US818090A - Card-holder. - Google Patents

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' No. 818,090. PATENTED APR.-1'7, 1906.

D. E. HUNTER.

CARD HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MARJO, 1904.

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DAVID E. HUNTER, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSlGNOR TO LIBRARY BUREAU, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORA- TION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

CARD-"HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed March 10, 1904, Serial No. 197,545.

Patented a riii'z', 1906.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DAVID E. HUNTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in CardHolders, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings reresenting like parts.

This invention has or its object the production of a novel card-holder of great simplicity.

The card-holder to be described has a cardretaining rod provided with an annular shoulder preferably projecting beyond the larger diameter thereof, and between said projection and the headed end of said rod and sustained by the end of the case or box is a rod-holder presenting yielding portions that coact with the shoulder of the retainingrod to maintain the latter in its operative or pushed-in position for holding the cards. The rod-holder is shown as composed of sheet and the end of the portion of the sheet-metal blank having theprongs is so shaped as to engage the case or box and be restrained from rotation. The eyelet or funnel into which the point of the retainer-enters when in its operative position is sustained at the rear end of the case or box by the u turned end of a metallic bar sustained at t e front end of the case or box, said bar serving also as a guide for the slotted heel of the follower.

The heel has 'a hole through which the cardretainer is extended, and a spring connected with said heel and resting at its free end against said bar acts normally to tip the follower backwardly and cause its heel to bend on the bar and retain the follower locked in position.

Figure 1 in longitudinal section illustrates my invention in one of the best forms now known to me, the card-retaining rod being in its operative position. Fig. 2 in. full lines shows part of the card-holder with. the retaining-rod started outwardly, the dotted lines showing the retaining-rod in its inoperative position. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 3, Fig. 2, looking toward the right. Fig. 4 is a detail showing the follower unlocks and ready to be slid on the retaining-rod. Fig. 5

is an isometrical-perspective showing part of prongs,

the follower with its heel, spring, and the follower guide-bar and card-retaining rod. Fig. 6 is a detail showing the sheet-metal blank from which the rod-holder is formed, and Fig. 7 shows a modification of my invention.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the case or exterior part of the card-holder, it comprising two side walls, a front end A, a rear end A and bottom pieces A there being a slot between the inner edges of the bottom pieces, as best represented in Fig. 3.

The front wall is provided with an opening a, through which is extended a yielding rodholder B, comprising,

series of yielding fingers b, inturned near 7 their extremities.

The rod-holder shown is supposed to be made from sheet-steel cut to form a blank, as represented in Fig. 6, the end thereof from which the fingers project being bent, as represented in Fig. 3, the corners 2 being adap ed to engage suitable notches or grooves, it may be in the wood or other material forming the front end of the card-holder. Two of the sheet-metal corners of the holder shaped as shown abut one against the other, as at 3,

Fig. 3'.

The rod-holder may have one or a plurality of yielding fingers, and instead' of bending the outer end of the rod-holder to represent a parallelogram in shape, as in Fig. 3, it might be triangular in shape, in which case there would be three fingers rather than four. It will be understood that my invention is not limited to any particular number of fingers or to the exact shape shown.

The card-retaining rod C shoulder 0, re resented in Figs. 1 and 2 as having conica sides 0, and the outer end of the rod just within its head C is extended through a guide-plate C, which may be secured to the front end of the card-holder by screws. (Not shown.)

has an annular The rear wall A of the card-holder is shown f that normally rests at its free the bushing 02 is inserted through the hole in the upturned end e of the guide-bar 6 said bushing is expanded after the manner of expanding eyelets or is turned outwardly, as shown, so that the upturned end of the guidebar is sustained by the bushing outside the inner wall of the drawer.

The inner end of the bushing is flared, so that the card-retaining rod may be readily entered therein when the rod is moved to the left, Fig. 1, into its operative position, at which time the shoulder 0 will pass the yielding-end or ends of the rod-holder and snap gehind said projection, as represented, in

It will be noticed that the shoulder is beveled at its opposite sides toward the body of the rod, and as the rod is pulled outwardly in astraight line to the right, Fig. 1, the inclined side of the shoulder nearest the head G acts on an inturned curved part of each yielding finger and forces the same outwardly, as represented by full lines in Fig. 2, and thereafter the'movement of the rod may be continued and the rod be withdrawn from the box or case. a

The shoulder shown in Figs. 1 and 2 projects from the surface of the rod; but my invention would not be departed from if the shoulders occupied a position within the diameter of the rod, as represented in Fig. 7, in which event the yielding fingers might be shaped as represented in said figure and snap into the annular space it between the inclined shoulders 5 and 6. In either case it will be noticed that the card-receiving rod may be pulled out or pushed in without rotating the same, and the yielding fingers will snap readily into engagement with the shoulder however formed whenever the shoulder comes in the proper operative relation to the inturned portionspf the fingers.

Prior to my invention I am not aware that a card-receiving rod has ever had coacting with it a yielding finger that would snap into engagement with a shoulder by simply a direct straight movement of the rod and retain the rod-in its operative position.

The follower F' comprises usually a board having attached thereto by screwsdf a heel f said heel having, as shown, a ro -receiving hole f 2 and a slotf through which is extended the follower guide-bar, a portion of the heel between said rod and guide-bar having applied thereto in a slat therein a spring-foot end against the follower guide-bar.

The follower normally stands in the position shown in Fig. 1, the spring f at such time acting to tip the upper edge of the follower over to the left and causing the edges of slot f 3 to engage the upper and lower sides of the follower guide-bar, thus locking the follower to the guide-bar, so that it cannot be moved by pressure directly against that side of the guide-bar against which the cards contained in the card-holder and surrounding the receiving-rod contact.

To slide the follower on the guide-bar and longitudinally of the receiving-rod, the latter being in its operative position, so that the follower may sustain properly the rearmost cards applied to the card-holder, it is only necessary to take hold of the follower and tip it slightly, as represented in Fig. 4, and slide the follower to the right, the releasing of the follower immediately causing the spring to turn the follower into its normal position in which it is looked, as described, on the follower guide-bar.

When the cards are to be applied to the receiving-rod, the latter is pulled outwardly or to the right far enough to expose the inner end of the receiving-rod, so that the usual hole in the card may he slipped thereonto. Thereafter the receiving-rod will be pushed to the left until its end enters the bushing and the follower will be moved to the right to sustain the rearmost cards in the desired position.

The box or case of the card -holder has within its front wall an inclined abutment E of usual construction.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isv 1. In a card-holder, a drawer, a card-holding rod removably mounted in said drawer, automatically-operated means for locking the said rod in operative position, aguid e-bar, a spring locked follower slidably mounted upon said guide-bar, said guide-bar having one of its ends attached to the front of the drawer and its opposite end upturned to form a seat for a bushing, and a bushing adapted to receive the end of the aforementioned card-holding rod when the same is in operative position.

2. In a card-holder, a drawer, a card-holding rod removably mounted in said drawer, automatically-operated means for locking said rod in operative position, a guide-bar, a spring-locked follower slidably mounted on said guide-bar; said guide-bar having one of its ends attached to the front of the aforementioned drawer and its opposite end being upturned, and a bushing mounted in said upturned portion, and extending through an opening in the rear wall in the aforesaid drawer and adapted to receive the end of the aforesaid card-holding rod.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DAVID E. HUNTER.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. GREGORY, MARGARET A. .DUNN.

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