Telephone accessory

An accessory for a telephone having a

• housing and a cradle for supporting a handpiece and which is formed with a well cavity to the rear of the cradle, the combination comprising:
• a support base portion;
• an attachment portion carried by said base portion for insertion into the well cavity for cantilevering said base portion rearwardly and at an upwardly sloping angle;
• means releasably coupling with the cradle for supporting said base in the well cavity in cooperation with said attachment portion;
• accessory means carried on said base portion;
• said attachment portion includes a pair of steps defining a first external shoulder insertably received within the well cavity and a second external shoulder engaging a part of the cradle;
• said attachment portion further includes a pair of hollow side projections outwardly carried from opposite sides of said attachment portion adapted to receive and cover a portion of the cradle;
• said accessory means is a card file holder detachably carried on said support base portion;
• snap lock means releasably coupling said holder to said base portion;
• said holder further includes a plurality of display cards slidably carried on a pair of parallel rails;
• and
• a retainer plate operable between a first and a second position to hold said cards so that a selected display card is plainly visual without interference from the remainder of said plurality of cards;
• said retainer plate includes a pair of outwardly projecting lateral ears slidably and pivotally carried on opposite sidewalls of said holder;
• and
• said opposite sidewalls include an elongated substantially vertically oriented slot terminated at its upper end in a rounded aperture wherein said retainer plate ears are slidably related to said slot and pivotally related to said aperture.