FILE DRAWER FOLLOWER BLOCK

• US 3,814,490 A
• Filed: 10/12/1972
• Issued: 06/04/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Carl J. Dean, David M. Wright
• Original Assignee: Carl J. Dean, David M. Wright
• Inventors: Dean, Carl J., Wright, David M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Gilliam, Paul R.
• Application Number:
  US05/296,900
• Time in Patent Office: 600 Days
• Field of Search: 312/183 211/46,51,52,53,43 220/22.4
• US Class Current: 312/183
• CPC Class Codes: B42F 17/02 in which the cards are stored substantially at right angles to the bottom of their containers

Abstract

A file drawer is modified by the addition of a follower block which is inserted in the middle of a stack of cards, files, documents or other thin file pieces resting on edge in the drawer, and a longitudinal slide running along a tract and mounting the follower block on the slide via a pivotable hinge and providing pivoting limit stops for the follower block.

Claims

1. Intermediate follower block assembly for use in longitudinally elongated file drawers or the like having a longitudinally elongated track and comprising, in combination, a follower block of slab-like form having a central portion essentially matching the lateral dimensions of file pieces to be guarded thereby, means located outside said central portion forming a transverse pivotal axis and comprising means for mounting said follower block on said track for combined longitudinal sliding and pivoting movement of said block on said axis, and means setting limits on said pivotal movement of the follower block, said means for setting comprise an extension of the follower block which is located in an upper half of the central portion of the block and extends transversely beyond the central portion, said block comprises a top corner for subtending a top corner intersection of top and side edges of file pieces and said extension is located at said block corner and extends beyond both the said top and side edges of the piece to be subtended, said sliding and pivoting mounting means comprise a shaft extension of the block and slider means for engaging said track, the shaft being connected to said slider means in loosely keyed pivotal engagement therewith.

2. Apparatus in accordance with claim 1 wherein said block central portion and extension are integrally formed as a single sheet construction.

3. Apparatus in accordance with claim 1 in combination with said track and storage unit, the storage unit defining adjacent first and second elongated volumes with the first volume having the transverse dimensions at least in part of the thin file pieces to be stored, the track being mounted within said second volume, the slider bracket being slidably mounted on said track, and wherein the storage unit further comprises an elongated rail mounted thereon in the said second volume thereof forming the said pivotal stop edge and overlapping said track to conceal it from above.

4. Apparatus in accordance with claim 1 wherein said axis passes through the lower half of said central portion of the follower block.