APPARATUS FOR SECURING ARTICLES

• US 3,784,232 A
• Filed: 05/25/1972
• Issued: 01/08/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Alan D. Greene
• Original Assignee: Alan D. Greene
• Inventors: Greene, Alan D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Schnall, Jerome
• Application Number:
  US05/256,754
• Time in Patent Office: 593 Days
• Field of Search: 281/20,19R 24/2 402/2 312/222,333
• US Class Current: 281/20
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 5/022 Holders for cheque-books; Articles combined with cheque-books

Abstract

A carrier for checksheets, such as a checkbook binder, having a latch-engaging, dowel-like element extending projectingly from one of the carrier covers and in penetration of the other cover, is slidably received in a portable container. The container comprises a box having only one open end, through which the carrier is inserted thereinto, and the container has a locking mechanism fixed to the inner surface thereof, opposite the open end, which is operative for engaging the dowel-like element to secure the carrier within the container.

Claims

1. Apparatus for securing checksheets, documents, and like sheets, comprising:

carrier means supporting the sheets; and

portable container means for removably receiving said carrier means;

wherein one of said means comprises a latch-engaging element; and

the other of said means comprises latching means selectively operative for effecting a locking engagement thereof with said element to prevent a removal of said carrier means from said container means;

said container means comprises a receptacle having spaced-apart walls which cooperate to define a repository therebetween;

said carrier means having a pair of semi-rigid covers hingedly joined to a spine, said sheets being confined between said covers;

said latching means is fixed to said container means;

said container means comprises a box open at one end only;

said latching means is substantially enclosed in said box and fixed to an end thereof which is opposite to said one end;

said carrier means is slidably receivable by said box through said one end thereof with said spine disposed adjacent to and closing said open end of the box to prevent removal of said sheets when the carrier means is confined in said box;

said carrier means carries said latch-engaging element for engagement thereof with said latching means, adjacent to said one end of said box, upon said carrier means being slidably confined within said box;

said latch-engaging element comprises a dowel;

said dowel is fixed at one end thereof to one of said covers, and extends perpendicularly therefrom for engagement with the other of said covers;

said latching means comprises a lock assembly having a reciprocatable element for lockingly engaging said dowel intermediate the ends of said dowel;

said dowel having a first outside diameter throughout the greater portion thereof, and a second outside diameter in a lesser portion, stub section thereof;

said stub section comprising a thermal end of said dowel which is opposite said fixed, one end of said dowel;

said second outside diameter is smaller than said first outside diameter;

said other cover has an aperture formed therein, said aperture having a diameter which is larger than said second outside diameter and smaller than said first outside diameter;

said aperture being so formed in said other cover as to effect alignment of said aperture with said stub section, upon said hingedly joined covers being closed towards one another; and

said first and second outside diameterS cooperate to define a shoulder-stop therebetween to cause said covers to be held in a spaced-apart relationship, at least when said carrier means is confined within said box, to insure that said reciprocatable element will have an unobstructed access to an intermediate portion of said dowel.

2. Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

one of said covers has pocket means formed therein for releasably receiving an insert carrying said sheets therewithin.