Ring binder stabilizer device

• US 5,269,616 A
• Filed: 04/30/1992
• Issued: 12/14/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: ACCO USA Incorporated (ACCO Brands Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: ACCO USA Incorporated (ACCO Brands Incorporated)
• Inventors: O'Neill, Joseph M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bell, Paul A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hansen, Kenneth J.
• Application Number:
  US07/876,649
• Time in Patent Office: 593 Days
• Field of Search: 402/80 R, 402/80 P, 402/78, 402/74
• US Class Current: 402/74
• CPC Class Codes: B42F 13/0066 with means for attaching the filing appliance to the cover

Abstract

A stabilizer device positioned between the ring mechanism and the cover of a ring binder. The ring mechanism has a depending extension for bearing against the stabilizer device.

Claims

1. In a ring binder including an elongated ring mechanism and a cover, the improvement comprising ring mechanism depending tubular housing means connected to the ring binder mechanism, an elongated stabilizing device having an upper surface and a lower surface with a first opening extending therethrough from said upper surface to said lower surface said device positioned between the tubular housing means with a second opening therethrough and the cover having a third opening therethrough, and clamping fastener means positioned through said three (3) openings to urge the tubular housing means against the stabilizer device which in turn is urged against the cover.

2. The ring binder of claim 1 in which the stabilizer device includes an elongated plastic base piece with transverse strengthening ribs.

3. The ring binder of claim 1 in which said stabilizing device is substantially the length of the ring mechanism, in which the elongated stabilizing device and cover have a plurality of spaced-apart aligned openings with a mechanism depending tubular housing means opening adjacent each such aligned pairs of openings and clamping fastener means positioned through each pair of openings and tubular housing means opening.