Patent Application
20200147994
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The disclosure and prior art relates to hanging folder devices and more particularly pertains to a new hanging folder device for identifying documents that need attention.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a hanging folder that has a plurality of documents positioned therein for storage. A pocket is coupled to the hanging folder and the pocket has a depth and a width of approximately 9.0 inches for insertably receiving an ANSI Letter size paper. The pocket is oriented on the hanging folder such that the ANSI Letter size paper is oriented perpendicular to the documents in the hanging folder. In this way the pocket identifies the ANSI Letter size paper as needing attention.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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A pocket 30 is coupled to the hanging folder 12 and the pocket 30 has a depth and a width of approximately 9.0 inches for insertably receiving an ANSI Letter size paper 32. The pocket 30 is oriented on the hanging folder 12 such that the ANSI Letter size paper 32 is oriented perpendicular to the documents 14 in the hanging folder 12. In this way the pocket 30 identifies the ANSI Letter size paper 32 as a document needing attention 33. Additionally, the pocket 30 facilitates an upper portion 34 of the ANSI Letter size paper 32 to be visible thereby facilitating the ANSI Letter size paper 32 to be identified.
The pocket 30 has a front wall 36, a first lateral wall 38 and a second lateral wall 40, and each of the first 38 and second 40 lateral walls has a distal edge 42 with respect to the front wall 36. The front wall 36 has an upper edge 44 and a lower edge 46. Additionally, each of the lower edge 46 and the distal edge 42 of each of the first 38 and second 40 lateral walls is coupled to the outer surface 20 of the front half 24 of the hanging folder 12. Moreover, the upper edge 44 is spaced from the outer surface 20 of the front half 24 of the hanging folder 12 to define an opening 48 into the pocket 30. The opening 48 is directed toward the first end 16 of the hanging folder 12 and the pocket 30 may be offset from a center of the front half 24 of the hanging folder 12.
In use, the hanging folder 12 is suspended in the file cabinet or the like for storing documents 14. Any documents, such as the ANSI Letter sized paper 32, requiring attention that are related to the documents 14 in the hanging folder 12 are inserted into the pocket 30. In this way the documents needing attention 33 are not only oriented perpendicular to the documents 14 in the hanging folder 12, but the upper portion 34 of the documents needing attention 33 are visible. In this way the documents needing attention 33 are clearly separated from the documents 14 in the hanging folder 12 and the documents needing attention 33 are positioned to draw attention when the hanging folder 12 is observed. Once the documents needing attention 33 are dealt with in the prescribed manner, the documents needing attention 33 are placed into the hanging folder 12.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
