B42F 17/00
Card-filing arrangements
Official title: Card-filing arrangements, e.g. card indexes or catalogues or filing cabinets (indexing features B42F21/00; furniture features A47B, A47F)
B42F17/00 (Card-filing arrangements) appears on 348 US grants and 81 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B42F- Granted patents
- 348
- Published applications
- 81
- Assignees
- 127
- Inventors
- 467
- Latest grant
- 25 Nov 2025
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 20 | 0 |
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| 1978 | 19 | 0 |
| 1979 | 14 | 0 |
| 1980 | 21 | 0 |
| 1981 | 15 | 0 |
| 1982 | 7 | 0 |
| 1983 | 12 | 0 |
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| 1998 | 8 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 7 | 0 |
| 2001 | 7 | 0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 4 |
| 2003 | 6 | 0 |
| 2004 | 2 | 10 |
| 2005 | 2 | 13 |
| 2006 | 3 | 7 |
| 2007 | 3 | 5 |
| 2008 | 6 | 0 |
| 2009 | 0 | 6 |
| 2010 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 |
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| 2014 | 2 | 5 |
| 2015 | 2 | 3 |
| 2016 | 2 | 2 |
| 2017 | 2 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 3 |
| 2019 | 3 | 2 |
| 2020 | 4 | 4 |
| 2021 | 3 | 5 |
| 2022 | 3 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B42F 17/02In which the cards are stored substantially at right angles to the189
- B42F 17/18In which the cards are stored in a flat position56
- B42F 17/34Card-filing arrangements: with card selection means38
- B42F 17/28In the form of endless bands or revolving drums37
- B42F 17/32Card-filing arrangements: with means for staggering cards already in the file17
- B42F 17/30Modified for particular uses6
Recent patents
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- Card Holder19 Dec 2024US 2024/0415253 A1Shenzhen Jiangda Hardware Products Co., Ltd.
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- Adaptive Romantic Reminder Notifications27 Apr 2023US 2023/0131318 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
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- Tiered tray assembly103US 4,887,724 ASmith Metal Arts Co., Inc. · 1989
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- One-piece laser/ink jet printable divider which is folded over at the binding edge62US 5,558,454 AAvery Dennison Corporation · 1996
- Household filing system58US 5,547,226 A1996