Book and transcription file

• US 4,993,558 A
• Filed: 06/28/1989
• Issued: 02/19/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Daniel C. Assael
• Original Assignee: Daniel C. Assael
• Inventors: Assael, Daniel C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Gibson, Jr., Robert W.
• Application Number:
  US07/372,637
• Time in Patent Office: 601 Days
• Field of Search: 211/40, 211/41, 211/42, 211/43, 211/184, 312/8, 312/9, 312/10, 312/12, 312/15, 312/16
• US Class Current: 211/40
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 81/00 Cabinets or racks specially adapted for other particular purposes, e.g. for storing guns or skis

Abstract

A book and cassette file system for coordinating books and companion audio transcription cassettes includes a base and a pair of book ends. Each book end includes compartments for storing audio cassettes. A base is provided for supporting the books and the book ends and various mechanisms are illustrated for preventing the book ends from being displaced laterally. A projection extends from either the base or the book end and is received in one of a plurality of receptacles for securing each book end in a desired position along the base. Optionally, a keyway is provided in the base and a key projecting from a book end is engaged in the keyway. In a further embodiment, a spring anchored to one end of a keyway formed in the base is secured at its opposite end to one of the book ends. Another spring is anchored at the other end of the base and secured to the opposite book end.

Claims

1. A book and companion audio transcription file system, the system comprising a plurality of books and a like plurality of audio transcriptions, means for supporting the plurality of books in a row and book end means for abutting a book at one end of the row, the book end means including rack means for storing the plurality of audio transcriptions, the audio transcriptions being coordinated with the books, the rack means including means forming a plurality of compartments, each compartment being dimensioned to receive an audio transcription.

2. A book and companion audio transcription file system constructed in accordance with claim 1 further including additional book end means for abutting a book at the other end of the row, each book end means including rack means for storing a plurality of audio transcriptions.

4. A book and companion audio transcription file system as constructed in accordance with claim 1 further including visual indicia means associated with each compartment, the visual indicia means comprising indicia cognizable by children, the system further including corresponding indicia means for affixation to books and audio transcriptions.

3. A book and companion audio transcription file system, the system comprising means for supporting a plurality of books in a row and book end means for abutting a book at one end of the row, the book end means including rack means for storing a plurality of audio transcriptions, the audio transcriptions being coordinated with the books, further including a plurality of books having textual material imprinted thereon, different visual indicia means carried on each of the books, a plurality of audio transcriptions, visual indicia means associated with each of the audio transcriptions each audio transcription comprising the prerecorded textual material printed on a book having indicia means corresponding to the indicia means associated with the transcription, the indicia means comprising readily recognizable indicia.

5. A book and companion audio transcription file system the system comprising means for supporting a plurality of books in a row and book end means for abutting a book at one end of the row, the book end means including rack means for storing a plurality of audio transcriptions, the audio transcriptions being coordinated with the books, wherein the transcriptions are recorded on magnetic tape carried in cassettes, the system further including a plurality of books having textual material imprinted thereon, a plurality of audio cassettes, the cassettes including transcriptions of the textual material imprinted in the books, the books being positioned in a row on the supporting means, the book end means engaging a book at one end of the row, the plurality of audio cassettes being stored in the rack means.

6. A file system for storage and access of information recorded in two different formats, the file system including a plurality of first components and a plurality of second components, means for supporting the plurality of first components in side by side position in a row, each first component carrying information transcribed in one format and means for abutting a first component at one end of the row, the abutting means including rack means for storing the plurality of second components, the second components carrying transcriptions in another format, the second component transcriptions being related to the information transcribed in the one format.

7. A file system constructed in accordance with claim 6 further including additional means for abutting a first component at the other end of the row, each abutting means including rack means for storing a plurality of second components.

8. A book and companion audio transcription file system, the system comprising a base member for supporting a plurality of books in a row and a book end member for abutting a book at one end of the row, the book end member including rack means for storing a plurality of audio transcriptions, the audio transcriptions being coordinated with the books, and means for precluding undesired movement of the book end member, the means for precluding including means projecting from one of the members into one of a plurality of spaced receptacles formed in the other member, whereby the position of the book end member relative to the base member may be adjustably fixed.

9. A book and companion audio transcription file system as constructed in accordance with claim 8 wherein the one member is the base member.

10. A book and companion audio transcription file system is constructed in accordance with claim 8 wherein the one member is the book end member.