, according to claim 1, characterized in that the portfolio (1) also incorporates, in a situation confronting the plate (5) joined to the same, a third plate (11), likewise joined to the portfolio (1), provided with a plurality of recesses or housings (12) numerically, positionally and dimensionally coincident with the headers (8) of the moveable plate (7), so that in the closed condition of the portfolio (1), the headers (8) cited are housed in the respective recesses (12).

3. File folder, according to claim 1, characterized in that optionally the toothed strips (6) are located in the moveable plate (7), in which case the headers (8) for blocking said toothed strips (6) are mounted on the fixed plate (5).