HANGING FILING-CARD CABINETS

• US 3,847,459 A
• Filed: 08/24/1972
• Issued: 11/12/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Eduardo Hegedus, George Hegedus
• Original Assignee: Eduardo Hegedus, George Hegedus
• Inventors: Hegedus, Eduardo, Hegedus, George
• Primary Examiner(s): Gilliam, Paul R.
• Application Number:
  US05/283,357
• Time in Patent Office: 810 Days
• Field of Search: 209/110.5,111.8 312/184
• US Class Current: 312/184
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 21/04 in which coincidence of markings is sensed optically, e.g. peek-a-boo system

Abstract

A hanging filing card system comprising a frame including spaced upper rails, a plurality of magnetic metal hangers having end portions removably supported on the upper rails, and a filing card having an upper end secured to each of the metal hangers between the end portions, thereby hanging freely on the hangers, and having at the bottom a plurality of a group of holes and a plurality of slots open at their lower end. Stiletto means are selectively inserted into the holes and the slots of the cards, respectively, and a magnetized extractor means is provided for engaging the metal hangers for withdrawing cards through which the stilettos pass only through slots, by mutual magnetic attraction of the magnetized means and the metal hangers and for being moved upwardly from the frame.

Claims

1. A hanging filing card system comprising a frame including spaced upper rails, a plurality of magnetic metal hangers having end portions removably supported on said upper rails, each of said end portions including an extreme tip, a filIng card having an upper end secured to each of said metal hangers between said end portions leaving portions of said hangers exposed, thereby hanging freely on said hangers, and having at the bottom a plurality of a group of holes and a plurality of slots open at their lower end, stiletto means inserted selectively into said holes and said slots of said cards, respectively, and magnetized extractor means including spaced parallel magnetic rails for engaging said metal hangers at said exposed portions for withdrawing cards through which said stilettos pass only through slots, by mutual magnetic attraction of said magnetic rails of said magnetized means and said metal hangers, and for being moved upwardly from said frame, said upper rails being substantially of U-shaped cross-section having an innermost supporting section on which said end portions are supported and outermost stop wall slightly spaced from an extreme tip of a corresponding of said end portions when said metal hanger is aligned horizontally, and abutting with said tip in the event a corresponding filing card is tilted, whereby said hangers return to said horizontal alignment, said innermost supporting sections which support the end portions of each of said hangers, respectively, being lower in height than said stop walls of said upper rails, and a plurality of rigid separators, disposed between groupings of said cards and including holes at the bottoms corresponding in alignment to the holes in said cards.

2. The hanging card system, as set forth in claim 1, wherein said extractor means includes a means for releasing the cards which magnetically engage said magnetic rails, and said extractor means is upwardly-pivotal relative to said frame for removing said withdrawable cards.

3. The hanging card system, as set forth in claim 1, wherein said frame defines a plurality of laterally arranged card compartments each having on opposite sides said upper rails for supporting said hangers, said frame includes front and rear rails along which said extractor means is slidably mounted for being moved from compartment to compartment, and said extractor means includes magnetic rails, and spring-biased bolts which sit on said front and rear rails of said frame to aid lifting of said magnetic rails without having a lifting effect on said frame.

4. The hanging card system, as set forth in claim 1, wherein said frame includes two guides, and said stiletto means comprises, a plunger-type unit, a plurality of stilettos selectively and releasably arranged in said plunger-type unit, the latter insertable into said two guides such that said plurality of stilettos enter selectively said holes and slots on said cards.