Vertical filing system
AssigneeUnited Filing Corporation
InventorDavid A. White
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Abstract
A vertical filing system is provided wherein documents are filed in the spaces between a plurality of filing bars contained in a cabinet by hanging the documents on pins extending through the bars and outwardly into the spaces. In the closed, filing position, the pins extending from any one bar extend into the space between bars and overlap the pins extending into the space from an adjacent bar. In the open position, any two adjacent filing bars are separated such that the oppositely coacting pins on adjacent bars do not overlap and documents can be either inserted and filed or removed therefrom. In a preferred embodiment, openings are provided in each filing bar through which pins from adjacent bars can extend, the preferred pin-opening sequence on the filing bars being pin-opening-opening, pin-opening-opening, and so on.
Claims6
A vertical filing system wherein filed documents are suspended vertically on a plurality of coacting, substantially horizontal pins, said pins and associated components of the filing system being contained in a filing cabinet which may be either a top opening type or a drawer opening type cabinet, said filing system comprising:
- a plurality of substantially horizontal and substantially parallel file bars having pins extending perpendicularly through said bars and protruding outwardly therefrom, the pins extending from any one bar being offset from the pins of any other adjacent bar,
- the space between each pair of said bars being used to file documents therein by hanging said documents on the said pins extending into said space from each bar at each end of said space, and
- means for slideably moving said file bars toward and away from each other within said cabinet, and
- means to vary the possible separation distace between any two of said file bars from a minimum, specified, closed distance to an intermediate, specified, search distance and to a maximum, specified, open distance,
- the lengths of said pins being such that, when the file bars are at said minimum closed distance, or at said intermediate search distance, said pins extending into said space from one said bar overlap said pins extending in the opposite direction into said space from an adjacent bar, thereby prohibiting the fall or removal of filed documents from said space and providing effective storing thereof, and
- the lengths of said pins being such that, when the file bars are at said maximum, open distance, said pins extending into said space from one said bar do not overlap said pins extending in the opposite direction into said space from an adjacent bar, wherein said pins are located on each said filing bar and openings are placed in each said bar through which pins of adjacent bars can extend such that, on each bar other than the first and last bar, the pin-opening sequence is pin-opening-opening across the entire bar, the first and last bars having pins and openings to accomodate the internal bars, thereby providing for vertical filing or removal of said documents within or from said space.
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