US2972507A - Carbon paper cabinet - Google Patents

Description

Feb. 21, 1961 G. B. McCAY 2,972,507

CARBON PAPER CABINET Filed Feb. 6, 1959 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 GEORGE 8. Mc CA) INVENTOR.

m ATTORNEY Feb. 21, 1961 e. B. MccAY CARBON PAPER CABINET 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Feb. 6, 1959 B. MCCA) INVENTOR.

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GEORGE 5% ATTORNEY United States PatentO 2,912,501 I CARBON PAPER CABINET George B. McCay, Rochester, N.Y., assignor to Kee Lox Manufacturing Company, Rochester, N.Y., a corporation of New York 'Filed Feb. 6, 19s9,-ser. No. 791,715

This invention relates to a carbon paper cabinet and has for its purpose to provide a series of trays arranged to contain sheets of carbon paper in one or all of the trays, or copy sheets or second sheets in some of the trays if desired, and provided with means whereby a series of sheets including a second sheet, carbon sheet, and copy sheet may be readily collated on the top of the cabinet as the sheets are removed from the respective trays, and are there assembled in proper relation to be positioned in a typewriter.

More particularly the invention is intended to provide a cabinet of simple and inexpensive structure that enables separating and protecting the various sheets, and includes a guide member which can be readily adjusted to a position partially above the top of the cabinet and forms a ledge surrounding three sides of the cabinet, operating when so positioned to guide and limit movement of the sheets as they are positioned on the top of the cabinet with all three sheets alined and contacting the guide member or ledge.

More particularly the invention comprises a U-shaped guide member or flange having two legs pivotally supported on the sides of the cabinet at the forward end thereof, and being adjacent to the sides and one end of the cabinet when not in operation, and adapted to be swung upwardly about its pivotal connections for alining the collated sheets, and when so extended occupying an upwardly inclined position extending from its pivotal points to a point where the lower edge of the guide member is adjacent to the upper surface of the cabinet at its rear edge in position to engage and limit the rearward and lateral movement of the sheets and to centralize their position on the cabinet.

To these and other ends the invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts that will appear clearly from the following description when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, the novel features being pointed out in the claims following the specification.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a preferred embodiment of the invention, showing the trays closed and the guide member lowered to its inoperative position, and

Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the trays open with the guide member or ledge elevated to a position partially above the cabinet where it functions to permit collating the several sheets as they are removed from the respective trays and placed on the top surface of the cabinet.

Referring more particularly to the drawings in which like reference numerals refer to the same parts throughout the several views, 1 designates a housing consisting of top, bottom, side, and rear walls, while 2 designates a U- shaped guide member or ledge the legs of which are pivoted to the sides of the housing adjacent to the for ward ends of the side walls and fitting closely against the side and rear walls whereby the guide member is held "ice 2 frictionally in its inoperative position as shown in Fig. 1. The guide member 2 may be readily swung upwardly about its pivotal points to its operative position illustrated in Fig. 2 in whichthe rear wall of the guide member and a portion of its side walls extend partially above the top of the housing and form limit walls at the rear edge of the housing and partially above the side edges of the housing, affording a barrier that accurately positions the sheets as they are positioned on top of the housing. I I The several trays are indicated at 3, 4, and 5 respectively, one arranged above the other andadapted to contain copy sheets'i'n drawer 3, carbon paper sheets in drawer 4, and copy sheets or second sheets in drawer 5, although if preferred, all the trays may be utilized to receive carbon paper sheets, while the copy and second sheets may be stored elsewhere.

When it is desired to remove sheets from the cabinet, the trays 3, 4, and 5 may be opened as illustrated in Fig. 2, and the guide member 2 swung upwardly to its operating position, following which a copy sheet may be removed from drawer 3 by the operator and positioned on top of the cabinet, being guided into position by the side walls of the guide member 2 and its rearward movement limited by the rear wall of the guide member.

Following this, a sheet of carbon paper is removed from the tray 4 and superimposed on the copy sheet on top of the cabinet, being guided and limited in its movement by the guide member 2, and finally a second sheet is removed from tray 5 and superposed on top of the previously positioned sheet of carbon paper. The assembly of superposed sheets which are thus arranged accurately one above the other, can then be removed by the operator and positioned in the typewriter.

The essential feature of the invention resides in providing a cabinet with a series of trays for receiving sheets of carbon and other paper sheets and having means associated with the cabinet and movable from an inoperative position to a position above the top of the cabinet, enabling the operator to remove sheets successively from the several trays and position them one above the other on top of the cabinet where they are collated and alined accurately by the positioning or guide member. The sheets are thus assembled ready to be grasped by the operator as a unit and positioned in the typewriter.

While the invention has been described in relation to a particular embodiment, it is not confined to the details shown, and this application is intended to cover such modifications or departures as may come within the purpose of the invention or the scope of the following claims.

I claim:

1. A paper cabinet comprising a housing including side and rear walls, a series of trays movably arranged one above the other Within the housing, and a U-shaped guide member consisting of side and rear walls embracing the side and rear walls of the housing, said side walls of the guide member being of the same length and width as the side walls of the housing and the rear wall of said guide member being of the same length and width as the rear wall of the housing, said side walls of the guide member being pivotally mounted at the front ends of the side Walls of the housing whereby the guide member may be swung upwardly to an inclined position with its rear wall elevated partially above the rear wall of the housing while the side walls of the guide member occupy an upwardly inclined position with respect to the side walls of the housing, the top surface of the housing being left free to permit collating sheets thereon during which the guide member functions to guide and limit the position of the sheets, said guide member when not in collating position being located between the top and bottom of the side and rear walls of the housing and adjacent thereto.

2. A paper cabinet comprising a housing including side and rear walls, a series of trays movably arranged one above the other within the housing, and a U-shaped guide member consisting of side and rear walls embracing the side and rear walls of the housing, said side walls of the guide member being of the same length and width as the side walls of the housing and the rear wall oi said guide member being of the same length and width as the rear wall of the housing, said side walls of the guide member being pivotally mounted at the front ends of the side walls of the housing, the guide member frictionally embracing the side and rear walls of the housing when in its lowermost position and swingable about the front ends of said 15 2,361,698

r 4 Y side walls of the housing to an upwardly inclined position partially above the top surface of the housing which is free to receive sheets of paper, the guide member when in such upper position functioning to guide and limit movement of sheets on said top surface until the sheets are in contact with the walls of the guide member, said guide member when not in collating position being located between the top and bottom oi the side and rear walls of the housing and adjacent thereto.

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