US913162A - Index-guide and similar device. - Google Patents

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J. RAN-D. INDEX GUIDE AND SIMILAR DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 19, 1908.

913, 1 62. Patented Feb. 23, 1909 7H5 Z 71 1,535 05: p, [Yoda/ (07' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES H. RAND, OF WELLESLEY HILLS, MASSACHUSETTS.

INDEX-GUIDE SIMILAR DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 28, 1909.

Application flled'lay 19, 1908. Serial No. 43am.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JALLES H. RAND, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Wcllesley Hills, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented a 'new.and useful Improvement in Index- Guides" and Similar Devices, of which the following is .a specification.

This invention relates to index guides, cards and the leaves of books whlch are provided at their edges with index-tabs consisting of pockets or holders adapted to contain "the same to form an open-ende iholder l3 ada ted to rece ve a name-card or sli C. The side portions of the transparent changeable or removable nameslips.

The objects of my invention are to pro-. vide a simple and inexpensive tab of this characterwhich permits the name or other index-designation Io be read from either side The index tab consists of a doubled strip. B of celluloid or other suitable transparent,

material secured to the guide, with its folded portion extending beyond the upper edge of pocket or strip below the pocket 18 may be glued or otherwise secured to opposite sides of the guide, as seen in Fig. The slip C may bear the desired name or other index-designation on both sides, as shown, so that it can be read through the transparent pocket B from either side' of the guide. As the tab or slip-holder is transparent on both sides, it is unnecessary to cut apertures in the same to expose the name-slip thus producing a stronger holder than suc an apertured one .and providin a lar er contact surface between its wal s and t e name-slip, rendering the slip less liable to become displaced.

To further check endwise displacement of the name-slip, the same consists of a. strip of paper or card-board folded lengthwise at its middle, as best shown in Fig. 4, the sides of the slip being pressed together in inserting it in the holder. The sides or flaps of the folded slip by their tendency to spread apart press constantl against the walls of the pocket B and-t us resist dis-- placement of the name-slip. M

The improved tab is herein shown and described in connection with an index-guide, as an example of its use, but the same is equally a p icable to other indexes of various kin s and to the leaves of books.

' I claim as my invention An indexuide or similar article having a tab or hol er consisting of a doubled strip of transparent material secured to opposite sides of the guide with its folded portion projecting beyond the edge of the guide to form a pocket or holder, and a name-card in said pocket consisting of a slip doubled lengthwise, substantiall as set forth.

Witness my hand this 13th day of May,

. JAMES H. RAND. Witnesses:

JAMES H. RAND, Jr., Gaonon A. Swmrrsna.

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