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EP 0275894 A3 19890607 - FILING CONTAINER FOR DOCUMENTS STANDING ON EDGE

Title (en)

FILING CONTAINER FOR DOCUMENTS STANDING ON EDGE

Publication

EP 0275894 A3 19890607 (DE)

Application

EP 88100288 A 19880112

Priority

DE 3701316 A 19870117

Abstract (en)

[origin: US4856671A] The present invention provides a self-supporting storage container which includes a bottom wall which is provided with a series of slits. These slits are preferably provided in the region of the bottom wall near a free, unconnected edge, and parallel to such free edge, in a step offset downward by an amount equal to the thickness of the bottom wall. The invention further includes a support strip attached to the aforesaid step and insertion studs, the heights of which are equal to the height of the support strip. The insertion studs and detent tongues, on the enclosing wall or on a connecting edge of the bottom wall of a receptacle element, are capable of engagement as retaining members. Each receptacle element of the invention is made up of a rear wall, a bottom wall and a side wall and has retaining members at the free edges of the bottom wall and the rear wall which are opposite to the side wall. Each receptacle element also has retaining members at the connecting edges of the bottom wall and the rear wall, which are attached to the side wall, where the retaining members fit inside each other as pairs. An enclosing wall is also provided as part of the invention, which includes corresponding retaining members. The enclosing wall may also be used to sub-divide receptacle elements of the invention.

IPC 1-7

B42F 17/08; B42F 17/12

IPC 8 full level

B42F 17/08 (2006.01); B42F 17/12 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP US)

B42F 17/08 (2013.01 - EP US); B42F 17/12 (2013.01 - EP US)

Citation (search report)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE CH DE ES FR GB IT LI NL SE

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 0275894 A2 19880727; EP 0275894 A3 19890607; EP 0275894 B1 19910703; AT E64897 T1 19910715; DE 3701316 A1 19880728; DE 3863432 D1 19910808; ES 2023222 B3 19920101; US 4856671 A 19890815

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 88100288 A 19880112; AT 88100288 T 19880112; DE 3701316 A 19870117; DE 3863432 T 19880112; ES 88100288 T 19880112; US 14263588 A 19880111