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US 4,624,595 AGranted
Ring type binder
AssigneeKing Jim Co., Ltd.
InventorKiyoshi Ohminato
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Abstract
A four ring-type binder including turnable and fixed rods, in which turnable rods comprise two turnable ring rods each being formed by bending a single metal wire member, one turnable ring rod including two ring sectors opposite to one fixed ring rod and the other turnable ring rod including similar two ring sectors, and in which, among the four ring sectors, only the ring sectors located at the central portion of a binder body have at their free ends stoppers engageable with the free ends of the associated fixed ring rods.
Claims4
A ring-type binder comprising a bottom plate;
- a pair of fixed ring rods, each fixed ring rod comprising two fixed ring sectors jointed by a base portion and fixed to said bottom plate;
- and a pair of turnable ring rods, each turnable ring rod comprising two turnable ring sectors joined by a base portion and rotatably mounted on said bottom plate;
- said ring rods being mounted such that said fixed ring sectors and said turnable ring sectors together mate to form a pair of inner rings and a pair of outer rings, wherein only said ring sectors forming said inner rings have stopper means at the mating ends thereof for selective engagement and disengagement with each other without the use of additional opening or closing means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.