US2711910A - Stationery sheet holder - Google Patents

Description

June 1955 L. K. FLEISCHMANN STATIONERY SHEET HOLDER Filed April 22, 1952 INVENTOR: LESTER K. FLEISCHMANN BY:

FIE- 4 ATTORNE sz States Patent fiice 2,711,910 Patented June 28, 1955 This invention relates to a device for positioning a stationery sheet with continuous strip stationery and more particularly to a sheet holding device mounted on a carbon holder for continuous strip stationery.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a stationery sheet holder with a pocket for receiving and align- L ing the bottom edge of a stationery sheet.

Another object is to provide a stationery sheetholder that may be attached to a carbon holder for use with continuous stationery.

A further object is to provide a holder that aligns a stationery sheet, such as a letterhead, with copy strips and interleaved carbon sheets so that all of the sheets and strips may be fed in reverse direction about a typewriter platen.

Carbon holders have been developed for usewith continuous stationery and the holders align carbon sheets in interleaved relation with the stationery strips. After a set of forms, which may be printed or blank, have been typed or written upon, the holder with its attached carbon sheets are held while the next succeeding set of forms are drawn forwardly. Heretofore, copiesof correspondence were usually not made on continuous strips because the original letter is preferred to be a separate sheet with smooth edges. The original forms of continuous-form stationery are usually divided by lines of weakening which leave a serrated edge when the forms are detached from the continuous strips.

The present invention provides a sheet holder for use with continuous-form stationery whereby a separate original sheet may be typed along with continuous-form copy sheets. In order that this be accomplished in a typewriter, ti is desirable that the original sheet, such as a letterhead sheet, be reversely rotated about the typewriter platen along with the continuous-form copy strips and interleaved carbon sheets. The sheet holder of the present invention is so constructed that it may be readily secured to a carbon holder which is intended for use with continuous-form stationery.

The invention is illustrated in a preferred embodiment in the accompanying drawings, in which- Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a carbon holder with continuous-form stationery therein and the sheet holder of the present invention attached to the carbon holder; Fig. 2, a fragmentary plan view of the carbon holder and continuous-form stationery of Fig. 1 having the sheet holder mounted thereon; Fig. 3, a view similar to Fig. 2 showing a stationery sheet in position in the sheet holder; Fig. 4, a fragmentary exploded sectional view through the carbon holder, continuous-form stationery and sheet holder taken substantially along line 4-4 in Fig. 2; and Fig. 5, a fragmentary exploded sectional view similar to Fig. 4 showing a stationery sheet in the sheet holder and taken substantially along line 5--5 in Fig. 3.

The carbon holder is made of a flexible fabric material and as seen in Fig. 1 has a rearward portion 6 with an opening 7 therein for threadably receiving a plurality of superposed stationery strips 8. The holder has folded marginal edges 9 which extend laterally beyond the width of the stationery and in the forward portion 10 of the holder these marginal portions are divided by stitching into a number of pockets 11-14. In Fig. 1 these pockets are numbered 11-14 on the body of the holder.

The fabric carbon holder is intended to hold carbon sheets in interleaved relation with strips of stationery 8.

A number of thin metal resilient blades 2123 are adapted to extend transversely of the holder and have their end portions inserted in the pockets. In this manner the blades may hold a plurality of carbon sheets Sol-33 in interleaved relation with the strips of stationery 8. The top carbon 31 is normally upwardly exposed since no stationery strip 8 passes over this sheet. It is intended that the letterhead stationery sheet be placed over these carbon sheets so as to make copies on the underlying continuousform copy stationery.

The stationery sheet holder is formed of an elongated strip of clay coated paper material having a rearwardly extending tail portion 41 and a forward or leading portion 42. As best seen in Figs. 4 and 5 the forward portion 42 is folded in Z-fashion to form a forwardly extending pocket 43 for receiving and aligning the bottom edge of a letterhead sheet 44. The outer rearwardly extending fold is provided with a line of stitching 45 which forms a loop adapted to receive the blade 24 threaded therethrough.

' By securing the end portions of the blade 24 in the leadcarbons.

ing pockets 14 of the carbon holder, the sheet holder is in proper position for receiving a letterhead sheet 44 and positioning it over the continuous-form copy strips.

In using the sheet holder and the carbon holder of this invention, the stationery strips 8 are first threaded through the opening 7 in the rearward portion of the carbon holder. Each strip is led over the leading portion of the holder and a blade carrying a carbon sheet is placed in the pockets over the stationery strips so that the carbons are interleaved with the copy strips. By placing blade 23 in the pockets 13, blade 22 in pockets 12 and so on, any one of the carbon sheets may be changed by picking up all the strips and sheets above it so as to expose the blade holding the particular carbon sheet, all without disturbing the other It is desirable to place the sheet holder in the leading pockets 14 so as to cover the blades holding the carbon sheets. The rearwardly extending tail portion of the sheet holder may be threaded in the opening 7 in the carbon holder to maintain it aligned with the continuous-form stationery. Also by placing the sheet holder in the leading pair of pockets in the carbon holder, the top of the stationery sheet will be correctly aligned with the leading edge of the copy strips.

Once the assembled copy strips and sheet holder are passed around the platen of a typewriter, a stationery sheet may be placed with its bottom edge in the pocket 43 as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 5, and then may be reversely moved around the platen to typing position. When the typing operation is completed, the stationery sheet 44 may be removed and the copy sheets pulled forwardly until the blocks 50 on the carbon holder strike the carriage of the typewriter. By releasing the pressure against the platen, the copy strips may be pulled forwardly thus slipping the carbon sheets rearwardly to the next set of forms in the continuous-form stationery. Another separate stationery sheet may be placed in the pocket 43 and the op eration repeated to type another original sheet and continuous-form copy sheets.

The foregoing description has been given for clearness of understanding only, and no unnecessary limitations should be understood therefrom, for some modifications will be obvious to those skilled in the art.

I claim:

1. A stationery sheet holder for use with a multiple carbon holder adapted to hold a plurality of carbon sheets in interleaved relation with superposed strips of continuous-form stationery, comprising: an elongated sheet of material having a tail portion for alignment with the continuous-form stationery and a sheet-aligning leading portion for attachment to the carbon holder, said leading portion of the strip being folded upon itself in Z-fashion forming an elongated loop extending transversely of the strip and a free end portion extending forwardly of the loop, the loop and free end portion forming sides of a forwardly extending open fold under the loop for receiving and aligning the bottom edge of a stationery sheet; and securing means in the loop on said strip and extending laterally from said =Z-fashion fold beyond the width of the stationery for attachment to the leading portion of the carbon holder so as to. hold the stationery sheet in super" posed relation to the continuous-form stationery and interleaved carbon sheets.

2. In a multiple carbon holder provided with a flexible body having transversely aligned pockets to receive removable blades upon which carbon sheets may be held in interleaved relation with strips of continuous-form stationery, a stationery sheet holder, comprising: an elongated sheet of material having a tail portion for alignment with the continuous-form stationery and a leading portion for attachment to the carbon holder, said leading portion hav ing an elongated loop extending transversely of the sheet and a free end portion extending forwardly of the loop; a thin resilient blade threaded through the loop and having protruding end portions for placement in a pair of pockets in the carbon holder with a stationery sheet-aligning fold formed in the sheet between the loop and free end portion for receiving the bottom edge of a stationery sheet placed therein, said fold retaining the separate stationery sheet in superposed relation to the continuous-form stationery for typing purposes.

3. A multiple carbon and sheet holder for use in typing a separate original sheet with continuous-form copy stationery, comprising: a flexible fabric body having a width greater than the stationery to be typed, said body having an enlarged opening in its rearward portion for threadably receiving superposed strips of continuous copy stationery; marginal edge portions on the leading portion of the body being divided into transversely aligned pockets with aligned pairs of pockets being spaced longitudinally of the body; a plurality of thin resilient blades extending across the body with their end portions respectively removably held in pairs of said pockets for securing forwardly extending carbon sheets in interleaved relation with said copy stationery led therethrough; a sheet holder having an elongated tail portion threadably received in the opening in the rearward portion of the body and a forward portion Z-fashion folded and stitched to form a loop; and a blade threaded in the loop for removably extending into a pair of said pockets in the carbon holder, the forward portion of the sheet holder extending forwardly from the loop to form a transverse pocket for receiving the bottom edge of a single original sheet placed in superposed relation to the carbon and copy sheets.

4. A multiple carbon and sheet holder as specified in claim 3 wherein the sheet holder blade is positioned in the leading pair of pockets in the carbon holder so as to cover the underlying carbon and copy sheets.

5. A stationery sheet holder for use with a multiple carbon holder provided with a flexible body having transversely aligned pockets to receive a removable blade adapted to hold a carbon sheet in interleaved relation with continuous-form stationery, comprising: a strip of sheet material having a forward sheet-aligning portion for at tachment to the carbon holder, said forward portion of the strip being folded upon itself in Z -fashion forming an elongated loop extending transversely of the sheet and a free end portion extending forwardly of the loop, said loop and free end portion forming a forwardly extending open fold for receiving and aligning the bottom edge of a forwardly extending stationery sheet; and a thin resilient blade threaded through the loop and having protruding end portions for placement in a pair of said pockets to secure the sheet holder to the leading portion of the carbon holder, said open fold retaining the stationery sheet in superposed relation to the continuous-form stationery for typing purposes.

Refercnces Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,244,819 Wyrick June 10, 1941 2,270,733 Kerr Jan. 20, 1942 2,496,600 Schaefer Feb. 7, 1950 2,527,764 Reid Oct. 31, 1950

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