One piece hanging file
OwnerWinston Richard MacKelvieinventor
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Abstract
A one piece hanging file made from a a continuous web of a flexible sheet material. In one embodiment, small loops are heat-welded at intervals along the strip creating channels or hems for removable hangers. Larger loops between the channels become the file pockets. In another embodiment spring clips clamp small loops of the strip and have notched overhanging ends to engage the support rails. In another embodiment, laminated film is welded directly to the edges of the hanger strips. In all embodiments the filed objects, such as compact discs, rise smoothly out of the looped file pocket when a hanger is lifted. In all embodiments, an opening or aperture made in the center of the looped bottom prevents round media such a CDs from accidentally rolling out of the pocket.
Claims21
A hanging file structure comprising:
- a continuous web of a flexible sheet material having a pair of opposed side marginal edges;
- said web being sealed to itself at regular spaced intervals to thereby provide a plurality of channels extending between said pair of opposed side marginal edges, said channels being open at said opposed side marginal edges;
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- a hanger strip mounted within each of said channels, each of said hanger strips having end portions extending beyond respective side marginal edges of said web.
A hanging file system comprising a container and a hanging file structure, said container having a pair of parallel rails extending between opposed sides thereof, said hanging file structure comprising:
- a continuous web of a flexible sheet material having a pair of opposed side marginal edges;
- said web being sealed to itself at regular spaced intervals to thereby provide a plurality of channels extending between said pair of opposed side marginal edges, said channels being open at said opposed side marginal edges;
- a hanger strip mounted within each of said channels, each of said hanger strips having end portions extending beyond respective side marginal edges of said web, said end portions being supported by said parallel rails;
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- the arrangement being such that a plurality of file pockets are formed by portions of said web between said sealed channels, each file pocket having a first side wall, a second side wall and a bottom the arrangement being such that when a lifting motion is exerted on one of said side walls, said bottom portion moves along the other of said side walls due to the flexible nature of said sheet material.
A hanging file structure comprising:
- a continuous web of a flexible sheet material having a pair of opposed side marginal edges;
- hanger strips having lower edges and having end portions extending beyond said marginal edges of said web;
- said web being sealed to said lower edges of said hanger strips at spaced intervals.
A hanging file structure comprising:
- a continuous web of a flexible sheet material having a pair of opposed side marginal edges;
- at least one spring clip having an internal channel and having end portions extending beyond respective side marginal edges of said web;
- said clip applied across said web so at to engage and secure a portion of said web in said channel of said clip.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.