Selectively deployable tab indicators
AssigneeMeadWestvaco Corporation
InventorsMichael D. Rowe, Edward P. Busam, Kenneth P. Richied, Elizabeth A. Lacher
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Abstract
A tab status indicator system including a generally planar body portion and a tab coupled to the body portion and protruding generally outwardly therefrom. The system further includes an indicator movable between a deployed position, in which the indicator generally overlaps with the tab in a direction generally perpendicular to a plane of the body portion, and a retracted position, in which the indicator does not overlap with the tab or overlaps with the tab less than when the indicator is in the deployed position.
Claims20
A tab status indicator system including:
- a generally planar body portion;
- a tab coupled to said body portion and protruding generally outwardly therefrom;
- and
- an indicator movable between a deployed position, in which the indicator generally overlaps with said tab in a direction generally perpendicular to a plane of said body portion, and a retracted position, in which the indicator does not overlap with said tab or overlaps with said tab less than when said indicator is in said deployed position.
A tab status indicator system including:
- a generally planar body portion;
- a tab coupled to said body portion and movable between a deployed position, in which the tab generally protrudes outwardly from said body portion, and a retracted position, in which the tab does not generally protrudes outwardly from said body portion.
An indicator device comprising:
- a generally planar body portion;
- and
- an indicator slidably movable between a non-deployed position and a deployed position in which the indicator extends outward from the body portion further than when in the non-deployed position, wherein the indicator slides generally in the plane of the body portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.