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• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B42—BOOKBINDING; ALBUMS; FILES; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER
  • B42F—SHEETS TEMPORARILY ATTACHED TOGETHER; FILING APPLIANCES; FILE CARDS; INDEXING
  • B42F17/00—Card-filing arrangements, e.g. card indexes or catalogues or filing cabinets
  • B42F17/02—Card-filing arrangements, e.g. card indexes or catalogues or filing cabinets in which the cards are stored substantially at right angles to the bottom of their containers

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• This invention relates to cabinet-files for the filing of letters and other papers.
• the object of the invention is to provide a construction in cabinet-files which permits the use in the cabinet itself, for the current reception of letters or papers as they are received from day to day, of permanent filingcases, the latter being detachable from the cabinet-drawers, so that when full they may be bodily removed Without disturbing their contents and directly put away among permanent files.
• the proposed construction permits other such filing-cases to be quickly put in the places of those removed from the cabinet, to be themselves similarly filled and finally removed.
• Figure 1 is a perspective view of a small cabinet containing six drawers.
• Fig. 2 is a perspective view illustrating one of the drawers detached and provided with a detachable filing-case of a preferred construction.
• Fig. 3 is a top view of a drawer and of filing-case detachably secured to the drawer, as shown in perspective in Fig. 2.
• Fig. 4 is a detail in perspective, showing a fragment of one of the cabinet-drawers provided with a certain form of device by which the filing box or case may be in part detachably retained upon or within the drawer.
• Fig. 5 is atop view illustrating a portion of a drawer and a portion of a filing-case applied thereto, the filing-case being made open to reveal the indexed separating-sheets therein contained.
• Fig. 6 illustrates one convenient and simple form of means for detachably holding the filing-case to the cabinet-drawer.
• Fig. 7 is a top view illustrating a drawer and a filing-case thereto attached, the filing-case being, in this instance, shown to open sidewise with reference to the front of the cabinet-drawer instead of toward the' drawerfront.
• A illustrates the cabi-net-case and B B the drawers thereof.
• the case A is a full inclosure, except that it is open at its front to receive any desired number of drawers B B
• Each of these drawers B comprises a front 15 and a bottom B and it may have two additional sides, but it must be open at one side in order to permit opening of the filing-case, as will further appear.
• O is a filing-case, which is a complete box or inclosure having one side 0, which drops on a hinge c, and a top or cover 0 hinged, say, at c.
• This box or filing-case G will usually be made of strawboard with a suitable paper covering; but it maybe made of any suitable material.
• the cover 0 is desirably provided with a marginal flange or rim c ,which shuts over the dropping side 0 to hold the latter closed, and a catch 0 will be desirably employed to lock the cover C in its closed position.
• Nothing is claimed as new in the box orfile-case G, in the cabinet, or in its drawers B, as above described.
• the filing-case O is of size adapted to rest on the bottom B of the drawer and to allow the insertion of the latter into the cabinetcase A.
• Said drawer C is detachably retained in or upon the drawer B by any suitable means.
• the drawer B is provided with sheet-metal stops D, one near each side of the drawer, between which stops the box or filing-case G will enter, as illustrated in said Figs. 2 and 4:.
• the drawer-bottom B is in the use of this device provided with a recess 1) to receive the head of each fastener E, as indicated in Fig. 6, so that the latter shall not protrude and interfere with the movement of the drawer.
• two of such fasteners E are indicated by dotted lines, being situated near the inner corners of the filing-case C; but when this form of detachable fastening is employed the number may be varied at pleasure, a single fastening being in fact sufiicient to hold the filing-case upon the drawer with or without the aid of the device I).
• Said device D or its equivalent is desirable as facilitating the application of the filing-case to the drawer by guiding it to place when the latter is without sides and back.
• Any other form of means for detachably retaining the filing-case in or on the drawer may be employed, since such retaining means are useful only to avoid trouble in inserting the drawer with the filing-case into the cabinet-casing and a withdrawal of the same from the latter.
• FIG. 5 the filing-case is shown open, revea-ling the index F,with its marginal tabs or projections f bearing the index-letters in the usual way.
• This index will usually be of the ordinary description, consisting of a series of marginally-hideXed sheets between which the letters or papers to be filed are placed when filed.
• the hinge c by which the cover 0 of the filing-case is united to the body thereof, is parallel with the drawer-front and the dropping side 0 of the filing-case is at the back of the drawer.
• the filing-case is arranged with its cover-hinge c at right angles to the drawer-front and the dropping side of the filing-case is at one side of the drawer.
• a single cornerpiece or stop D is shown, and a single paperfastener E holds the filing-case from angular or other displacement upon the drawer-bottom.
• the drawer has no filing device permanently secured thereto, no time is occupied in transferring the index with its contents from such a fixed filing device to a permanent filingcase, and the closed box 0 excludes from its contents any dust which may enter the cabinet through the spaces between or about the drawers.

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